Young Justice, Vol. 1: Gemworld by Brian Michael Bendis
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I've been a fan of the Young Justice characters since the "World Without Grownups" miniseries. It's nice seeing four of the original team (Superboy aka Conner Kent, Robin aka Tim Drake, Impulse aka Bart Allen and the Wonder Girl aka Cassandra Sandsmark) reunited.

While in Metropolis, each for their own reasons, Tim and Cassie become involved in what appears to be an alien invasion. During this event they come upon two new characters, Jinny Hex (Great Granddaughter of Jonah) and the young Teen Lantern. Just in time, naturally, Bart appears and he couldn't be more excited to see his old teammates. When they attempt to follow the departing 'aliens' they find themselves transported to Gem World, where they are soon joined by Princess Amethyst who is in the midst of political intrigue threatening her world. Initially separated from his companions Bart finds that another former YJ member, Conner, had been trapped on this same world for a time.

After seemingly saved her land, Amethyst decides to join her new friends and return to her home world of Earth for a while. Little does the team know that things might not be what they appear to be.

Great reintroduction of the team, with writer Bendis nicely capturing the feel of the older characters and fleshing out the new members. This TPB collects the first six issues of the series, ending on cliff hanger. Eight artists, the principal being Patrick Gleason and John Timms, all do solid work bring artistic changes to flashbacks that fill-in how many of the characters ended up where the story began.


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