Meet Shy Crazy Lolita Canary. She's a tiny bird-girl in a private-school outfit who -- as a member of DC's new, supposedly Japanese pop culture superteam Super Young Team -- apparently has the bone-shattering ability to scream "Pardon me" with the combined voices of a million teens. Also: we pretty much love her, even though we've only seen the proto sketch featured above.
Not everyone is a fan, though. Google her name and "Final Crisis," which is the DC book that she and her team make their first appearance in, and you'll find more than a little displeasure aimed her way. Super Young Team, say their detractors, are too goofy to be taken seriously (unlike The Great Ten, a generally well-received supposedly Chinese superteam created by the same writer, comics genius/madman Grant Morrison), and maybe a little racist to boot. Like, are all superheroes of Asian nationalities gonna have stilted, overdescriptive names?
Well, we see the point, but to you, Skeptical Comic Book Guy, we also say: Get a life. For one thing, Morrison pretty much made his name reviving C- and D-list characters for DC, investing them with a depth and emotional gravity that no one else in the industry might have ever been able to conjure. So maybe if, in two years, Shy Crazy Lolita Canary is still basically a sightgag, and not a fully developed, three-dimensional character in her own right, well, then yeah, people can complain all they want. Until then, knock it off.
For another thing: you know nobody's gonna give a Great Caesar's Ghost about any of this if SCLC and the rest of the Super Young Team kick ass -- and look doing it
See ya in the funny papers!
[via Achtung Baby!]
