Ouroburos
The Good: YES! Outsiders hijacked awesome artist Matthew Clark from Teen Titans! Let me say this, Matthew Clark is the PERFECT artist for this series. His action sequences are smooth and cool, so you wouldn't expect that his specialty seems to be capturing the subtleties of facial expressions. He's a perfect choice to team up with Judd Winick, and I couldn't be happier to have him aboard the Outsiders train. After showcasing his awesome action in the crossover, here he gets to shine REALLY brightly with his facial expressions. He needed to draw A LOT of subtly different expressions on a variety of characters and he NAILED IT, EVERY SINGLE TIME. Brave Clark, bravo.
This issue is the most intense for the entire group of any of the 'emotional' between arc issues. It focuses on the entire team as opposed to just one member, and it manages to have the same impact. The emotions are gut wrenchingly intense, and never in a bad way. You can feel the pain of the team.
So it leads into a universal and powerful theme of 'moving on.' This is the biggest hit these Outsiders have taken, and they can't just pick up the pieces and soldier on. This time they have to completely restructure EVERYTHING. They have to take the pieces they have left and rebuild the team from scratch.
The Bad: I REALLY don't like the new cover artist. It doesn't look 'terrible' overall, there's a lot of nice details, but the faces all look really bizarre. The composition is decent enough though.
In Conclusion: 5/5
Not a whole lot happens in this issue, but what little does happen has so much impact it hardly matters. Winick weaves some fantastic jokes into this issue that never truly break the heavy tension, but make things feel more real. He also weaves together some loose subplots from other things around the series to set up the new beginning. This feels a lot like the first issue all over again, and as long as you know the backstory, this or the next issue would be great starting points.