Wonder Twins #10 // Review
For the most part, Wonder Twins, the 12-issue limited series from DC’s Wonder Comics line, has been a delight. It’s got two charming protagonists, and it’s got a quirky and satirical sense of humor. It’s just connected enough to the DC Universe to allow for the glow of comfortable familiarity, but separate enough from it to keep the major meta-story of the DC Universe from really affecting it and disrupting its flow. Plus, it has the monkey, Gleek.
Wonder Twins #10 sees the title barreling toward its last few issues, and concerns itself primarily with wrapping up plot threads from earlier in the series. The Twins and Polly Math go on an insane mission to save Polly’s father from the Phantom Zone. Lex Luthor finally returns to Earth after his exile to avoid the Great Scramble.
Writer Mark Russell handles all of this with his trademark wit, this time aiming his cutting gaze at the problems with the intern culture at LexCorp. For the most part, though, the writing of this issue has a feel of putting all the toys back in the box, which is appropriate since there are only two issues left in the series after this one.
The art by Stephen Byrne (with lettering by Dave Sharpe) is excellent. Byrne hews close enough to the DC house style that the book feels like it belongs on the shelves alongside Superman and Justice League and Detective Comics. Still, it has a softness to it, as well as an almost-but-not-quite cartoony exaggeration that gives it its own identity.
Wonder Twins #10 is a fun comic, and a solid entry in the series. It sets up one last conflict that the Twins and their friends will have to contend with in the final two issues of the series.
