Young Justice: Targets #1

[laughing_tree]

We have a MUCH larger audience numerically in S4 than in ANY prior season. Hell, our hate-watchers alone probably top our S1&2 numbers. -- Greg Weisman

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[dan_ingram]

Who's Harlan Matthews?

[scorntx]

Clayface, formerly known as Matt Hagen.
He's working for Bowhunter Security to prove he's serious about not being a villain.
(And also so Amanda Waller won't try and abduct him and put him in the Suicide Squad again.)

[zachbeacon]

"Hell, our hate-watchers alone probably top our S1&2 numbers. -- Greg Weisman"

Say what you will but the man knows his audience.

[scorntx]

"I won't screw-up, I won't screw-up, I won't screw-up!"
FIVE MINUTES LATER:
Will screws up.


Though judging by the cover, got a prrrreetty reasonable guess as to who's responsible for what's going on, and going by the solicits for next issue, a plausible explanation for why.
I mean, they're warsuits which look an awful lot like comic Lex Luthor's usual battlesuit (the chest insignia's a giveaway). The same Lex who has a reputation for developing weapons.
And Perdita's a kidnapped queen of the nation of Markovia, current home to Infinity. Inc, who were powered by Lex Luthor, and which has shaky relations with Vlatava.
The same Infinity. Inc who are almost certainly still working for the Light as part of their Fiendish Master Plan.

So the queen gets kidnapped by persons unknown, the Infinitors rescue her, and a grateful Perdita starts smoothing things over with the Lights's catspaw King Brion.
Then the Outsiders bugger this up somehow, but it's alright because it's the Light and they planned for that, too.

... just speculating at length here.

[coldfury]

I think you swapped the countries there, she's not the Queen of Markovia.

[scorntx]

Oh, yes.
(Floop.)


Unless...
No, no, that'd require some sort of needlessly labyrinthine scheme involving staged kidnappings, engineered heroics and possibly someone with the ability to manipulate emotions.

[deh_tommy]

I don’t know much about Young Justice, but going by the Off-Topic Tuesday posts, when in doubt blame Vandal Savage.

[scorntx]

Can't blame Vandal Savage for everything.
Just most things.

[blues32]

Now, now. Lex Luthor is responsible for bad things too. And Darkseid.

[cainofdreaming]

Psst... Include Joker. For the love of god include Joker on the list before he notices he got left out.

[dan_ingram]

Actually, when Joker wised up they sent an assassin to kill him.

Joker isn't a Mary Sue god in this canon

[blues32]

That's not the point. Joker doesn't take being left out very well. Remember Alexander Luthor?

[beyondthefringe]

I just love the whole "family business" aspect of Bowhunters.

[deathcrist2000]

I'm sorry, are there three Roy Harpers?

[scorntx]

Yep.
There's Roy (the original), Will's a clone made by the Light to serve as a mole in the superheroes, and Jim, also a clone of Roy, who thought he was actually Roy's uncle at first.

[beyondthefringe]

To specify further:
Roy Harper, aka Speedy, aka Arsenal. The original. Captured, cloned, held on ice for years. Lost an arm because they needed raw material for cloning, got a cybernetic weapon arm.
"Will" Harper, aka Speedy, aka Red Arrow. A clone created as part of a Light plan to place a mole in the Justice League. He was the "Roy" we saw at the start of the show. Married Cheshire, fathered Lian (like in the comics).
Jim Harper, aka Guardian, who didn't know he was a clone, and who worked for Cadmus Project as security until he eventually retired.

[blues32]

This is around season 3, isn't it? I was never into Young Justice at first, but Season 4 changed that (even if all I do is watch online clips of it). Though if they expect me to believe that Wally is going to stay dead... Anyway, I can see Terra back there and I don't think she stuck around for season 4.

I can't tell if Will is joking in regards to the balance being off with his clipboard. Can he throw a clipboard with pinpoint accuracy? Figured that would be more Roy's thing since he branched off from bows.

[zachbeacon]

Between the date and the Princess wanting to avoid that particular airport, I think this is a couple months after season four.

Edit: Yeah, the clipboard fixation was established in season three.

[blues32]

Really? I thought Terra left the team. I didn't see her around for Beast Boy's intervention.

[zachbeacon]

Without going into season three spoilers....

...they went in a different direction with this version of Terra than they usually do.

[blues32]

Oh, I know. I know. It's quite a refreshing take. That being said, I thought she left the team. I really don't remember seeing her when Beast Boy was depressed.

[icon_uk]

She's around quite a bit in Season 4, especially the Tigress arc.

I confess that since she's not in the classic Terra colours, I sometimes forget who she is in a busy scene. Basically, if it's a blonde in a green and black outfit with gold trim and a vaguely Eastern European accent, that's Terra.

[scorntx]

Changing the classic colours is an unusual choice, since distinctiveness can really help in a crowded scene, if nothing else.
(Why change it?)

[icon_uk]

I wonder if it's some sort of a nod to Brion changing his brown outfit for a green and gold one after Terra died in the comics, because he didn't want to be associated with what she had become.

[scorntx]

It's Young Justice. Can't necessarily put that past them.

[laughing_tree]

Or maybe the other way around. They wanted her to match Geo-Force, who wears green in the series.