Artist Stephen Byrne is the perfect collaborator on this. His art is gorgeous and it tells a great story. I'll be sad when this ends, but hopefully these two creators will work together again. It's a great book and a fun time overall. Read Full Review

If you arent picking this book up, you are doing yourself a disservice. This is super hero comedy on a scale to rival Giffens Justice League, and Im serious about that. Read Full Review

A funny, well-written modern social satire placed against a superheroic backdrop, this book is a must-read. Read Full Review

Wonder Twins #5 continues a winning streak for Russell and Byrne, with great characters, a fun story, and dynamic art. One of the most purely enjoyable books DC is putting out right now. Read Full Review

Wonder Twins continues to be a charming blend of sweet and topical, a rollicking triumph for DCs Wonder Comics line. DC announced today that the 6-issue miniseries has been extended to 12 issues, which is a great decision. Read Full Review

By the end of this issue,thingshave changed drastically. You'll see another case of someone who deserved to be jailed, get off scot free. You'll find out how far a promising character will go to get justice for their broken heart. You'll remember that despite the heavy nature of the comic's content, Mark Russell never forgets to inject good doses of humor into many panels. You'll watch corporate America do what it does best and shake your head in disgust while it all goes down. Is it a perfect depiction of the injustices that happen across our nation? No, but it's another excellent outing by Russell and Byrne and I hope they continue to push the envelope every issue of Wonder Twins. Read Full Review

I left the issue truly pondering some of our societies biggest hardships and self-reflecting on my own actions, perceptions, and demeanor towards these issues. Are there any immediate answers to these topics? I don't know. Did Russell give fans the answers? No. However, he's attempting to float these issues to the top to draw attention to them using his platform to do so. Thank you, Mr. Russell, for the reminder. Read Full Review

Wonder Twins has turned the corner, with the plot accelerating and the story taking over a lot of pages that would have previously been dedicated to character building. That said, the character building we do get in this one is touching and a little melancholy. Read Full Review

A still enjoyable issue suffers from a disconnect in that the main characters aren't really incorporated into the story being told. Read Full Review

Mark Russell has taken some of the diciest issues of the modern day and put them in a surrealist blender to turn a superhero mirror on the real world, but the broad satire tone doesn't work nearly as well on issues as grim as the ones Wonder Twins #5 grapples with. Read Full Review

Stephen Byrne continues to deliver some impressive art and that's about the best praise I could give this tone-deaf issue. Read Full Review

This comic is well deserving of the 6 issue increase and honestly, I hope it never stops!

This has political beliefs I believe are a bit outdated (at least I assume so with the father not being hired for his skin colour, but I am also not American) and ones that feel pretty forward-thinking, but overall the message at the end is one I agree with. I also liked the roasting of Fox News with the straw man and Punditron 5000.

Haha, Red Flag is such a douche: "Jayna won't return any of my texts. And I sent her like fifty of them! So Rude!" Straw Man and Angry Lady Who Was A Judge Like Thirty Years Ago are awesome, can they be in every issue? "Wake up! What would you do if you saw a man you didn't know entering some random building somewhere?"

A good idea and good points executed poorly. It’s just too on the nose to have any bite.

Yes, I too have used Twitter. The comic raises some fair points but at the same time, the satire is tired and obvious. I can get this from any generic, forgettable Twitter rant. And outside of being a soapbox, this series is just a bore. Give me something new, something I haven't been inundated with for quite a while. You know what would help all this? If these characters were built up and interesting. Why should I care about this? Because it has the right politics? I agree with most of what is in this issue. But it's just poorly executed and written so I don't care.

While the comics do pay some homage to the Justice Friends and some of the struggles the Wonder Twins always faced, this take is a bit too modern to do them justice.

It does build more on their planet's culture and adds some zany teen antics.
But it uses too much of the worn goals of being in high school in an ironic tone.
As well as using the disenchanted youth tropes.

While it could be interested it just feels like there are never any heroic victories.
Even in the Justice Friends, the Wonder Twins always got in trouble and needed to be bailed out, but they were hopeful and unassuming.

I think playing up being fish out of water would be better than their ongoing frustration of Earth.

Using so much social commentary through comics can be empowering, but it can also make it too heavy to be enjoyable. And that is true for this comic. One of the best part of super hero comics, especially DC, is to see epic adventures and a better day in the end. The hope that goes with it. Seeing heroes be heroes. Seeing heroes thrust into situations and failing through them and calling it win, misses that mark.

The social commentary using Lex Luthor and Lex News is a bit too close to home. While it will give future generations a glimpse at how media and businesses interact it isn't fun to read.

That being said, the sibling relationship is great and showing how they depend on each other, the core of the Wonder Twins, is still there. I wish they shared the same enthusiasm, but that seems to be a deliberate mismatch in this comic.
more