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I love the first two books, but #3 is, well....

First, what's good:

The artwork is the best it's been so far in the series. There are a pile of pencillers working on this collection, but all of their unique styles fit well together. Also, the author (Judd Winick) throws some great curveballs at the reader, nice plot twists, and quirky humor.

What's bad:

A good chunk of this book is about child abuse. How the heck does this fit into this funny, action-packed, fantasy world that Winick has created for the series? They use the TV show "America's Most Wanted" (complete with real life hero John Walsh) and it just doesn't fit. Maybe Winick was trying to make the book feel more real, and it does give some insight into the past of a team member. Even so, it comes close to ruining the book. It's like when sit-coms throw in those weird episodes about something serious (like that Family Ties when Tom Hanks plays an alchoholic uncle, or that Different Strokes when Arnold is molested).

Anyway, the book ends with a cliffhanger that is resolved in a Teen Titans/Outsiders crossover book called "The Insiders." That book is MUCH better. "Wanted" is worth buying if you're planning to get "Insiders." Otherwise, have fun with Vols. 1 & 2 and skip this one.


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Outsiders VOL 03 Wanted Judd Winick Books Reviews

The series is really good, but this is one of the weaker volumes in the series. The art is fantastic and Winick tells an excellent story but, I really just didn't feel the whole America's Most Wanted cameo thing in this book but, if you're a fan of the series pick it up.
It seems that Nightwing is having a lot of problems dealing with issues emotionally, at the moment. As such, the team starts to question his decisions after the continually run into problems. The man Arsenal has been getting help from, and advice, about their current missions, appears to be Batman. A big surprise awaits at the end of this story.
I teetered between 4 and 5 stars because as much as I'm liking this story it isn't one of the truly great "graphic novels" ever is it? I decided I was rating it for what it was, a collection of super-team comics, and by that standard the choice is clear. This is 5 star work.

I'm so glad I bought all the books in this series together because I can't stop reading them. The surprises and revelations remind me of what got me interested in comics in the first place. This is just really cool story telling with really cool characters.

Make sure you check out Outsiders Looking for Trouble and Outsiders Sum of All Evil (Vol. 2) first. Also, when you're done with this you're going to want to read Teen Titans/Outsiders The Insiders
The first two volumes of the Outsiders had their interesting moments and the stories got progressively better as the book went along. These stories feature action, humor and interesting plots. The characterization for most of the characters, particularly the newcomers is very good, but there is just something completely off about the way that Winnick handles Nightwing in the Outsiders.

Winnick came up with a very interesting concept for his use of Nightwing in the Outsiders what if a natural, gifted leader had a crisis in the way he leads a team because of the death of a close friend on his watch? The concept had tremendous potential if properly handled. We could have seen Nightwing making tactical errors in his fear of losing others and have him wrestle with the issue. What we get instead is a Nightwing who just seems emotionally distant from everyone around him but who gets ousted as the team leader because he is "going to get us all killed" even though his decisions have been tactically sound.

In the previous stories four of the Outsiders get seriously hurt in different missions. Each time this happens a character complains that Nightwing divided up their forces, yet no one seems to understand that each of those times they were facing multiple threats and keeping the team together would have meant simply ignoring multiple threats. Also in two of these occasions the injury results out of simple incompetence on the part of the team members. The other times they get hurt in the line of duty, but honestly it happens, superheroes get hurt. Batman didn't get all those scars from sitting around sipping cocoa. Still Nightwing gets ousted as the leader of the team and the new leader brings in his ex-girlfriend to watch this happen (way to kick a man when he is down, by the way).

The problem with this subplot isn't that Winnick is messing up Nightwing's life, after all Brian Michael Bendis has made a career out of doing that to Daredevil, but the way he does it. Nightwing's supposed crisis in leaderships is the result of lazy writing. Winnick has the character make the right calls and end up maligned for it. He also has him say something so hurtful and horrific to one of his best friends that he steps completely out of character. Winnick thus lowers the rating on what could be a four or five star book with his poor handling of what could have been a truly great subplot.
I gotta say that I'm getting to be huge fan of Winick's writing. This team book has all the great elements that will keep me coming back to it over and over (it's even earned a place on my bookshelf, as opposed to the comic box in my closet). The characters are fully realised people, not just two dimensional archetypes, and the humor is just dry enough to get an audible chuckle out of me.

Keep 'em coming, Mr Winick.
Maybe the best one written. Shortly after this they lost their visuals guy, and the writing went the same sad direction as the art. If you read outsiders a year or two after this, it is brief, farcical, and silly in a bizarre way that someone fails to be entertaining. This is dark, heavy, emotional, and high quality writing for a team of superheroes that manage to be both super and human.
I love the first two books, but #3 is, well....

First, what's good

The artwork is the best it's been so far in the series. There are a pile of pencillers working on this collection, but all of their unique styles fit well together. Also, the author (Judd Winick) throws some great curveballs at the reader, nice plot twists, and quirky humor.

What's bad

A good chunk of this book is about child abuse. How the heck does this fit into this funny, action-packed, fantasy world that Winick has created for the series? They use the TV show "America's Most Wanted" (complete with real life hero John Walsh) and it just doesn't fit. Maybe Winick was trying to make the book feel more real, and it does give some insight into the past of a team member. Even so, it comes close to ruining the book. It's like when sit-coms throw in those weird episodes about something serious (like that Family Ties when Tom Hanks plays an alchoholic uncle, or that Different Strokes when Arnold is molested).

Anyway, the book ends with a cliffhanger that is resolved in a Teen Titans/Outsiders crossover book called "The Insiders." That book is MUCH better. "Wanted" is worth buying if you're planning to get "Insiders." Otherwise, have fun with Vols. 1 & 2 and skip this one.