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So a few issues of it are out now, right? Anyone pick it up? How is it?
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I really enjoyed the first two issues. The last one not as much, though it's hard to really judge a book like this. I think it just read quicker; some of the mini-stories/jokes took pages to set up this go. But it's meant to be a simple, fun read, and it is.
I'm not exactly the target market, so I hesitate to overanalyze it. Of course some of the puns or jokes are simple, but there's some cute in here: Terra throwing rocks at the boys and the girl Titans being hypocritical by being two-faced to her. I'm also liking the little, dialogue-less Kid Devil.
For only being three issues in, there's been an impressive amount of appearances by various Titans, their villains, and supporting DCU members. It's interesting. I'd suggest giving the first issue especially a shot and seeing what you think. I'm not blown away by it or die laughing, but it has its charm and it's fairly consistent so far.
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It's adorable! That's the only word for it. It less snort-milk-out-your-nose funny than Franklin Richards: SOAG was its peak, but what it lacks in guffaws it more than makes up for in perfectly captured and adorable character vignettes. The last issue the 5-year-old and I read was #2, and we both thought the sequences between the Tiny Titans and the Fatal Five on the playground were just wonderful. Leave it to lame supervillain kids to issue a freeze tag challenge to a team with a speedster! What the book has is that steady, frame-to-frame beat that the best newspaper comic strips have always had.
...but you don't have a moment where you're sitting there staring at a table full of twenty-five characters with little name signs that say, "Hi, my superpower is confusing you!"
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Future is correct! The sight gags with the silent-but-deadly 'Lil Devil are fantastic! How many ways can we think of to use Devil as a walking roaster? I look forward to finding out.
The other thing that rawked, in the first ish I believe, was that a cityscape behind the characters in one panel was my sweet home Chicago, and the 5-year-old recognized it himself and his eyes lit up.
...but you don't have a moment where you're sitting there staring at a table full of twenty-five characters with little name signs that say, "Hi, my superpower is confusing you!"
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"Sorry, Elizabeth."
tee hee!
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How does this match with Marvel's Franklin Richards and Mini-Marvel stuff?
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Spark's Boy:
If Franklin Richards is "Calvin and Hobbes," then Tiny Titans is very early "Peanuts." Franklin is about a single, unbridled kId at loose in a clueless adult world save for the super-ego of H.E.R.B.I.E.
Tiny Titans is like the early Peanuts -- a bunch of fairly sweet but hardly perfect kids interracting with each OTHER in a mostly adult-free world.
...but you don't have a moment where you're sitting there staring at a table full of twenty-five characters with little name signs that say, "Hi, my superpower is confusing you!"
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Read issues 1 to 3 last night... I like!
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And DC is right... very Peanuts!
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Active LMB character is still Beast Boy.
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Lash, have ya seen Li'l Duela on the cover of #5?
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Originally posted by Leap Year Lass:
Lash, have ya seen Li'l Duela on the cover of #5? WHA...! NO! Must go check DC site...!
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Originally posted by doublechinner:
The sight gags with the silent-but-deadly 'Lil Devil are fantastic! How many ways can we think of to use Devil as a walking roaster? Love Li'l Eddie Devil. They should have upped the price for the charbroiled hot dogs, though. The rock-throwing was perfect.
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I haven't had a chance to flick through any issues of this book yet. Have little Mal, Karen, Lilith or Bette showed up at all?
Or any of the 70s Ttians really?
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Li'l Bumblebee is there. No Mal or Lilith yet, though I won't be surprised if we see them. Li'l Duela is on the way.
I wanna see Kid Gnnark!
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OK so only Karen so far then. Thanks Lash. I'll have to check out this book sometime.
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Babs has a Bat-Tricycle!!!
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Oh, and Lash is going to love number five.
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Originally posted by Leap Year Lass:
Well, Lash? Comments? I read # 5 last night (finally) and *loved* Little Duela. She was just precious!! The Enigma/Speedy thing threatened to annoy me, but the payoff was a line I hadn't heard since I was a li'l wee kid and it made me laugh! It's cute stuff!!
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Wait 'til you get a load of Really Little Barda!
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I got a load of *REALLY* li'l Barda last night and ADORE HER!!! I kinda prefer the TINY TITANS continuity where horrible things haven't happened to the characters (see also: Power Boy).
They are really throwing the Titans characters in willy-nilly and I am LOVING it.
Li'l Beetle and Li'l Supergirl were just TOO KYOOT!!!
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ohmiGAW-- they SO TOTALLY need to make stuffed plushes of these li'l guys... I wanna plush li'l Duela, an Eddie Devil, a teeny li'l Bumblebee...!
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