SpyBoy/Young Justice #3

Peter David Writer
Todd Nauck & Pop Mhan Pencils
Jamie Mendoza & Norman Lee Inks
Guy Major Colors
Clem Robins Letters
David Nestelle Designer
Philip Simon & Tom Palmer, Jr. Assistant Editors
Phil Amara & Eddie Berganza Editors
Pop Mhan Cover Art
Special thanks to Neela Weber at DC Comics

The front of our cover focuses on Superboy, SpyGirl and Impulse, with the back showing Secret, Lobo (even though he's not in this story), Rip Roar (apparently fighting with Young Justice for some reason), Impulse again and SpyBoy's friend, Butch. I really do appreciate that all three of these covers included Impulse. And although the artwork has been decent enough, the covers on a whole have been rather nonsensical, showing villains and some heroes that are nowhere to be seen in this three-part story. I wish Mhan could have done something like this that tied in better to our story.

We open on Annie Mae's shark-shaped submarine, with Harm explaining to her the concept of Hell-Holes. He says they're essentially sinkholes created by demons seeking to blur the boundaries between Earth and Hell. And when Hell-Holes get wide enough, they consume whatever is on top of them. Apparently, the Grand Canyon was a Hell-Hole that destroyed an ancient civilization, and the San Andreas fault is a slow-moving Hell-Hole. But the one that's caught Harm's eye is underneath Tokyo, positioned directly under the Grand Emperor Hotel, which is currently hosting 50 of the world's top business leaders. Harm explains that he sent the SDs to Tokyo to attract Young Justice and SpyBoy to the Hell-Hole, which will kill them and the world leaders.

As Harm speaks, our heroes are busy battling the diminutive versions of themselves. SpyBoy stops his doppelgänger from killing Robin, but the SpyBoy SD gets in the real SpyBoy's head, making him think that his Alex Fleming persona is fake. Impulse and Superboy find their counterparts out on the roof. Impulse tries to kindly reason with his SD, but he only makes him angrier.

Superboy's SD climbs down his shirt and begins biting his back. So Superboy decides to ram into the ground to squish the SD, but the little guy slips out at the last second, causing Superboy to not only hurt himself, but also weaken the barrier on the Hell-Hole.

Harm rejoices in the chaos the battle is causing, explaining that he is drawing power from the Hell-Hole, and the more people panic and trample the ground, the stronger he becomes. Annie Mae does not agree with Harm's scheme, so she sends her henchman, Slackjaw, after Rip Roar again. This time, Slackjaw is a bit more prepared, and he manages to draw blood. This sends the shark-man into an unstoppable frenzy, and he apparently kills Rip Roar off screen. Harm draws his sword on Annie Mae, saying he doesn't really want to fight her since her scientific resources helped him use his Hell-born magiks and psychological profiles of Young Justice to create the SDs. But Annie Mae has no hesitation in fighting Harm. She uses her psychic powers to freeze him in place and scan his mind for a weakness.

Back at the fight in Tokyo, Arrowette sees the Impulse SD running away from the real Impulse, so she trips him up with an oil slick arrow. Robin has also defeated his SD, but once again is an open target for the SpyBoy SD. The real SpyBoy, shaken by the SD's words, have reverted to his nervous, unsure Alex self. SpyGirl saves Robin this time, but she's unable to stop the Wonder Girl SD from releasing a large quantity of cyanide gas. The panic reaches a climax, with the Hell-Hole beginning to open and shoot out blue flames.

But our heroes quickly discover the gas is actually harmless. Secret suddenly seems to fall under a trance, and Alex is angrily trying to prove to Superboy and Impulse that he can be just as brave as his SpyBoy alter ego. As the blue flames grow, the Young Justice instantly recognize this as an apocalyptic earthquake from the bowels of Hell. Team SpyBoy has never encountered anything like this before, and Superboy and Impulse take a quick moment to laugh at their ignorance. They then round up the rest of the SDs, and Superboy takes delight in juggling them like a bunch of balls.

Secret suddenly snaps out of her trance and has all the answers. She explains that something terrible beneath them is feeding off raw emotion and terror, and she knows where the source is. Secret can't explain how she has this knowledge, but she assures her teammates she can take them all to the person behind this if they step into her cloak. All the members of Young Justice have traveled with Secret like this before, and none of them are too keen about doing it again. Impulse says it makes you go nuts, Wonder Girl says it makes you feel like being pureed in a blender, and Robin thinks Secret's "vision" could be another trap. Secret's dismayed that none of her friends trust her, but Alex is eager to prove himself, so he dives right in, instructing the others to get all the bystanders to stop panicking.

Secret teleports to the shark-sub, and Annie Mae tells Harm that she summoned Secret, since she's the only one who can stop him. Secret lifts up her cloak and tries to get SpyBoy to help her fight the villains, but he's still Alex and is reduced to a shaking, terrified boy after traveling with Secret. Slackjaw, finished with Rip Roar, decides to help Harm fight his sister before taking him down. Harm also prepares for attack, but suddenly feels weakened as the panic above the Hell-Hole has subsided. Young Justice and SpyBoy's friends have calmed the crowd down and is entertaining them with feats of acrobatics, juggling the SDs, and having Arrowette shoot apples of Butch's head.

Harm fights through this feeling of weakness, and takes a swipe at helpless Alex. Right in the nick of time, the SpyBoy persona takes over, catches Harm's sword and begins to battle the villain. Secret is busy with Slackjaw, and during their fight, a hole is punched in the side of the submarine. As water rushes in, Slackjaw runs away in pure terror, causing Secret to wonder how a "shark guy" could be hydrophobic. SpyBoy easily gets the upper hand over the weakened Harm, taking his sword and ramming it through his chest. Harm becomes surrounded by flames and disappears.

The water is now waist deep, and Annie Mae has mysteriously disappeared. So Secret teleports SpyBoy back to the others, who have discovered the SDs have suddenly turned to stone. Secret explains that the sorcerous energies Harm used to create them must have vanished when he did. She tells everyone that SpyBoy realized that Harm wasn't really alive, so he felt free to stab him with his own hellspawned blade, which sent him back to wherever his soul currently resides. SpyBoy admits he didn't know Harm wasn't really alive, and everyone stares in shock at his casual attitude toward killing someone.


Well, that was an abrupt ending. It felt like Peter David had too much story for just three issues. And I'm still left with a bunch of questions. Why did Annie Mae make the SDs with Harm, then turn on him when he revealed his plan to kill Young Justice and SpyBoy? Why were the SDs so small that they became utterly useless once they actually started fighting? Why wasn't there a Secret SD? I could go on, but I'll just leave it there.

As a whole, this three-part crossover was fairly average. I would say it was nice to put Young Justice in a new situation, but that wasn't really the case. Everything the SpyBoy crew brought to the table wasn't anything different from what Young Justice had previously dealt with. Team SpyBoy, however, did face something new with Harm and his Hell-Hole. I also can't really say Team SpyBoy and Young Justice had good chemistry together. David tried to give Robin a budding romance with SpyGirl, but that felt forced and it conveniently ignored Secret's deep jealously toward Robin's perspective girlfriends. This was something that could have been developed, had there been enough space for this story to properly breathe.

My favorite part of this story had nothing to do with SpyBoy. It was the great interactions between Impulse and Superboy — something I'm dearly missing now that Impulse is off the team. Their prank with Arrowette was nonsensical and unnecessary, but it was funny. And they had tons of great asides sprinkled throughout this otherwise weird and dull story. Sadly, the main purpose of this crossover — to inspire Young Justice readers to pick up SpyBoy, and vic e versa — failed for me. I feel like I got a good enough idea of what SpyBoy is all about, and it never felt interesting enough for me to track it down. Well, let's wrap this up with a look at the new ads:

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SpyBoy/Young Justice #2

Peter David Writer
Pop Mhan Pencils
Norman Lee Inks
Guy Major Colors
Clem Robins Letters
David Nestelle Designer
Philip Simon & Tom Palmer, Jr. Assistant Editors
Phil Amara & Eddie Berganza Editors
Pop Mhan Cover Art
Special thanks to Neela Weber at DC Comics

The front of our cover showcases the leading women in SpyBoy and Young Justice — Bombshell and Wonder Girl. On the back, we have Empress, SpyBoy's dad and some old guy in a wheelchair, who wasn't in last issue. Lagoon Boy is also here for absolutely no reason. He never was officially a member of Young Justice and he does not appear in this three-part story. The best part of the cover, though, is the double image of Impulse, helping fight these random mimes, who also are not in this story. These covers aren't bad, but I wish they provided a better sense of what the story is.

We pick up where we left off last time, with SpyBoy, Bombshell and SpyGirl breaking into Young Justice's headquarters at the Catskill resort. Bombshell starts things off by throwing a smoke bomb, which Impulse tries to catch, but it suddenly swerves in midair. The surprised Impulse is unable to prevent the bomb from going off, which knocks out Impulse, Superboy, Wonder Girl and Empress. Secret, however, is immune to the smoke, and Robin managed to get on his gas mask fast enough.

SpyBoy takes on Robin, but is unable to hit him with his gun. Robin mocks him for shooting like a Star Wars stormtrooper, and SpyBoy admits he's only trying to shoot to wound. Secret, meanwhile, takes on the two girls, who, through trial and error, eventually discover her weakness to electricity.  SpyBoy also manages to get the upper hand on Robin, knocking him down and aiming his gun at his head at point blank range. SpyBoy says he never misses when he shoots to kill.

But before he can pull the trigger, Arrowette shots an arrow into the barrel of his gun. She tells SpyBoy she never misses and her next arrow is aimed at his heart. Arrowette orders SpyBoy to hold still, but he calls her bluff and calmly walks toward her. Eventually, the string on Arrowette's bow snaps, but before SpyBoy can attack her, Impulse zooms in between them. He explains that he managed to disperse the gas at super speed to minimize its effects, so he, Superboy, Wonder Girl and Empress are all back on their feet and have SpyBoy surrounded.

The fight is suddenly put to an end when Red Tornado shows up with SpyBoy's dad, who says they've just found out that someone is attempting to create evil duplicates of world leaders drawn from their minds. Red Tornado says if none of them care about that, then they're free to continue their pointless slugfest. They ask who wants to keep fighting, and Impulse immediately raises his hand. Bart then sheepishly puts it down, grumbling that everyone tells him to think, but they always hate what he comes up with.

We then cut to the Sea of Japan, where our villains, Annie Mae and REMbrandt are hiding in their shark-shaped submarine. Annie Mae is angry at REMbrandt for sending the "SDs" of Young Justice and SpyBoy out on a mission without her knowledge. She starts to threaten her partner in crime, but he responds with some threats of his own.

Back at the Catskills resort, everyone is sitting down in the dinning room, while Impulse quickly whips up some sandwiches. SpyBoy's dad explains that the intruders at the A.P.E.S. and S.H.I.R.T.S. headquarters scrambled the security systems, but now those organizations have finally managed to restore the computers enough to get a clear picture of the intruders. SpyGirl recognizes the diminutive creatures as SuperDeformeds, or SDs for short. She explains these "roundies" or "squishies" are popular in Japan. Impulse says he's seen them in Japanese comics, or manga — characters with huge eyes, weird hair and big feet. Bombshell asks Impulse if that applies to him as well. (Unfortunately, Pop Mhan drew Impulse with exceptionally small hair on this page, effectively killing the joke.)

Red Tornado reports that they've also finally discovered what these SDs stole — detailed psychological profiles on all the top world leaders. The SpyBoy team believes this to be the work of their archenemy, Annie Mae, but Robin wants to know how she was able to create SDs of Young Justice. Secret says they don't know anyone who can get into their hearts and souls and dreams. Superboy, Robin and Wonder Girl awkwardly stare at Secret after she says that, then try to play it cool when she asks why they're looking at her.

Getting the conversation back on track, Red Tornado says they have received a message from Annie Mae, or whoever, showing plans to use the SDs to attack the Zenith Meeting — a collection of the heads of 50 international conglomerates — in Tokyo. Everyone realizes this is a trap, but they decide they need to go there anyway. SpyBoy, however, doesn't want Arrowette to come along, saying her heart isn't in it. Arrowette angrily says she is coming, and when Impulse and Superboy cheer the return of their teammate, she elbows both of them in the chest for stealing her clothes. As Impulse jokes with Superboy, their evil counterparts are planning their attack.

The rest of the SDs are sneaking through the vents of the building, and the SpyBoy SD expresses concern for their mission. The Robin SD says the only way they'd be stopped was if their creator tipped off the heroes for some reason and if said heroes had a super fast transport to get from New York to Japan. Turns out, that's exactly what happened. Secret sneaks up on the SDs in the vents and attacks them with one of Bombshell's bombs.

Annie Mae learns that SpyBoy and Young Justice have begun battling the minis, and she chews out REMbrandt for sending the SDs into a no-win scenario. But REMbrandt says he never intended for the SDs to win. He wants them to die for the noblest pursuit of all — to see the world go to hell. As he says this, he pulls off his cloak, revealing himself as ... Harm!


So there's Young Justice's main villain to help balance the story. Unfortunately, this story didn't hold my attention as well as last issue. After a very quick and underwhelming fight between heroes (always necessary for crossovers like this), we then spent the rest of the issue literally sitting around a table and talking. And what they talked about just didn't seem that interesting. It also didn't help that SpyBoy artist Pop Mhan took over the penciling duties this month. He can have some really good moments, but far too many of his panels and pages fall flat. But really the biggest problem is the story. It is just so darn strange. Setting aside the whole SD thing, what is Arrowette doing in this story? What was Peter David trying to prove with her standoff with SpyBoy? It's an unnecessary addition. Young Justice has enough members without her, and this crossover hardly feels like the time and place to rehash Arrowette's personal demons — a matter that I felt had already long been resolved.

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Next time, we'll return to the main series with Impulse #82.

SpyBoy/Young Justice #1

Peter David Writer
Todd Nauck Pencils
Jamie Mendoza Inks
Guy Major Colors
Clem Robins Letters
David Nestelle Designer
Philip Simon & Tom Palmer, Jr. Assistant Editors
Phil Amara & Eddie Berganza Editors
Pop Mhan Cover Art
Special thanks to Neela Weber at DC Comics

I'm not usually a fan of Pop Mhan's art, but I think this wraparound cover turned out nicely. On the front, we have SpyBoy and Robin, the leader of Young Justice. On the back, SpyBoy's mentor, Prime Number and Young Justice's mentor, Red Tornado. And for a bit of random fun, Impulse is zooming by to help fight this horde of skinheads. Unfortunately though, these random skinheads do not appear in this story.

So, since this is a DC/Dark Horse crossover, this story is not in continuity. But the timeline for Young Justice suggests this is happens right before Our Worlds at War (without the imminent threat of said war). Anyway, our story begins at the secret headquarters for an organization called S.H.I.R.T.S. (Secret Headquarters, International Reconnaissance, Tactics, and Spies). A helicopter flies over the building and lets down five doll-sized figures that resemble Robin, Superboy, Impulse, Wonder Girl and Arrowette. The "chibi" Young Justice sneaks inside, running past Prime Number, who's having a discussion with SpyBoy's father, Sean, about pushing the teen too hard. Apparently SpyBoy is really a normal kid named Alex Fleming with a sleeper identity that can make him the most efficient and deadliest espionage agent in the world.

Prime Number spots the small figures running past him, but before he can stop them, "Arrowette" shoots a tiny arrow into his chest. She wonders if she should kill him, but "Robin" tells her to keep moving. Prime manages to press an alert on his watch, but by the time more soldiers show up, the tiny intruders have already downloaded the data they needed and made their escape.

We then cut to Mount Rushmore, which has apparently been repaired since Match blew up part of it, and still serves as the headquarters for A.P.E.S. (the All-Purpose Enforcement Squad). Agent Donald Fite asks Agent Ishido Maad if he's coming over for Christmas dinner, but Maad is mad at Fite for not telling him that his daughter was Empress. As Fite tries to explain his reasoning, a gas bomb goes off in the hallway. Right before he loses consciousness, Maad manages to catch a glimpse of three tiny figures resembling SpyBoy and his female companions, Bombshell and SpyGirl.

Fite and Maad later visit Young Justice at their Catskills resort to tell them about this break-in. None of our heroes have heard of SpyBoy, believing him to merely be an urban legend. Impulse, however, isn't paying attention to anything, as he's working through a big stack of Game Boy games, occasionally saying, "Done! Next!" as he swaps out cartridges. Fite and Maad continue the briefing, saying that they don't know what SpyBoy stole from them. And when they contacted S.H.I.R.T.S. about it, they were only met with a denial and an accusation that Young Justice broke into their headquarters. Eventually, Maad gets sick and tired of Impulse's video game playing, and he takes the Game Boy away, placing it in his pocket. Bart's furious to his toy imprisoned, so he quickly steals it back, trying to pull off an innocent, angelic whistle when Maad looks at him.

The agents admit to Young Justice that they don't believe the teens broke into S.H.I.R.T.S. headquarters. And they're willing to accept the possibility that both Young Justice and SpyBoy are being set up by someone else. To try to get to the bottom of this, Fite and Maad suggest they send someone in undercover to SpyBoy's high school in New Jersey. Fite points out that even though he trusts Young Justice, the A.P.E.S.' upper echelon is still suspicious of the team, and a little cooperation would constitute serious fence mending. So they agree to send in Robin, Empress, Wonder Girl and Secret, keeping out Superboy because he's too recognizable and Impulse because he's just too ... Impulse.

We head over to Julius Rosenberg High School, where Alex (SpyBoy), Yukio (SpyGirl), Marta Hari (Bombshell) and Butch Moody are consumed with finding dates to the Mid-Winter Dance. Well, actually, Alex doesn't want to go, but Yukio wants to go with him, and nobody wants to go with Butch, who passionately cries out for someone to go to the dance with. Anita steps forward and offers to go with Butch, but then Cassie (dressed as a goth) claims him as her own. Thrilled to have two girls fighting over him, Butch offers to take both of them, which Anita and Cassie readily agree to.

As Butch walks away with his two new girlfriends, Alex is approached by "Rob Roy," a new student dressed in a preppy vest with glasses and a goatee. Rob asks the class president to tell him where "the happening stuff" around the school is. But Alex's SpyBoy persona (represented by a mini version of himself) becomes suspicious. As do Yukio and Marta, who quickly usher Alex away to a class president meeting.

We then go to the Sea of Japan, where a shark-shaped submarine serves as headquarters for a petite villain named Annie Mae. She is working with a mysterious figure named REMbrandt (REM as in the sleeping REM). He apparently tapped into the subconscious of Young Justice and SpyBoy and worked with Annie Mae to create the little troublemaking duplicates. But Annie Mae feels REMbrandt is withholding information from her, so she threatens him with her bodyguard, Slackjaw, a beefy half-man/half-shark. But REMbrandt counters with his own bodyguard, Rip Roar, the four-armed thug who originally stole the Super-Cycle, then was imprisoned in hardened lava. REMbrandt explains he freed Rip Roar from his "self-made imprisonment" and watches with glee as he easily overpowers Slackjaw.

Back at the high school, Alex, Yukio and Marta have snuck outside to discuss the new kids at school. They correctly assume these kids are Young Justice in disguise, referencing the intel Prime Number gave them earlier. But before they can formulate a plan, Principal Reichenbach calls them back inside. Secret was disguised as steam rising from an air vent, and is pretty upset she just missed hearing SpyBoy's plan. At lunch, Yukio flirts with Robin and ruffles his hair, while Butch complains to Alex that his two new girlfriends only want to talk about Alex. Butch correctly assumes this is another matter for SpyBoy, and he begs Alex to let him join this mission. Alex gives in, even though his inner SpyBoy knows he'll regret it.

So what happens when you leave Impulse and Superboy alone? They get up to no good. Well, it's more of a harmless prank. They invite Cissie out to the Catskills resort and encourage her to enjoy some private time in the sauna. This gives Bart ample time to steal Cissie's clothes, replace them with her Arrowette outfit, and chemically treat her towel to dissolve when it reaches 180 degrees. Bart worries that Cissie's going to kill them, but Kon believes she needs to be pranked back for masterminding Anita's date with Lobo. Besides, Kon really wants Cissie back where she belongs.

Cissie emerges from the sauna, sees her clothes have been replaced, and announces she'll just stay in her towel until she gets her clothes back. Right on cue, the towel dissolves, and just as Bart predicted, Cissie vows to kill him and Kon. While she yells at them from the locker room, Bart and Kon are meeting up with the rest of Young Justice, hearing about their undercover mission. Robin reports that Secret learned SpyBoy is on to them, and Impulse is impressed with how quickly they figured that out. Empress and Wonder Girl aren't sure, though, believing Yukio was genuinely attracted to Robin. As Robin recalls his interaction with her, he suddenly realizes that she placed a homing device in his hair. Suddenly, there's a big explosion, and SpyBoy, SpyGirl and Bombshell come bursting through the window.


So this was an interesting concept. I'll admit I've never heard of SpyBoy before this, and I personally would have preferred a Young Justice/X-Men crossover, but this actually worked out quite well. There are quite a few similarities between SpyBoy and Young Justice, which might be inevitable since Peter David is the writer for both those books. In any case, he did a good job of fully utilizing those similarities to make these teams feel as equal as possible (even though Young Justice has more members). David also did a good job of giving newbies like me enough material to grasp the basics of SpyBoy without bogging me down in too many details.

The story itself was silly and odd. True, we have seen Young Justice go undercover in a high school before, but it's still fun. And the great lengths Impulse and Superboy went to to bring Arrowette back were probably unnecessary (YJ already has enough members), but once again, it was fun. In crossovers like this, it's tradition to have equal representation for not only the heroes, but the villains, as well. Annie Mae and Slackjaw are for SpyBoy, and on the Young Justice side, David dug deep to find one of their earliest and most-likely forgotten villains, Rip Roar. I appreciate the callback. REMbrandt, however? Well, I won't spoil it just yet.

The oddest part of the story, though, is the miniature versions of the heroes. I guess it's funny, but it's mostly weird. And it makes no sense whatsoever that two separate groups of highly trained government intelligence agencies would even for a second mistake those little guys for the real teenage heroes. I mean, even in a quick glance, the first thing you'd notice, is these figures are only about two feet tall. And even if that tiny figure looks like SpyBoy, you'd have to know that the real SpyBoy is not that short!

The production of this book was mostly good. Todd Nauck on pencils is always a beautiful thing. But when you switch out his regular inker and colorist, you can tell there's a difference. Impulse's hair suddenly had the shape and color of straw. Also, this comic was produced by Dark Horse, meaning it used different paper, different binding and different ad placement. It's funny how much those little things can affect your reading experience when you're used to the DC methods. And speaking of ads, we get a nice balance between house ads for DC and Dark Horse:

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Next time, we'll return to the world of DC with Impulse #81.