A review by nickpalmieri
Outsiders, Vol. 1: Looking for Trouble by Sean Parsons, Scott Hanna, Tom Raney, ChrisCross, Marc Campos, Judd Winick, Ivan Reis

4.0

Judd Winick created a great cast and concept here. The team is composed of Thunder and Grace Choi, who he created for the series, Indigo, who he created for "Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day" but repurposes here, and a version of Metamorpho that for all intents and purposes is an original creation, as you see by the end of this volume, plus Jade, who he was essentially the sole writer of for the years leading up to this and for the few years after, Arsenal, who was at the time only appearing in this series and occasionally Green Arrow (also written by Winick), and Nightwing, an iconic character to ground the team. That's four characters who Winick created, two with whom he had free creative rein, and one iconic character. As such, the book comes off as Winick doing whatever he wants, and it's a major improvement over anything else he'd written for DC up to this point. The stories are plot-centric, but there's no lack of fun character moments, and the art is a nice mix of realistic and stylized that works well for the title.

If you're looking for something deep and insightful, this isn't the place. But if you want some covert-ops, action-heavy, "edgy" superheroics, it's all right here. Looking forward to volume 2!