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I've been really enjoying the Dark Crisis stuff so far, even the build up with Infinite Frontier and Justice League Incarnate has been enjoyable, as well as setting up a lot of the stuff that's happening now. However, Dark Crisis: Young Justice #1 is the first part of this new event that I really didn't like too much.
The issue starts off well, taking us back to the memorial service for the fallen Justice League. Rather than listening to the speech given by Nightwing this time, we stay in the crowd of assembled mourners, watching events through the eyes of Cassie Sandsmark, Wonder Girl. Cassie watches the event, paying particular attention to her old Young Justice teammates Conner Kent, Tim Drake, and Bart Allen. She thinks about the last times there were big crisis events, and how she and her friends seem to be the ones that end up getting hit hard by them.
This is an interesting point of view, and one that's not completely wrong. The teen heroes don't come out of these things well, so it' natural for her to look on this with a slightly different perspective. She's waiting for something bad to happen to her and her friends. And then it does.
Cassie and the others are in the middle of a conversation when Conner, Tim, and Bart all just seem to vanish all at once. Cassie is naturally panicked by this, but none of the rest of the hero community seem to really be that bothered; even when it ends up being days later and there's still no sign of them. Cassie is the only one that cares. And this is one of my biggest problems with this story so far.
Yes, I know that the other heroes are stretched thin with the League dead and the villains stepping things up, but no one cares that three other heroes vanished without a trace. I could maybe forgive it if they were lesser known heroes, or if they didn't have important connections. But are you really telling me that after Bruce dies Dick wouldn't care that Tim has vanished? That the Flash family wouldn't be concerned that they may have lost another member? That Jonathan is that focused on building his new Justice League that he doesn't care about Conner? I just don't buy it.
Maybe there will be some kind of explanation for this later on, that perhaps there's something making it so that people just don't care, something that' effecting their minds in some way. But if not, this feels really shitty of all the other heroes.
Whilst Cassie is searching for her friends the three of them wake up in what appears to be the past as the 90's comic events are in full swing. They're called together on Young Justice business and find themselves fighting Well Endowed, a big breasted cat girl villain. Yeah, this is pretty bad. I don't know why this villain was chosen, I don't really remember them being a thing, so if this is a call-back maybe it's one that should have stayed forgotten.
And that's about all there is to this first issue so far. With every other part of this event being really good this feels like such a let down. I like these characters, I was looking forward to this story, but it's starting to feel like not just a misstep, but a huge mistake. Hopefully the second part will redeem this.
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