The one-shot Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls was published with a cover date of May 2000. The issue was part of the Sins of Youth event. Apollo arranged for Diana and Cassie to be captured by the Agenda, who already had Superboy Sr. The issue introduced Cyclon, created by Brian K Vaughn and Scott Kolins. ("Coming of Age", Sins of Youth: Wonder Girls 1, DC Comic Event)
So as I mentioned before, Young Justice was interrupted by a whole âSins of Youthâ event where everyoneâs ages were screwed up
So here we are in Wonder Girlâs story co-starring Wonder Woman.
And I gotta say, while the Superman story was why having multiple artists is a bad idea, the Wonder Woman segment is the reason why itâs a great idea. Each storyâs style in the saga can be, in some ways, reflective of its starring characters comics.
I think there was a Justice League episode that started almost exactly like this: Diana misunderstanding war games as war. Or maybe it was that 2009 movie⊠I donât know, I just know that I saw it happen somewhere else in a cartoon!
Her face in the bottom left is priceless, btw. Younger Woman is such a scamp. Definitely has that young princess attitude of âI can do what I wantâ that teen Starfire had only not nearly as uh⊠well⊠Teen Starfire is a lot. Like, she was so much a lot.
Also look at the suns out guns out on grown up Cassie, she has the right to bare arms and could probably shoot a whole army with them.
Hey, question:
Why did Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl give each other their outfits?
I didnât question it with Bruce and Tim because Batman has an image to maintain.
So why are Cassie and Diana doing⊠this?
It definitely isnât for image purposes otherwise Cassie would be wearing that awful wig again.
Ah, it was Cassieâs idea. For⊠weird reasons.
Wait, did Wonder Womanâs costume not change with her?
Itâs actually kind of ambiguous. I donât even know if her arm guards are too big for or if they were always like that.
Is this like Dr. Fateâs helmet where the magic involved in its existence is under rules that prevent them from being altered like that?
Welp, time to go home for a change of clothes!
Also Iâm starting to realize that the problem with Cassieâs wig wasnât because it was a bad wig (though it was bad), it was because the colors werenât working. The whole black on black on yellow on black wasnât really doing it, so having her natural hair out helps break up the colors.
I wonder what Tim and Konâs rooms are like.
Actually no, maybe I donât want to know what Konâs room is like.
I donât gotta ask about Bart, I read his comic.
Mind, Cassieâs room isnât like this to prove a point about the minds of youth vs maturity. We are in her room a lot in Young Justice and it is always like this.
It is a genuine miracle her mom lets her out with her room looking like that.
Ignore the bottom panel, this is actually a really sweet moment. A forever ago The Titans dropped by and Donna Troy, the previous Wonder Girl, gave Cassie her old costume. A cute little passing of the torch. Donnaâs more of a âblack leotard reflecting the stars of the night skyâ kind of gal these days.
Cassie, the fangirl, of course kept the costume in her closet to be kept in mint condition because she was scared if she wore it she might ruin it or something.
Itâs a nice costume but honestly I prefer the black tank, goggles, and leather jacket.
I donât think the standard Young Justice art, color, and shading style would be able to properly convey the terror of Cassieâs mom pointing a gun right in her face. Not knocking on the art of YJ, but I think that this scene shows off the strengths of having different artists working different parts of this ongoing event.
Like, they do a really good job with the emotion on Cassieâs face on that second page. and these scenes with her and her mom are great in general. Itâs nice to have them have a conversation like this. Itâs always felt more fraught when Cassie was a teenager having to deal with her mother semi-approving of her actions. But we all know itâs because she worries.
What an adorable new look, Diana. That even has her original logo on it before modern artists started doing the stylized âWW+Eagleâ thing which was honestly a stroke of design genius that allows Wondy to have an iconic crest that isnât too complex but also isnât too simple.
The idea of going to Zeus is kind of crazy to me, but I know that back at the beginning of Young Justice when Cassie was heavily embellishing her origin story, she came to Zeus asking for a favor.
Which is⊠a funny concept if one knows anything about mythological Zeus. And, like, obviously the dialogue did not happen this way, Cassie is really playing up how cool she is.
I think one of the disappointing things about Wonder Woman not having the amount of adaptations Superman and Batman do is that we donât get a pop culture distillation of her relationship to the gods. One of the MANY great things the DCAU was able to do was take what worked, ignored what didnât, and built an iconic pure essence of a character and their mythology. But Wonder Woman, her hero origin story is the first episode of Justice League. So we donât get as much history out of her and itâs pretty disappointing.
And in most of the adaptations itâs the same boring antagonistic relationship with Hades and Ares. Because these Christian raised westerners canât conceive of a lead god as anything other than the Christian God of Good and canât conceive of a good of the dead and the underworld as anything other than The Devil and EVIL.
And Ares of course because war is bad and Diana is for peace
Itâs very rote. We can do better.
Uh, anyhow, on to the god summoning.
Apparently Diana knows Cassieâs mom so causally because they worked together at a museum. Thatâs cool.
And explains why Helena is coming along. Someoneâs gotta open the museum so they can use the magical pot.
Look at these wyrd sisters bubble bubble, toil and trouble.
New phone, who dis?
Why itâs Mr. Blue Sky.
Here Comes The Sun⊠and I say, itâs not alright
Let the Sunshine In? Nah, we probably shouldnât.
Look, I could keep referencing songs all day but I think you get the point. Itâs the one and only capricious.
And like a lot of Greek gods, heâs a bit of an ass.
And if you know your Greek myth I think we all know what âfraternizingâ means, especially when it comes to Zeus.
I like that teen Diana can never seem to shut up. If there is a hole she will talk her way down it.
Helena is right, this is a bad idea
Allow me to spoil the ending for you: Apollo is an ass.
So itâs up to Wonder Girl Woman and Wonder Woman Girl to go fight the offspring of Medusa and The Cyclops to get some stupid helmet for a capricious god.
It goes about as well as youâd think given these ladiesâ penchant for violence.
Thankfully, Cassie reminds Diana that she can speak Greek.
My girlfriend feels the same about trying to remember her native language, ewe.
So surprise, surprise, turns out violence wasnât the answer!
This was literally a test set by Apollo to have people do this exact thing. So itâs weird that he created a scenario designed to reward patience, kindness, and diplomacy, and yet heâs such a huge jerk about it.
At least Cyclon is cool but I donât feel great about Medusa and Cyclops kicking him out because he wasnât evil enough.
Turns out the most evil person here was Apollo.
He turned in the Wonders into the Agenda.
Because heâs an ass.
So yeah, much like how Superboy surrendered for Supermanâs sake, Wonder Girl makes the executive decision to surrender for Superboyâs sake.
A real conga line of self-sacrifice.
But Teen Diana here is like âHow dare? I would never? LETâS KICK THEIR ASSES!â Oh right, and the chance for Apollo to turn them back is important too but I highly doubt heâd honor it even if they did get the helmet back to him.
So yeah, good art, good character, good emotion, good action, good resolution, this was a pretty strong segment actually.
Now on to the least likely pairing of Secret and Deadman.
