Writer

Kevin Hopps and Greg Weisman

Artist

Mike Norton

Colourist

Alex Sinclair

Letterer

Travis Lanham

Editor

Michael McCalister and Scott Peterson

Cover Artist

Mike Norton

Cover Colourist

Alex Sinclair

Tuppence Terror: <unnhh> Son, you do pack a wallop…
Superboy: Lady, I’m not your son.
Tuppence Terror: And I ain’t no lady.

Tuppence Terror: Big mistake pissant!
Kid Flash: That’s Kid Pissant to you, sister!

Previously in “Independence Day” and “Fireworks”: Aqualad, Robin, and Kid Flash has hoped that their induction into the Justice League would actually mean something, but it turned out to be more symbolic than real. They sought to prove themselves to the League so they infiltrated Cadmus Labs and liberated a teenage clone of Superman called Superboy. Their fight with Cadmus leveled the above ground facility and brought a response from the full Justice League. Batman told them that they were being stood down, but Aqualad and co stood up to him and for what they had achieved together.

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Writer

Judd Winick

Penciller

Joe Bennett

Inker

Jack Jadson and Ruy Jose

Colourist

Hi-Fi

Letterer

Sal Cipriano

Editor

Rex Ogle and Brian Cunningham

Cover Colourist

Hi-Fi

Cover Artist

Aaron Lopresti

Variant Cover Colourist

Hi-Fi

Variant Cover Artist

Kevin Maguire

Blue Beetle: Yep. A whole new wide world of suckage.

Previously: The Justice League International’s headquarters have come under-attack from Maxwell Lord’s new Creature Commandos. The JLI had been separated with Fire and Ice in the sick bay and the others outside. Booster had decided to withdraw and ordered the Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) to find Fire and Ice. However,  Jaime was singled out for attack by the Commandos and was kidnapped by Maxwell Lord while the other heroes were incapacitated.

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Cast

Robin

Jesse McCartney

Miss Martian

Danica McKellar

Superboy

Nolan North

Aqualad

Khary Payton

Kid Flash

Jason Spisak

Brick

Khary Payton

Red Tornado

Jeff Glenn Bennett (as Jeff Bennett)

T.O. Morrow

Jeff Glenn Bennett (as Jeff Bennett)

Mr. Twister

John De Lancie

Brom Stikk

John De Lancie

Speedy

Crispin Freeman

Computer

Stephanie Lemelin

Crew

Writer

Kevin Hopps

Director

Jay Oliva

Music

Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, and Lolita Ritmanis

Voice Director

Jamie Thomason

Animation Director

Daegu Heh, Hyeoksoo Lee, and Myeonghwan Park

Animation Timing Director

James Tim Walker

Character Design

Dusty Abell and Jerome Moore

Storyboard

Jay Baker, Tim Divar, and Phil Langone

Animation Services

Lotto Animation

Lead Character Designer

Phil Bourassa

Prop Design

Alexander Kubalsky

Producer

Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman

Executive Producer

Sam Register

Robin: The bad guys know we know that they know about the place so they’d never think to look here.
Kid Flash: What he means is we’re hiding in plain sight.

Robin: Fast with his feet, not so fast with his mouth.
Kid Flash: Dude!

Previously in “Independence Day” and “Fireworks”: The sidekicks Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Robin had sought to prove themselves to the Justice League by infiltrating Cadmus Labs. In the process they liberated a teenage clone of Superman called Superboy and found a new purpose as their own team. However, Batman was unwilling just to let this new teen team run loose so he drafted them as a new covert branch of the Justice League proper. Based in the League’s original Cave headquarters the four boys, plus Miss Martian, will be mentored by the Red Tornado and trained by the Black Canary.

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Credits: Written by Judd Winick; art by Sami Basri; coloured by Sunny Gho and Jessica Kholinne; lettered by John J. Hill;  edited by Rachel  Gluckstern (associate) and Mike Carlin; cover by Basri and Gho.

Synopsis “Beasts of Burden”: Power Girl has followed the trail of Divine (her raven-haired clone) to a cloaked facility in Vietnam. Professor Anthony Ivo introduces himself and tells PG that she has found the location of the new Cadmus Project. He then sets his menagerie of genetically engineered monsters on her (including a four-armed albino King Kong called “Caspian”) with the expectation that they would stop her getting inside. However, PG just brushes them aside and flies straight through all of Ivo’s safeguards. She plugs s USB transmitter into a computer console allowing Nicco to download their database while she continues to explore. Nicco decides that he has to do something with the mountain on unencrypted intel so he forwards it to the Batcave for archiving. PG discovers that Ivo has even cloned Krypto (Superman’s dog), but the Krypto clone recognises her as a kryptonian and starts helping her. They have the upper hand until Maxwell Lord arrives and shuts down Power Girl’s opposition with his mind control. He then makes her believe that Captain Atom was responsible for Magog’s murder and that it’s her duty to take down the JLI.

Continuity: The Batman that Nicco calls is Bruce Wayne (raised bat-emblem with the yellow oval). Whether this is deliberate or whether it’s an art mistake will have to wait for a following issue. The end of this issue takes place simultaneously with Justice League: Generation Lost #17 and continues in Justice League: Generation Lost #18.

Opinion: Another great issue from Winick and Basri. The emotional turmoil that PG faced last issue is pushed to one side as she does some monster punching. Why do I get the feeling that Anthony Ivo has had way too much fun working for Max. That old scientist must be a real movie buff considering the monsters and Creature Commandos that he’s been manufacturing (either that or he’s a pokemon fan). “Clambake”, the big clone of Krypto, was also fun and I hope they’ll keep him around. This issue finally leads directly into Generation Lost and there is some relief that we’re moving beyond the investigation phase of PG character arc.