Red Hood has his own team of Outlaws and a Doomsday
In Red Hood: Outlaw No.38, Scott Lobdell takes some influences from Marvel’s X-Men with Jason Todd’s new Outlaws team.
Some of the former Robins have been going through a shift in the status quo, even Jason Todd. Ever since Dick Grayson, Todd has been always known as the Robin that Batman failed with. That was then and, now, he is a reformed member of the Bat-family who is known as Red Hood. He set up his own Dark Trinity as the Outlaws with Bizarro and Artemis.
Ever since Batman kicked Red Hood’s butt for attempting to kill one of the Caped Crusader’s deadliest enemies (the Penguin), he took over the Iceberg Lounge and laid low. As Red Hood, while Bizarro and Artemis have been on the sidelines for the time being, Todd has been out training students according to what CBR mentioned in their feature.
The team of metahumans, whether born or not with such abilities, consist of Devour, a “metalmorph” who is a product of bio-tech and digests mechanical systems, Mother, a zombie, Cloud 9, an elemental vapor-like creature, and DNA, a poorly named shape-shifter.
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Although Todd has been trained by Batman, Nightwing and Lady Shiva, among others, he is no Charles Xavier. Unlike the renowned teacher, Todd can only train to be fighters and not model citizens per se. Lex Luthor, who had invited Todd over to the school, had the intention of inspiring such young people with bizarre and outstanding gifts. On the front cover of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol.2 No.38, DC cover artists teased a saying normally uttered by Professor X by The House of Ideas, with Todd calling his own team instead of the X-Men by saying, “To me, my Outlaws?”
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In issue No.38, the untrained team of Outlaws goes up against the grotesque Doomed, a S.T.A.R. labs intern exposed to spores from the Kryptonian monster, Doomsday. Somehow, the intern mutated into a similar beast. As the other members are getting used to being active on missions, Devour tried to subdue Doomed but to no avail, until DNA stepped in and managed to calm him down. As time goes on, we’ll see what becomes of Jason Todd and his eclectic team of Outlaws.