Young Justice

Young Justice is a bit more serious than Teen Titans or Bold and the Brave, but a bit less serious than Justice League unlimited.  So it sort of strikes a good comic balance from the git go.  It's the story of the various side kicks of the main heroes of the DC universe.  There's Robin (batman), Speedy (green arrow), Aqualad (Aquaman), and Kid Flash (the Flash).  They are all busting at the bit because this is "the day."  That is, it's the day where they take their first real step to joining the Justice League.

Well, first steps are often baby steps.

Not liking that just basically won the key to the sauna, the bridle at the bit.  Speedy (who is famous in comic nerd history for being a junkie at one point) gives it up and quits.  The others sneak out as the "adults" are busy to help a fire at a top secret facility.  Unfortunately, Cadmus is about as straight as a corkscrew.  Our heroes find out they are gene tampering, mind controlling putzes who have just finished cloning a young superman.  Left on their own the young heroes acquit themselves well and free the superman clone.  The adult heroes decide to give them a bit of leash and give them an old base and a lot of supervision and "Young Justice" is born.

The team certainly has promise.  Young Superman is certainly more edgy than Clark but still very naive since he's stilll wet from being out of the cloning pod.  He's easily the most powerful member but he's still not quite superman yet.  No heat vision, no flying as of yet.  Robin is easily the brains of the group and spent more time hacking systems than beating up genetically modified bad guys.   Kid Flash is the doofus of the group, but at least being able to run at superspeeds doesn't make him a useless doofus.  Aqualad is the utility infielder of the group.  He is super strong, amphibious, and has devices to make weapons out of "hard" water and shoot out electricity.  They are joined by the Martian Manhunter's niece (Huh?? sorry that's the comic nerd in me) who's a shape changer but we don't know much else except she's hot and green.

All in all something worth watching.