Batman: No Man's Land: Young Justice Special (Story #14)
No Man's Land continues with a story about Young Justice that isn't written by the main writer of Young Justice. (We will get there)
The comic opens on not-actually-a-member of Young Justice: Lagoon Boy! For those of you who don't know Lagoon Boy, he was a creation of the Erik Larsen's run on Aquaman. Kinda looks like Savage Dragon. And I agree that Atlantis could use some more little freaks. It is shame that Lagoon Boy is most famous for being killed...twice in some very bad comics.
Anyway, Lagoon Boy is swimming towards Gotham when he ambushed by comics fourth best snake cult: Kobra! The cult is doing some shady stuff near Gotham, and they fire torpedoes at Lagoon Boy.
Meanwhile, Kon-El is being extremely thirsty for a robot girl at Young Justice Headquarters, and I just got to say, I do not want to see what Chuck Dixon thinks about what makes people find horny. Just bad, Chuck.
Impulse and Superboy are trying to cheer up a sad Robin. Tim is annoyed that Batman said he can't be in Gotham, but Bart and Kon realize that Bats never said that Young Justice could be in No Man's Land.
So, we get Superboy, Impulse, Robin, and Lagoon Boy all breaking in Gotham in different ways. It is nice to see the heroes break in Gotham individually and the military just getting annoyed that people just keep speeding into the city.
Bart and Kon get into Gotham first (Bart gives a man asking for food a turkey, in one of several good Impulse side-gags in this issue), and they decide to go into Poison Ivy's Forest after seeing smoke from that direction. The pair is attacked by a plant lady... and Superboy is thirsty for all the non-sentient life.
Meanwhile, Robin saves Lagoon Boy from a mob of hungry citizens. The two bond (joking that Lagoon Boy would fit in Gotham just fine) and go to Poison Ivy's territory to save the other boys of Young Justice.
When Robin goes to stop the plant lady, he is interrupted by Batman showing up. Batman saves the boys and then tells them to get the hell out of Gotham!
The heroes leave on the SuperCycle sad that they failed in Batman's eyes, when Lagoon Boy remembers that there are still Kobra subs near Gotham City. Young Justice realizes that they can't let Kobra do some science-terrorism on the struggling Gotham City, so they go under the sea.
Superboy, Lagoon Boy, and Lagoon Boy's pal Blubber (he is a whale with arms and legs) destroy the subs while Impulse and Robin destroy missiles heading towards Gotham. Also, the girls of Young Justice show up for a panel wondering what the boys are doing. Good job Chuck for keeping those weak, nasty girls out this comic *sarcasm*.
This comic is a not great tie-in for either Young Justice or No Man's Land. The nice things that I can say is that the art is good and Impulse is written decently. But that is balanced out by an extremely, uncomfortably horny Superboy. Does some exploration of heroes going to No Man's Land while showing the pointless of military guarding Gotham when superheroes/villains can just break in.
5.5/10
