Synopsis: In front of Titans Tower, Robin gives an eulogy about Bart Allen as all the "main" Titans gather. Afterwards, they recount a story where Bart borrowed the Batwing from Robin and crashed into the Smallville sign and Superboy. >.>;;
In Washington DC, Wonder Woman is distracted by a mysterious person (alternate future ebil Superboy) and attacked by another mysterious person (alternate future ebil Wonder Girl).
Back at Titans Tower, Ravager grabs Kid Devil aside and strips naked to swim in the pool cuz she's a "bad girl". >.>;;;
In Toronto (!? XDDD), J'onn is attacked by a fake Wonder Woman (alternate future ebil Miss Martian) and then pushed into somebody who burns him (alternate future ebil Kid Devil)!
Back at the Tower, the other Titans (Flash, Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, etc) talk about how Wally was to Bart how Barry was to Wally.
They recount another story, this time with the old old titans and Wally West as Kid Flash on his first day. There's an emergency as a building is burning down and Wally rushes in to save everybody, he realizes he's not fast enuf, but uses his arms to generate cyclones to lift the remaining ppl to safety. Everybody congratulates him. XD
In the present again, the Titans watch "Tiny Titans" b/c Dan Didio looked at DC's crappy sales and felt the need to put a blatant plug into the actual issues. >.>;; Suddenly Bart returns! But Supergirl sees thru him and reveals Bart to be Miss Martian! Wonder Girl gets mad but Ravager likes it. >.>;;
In Gotham, Batman gets ambushed by somebody who moves rly fast (alternate future ebil Superboy).
A 7 page almost word-for-word retelling of the Blue Beetle #18 is shown. >:\
In Metropolis, Clark is ambushed by somebody with a lasso (alternate future ebil Wonder Girl again) and then knocked out by somebody who looks like Batman wielding a green Kryptonite ring (alternate future ebil Robin).
Outside the Tower, Robin sits on a chair looking at Bart's statue when Wonder Girl shows up. They have a short conversation about how annoying Bart was and recap Young Justice stories. Then Wonder Girl and Robin get close for another poorly conceived kiss while remembering a dead friend and teammate. =_=;;
Suddenly Wally shows up again and says that "they're" alive. He's knocked out and ebil alternate future Flash and Superman show up!
Review: If DC doesn't ACTUALLY have an extra sized story to tell, they rly shouldn't FORCE an extra sized issue just b/c the number is 50 or something. =_=;;
Esp since a series like Teen Titans has actually had MANY iterations, so the idea of celebrating the 50th issue is silly, since this is actually the 50th issue of the recent run of Teen Titans, and not EVAR. >.>;;
The short stories are kinda meaningless. :\ The first one seemed to lack a point or an ending. Bart just picked up Conner and... that was it. XD
The 2nd one was prolly the best cuz it was cute and about the past and had George Perez on art, but it kinda fell flat too. :\ It was like... Wally's first day was that he saved ppl when he wasn't sure he belonged on the team. >.>;; It could have used a few more pages XD
Of course then we have 7 pages of Blue Beetle inserted into our Titans book. XD It would make 0 sense to nebody not reading Blue Beetle, and honestly what was shown wouldn't make nebody read Blue Beetle either.
WHAT MAKES IT WORSE is that not only is Beetle ON THE COVER, implying that he's part of the story somehow, but that the dialogue is almost word-for-word of the original. So there's NO NEW MATERIAL!
*SCREAMS*
Then there's the fact that these new Titans are so much like a cliquey popular high school group. XD Robin and his hot girl buddies, all of which fulfill a stereotype of some sort! XD
And Ravager :( I dunno why she has to be so generic. :\ And I dunno why writers seem to think having an abusive past will make you a "bad girl" and therefore an exhibitionist. :( Like, honestly ppl who have had horrible things happen to them, esp done by ppl they trust (like her dad) would NOT like physical contact, and be more closed about themselves, not this weird male fictional fantasy of the slutty bad girl who runs around sleeping with everybody. :\
And it's VERY disturbing that they feel the need to keep sexualizing minors in their stories. :( This is obviously not for kids to read, or even adults, it's for young male teenagers who can't buy porn, to take to their rooms as wank material. >:|
I know that teenagers DO do slutty things irl. I dunno why that's a defence that's used so much to justify crappy writing and/or editorial decisions tho. Lots of stuff happens irl. >.>;; It doesn't ALL make it's way into fiction that's supposedly aimed at young people. :\ Also does it have to be shown? Is that NECESSARY? >.>;; Whatever happened to her just throwing her clothes onto Kid Devil off panel?
It just seems like.. ppl are upset by Nymphet and stuff cuz she's underage and so are the Teen Titans, so showing one of them practically naked for the purpose of sexual titillation seems... disturbing. :( Also counter productive if you want to expand your audience XD
The sad part is the MOST interesting part of this story is that the alternate future Titans are back (and apparently include the new members now) and that's only teased at!
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*sighs*
I wanna read THAT story!
The plug for Tiny Titans was silly. :\ That's Bart's favourite TV show? XD How convenient! Do the Titans get royalties for the use of their images? :o
Robin and Wonder Girl are soooo cute together even if they still make very little sense and they only seem to kiss when they're talking about dead friends and when they're near monuments of their dead friends. :\ Which is a little creepy. >.>
Wonder Girl of course is a stick figure with balloons on her chest. >.>;;
The new Teen Titans seems less a collection of teenage superheroes trying to find their way than Titans 90210, filled with pretty 20 somethings pretending to be teenagers. :(
And it's kinda annoying to me that Miss Martian is basically tv Starfire. :( She's new and innocent and oh so cute, and she speaks without contractions. Like ALL aliens/androids since Data. Teal'c, Data, Starfire, it's like if they speak without contractions they seem so much more.. alien. XD
The stuff about Bart however was RLY RLY cute XD And makes me wish that this book was actually a collection of stories about Bart's antics in Young Justice and not... whatever this was. =_=;;
I hope that these Titans actually turn out to be interesting and more than just a bunch of teenage stereotypes used to give the artist excuses to draw teen girls in various stages of undress. :\
However, I have faith in Sean McKeever and I hope he doesn't let his fans down :D
BRING ON THE EBIL FUTURE TITANS ALRDY!!! XDDD
Oh!
I DOOOO luff that J'onn was in Toronto tho! XD WHY is he in Toronto? :o Is that his new city? :O THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
Also they drew our skyline correctly. :O
Angelwings Rating: 2 out of 5 nekkid teenagers
Recommendation: Not worth the 4 dollars it's priced at >:\
3 angel hugs! :D:
My problem with the Ravager scene is that there is no context to it.
Now, it might make sense that this is Rav's way of acting out for attention. She didn't really know Bart and she'd feel left out by the Titans' greving.
Problem is it doesn't PLAY as "troubled girl seeking attention", it plays as "Yay! Nekked!!
There might have been a way to play that scene WITHOUT it being explotative but that wasn't it.
Hmmm...
I agree so much! Except that, while Wonder Girl does look like stick+implants, Ravager looks like she's sporting anorexia porn there... just look at her stomach/ribs combo when she's crouched... Looks like every pro-ana website I ever did see...
I agree with Vic Vega. The Ravager scene made no sense, the way they made it.
Wonder Girl isn't really THAT skinny. Besides, you have to remember who's drawing this stuff. I doubt half the artists have seen a girl's body at all, let alone a teenage girl.
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