Titans #19

[uadlika]

I don't believe any of this beyond the cover was ever posted here. In light of current events I thought it might be wise to post.

Context: A day in the life of Red Arrow. Lian is ticked because he promised he'd pick her up from school and didn't because he's too busy fighting Lady Vic.

Lady Vic appears to be winning.






RIP Lian. And fuck you DC for messing up one of the best relationships that you had. You better fix this soon so that Lian can grow up to be kickass as Jade Arrow dammit.

Now if you excuse me, I have to go call my dad.



Tag wranglers: char: lian harper, char: speedy/red arrow/roy harper, char: speedy/mia dearden, creator: j.t. krul

Comments

[thebigapricot]

The solicits for this came out in August so I assume that Lian's death must have been planned since before that.

Fuck you DC, just fuck you.

[jaybee3]

Didio has been talking up "big changes" in Green Arrow and GA being "the one to watch" since the last half of 2009. This was clearly planned for a long time (as was the Titans issue above written obviously to with Lian's death in mind - it was J.T. "Rise and Fall of Arsenal" Krul wasn't it?)

Robinson should take heat because CfJ sucked but if you read it straight it appears to pretty obvious that whatever Robinson had originally planned in issue 1 (and this mini was started at least 2 years ago when he just got back into comics) was derailed pretty quickly (i.e. Batwoman with a one-panel cameo, Freddy Freeman never actually appearing till issue 7, etc.).

What I think is the worst however is the timing since they clearly planned to kill off a little innocent child at the same time proclaiming DC is entering a "Brightest Day" faze. Which makes the whole thing all the more tasteless. Of the original Titans who had kids - Donna, Roy, and Garth - ALL of the kids have been killed. ALL OF THEM. As much as I complain about Marvel's editorial decisions at least Franklin and Val Richards are active and kicking (even if they don't age) and so are the Power Pack kids. DC? Nope. Only Damien is around and after Grant leaves the Bat-books I wouldn't place money on him making it either.