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Outsiders, Vol. 6: Pay as You Go by Carlo Barberi, Scott McDaniel, Ron Randall, Judd Winick
4.0

This is near the end of Winick's run on Outsiders (The next one is a crossover with checkmate) So how does it wrap up? By going back and telling us what happened within that year 1 timeskip.

We go back to why the old gang decided to split. We had little nips of information and call backs to what happened but this time we get the whole picture. Want to know what happened to Shift? Read here. Wanna know how Gracie and Thunder fell inlove? Read here! Wanna know why Roy is gone and Nightwing returned as leader? Guess what folks? You'll find out here!

Good: To have the old gang back, even in a flashback, was really nice. I love almost all the characters so that was enjoyable. I also thought the reasoning of why members left, why some stayed, all worked well and true to the character. The art was solid here and no complaints there.

Bad: It felt odd this was near the end of their run as it leaves the new team kind of pointless in a way. I also didn't like the whole "he didn't do it storyline" felt a bit cop-out.

Overall, really interesting flashback and chemistry was great, even if the storyline itself was a little weak. I'd still go a 3.5 out of 5.