Teen Titans #99 Cover and Solicit

[pyrotwilight]

The reboot is coming up but before that we still have a story to finish concerning the Teen Titans.

Soooo. Holy crap.

Well, someone's returned (technically a bunch) and brought some friends (quite a few)...


    TEEN TITANS #99
Written by J.T. KRUL
Art by JOSE LUIS and SANDRO RIBEIRO
Cover by NICOLA SCOTT and DOUG HAZLEWOOD
Superboy Prime makes his move against the Titans, which means the return of some familiar faces. Can our heroes handle an all-new Legion of Doom?
On sale AUGUST 10 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T

Not bad of a solicit...



Holy. Fucking. Shit.

The return of Superboy-Prime (has he been depowered... otherwise he'd curb-stomp everyone on that page really...)

Sungirl and... Inertia? Huh. Isn't Inertia dead? And why have Sungirl without Miss Martian to oppose her?

Kid from the prior Teen Titans arc as the Raven battler sure, ok.

Persuader from the Terror Titans as the anti-Ravager? Wonder what happened to the rest of her Terror Team...

Barney from the very early Geoff Johns run when the title started (not bad)

HOLY MOTHERFUCKING HELL. INDIGO! Or well Brainiac 8 but holy shit! ...Though I'm admittedly surprised Tim is her counterpart on the piece. Shouldn't she at least face off against Cassie as a proxy for Donna?

                                                                                                            

Comments

[catyuy]

Part of me is hoping that this Inertia is the original Inertia and the one who was there just before, during and after Countdown was another crazed clone. Because I want Bart to get through to Thad and for the awkward times they have trying to be a family.

[big_daddy_d]

Kinda disappointed to see Indigo on the side of heels there. I loved the Nightwing/Arsenal led Outsiders team and I took a liking to Indigo honestly.

[pyrotwilight]

Well it is her Brainiac 8 self (presumably) but man I'm pumped to see her part in the story.

[q99]

Agreed. I loved Indigo but I liked her villain side too.

[star_of_airdrie]

It's so nice to see her at all - that was a pivotal story and she was great.

[auggie18]

I really liked Indigo too. Frankly, I'm happy to see her here, even if it is as a villain. It means that at lest someone remembers her.

[jaybee3]

I actually have a soft spot in my heart for Superboy-Prime if only because of how DC (and Geoff Johns) screwed him up and used him a strawman fanboy to make some kind of point. I actually hoped they would leave him alone after Blackest Night.

But...if they were to bring him back I hope they HAVEN'T de-powered him. I like the fact that he's so much stronger than everyone else and its only his stupidity and hubris does him in. My favorite moment with S-P since Johns made him Whining Villian Boy was during the Sinestro Corps War one-shot where the story is told from his POV and when it looks like all the heroes of the DCU have got him cornered/surrounded and look to beat him down and then the sun comes out and Prime's back to planet-moving power and ALL the heroes (including the JSA old-timers) have this "Oh, Sh!t, we're screwed" look on their face, I couldn't but loving the moment since THAT is what a credible villain moment should look like, instead of someone with Prime's power-set being constantly punked.

[starwolf_oakley]

used him a strawman fanboy to make some kind of point

And I was never sure what that point was supposed to be. Maybe "Quit complaining and let us do our job."

[curlyjo1]

"Here's what we think you sound like! Shut up and read the crap stories we're selling!"

I have become a very bitter DC fan over the last couple of months.

[big_daddy_d]

Question, didn't Superboy-Prime have a face turn during Blackest Night or am I mistaken?

[pyrotwilight]

Not particularly. It did seem like they were hinting that if left alone long enough he'd work through his anger issues and find his hope but Black Lantern Laurie presumably made sure that he'd not get the chance.

[perletwo]

*sigh* So I guess the reboot means the end of Solstice? Alas, Kiran, we hardly knew ye....

[rainspirit]

Maybe she's just being benched like all the other beloved S_D heroes! She's probably not being gotten rid of entirely since they've got DIVERSITY on the forefront of this reboot.

[star_of_airdrie]

I have in my mind a wonderful place, like that farm our parents sent our pets to, where all these heroes are waiting for DC books to crash and burn. There, they can build alliances, hone skills, forge friendships and become the super teams of tomorrow, the mid-season replacements as it were.

Solstice will be there as part of the Welcoming Committee, even though she so new. Lobo will be respectful of her; she loves dolphins as much as he does...

[zechs80]

Huh.. I just realized each evil Titan represents an era of this run (Johns, Beechen, McKeever, and Henderson). Plus weren't Sungirl and Inertia a couple? Maybe that explains why they're together here.

[long_silence]

God there have been a lot of evil Titan teams in the past few years haven't there?

Titans East, Titans Tomorrow, Terror Titans, this group. Did I forget some?

[jlbarnett]

yes, it was one of the big problems with the book in my opinion.

[biod]

Indigo, The Zookeeper (Purple guy at the bottom. Good to see him again), and Superboy-Prime were all from Johns' run.
I don't recognize the top three (excluding Inertia). I sort of left Titans around the time Johns did. I haven't even thought of looking up trades in years.

[biod]

Though I now see that Johns actually left the book after I did. I jumped ship right before Titans East, I think.

[zechs80]

Axe girl is from McKeever's. Technically, Inertia and Sungirl are from Beechen's. Bald ghostly dude from Henderson?

[long_silence]

What issue number is Teen Titans ending at before the reboot? 100?

[biod]

Yes.
There's two issues a month in July and August to make it fit.

[q99]

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HOLY MOTHERFUCKING HELL. INDIGO! Or well Brainiac 8 but holy shit! ...Though I'm admittedly surprised Tim is her counterpart on the piece. Shouldn't she at least face off against Cassie as a proxy for Donna?
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I'm guessing the pairing isn't necessarily how they're going to fight.

[aeolos_sakya]

Shouldn't Inetia be Kid Zoom? Or are we going to forget that? I'm not sure which one I prefer, though.

[red_menace]

He should also be dead so I'm guessing time travel is involved here.

[pyrotwilight]

Or if they want to follow that Omen from way back when it could even be That's kid grown up via super aging since Sun Girl being pregnant with his kid was going to be a plot thread that never got followed up on.

[arbre_rieur]

Wait, is the purple reptile-boy really named Barney?

[biod]

Beast Boy called him that once. He is referred to as the Zookeeper, though I do not know if he's officially chosen that as his supervillain name. He was a biologist with a reputation for somewhat lax ethics working for STARS that worked with Garfield's parents, then accidentally got himself Beast Boy's powers early in Johns' run, so the name became rather fitting.

[pyrotwilight]

Heh, sorry that was just me making a joke since I couldn't remember anything about the guy aside from him being a Beast Boy villain.

Though I guess I wasn't too off given what biod said.

[mullon]

Wow...two sides running at each other. That's an old one.

[thanekos]

I'm surprised Prime hasn't tried to form a mirror Justice League yet, though I can see how that'd be hard to do these days.

[pyrotwilight]

Well he's made a mirror Legion and now Titans group. I'm sure he'll work to a League eventually.

[turtlefu]

1) They really should have left Prime alone after Blackest Night

2) There are WAAAAAAAAAY too many "evil Titans" teams. It is a really old cliche that needs to stop!

[shadowpsykie]

2) There are WAAAAAAAAAY too many "evil Titans" teams. It is a really old cliche that needs to stop!

i don't so much mind the evil Titans teams, so long as they you know... stick with one, although for the end of "This Universe's" titans team, it seems fitting they go up against an amalgamated version of all the previous villains they faced, basically a gauntlet (and this current run has actually been good) i like the hat tip

[biod]

I love how they end up evil every time in the future. It's like they realized how much crap the writers put them through and thought: "Fuck it, we're villains now".

[silverzeo]

Indigo? Thad? There back? You think they'll end this on a high note... or just be mild like what they're doing with Doomslayer in Action Comics?