As written by my 16 year old self who was very frustrated
I'm just going to be straight up here. I dislike anything and everything that Bendis has written in the past year.
His Superman comics? He made it impossible to use Jon in main continuity for years, and practically ruined the Super Sons friendship, with there now being a huge age difference in between Damian and Jon that is just... Weird.
But that doesn't even hold a mark to what he is doing with the Wonder Comics.
Brian Micheal Bendis has managed to get the job to write Young Justice again. The team, that was broken up in the early two-thousands to make way for Graduation Day, the Outcasts and the 2003's Teen Titans team, (the latter having pretty much half the Young Justice team in it.) was always incredibly well-written, with stories that were capable of appealing to both teenagers and adults and even could be marketed to younger kids as well. It dealt with issues that teenagers ACTUALLY deal with, had interesting stories, and it took the main continuity into account.
Most importantly, the Young Justice comics weren't actually necessary to read, even if you read Robin, Impule, and Superboy, but they were still fun enough to attract the attention of the readers.
This is completely different in Bendis' new Young Justice comics. Those comics are clearly marketed at younger kids and aren't all that interesting to anybody above 13, but, because of the fact that he's already changed Tim Drake's entire costume and vigilante name, this might actually have huge impact on Tim's character and popularity. After all, it's going to be incredibly hard to justify any name changes anytime soon.
This all wouldn't be so bad, had the name and costume change actually made sense. That however. Was not the case.
Let's take a look.
During the first Young Justice (2019) issues, Tim Drake was going by Robin. Why? Nobody has a clue. Then they were transported to another dimension. They spend the entirety of 10 issues trying to get back. Please note that despite the fact that this took place all the way from January to October, it only was like a week or two in comics timing, as they never spend much time in any of the dimensions they visited.
For some reason, that was never explained, in the last universe they spent time in, Tim decided on a costume change. The costume itself wasn't anything special, just a brown custume. (which is really weird for someone who spent the entirity of his time as Robin adhering to the 'red' team, think: Redbird, Redboard etc.) The costume didn't look great but it wasn't bad. The problem laid in the fact that in the same image the costume was introduced, his new name was also mentioned. And that name was Drake. (Please note that that is also the only time that name has been even mentioned since, which is impressive, because there was not a lot of action in the past three issues and a WHOLE lot of talking.)
Despite the fact that taking on a literal part of your last name (Tim's full name is Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne) is bad for any vigilante, it is especially a really weird decision for Tim. Tim, after all, is the same character that once went through the effort of making it appear as if he'd been shot, and then walked on crutches in his civilian persona for months, just to hide the fact Red Robin appeared in Gotham for the first time when Tim Drake returned from his travels. That's far more extensive than any lengths that Batman has gone through to hide his identity. So then why would Tim Drake, ON A WHIM, decide that he was going to use his last name as a vigilante identity? I just can't take this seriously.
Other interesting developments are Impulse, Wondergirl and Superboy, all of which have, like Tim, lost any sense of character. Or to be more specific, none of them seem to be capable of having any personality at all. (Which basically means, Superboy hasn't done anything but rush into things without looking ahead, Impulse can't do anything but suffer from unrealistic ADHD, and Cassie is just a strong girl that can use sarcasm???) All of those 3 have returned from the 'dead', but haven't told their mentors. Possibly -and probably- so Bendis can excuse their absence, which is even more lazy writing.
So, in his entire year of writing Young Justice, Bendis has managed to properly ignore anything and everything good about the Young Justice from 1998, like the fact that the characters were also living beings and teenagers, but he has managed to commit complete and total character assassination. And if that isn't infuriating then I don't know what is.
