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Last Updated: Oct 20, 2009 - 7:25:21 AM




Titans # 2
By Koppy McFad
May 20, 2008 - 22:40:07 PM

Publisher(s): DC Comics
Writer(s): Judd Winick
Penciller(s): Joe Benitez
Inker(s): Victor Llamas
Cover Artist(s): Joe Benitez, Victor Llamas
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This issue opens with a splash page of a beautiful, scantily-clad woman, bound in a way that thrusts her breasts right up to the reader's face.  This sets the stage for the rest of the comic.

In this second issue of a revived title, reuniting the Teen Titans of the 1980s, the team discovers the identity of the foe who has been attacking all former Titan members. Basically, it is Trigon. No, this is not a spoiler, since they announce Trigon's involvement right on the cover and make no attempt to hide his involvement throughout the story.

Aside from that, barely anything happens in this comic. Instead, we do get to see a lot of T and A and read a lot of juvenile banter, much of it coming right out of nowhere. Raven travels to her father's realm and is mysteriously transformed into a stripper with a set of perky, new boobies. (Isn't she suppose to be, physically only 16 years old?) Donna Troy has big hair and a new costume that seems to emphasize her breasts. All of the characters, including Raven, talk like sarcastic, smart-alec teenagers, even when they are discussing the near-fatal injuries suffered by their friends.

The issue isn't completely bad. The art, despite all the cheesecake, has a liveliness about it that would have made for some great action sequences-- if there were more action. Some of the jokes are actually funny, like the one where Red Arrow blows Raven up.

But other than that, this issue does not seem to amount to anything. If anything, it looks as though the Titans creative team is going for the lowest common denominator with sex and low-brow humour. 

Rating: 5 - Pass/10


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That's too bad about the Titans. A return of the classic team should have been a greater event than this. They started the dream that at one point gave DC Comics a counterpoint to Marvel's X-Men.
#1 - Hervé St-Louis - 05/21/2008 - 01:10
Thanks for the heads up!
I was actually really excited about this title when I first heard of it's release. Some of these characters are kinda cool and I was hoping that this would be a chance for them to shine. I was able to ignore much of the first issue thinking that it might take a couple months to really get going. Hearing this about the second issue really turns me off altogether.

It was my impression (through the first issue) that all the characters were speaking through the same voice. They all seemed to have the "sarcastic, smart-alec teenager" attitude. This is not a good feature of a team book. I want to see a group of profoundly different characters interact.

Oh well... If this title survives the year it might do a little better with a new creative team. The premise is still solid.
#2 - Andy Doan - 05/21/2008 - 10:33
Bring back Marv and George
I have a good idea, why no bring in Marv Wolfman and George Perez as the new creative team. They might be able to make a quality book out of Titans!
#3 - N. Otter - 05/23/2008 - 09:35
Same Ole, Same Ole
The Titans haven't had a great title in years. The last writer that did the Titans any justice was Devin Grayson. She did something a lot of modern day comic writers know little about, characterization. She examined the characters and got into how each one ticked. Her dialogue and stories matched that. She really made the world shine. These days every writer who tackles the Titans misses the mark. I honestly don't think they know what the hell they're doing. I don't think DC cares. As long as we have big splash pages I guess that warrants a comic today.
#4 - Christopher Moshier - 05/24/2008 - 11:17

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