#Grant and Ray's team-up and signs of past abuse in how Grant reacts to working with someone who's angry (at him)

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Top Fifteen Comicsposting Analyses of 2023, based entirely on personal preference (in no order)

I may not have written anything productive last year, but I did do a lot of analysis and had fun with it.

This was going to be a Top Ten, but it was hard enough to narrow them down this far.

Role of narration in the YJ boys' solos and Grant's and Ray's

Kon's first case of first-person narration, during a depressive episode

Clark's complicated relationship with Kon

Kon has only one piercing (and wouldn't have any more)

Secret's isolation from the rest of the team

Whom each member of YJ is closest to

Thad is uncomfortable with physical affection

Where the Mercury Falling arc fits into the Young Justice timeline

Characters' first lines: Young Justice original six, the Robins, others from or connected to YJ

The narrative's treatment of Grant's CSA vs. Kon's

Match and why we respond to him differently than to Thad

Grant and Jesse's conversation: "Just because something has a crack in it doesn't mean you throw it away"

Grant's "Emerson System" as a trauma response

Grant's relationship with the parents he never got to meet

Crash course in YJ (and adjacent) kids