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Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
 


Looks terrible.
 

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Posted by Set on :
 
The only guaranteed buys from this relaunch are the LSH and LL titles, which doesn't really change much, since all I'm getting from DC right now is LSH and Adventure (I dropped Superboy when it went into the Doomsday crossover, and haven't been terribly motivated to pick it up again).

I'll probably pick up a few random issue 1s, just to see how they approaching some of these characters, and Teen Titans looks like one I'll check out.

I don't remember the comic, some time in the 90s, I think, but a female member of some superteam is fourth-wall breaking and describing how they'll just form a superteam the 'traditional' way with an established guy in a leader role, a couple of B grade heros who usually work solo, a new guy, 'and two random bimbos nobody's ever heard of.'

It was a sarcastic poke, at the time, at groups like the Outsiders (established Batman, B-grade Black Lightning, B-grade Metamorpho, a new guy Geo-Force, 'and two random bimbos nobody has ever heard of' Katana and Halo), or the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans (with Kory and Raven (and Vic) being the new characters).

That's kind of how I feel about the two other female figures on that Teen Titans cover. We've got established heroes Robin, Superboy, Kid Flash and Wonder Girl and two female characters that seem to have just been thrown onto the cover to 'add more girls.'

That being said, DC can use some good new female characters, so maybe these two will be more than quotas and will 'stick' the way that Kory and Raven 'stuck' and hang around for awhile, even if the relaunch ends up being re-re-relaunched a year from now...
 

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Posted by Pov on :
 
NO.

Honestly... Superboy's stoopid "tattoo" and "S" taped to his back like a "kick me" sign... WTF??
 

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Posted by doublechinner on :
 
The artist (Booth?) explains that Superboy's taped on sign IS a joke from Kid Flash.

The tattoo CAN make sense -- if, for example, it was designed into the clone from the start, as a serial number if you will. Booth confirmed the bar code effect is intentional.

I honestly don't know if I will read this. I'm far from a teen, and these really aren't my Titans. I read the original Wolfman/Perez run, and those are MY Titans, and I've never stopped grieving for what's been done to them since. The friendship between Dick and Donna and Wally and Gar and Vic and Raven, it was special. It transcended the comics page. It was REAL, even though it was a 2 dimensional, 4-color printout on newsprint. And I will always cherish it.

I'm a broken record, but I think the biggest mistake DC has made with these characters was letting them grow up, even a little, and leaving a vacuum that HAD to be filled with another generation of sidekicks, the Tims and Barts and Mias and Cassies. You just can't DO that if you want Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman to be 29.

So I have to say I'm surprised and perhaps disappointed (but keeping an open mind) that Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake AND Damian Wayne ALL still seem to exist in the DCnU, as does Roy Harper. Still no sign of Donna and Wally. I don't think you can have a DCnU that persists for the long run with so many Robins, Kid Flashes and Wonder Girls running around.

Having said all that, I do wish Lobdell, Booth and DC nothing but success with Teen Titans. I hope it does catch lightning in a bottle and manage to present an authentic, new and youthful voice on superheroing in 2011. And if it does, I will read it someday. And I'll still be thinking of Dick, Donna, Wally, Vic, Gar and Raven. My friends, whom I miss.
 

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Posted by MLLASH on :
 

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I'm a broken record, but I think the biggest mistake DC has made with these characters was letting them grow up, even a little, and leaving a vacuum that HAD to be filled with another generation of sidekicks, the Tims and Barts and Mias and Cassies. You just can't DO that if you want Superman and Batman and Wonder Woman to be 29.[/QB]

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Originally posted by Emily Sivana:
Marvel's sliding timeline basically states that all stories set in 616 modern era (i.e after Fantastic Four) occured in the past 10-20 years. This keeps the characters relatively the same age without great explanation. There are a few notable exceptions Magneto and his children.

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Imagine how much more boring a football game would be if the cheers of the crowd dictated who scored a touchdown, rather than the crowd cheering because the touchdown was scored. That would be a game of who cheered the loudest, not a game based on the skills and luck of the players involved.

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--and THAT encapsulates everything that's wrong with, say, AMERICAN IDOL...
 

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Posted by Set on :
 
Neat interview here.

I particularly like his thoughts about 'writing to trade.'
 

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Posted by Set on :
 
Ooh, I hate lag. Have to click 'post' five times to get it to go through once, but if I get presumptuous and click it that *sixth* time, I get *two* posts!
 

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