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TEEN TITANS #10

By LJ Doresseau
May 4, 2004 - 09:17

DC COMICS
WRITER: Geoff Johns
PENCILS: Mike McKone
INKS: Marlo Alquiza
32 pages, color, $2.50

TEEN TITANS #10 is certainly indicative of the malaise that grips mainstream comics. Mediocre and dull, it's just another example of a comic that exists purely to service a trademark. And it's not so much that the issue is a lame retread of already dried up ideas, it's that this (which is the second of five part storyline) is….well, lame.

Writer Geoff John's script is a large pot of dull dialogue from boring characters, and the layers of humorless banter is cement thick. It's so uninspiring that John's effort could best be described as going through the motions.

The art by Mike McKone and Marlo Alquiza is equally lackluster. Neither abstract nor representational, it's practical and functional, but practicality wouldn't be so bad if the art wasn't adapting a monotonous script. McKone fills his panels with action drawn at every odd angle that Neal Adams thought of 30 years ago, and Alquiza's contribution is to simply make everything look murky. I don't question these people's talent, but their unentertaining effort is what's called hackwork. [DRECK, DULL, READABLE, PRETTY GOOD, EXCELLENT]

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