Young Justice #5 is a celebration of Young Justice past, present, and future. In authenticating the original series and orchestrating a mystery for the series to pursue, the issue proudly declares (in the words of Impulse) that Young Justice is back! Read Full Review

Young Justice establishes a fun mystery and improved team dynamics that carries the issue through a slightly underwhelming battle. The Gemworld sequences arent nearly as important as the team coming together so its far more important that Bendis keeps readers invested in whats to come rather than how theyll escape Gemworld. Read Full Review

The heroes are still stuck in Gemworld, and they have a few obstacles to work through before they make it home. That said, I'm really looking forward to see where things go from here. Worth a look. Read Full Review

Young Justice #5 sees the team finally taking a stand against Lord Opal and even delves into the rather complicated circumstances surrounding their reunification. Full of action and heart alike, this issue proves to be a big step for the series that fans will certainly want to stay up to date on! Read Full Review

After four issues of scattered but entertaining storytelling, Young Justice #5 finally gives us some major answers about where these characters have been and how Tim Drake found out about the "lost" heroes. Unfortunately, while it delivers some of the best moments of the series, it also reminds us just how fast and loose Bendis plays with continuity. Read Full Review

Young Justice #5 is another very strong issue with important ramifications for the DC universe that will be particularly special for fans of the Robin/Spoiler duo, and makes the case for the latter being made a member of the main cast. Read Full Review

Young Justice #5 is full of youth and joy. Readers will tear up at the sweet young love present in the issues while finally getting answers to the questions they've been looking for. Every issue feels new and refreshing while always building a little more of its own corner in the DCU. Brian Michael Bendis along with John Timms, Kris Anka, Doc Shaner, Gabe Eltaeb, and Wes Abbott have created an issue you don't want to miss. Read Full Review

One wonders if the creative team will be able to give each of them sufficient time to pull the all into the story. Read Full Review

This issue is torn between a very good flashback with bad timing and an engaging fight scene that gets split in half. Despite that, it still feels like it could have been the most relevant of the series since the first issue if it was placed better. Read Full Review

Young Justice #5 is the best issue Brian Bendis has written thus far in the young life of this series. As long as Bendis can focus in on more character driven issues rather than high concept stories Young Justice can easily climb to being one of DC Comics best titles. Bendis just needs to wrap up this dull GemWorld story arc before starting to make the climb. Read Full Review

This issue wasn't any worse than the last, it isn't any better at all either. If you're buying this series issue by issue and you need to drop something from your pull list, this series isn't giving you much of a reason to spare it. But if you're enjoying the rapid-fire banter of a bunch of superhero kids palling around and taking everything in its stride, this book still has its fun energy (and big names) to rely on. Read Full Review

While Young Justice continues to take its sweet time giving away any answers, this issue proves that the series can be much more emotionally resonating when the there aren't half a dozen characters on the page all trying to out-quip each other. Read Full Review

A frustratingly rushed issue upends everything I thought I knew about these characters, but not in a good way. More in a “confused by countless rectons” way. Read Full Review

So far I've been torn in between liking this new reality. Ruled by 12 gem houses and an evil overlord, reminiscent of Game of Thrones, It feature mysterious background and mystery on it's own (Did Conner Kent really have a baby ?). The jumping around on the time line is driving me nuts. The sub-story is till good its just that the placements of the panels seem to be a bit off. Read Full Review

While I love the way that this issue looks, the continuity is all over the place.  It seems that even looking up a Wikipedia page on any of these characters was too much for Brian Michael Bendis because even though you'll get an answer that has been lingering over us since Tim Drake's time in Detective Comics, it doesn't make a lick of sense.  Plus, in order to answer this question, a whole lot of other questions about what timeline we're really in are brought up.  Just a mess. Read Full Review

Honestly? I don't care about the current story in the Gemworld. It's too dragged out, and feels that it's only happening to make the band come back together again. But after reading the part with Robin, Steph, and Zatanna, I actually finally enjoyed this book again. Nice interaction between the characters, and Bendis actually fixing the continuity while also setting up some mysteries? Yes, please. This is what I want from this book, and if it manages to continue to do so, I'll be more than happy.

I enjoyed this issue but I don't think it did much to really advance the overall plot. Other than giving back story to where the members of Young Justice have been recently, I'm not entirely sure what the plot is right now. I do know that I absolutely HATE Gemworld. I thought Tim's story was pretty good but this still isn't doing a sufficient job of making this make sense with the current DC continuity, though this issue did try. Overall, this wasn't a bad issue but it wasn't mind-blowing either.

"Batman is going to blame me for this"

This comic book feels disjointed at times and I feel a bit lost while reading it due to the lack of answers.
But this issue, finally, provides some of them and things are starting to get clearer and to make more sense.

Finally.

I was very excited for the series - DC definitely has a niche for teen characters that aren't Teen Titans anymore, and they aren't Titans yet. Sadly, the story told so far feels so disjointed and lacks any proper cause-result narrative to follow, it fails to accomplish what I expected it to be - a fun comic full of vibrant, diverse characters coming from different backgrounds. Dammit, you have a demigoddess, a vigilante, a space cop, a Kryptonian, and a hick. That's one hell of a team to establish and develop - and instead Bendis constantly tries to distract us from the main heroes. Hey, it's Zatanna and Stephanie, cool, love them both, but as glad as I was to see them, it's hard not to think their presence takes room to breath from other characters.
It's disappointing. more

This was kind of confusing and a chore to read.

Feel like what is happening now and our flashbacks have no connection in the issue itself. And a bit forced. The art was great. And we did learn where is Stephanie, unfortunately felt unearned it a way.

Such a mess.

Why is this series so disjointed? Why does the second artist draw Tim Drake as a 10 year old? Why are we caught up in Gemworld? Why is this so much garbage?