YMMV / Stargirl: The Lost Children

• Base-Breaking Character: Judy Garrick's been a polarizing figure among readers since she was first hinted. Many have complained about Jay and Joan being given a biological child despite how the two were established to be fine without having kids, viewing the younger speedsters like Wally West and Bart Allen as their family. It doesn't help that this feeds into the ongoing debate about DC's insistence on creating legacy characters who are the blood children of established heroes. Others don't have a problem with Judy herself, merely the circumstances behind her creation, and feel she specifically hasn't done anything to warrant such dislike.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Issue 5's big reveal is that the Childminder's supposed backer is the DC One Million Hourman, now turned evil. Given the character's nature, and Geoff's fondness for twists, readers were quick to peg that something was amiss. And indeed, it was.
• Narm: The reveal of the true villain being a case of Future Me Scares Me, and their attacking the other kid heroes is undermined when this grizzled, evil future version of the character is apparently only able to sum up his feelings by emphatically snarling "Golly! I hate you all!"
• Older Than They Think: The big twist regarding the Greater-Scope Villain of the story is that it's Corky Baxter's evil adult self from the future, which was in no way hinted or built up before the reveal. This sort of twist was done years earlier in Titans (Rebirth), when the Greater-Scope Villain that was being set up since the Titans Hunt miniseries was none other than an evil version of Donna Troy, driven insane over hundreds of years thanks to her immortality and watching everyone she cared about died. The twist back then was likely revealed with no prior build-up or hints toward her identity, and was met with just as much derision. The difference being that at least people liked present-day Donna, unlike Corky.
• The Scrappy: Corky Baxter's obnoxiousness carries over from his appearances in Flashpoint Beyond, and has done little to endear him to readers. Even when he experiences a Break the Haughty moment upon seeing his adult self from the future is evil and he can't be friends with any of the lost sidekicks, readers found it very hard to feel bad for him due to how insufferable he was towards Stargirl and the others, coupled with the reveal being poorly set up. What also didn't help was his appearance in The New Golden Age #1, where he stupidly tries to stop John Wilkes Booth from killing Abraham Lincoln and ends up giving him the idea to do it so he'll be famous when he grows up.