OUT NOW: Young Justice #20 – The INVASION Begins!

Young Justice #20

Young Justice #20

YOUNG JUSTICE #20 is written by Greg Weisman and drawn by Christopher Jones with color by Zac Atkinson.

The latest issue of Young Justice jumps five years ahead to mirror the hit animated series Young Justice: Invasion, and aliens have invaded earth! Meanwhile, Devastation, an escaped felon and known operative of Queen Bee, is on the loose in Metropolis. But why is she here, and what does she want? And the Young Justice team is about to recruit a new member … but will he be a good match?

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Be sure to pick the issue up at your local comics shop or in digital form!

12 Comments

  • By Eddy, September 19, 2012 @ 6:42 pm

    Soooo many characters. Mentioned, and seen. Finally some Ted Kord.

    Did you get to make new designs for this issue? Bette? Ted?

  • By Christopher Jones, September 21, 2012 @ 7:02 am

    I had an existing design for a holographic image of Ted Kord to reference, although I added the Beetle Gun. The one major character I got to design for the issue was Brainiac, who you’ll be seeing more of in upcoming issues!

  • By Eddy, September 21, 2012 @ 7:34 am

    I like Brainiac’s design. It’s something new, but in the same time, combining the old elements – green skin plus the head shape of the robot days. His lower body seems robotic too – is he a robot or organic? Or both?

  • By Christopher Jones, September 21, 2012 @ 12:17 pm

    I’ll be doing a blog post about that design soon. Greg wanted an original design and the starting point was going back to the original concept – a green skinned alien that has been made into a cyborg. But Greg wanted the Young Justice version to look truly alien; still humanoid but not just a green bald guy.

  • By Eddy, September 22, 2012 @ 12:30 pm

    Looking forward to it. Last four issues did not have enough new characters for a design blog.

    In other news, did you happen to use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_paso_downtown_main.jpg this image] for reference?

  • By Christopher Jones, September 22, 2012 @ 4:27 pm

    That link wasn’t working. I’m guessing you mean this image? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_paso_downtown_main.jpg
    If so, yes! I couldn’t afford a trip to El Paso to shoot my own photo reference for the one panel…

  • By Yojimbo, October 7, 2012 @ 7:18 pm

    Excellent work on this issue, it felt like you stepped it up a couple notches. At first I was worried about getting cross eyed over the time skips but this Team Year ___ format is great!

  • By Christopher Jones, October 7, 2012 @ 7:33 pm

    Thanks a lot! I was really happy with this one, too. Wait until you see what’s coming up!

  • By anonymous, October 18, 2012 @ 8:38 am

    This question might sound a little out of nowhere, but are there going to be any nightwing and batgirl interactions/team-ups/moments? Sorry, I’m a big fan of them haha :) Love your art, by the way :D

  • By Christopher Jones, October 20, 2012 @ 2:31 pm

    Yes. Keep reading…
    And thanks!

  • By Eddy, October 20, 2012 @ 10:43 am

    I’ve another question. About the Qurac flashback/Year One timeline: why was half that scene repeated from the last issue?

  • By Christopher Jones, October 20, 2012 @ 2:32 pm

    I think just to re-cap and clarify that the new material followed immediately after Clark and Jimmy’s departure as seen in the previous issue.

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