Wonder Twins #9 Review

Writer: Mark Russell / Artist: Stephen Byrne / DC Comics Many of the previous issues have featured a bevy of funny panels and one liners, but issue #9 is a tense one. After that hilarious take on the dreaded High School Reunion, Mark Russell put Zan and Jayna through the ringer as they struggle with their new roommate as well as opening up about the dark secret they’ve been holding onto for most of their life. On the villain front, we have another plot unfolding where technology could be the ruin of man. But the start of the issue features Stephen Byrne drawing peak Batman and Superman tag team, refugee rescuing action.

I don’t know how much inspiration Russell and Byrne took from the current Mexican border debacle, but the parallels are evident and comparisons are inevitable. A group of people being held against their will, stemming from a long and tumultuous history between the two? Yeah, we call that glaring. Now, I don’t really understand the Zagronians trying to bringeth the smoke to Superman with one whole Kryponite shell, but it was delightful to see them get dealt with accordingly. Back at home, Polly is taken in by Jayna while Zan lives his best Three’s Company life. Thing is, Polly fresh out of Juvie and still a savage. She isn’t afraid to let the twins know how she really feels and low key beasts on them after getting saved from a one way to ticket back to the school to prison pipeline. After her evil sidekick stunt with the Scrambler, I fully expected her to be r…