Some thoughts about Wonder Twins #4

Can the Wonder Twins save their love lives?

Zan and Jayna have both gotten dates but neither of them will be as good as they expected.

This worked a little better but I still see it rather simplistic.

Mark Russell offers a new installment where he plays with a classic issue that teenagers have to face: Dating. The way how the dynamics between the different dates is played in an interesting manner. Zan is forced to deal with the fact that the ex of her current date is coming with them and at the end, the former couple is back together but surprisingly enough, Zan is fine with it since he remained friends with her and they would probably have broken up in a couple of weeks anyway considering they're teenagers which is a pretty mature way to see things that might make Zan a bit too idealized but is still different enough to be compelling. Jayna on the other hand has to go out with a dudebro who is also a supervillain and is insufferable in both personas which ends as well as you might expect.

The thing is that this doesn't really present any complex take concerning young love which again, coming from Russell, I was hoping for a more profound way to depict such complicated time for most people, Zan's segment kinda reaches that but is still not that thought-provoking (and is fairly unrealistic to be honest). The ongoing plot about the C-list supervillains continues and that gets a bit more interesting because it involves common people but it doesn't offer much either.

Stephen Byrne's artwork remains stellar with a semi-cartoony style that gets the best from expressions and storytelling.

Not bad but still not at the level that I expect from this writer. Not sure what to expect next.