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first half of the book shows the dissolution of the Titans soon to be rebooted with Young Justice members and death of Donna Troy and Lilith.
Its nothing special, typical plotdriven crossover stuff with lots of fighting, Then we get the first seven issues of the new Outsiders series featuring Nightwing, Arsenal, original member Metamorpho, Jade, and newbies Thunder, Indigo, and Grace Choi.
The group works well together and Winick does a good job with everyones personality, His typically snappy writing is on display, leading to many standout and funny moments, The plots are fine going up against Grodd and Brother Blood but as with the best team books, its about the characters and their interactions.
The final issue focusing on Metamorpho is a highlight in that regard,

I have one complaint though: Nightwing is uncharacteristically harsh at times, I know hes Batmans standin for the team, but hes always been more kind and caring than his mentor, I guess hes feeing down after the end of the Titans and Donnas death, but his personality seems slightly off,

That aside, I had a lot of fun with these seven issues, Tom Raneys art is great, too, Though it looks like the second volume was cancelled, . . Too bad. This series is a lot of fun, Winick writes some crackling dialog and balances the fun and gritty elements well, I like how he brings the Titans and Young Justice titles of the time to an end, while at the same time setting up the Outsiders and the Teen Titans series to come.
I feel Tom Raney is one of the more undersung artists of his time, His art here is brilliant with some great character designs, I'm glad to see DC is finally reprinting the series, A renegade Superman robot goes on the rampage, and a longstanding member of the Teen Titans dies, Stricken with grief, old allies Nightwing and Arsenal decide that enough is enough: a more proactive approach to justice is needed,

Calling on established heroes like Jade and Metamorpho, as well as newcomers like Black Lightning's daughter Thunder, the mysterious powerhouse Grace and Indigo, an android from the distant future, this new group will find the threats before they become real, no matter what the cost.


The Outsiders by Judd Winick: The Darker Side of Justice collects Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, Teen Titans/Outsiders Secret Filesand Outsidersfrom artists Tom Raney Uncanny XMen, ChrisCross Superman/Batman, Ale Garza Batgirl and more! The prelude mini series crossover with Young Justice that kicks off the collection is really, REALLY bad.
You can tell that neither the writer nor the artist have their hearts in it, Then the main series starts, a bit slow at first, but then gets more dynamic and elegantly narrated and funnier with every issue.
Sadly, it looks like the second volume of this collection was cancelled recently DC style, . . Quite enjoying this series. Wish DC had continued collecting this series in the fatter tpbs, Man, the earlys were dark and violent and a bit twisted, Or so Winick's work on this book which includes setup issues from "Titans/Young Justice" and "Teen Titans/Outsiders" as well as the first seven issues of Winick's "Outsiders" would seem to indicate.
Secrets, mysteries, betrayals, trauma, torture, death grimandgrittiness all abound, to a degree that sometimes feels gratuitously unpleasant,

That said, the eventual team setup here is marvelous Nightwing, Arsenal, Jade, Grace, Thunder, Indigo, and an amnesiac

Metamorpho, all make for a volatile mix, and tee up once things get rolling some great drama and adventure.




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Bumping fromtostars, Good art counts for a lot even if there's a fair amount of cheesecake, and the story, once it gets rolling with a lot of crosstitle activity around the traumatic founding of the team is solid.
Reading this made me lose brain cells, and cured my nostalgia for thes, Its extremely disjointed, and the characters are dullexcept for Shift, Also a reality tv star makes a guest appearance like wtf! Fun read, Kinda ends the young justice story and starts up the outsiders, I might hunt down the older books so I can read on as they havent released any more of these thicker ones yet.
was under the hood just a fluke Born Februaryth,and raised on Long Island in New York, Judd began cartooning professionally atwith a single paneled strip called Nuts Bolts.
This ran weekly through Anton Publications, a newspaper publisher that produced town papers in the Tri state area, He was paiddollars a week, In August of, Judd began attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor bringing Nuts Bolts with him, but turning it into a four panel strip and creating a cast of characters to tell his tales.
Nuts Bolts ran in The Michigan Dailydays a week from my freshman year freshperson, or first year student, as they liked to say at U of M, until graduation in the spring of.
A collection of those college years Nuts Bolts was published Born Februaryth,and raised on Long Island in New York, Judd began cartooning professionally atwith a single paneled strip called Nuts Bolts.
This ran weekly through Anton Publications, a newspaper publisher that produced town papers in the Tri state area, He was paiddollars a week, In August of, Judd began attending the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor bringing Nuts Bolts with him, but turning it into a four panel strip and creating a cast of characters to tell his tales.
Nuts Bolts ran in The Michigan Dailydays a week from my freshman year freshperson, or first year student, as they liked to say at U of M, until graduation in the spring of.
A collection of those college years Nuts Bolts was published in Ann Arbor, Watching the Spin Cycle: the Nuts Bolts collection had a small run of a thousand books a couple of months before graduation, They sold out in aboutweeks and there are no plans to republish it, Before graduation he accepted a development deal with a major syndicate syndicates are the major league baseball of comic strips, They act as an agent or broker and sell comic strips to newspapers, Judd spent the next year living in Boston, and developing his strip, The bottom dropped out when the syndicate decided that they were not going to pursue Nuts and Bolts for syndication and were terminating his development contract.
Crushed and almost broke, he moved back in with his parents in July, Getting by doing spot illustration jobs, Judd actually had Nuts Bolts in development with Nickelodeon as an animated series, At one point he even turned the human characters into mice Young Urban Mice and Rat Race were the working titles, In August ofhe saw an ad on MTV for The Real World III, San Francisco, For those who may not know, The Real World is a real life documentary soap opera, wherestrangers from around the country are put up in a house and filmed for six months.
You get free rent, free moving costs, you get to live in San Francisco, and get to be a famous pig on television.
The "Audition process," was everything from doing a video, to filling out apage application, to in person interviews with the producers, to being followed around and filmed for a day.
months and"levels" later, Judd was in, On Februaryth, he moved into a house on Russian Hill and they began filming, Along the way Nuts Bolts was given a weekly spot in the San Francisco Examiner, This WHOLE deal was filmed and aired for the show, They moved out in June of, a couple of days after O, J. 's Bronco chase in L, A. The show began airing a week later, Along with the weekly San Francisco Examiner gig, Judd began doing illustrations for The Complete Idiot's Guide series through QUE Books, Since then, Judd has illustrated overIdiot's Guides and still does the cartoons for the computer oriented Idiot's Guides line, A collection of the computer related titles' cartoons was published inas Terminal Madness, The Complete Idiot's Guide Computer Cartoon Collection, Not too long after the show had been airing, Judd's roommate from the show and good friend, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora, took ill from AIDS complications.
Pedro was to begin a lecture tour in September, Judd agreed to step in and speak on his behalf until he was well enough to do so again, In August of, Pedro checked into a hospital and never recovered, Pedro passed away on November,, He was. Judd continued to lecture about Pedro, Aids education and prevention and what it's like to live with some one who is living with AIDS for most of.
Speaking at overschools across the country, Judd describes it as, "the most fulfilling and difficult time in my life, " But time and emotional constraints forced him to stop lecturing, In May ofJudd found the weekly Nuts Bolts under whelming and decided to give syndication another go, Re vamping Nuts Bolts sitelink,