Reviewer: Jesse Baker
Story Title: Lost and Found
Written by: Geoff Johns
Penciled by: Tony Danial and Todd Nauck
Inked by: Undead Hank Hall in “Hawk” Costume
Colored by: Undead Hank Hall in “Monarch” Costume
Lettered by: Undead Hank Hall in “Extant” Costume
Editor: Undead Hank Hall in “Silver Variant Extant” Costume
Publisher: DC Comics
The Titans try and reseal the gateway between the realm of the living and the dead, with help from Kid Eternity. Naturally, this gets done at the end of the issue and the Legion of the Unliving Titans are all sent back to the graveyard.
And something happens to the John Byrne Wonder Girl, but I don’t care, and Whiney Emo-Boy continues to whine so hard that Superboy Prime finally announces that he’s going to have a “conversation” with his clone counterpart. A conversation that will include much violence, dismemberment, and screaming “I’m F-cking Superboy! I’m going to grow up and be Superman!” while he’s being tossed into the Speed Force, due to the lack of any Phantom Zone Projectors nearby.
The only only “highlight” is the return of Kid Eternity, who takes the job of deux de machina to resolve the problem of how to deal with the new Legion of the Unliving. He gives some comments that turn out to be quite hollow in terms of foreshadowing that the current Titans roster won’t be around much longer, but since then none of the current Titan team got dismembered and killed off in Infinite Crisis #4. The crap on the stick continues with Geoff Johns trying to be “witty” via a pointless Captain Carrot comic strip that runs in the issue, that is supposed to be all “insightful” about the current mess that the DC Universe is in but that the people in charge of the company are still oblivious to, since in the eyes of some (Judd Winnick and Greg Rucka), mass murder of beloved characters and rape-o-rama are big business and is the new theme for the DC Universe as we continue into the 21st Century.
Overall the issue was bad. Really bad. And really, with everything that’s going on right now, it seems that Geoff is just on cruise control until he can get to the upcoming Annual, which is supposed to concentrate on Whiney Emo-Boy and the John Byrne Wonder Girl’s stupid romance that no one cares about.
