It lasted 75 issues, and a recent relaunch only 12. My suspicion is that the title never had an exact sense of itself. Everything comes full circle, I suppose. DC's current teen group, Young Justice, went back to the idea of young sidekicks and versions of older heroes. Teen groups will continue to be a staple of comics, but their very nature is cyclical.
Every new crop brings new tastes and outlooks.
Still, they leave characters and impressions that linger long after the last page has been turned. Like puberty, they are an important and necessary component to the maturation of comics as a whole. In part 5 of my team concept essay series, I'll look at how the emergence of Image in the early '90s changed the face of team books. In part 6, I'll take on the ideal of the post-modern superteam, using Watchmen as my model. And in part 7, the last team concept essay, I'll go over the last great super-team of the 1990s, The Authority, and how it reflects what has gone before.