No person can blame DC’s heroes for being busy proper now. Dark Crisis has simply begun and, with the Justice League useless, the subsequent era is sort of fully unprepared for what comes subsequent. They’re going to need to create their very own crew while coping with the various rising threats the League would have confronted. Even nonetheless, that does not give them an excuse to overlook a complete era of heroes. If something, the likes of Jon Kent and Dick Grayson needs to be going to them for assist, nonetheless, none of them actually cared in regards to the Young Justice era.
At the least, that is the way it seems 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 firstly of this new collection that ties instantly into DC’s newest epic occasion. The one one who appeared to have even observed was Wonder Girl, Cassie Sandsmark. Cassie gained a bit of sleuthing expertise whereas taking part in detective within the “Trial of the Amazons” Wonder Woman occasion. She put these newfound expertise to work monitoring down her pals on this challenge. She questioned each hero she may consider; shockingly, no one knew what occurred to them. In addition they did not appear too involved that a complete era went lacking both.
Though Jon Kent and Nightwing confirmed a bit of compassion after they instructed Cassie they wished that Conner and Tim had been round to assist, they nonetheless weren’t keen to go in search of them. They deemed their present tasks too essential. The identical went for the Flash Household. They had been too busy trying to find the misplaced Barry Allen to seek for his son, Bart Allen. None of them had been frightened about their supposed family members and simply assumed they had been both grieving in their very own means or simply off messing round.
This perspective in direction of these lacking heroes exhibits a normal lack of curiosity of their whole era. Newer and youthful heroes have changed all of the members of Young Justice. Dark Crisis is meant to be all in regards to the subsequent era getting into the sneakers of their mentors, however as an alternative of doing so, they’re straight-up skipping the literal subsequent era 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 presently 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 value 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, after all, 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 an alternative of Cassie.
There was a cut-off date when the heroes of Young Justice had 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 outstanding 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 unhealthy in each timeline, just a few confirmed that they had 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, which means the Young Justice era must be sidelined and ignored. Giving them their very own Dark Crisis tie-in collection is an ideal resolution to the issue. It delivers a unique 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.