Young Heroes In Love #10 Tremble In Fear -- For The Beast Hunts You! Sex, Lies, and He Who Hunts!
	Writer: Dan Raspler		Guest Penciller: Christopher Jones		Inker: Keith Champagne	Editor: Dan Thorsland
	Letter: Bill Oakley		Colorist: Noelle Giddings		Asst. Editor: Ali Morales

The story so far:

(in the tiniest of nutshells) Despite the secret telepathic machinations of Hard Drive, the emotionaly unpredictable leader of the super-group known as the Young Heroes, the team's beloved girl-next-door Bonfire finally got together with the team's misunderstood loner, Frostbite. This was pyrotechnic lovefest that has already gone down in comics history. Anyway, just as Hard Drive feared, Bonfire and Frostbite got so into each other that they sort of forgot about the team and the world and responsibility and stuff, and weren't there to help when the Young Heroes were needed. Which didn't stop Hard Drive from bringing the rest of the team (Monstergirl, Thunderhead, Off-Ramp, Junior, and Zip-Kid) down to the Amazon rain forest to fight a mysterious talking gigantic monster called The Beast Grundomu. - YHIL Lettercolumn

Plot Summary:

What a thrill this issue is kids! The gang is just sitting around the hangout, eating some tasty pizza, when the call comes in that there is a monster destroying the South American rainforest. "What kind of monster?" A GIANT Monster!" Yes, that's right kids, it's another rite of passage as the fellows and gals of the Young Heroes take on their first ever GIANT monster! Can the Young Heroes stop The Beast Grundomu before he destroys hundreds of acres of rainforest every minute? You bet they can!

Unanswered Questions:

• Why is Grundomu destroying the Rain Forest?

Did You Notice:

• The can of tasty refershing Soder Cola on the desk next to the Superman mousepad? (p. 6)
  Soder Cola is of course, the official thirst quencher of the DC Universe.
• The TROUBALERT and LEXWATCH software on the shelf in the media chamber? (p.6)
• "I loved the way Jr. gripped Thunderhead's hair as he leaned over the bottomless pit." Spooon - Spoon Fed Review
• Ricky's "The Brain" t-shirt? (p.12)
• Raspler has achieved the first usage of the word "bellicose" that I can recall in a comic.
  "Dosen't treat you like an idiot fanboy" indeed.
  Dan makes us flex our GRE vocabulary. "Truculent". Wow...

The Creators Speak:

• "Raspler: That's kind of neat. I'm working on issue #10 right now. I'm actually really late on my deadline for the first time. I have them -- it takes place in the Amazon. And I was going to have a 2-page scene where they were walking around talking about cross-overs. You know, they were gong to be talking about Genesis -- Genesis was worked up because Thunderhead got a new power. And "Zero Hour was OK, but, I like invading..." They were just talking about it like that. Not quite talking about them as crossovers, but...
  

  MANIA: No, as media events.... because everyone knows about the Invasion. Everyone has heard about it at some point.

  Raspler: But, you know, they were in the Amazon, so it just seemed kind of artificial to have them talking about that. So instead, I'm going to have them talking about gorillas in the DC Universe. Just this long conversation about gorillas. Which goes on and on and on. And talk about all the millions of gorillas in the DC Universe. While they're walking through the jungle. 'Cause there's lots of Gorillas."
  - Interview on Mania.com

• Page 8: Special guest star: the guy from Action Comics #1!
  Jones - E-mail correspondence.
  If you look in the bottom left of page 8, panel 1, there is the same guy fleeing with his hands on his head, just like the guy from the cover of Action #1 where Superman is trashing the car. MVT