Outsiders #37 - DC

This has always been one of my favorite books. I love the Teen Titans. This book with it's cast of characters, it more closely tied to that book than any other. Since the 1 Year Later storylines have started, this book is even better. Judd Winick writes it and Matthew Clark draws it, and they both seem to be working together wonderfully. Right now we're in the middle of a story where, the Outsiders are in some African country trying to bring down a vicious dictator of a country. In the process they come across a cloned Jay Garrick. Through their investigations, or interrogations, or just beating the information out of people, they've come to find out that Monsieur Mallah and the Brain, now calling themselves Silver & Grey, for Silverback and Grey Matter, are scouring the world for DNA from Meta-humans so that they can clone then and sell them to the highest bidder as weapons. Their alterior motive for this is to figure out an exact cloning process so they can clone the brain a body that won't reject it's tissue. The twist to this, is that underneath all this is a love story. See, Monsieur Mallah is in love with the Brain. And I think, that he thinks, that should their plan come to it's fruition, that the Brain will not be nearly as close to Monsieur Mallah because he will be much more self sufficient. So, I wouldn't doubt if Mallah isn't sabotaging the cloning process along the way. Maybe not intentionally, but definitely subconsiously. Now, add to this that Robin would love to get his hands on their plans, because he himself is frantically trying to repeat the cloning process for his best friend Superboy. So we have a pair of "Criminal" and a pair of "Good-Guys" trying to accomplish the same thing, pretty much for the same reason, but obviously on opposite sides of the law. Kind of ironic. Anyways, with the Outsiders, they are truly now outsiders. The world thinks they are dead. And they now have the new Captain Boomerang on their team. Add to this that Superman made a personal appearance to reprimand Nightwing for the way he's handling things. To which Nightwing replies, "There are things that none of you are willing to do. Things that have to be done for the common good. I will do these things." And he also let Superman know that he had Krptonite available should it be necessary. As Captain Boomerang said, after evesdropping on Superman and Nightwings exchange, "Look at the pair on you!" I can't really tell who did the cover, but it's great. Check out this book.