YMMV / Outsiders (2003)

• Ass Pull: The first issue introduces us to Black Lightning's daughter Anissa, who ends up becoming the heroine Thunder. His 20-something-year-old daughter who had never been seen or mentioned in any prior series featuring Black Lightning, despite his wife being a fairly prominent figure in many stories. Geoff Johns then took this even further in his JSA run by introducing us to another previously-unseen daughter, Jennifer. Jennifer had been foreshadowed in the Bad Future story Kingdom Come; this still qualifies as an ass pull by virtue of Black Lightning having no references to children just a short time before this, and his age in The Outsiders comics previously being about Batman's age at the oldest. He'd have already had to father these women by the time of his introduction.
• Complete Monster: Mr. Tanner, from the "Most Wanted" arc, manages to occupy a special field of depravity despite being a normal human with no superhuman powers. Mr. Tanner runs an international slavery ring, with a focus on young children; countless children are abducted from across the globe to be painfully branded and serve as abused sex slaves for years on end at the hands of Tanner and his buyers. Having perpetuated the ring of pedophilic rape and torture for years, Tanner catches the eye of one of his previous victims—Grace Chou, who suffered under his abuses for three years and is now a fully-grown superhuman—and goads her into coming back into his grasp by arranging the murder of an innocent man and kidnapping the young daughter of Arsenal to be turned into a sex slave. Tanner's atrocities are a dark reminder of similar incidents happening every day in real life, and despite being an incredibly minor villain in the long run, Tanner still stands out as one of the most realistically depraved characters in the DC universe.
• Fan Myopia: For all that the Judd Winick iteration of the team is disdained by fans of the original series, it lasted longer than any other run on the team.
• Values Resonance: Arsenal and Grace Choi's relationship in Judd Winnick's run is presented as the two being Friends with Benefits as platonic sexual partners. While Grace ends up entering into a romantic relationship with Thunder after Arsenal leaves the team, her pairing with Roy is perhaps the most emotionally stable and nurturing one Roy's ever had with another woman. They were fine with their arrangements and could confide in one another, to the point Grace keenly understood how miserable Roy was becoming staying on the team because he's too fundamentally decent to keep compromising his morals for the Outsiders' dirty work.