No person can blame DC’s heroes for being busy proper now. Dark Crisis has simply begun and, with the Justice League lifeless, the subsequent technology is sort of fully unprepared for what comes subsequent. They’re going to need to create their very own staff while coping with the various growing threats the League would have confronted. Even nonetheless, that does not give them an excuse to neglect a complete technology of heroes. If something, the likes of Jon Kent and Dick Grayson must be going to them for assist, nonetheless, none of them actually cared concerning the Young Justice technology.
A minimum of, that is the way it appears in Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1 (by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, Luis Guerrero and Pat Brosseau). Tim Drake, Conner Kent and Bart Allen (aka Robin, Superboy and Impulse), disappeared in the beginning of this new collection that ties immediately into DC’s newest epic occasion. The one one who appeared to have even observed was Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark. Cassie gained somewhat sleuthing expertise whereas taking part in detective within the “Trial of the Amazons” Wonder Woman occasion. She put these newfound abilities to work monitoring down her mates on this challenge. She questioned each hero she might consider; shockingly, no person knew what occurred to them. Additionally they did not appear too involved that a complete technology went lacking both.
Though Jon Kent and Nightwing confirmed somewhat compassion after they instructed Cassie they wished that Conner and Tim have been round to assist, they nonetheless weren’t prepared to go searching for them. They deemed their present duties too essential. The identical went for the Flash Household. They have been too busy trying to find the misplaced Barry Allen to seek for his son, Bart Allen. None of them have been apprehensive about their supposed family members and simply assumed they have been both grieving in their very own method or simply off messing round.
This angle in direction of these lacking heroes exhibits a basic lack of curiosity of their total technology. Newer and youthful heroes have changed all of the members of Young Justice. Dark Crisis is meant to be all concerning the subsequent technology getting into the sneakers of their mentors, however as a substitute of doing so, they’re straight-up skipping the literal subsequent technology to the one which follows them.
Jon Kent changed his father as Superman whereas Conner who has been round for much longer remains to be Superboy. Tim Drake is at the moment sharing the Robin title with Damian Wayne. Though Wally West is again because the Flash, his longtime sidekick Bart has been changed by Wallace West. It is also price noting that Bart graduated from Impulse to Child Flash earlier than the New 52, however when Wallace got here alongside he was demoted to Impulse once more. Then, in fact, there’s Cassie, who’s now sharing the title of Wonder Girl with Yara Flor. Oddly although, it is Yara who’s being thought-about for the Wonder Woman mantle as a substitute of Cassie.
There was a time limit when the heroes of Young Justice have been believed to be the successors of the present Justice League. There have been a number of storylines that delved into alternate futures and proven simply this. Probably the most distinguished was the “Titans Tomorrow” storyline within the early 2000s’ Teen Titans. Though they ended up changing into evil, Tim, Conner, Cassie and Bart all took on their mentors’ identities. Nonetheless, they did not go dangerous in each timeline, a number of confirmed that they have been greater than worthy replacements.
This all makes excellent sense from a story perspective. Dark Crisis is taking some components of the deserted 5G and adapting them into a serious occasion. Sadly, meaning the Young Justice technology needs to be sidelined and ignored. Giving them their very own Dark Crisis tie-in collection is an ideal answer to the issue. It delivers a special story, one specializing in the nostalgia surrounding these characters and the way they’ll lastly transfer ahead to change into part of the world that ignores them now.