Book: Young Justice volume #4 (issues #20-25) by Greg Weisman with illustrations by Christopher Jones and color by Zac Atkinson
Edition: Trade - digital
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Well, this wasn't an unpleasant read but it was a very busy story with a lot of characters in it. I did think there were some good and bad parts but what makes it sort of lean heavily towards the bad was that the story was trying to do too much. It not only focused on Dick Grayson's birthday but also two simultaneous yet separate alien attacks. Brainiac was attacking Metropolis while Kylstar abducted several heroes. Plus, YJ was trying to protect Noor Harjavti from a possible attack from Queen Bee. Ms. Harjavti was in Metropolis to speak out against the dire situation in Qurac. There was also a new member being recruited to YJ and lastly, the story constantly kept flipping back and forth between two backstories and the present. One of the backstories centered around an earlier birthday party for Dick Grayson and the other focused on an assassination by Queen Bee on Ms. Harjavti's father.
I think if the story had just focused on maybe 2-3 plots maybe this would have been a much better read. The story read as if they author was trying to fit in as many things as possible since this was the last group of issues before the TV and comic book series were cancelled.
I debated on whether to rate this 2 1/2 or 3 stars but in the end I decided to go with the 3 stars since it wasn't bad and I did enjoy reading it.
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