Young Heroes In Love #9 Bury My Heart At The Bottle City Of Love! Sex, Lies, and The Real Thing!
	Writer: Dan Raspler		Layouts:Dev Madan & Christopher Jones		Finishes: Keith Champagne	Editor: Dan Thorsland
	Letter: Bill Oakley		Colorist: Noelle Giddings		Asst. Editor: Ali Morales

The story so far:

Hard Drive, the leader of the Young Heroes, a new, famous, attractive, well-written, delightful, and vividly illustrated team of super-heroes set well within the brilliantly imaginative DC Universe, has been doing his damnedest to keep two of his teammates out of each other's pants. This issue we see what happens when he fails to do so. And believe you me, it's scandalous! As for the rest of the team, Off-Ramp's an enigmatic loner who was brainwashed into joining up, Monstergirl's a mysterious power-hungry slut who has more secrets than she should, Thundrehead's a sweetheart of a guy whose skull is so thick he could break rocks with it, Junior's a little shrimpy dude who fears that nobody takes him seriously because he's a little shrimpy dude (and he's exactly right), and Zip-Kid's a flying, chirping bimbette, who's mixed up in a grim relationship with a thuggish boyfriend named Lou. They all have incredibly original super-powers like super-strength, flight, shape-changing, flamethrowing, and shortness. - YHIL Lettercolumn

Plot Summary:

Jeepers.

Unanswered Questions:

• Wow! Off-Ramp and Monstergirl, have both been holding back! How far can their powers go?
• Gee, Lou is a jerk. Why does he have such a problem with the Young Heroes? If he has a pinky ring, does that make him a mobster?

Did You Notice:

• The background panel (the bridge p. 11) is a continuous, unbroken panel. Go back and look at that again. That is AWESOME layout.
• Thunderhead is not reading a copy of "SPIN", he's reading a copy of "SPUN", which for him, if you think about it (past tense), is really appropriate. (p. 21)

The Creators Speak:

• "Issue #9 is, basically, 2 characters that you've wanted to get together for awhile finally do get together. And it should be -- it's pretty epic. And hopefully, the company will let us get a way with the level of erotica that we're going for, because it's pretty extreme."
  Raspler - Interview on Mania.com