Crowning Moment of Awesome - Superman and Nightwing

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At one point in 1999, Superman was on some sort of overprotective binge (I can't recall exactly why, some crisis or other he was guilt tripping over), and cameo-ing in every DC title they could cram him into...

This landed him smack bang in the middle of issue 2 of the new "Titans" comic, and as they were hardly up and running themselves, it was not the most comfortable meeting.

Something tells me that as this was an editorially mandated crossover and Devin Grayson making the best of it.

So, just after trashing a new, and rather dull, incarnation of the HIVE, the Titans are congratulating each other on a job well done when Superman arrives out of the blue. It's an interesting take, some of the Titans have known him for ages, others have never met him before, most are in awe. It's akin to the President/Queen dropping in unannounced.

No one is quite sure how to react, but this next page gives a pretty excruciating summation of the situation...

You know he means well, and some of the beats are sincere (his commiserating with Kory) but he comes across as so so damn patronising..

They head back to the HIVE base whose position they have triangulated, with Mother-Hen Superman coming with them to keep them safe, no on is really happy, but their lovable leader decides to take matters in hand...



There are very few who could say that to Superman

And in this next page, I don't think Donna's logic really works there (as Mr and Mrs Grayson would attest if they weren't, y'know, dead from a fall. But keep track of what the cute arobat is saying here...







Now that's respect.

Comments

[q99]

Yea, Superman was a bit heavy there, but he comes around.

I would like it if this run were collected.

[junipepper]

motto. I've never read these and I really want to... sigh.

[bradygirl_12]

I love the smile on Dick's face when he's talking about the team and the smile on Clark's at the end. It'll always be my headcanon that Dick has been a leader of the Titans since he was a kid.

Aww, love Clark's concern for Dick falling. :)

[icon_uk]

Would YOU want to be the one to have to explain to Bruce that Dick had gone squish because you'd let him fall? They'd be picking Kryptonite out of every orifice Clark has, and a few new ones Bruce would have ripped him.

[bradygirl_12]

Would YOU want to be the one to have to explain to Bruce that Dick had gone squish because you'd let him fall? They'd be picking Kryptonite out of every orifice Clark has, and a few new ones Bruce would have ripped him.

Ha, very true! But luckily Bruce knows that Clark wouldn't let Dick come to any harm, especially when he's in uber-protective mode. :)

[nyadnar17]

Yeah, its really hard for me to be ok with that aspect of his character having been erased. The Marv Wolfman era Titans is what made me fall in love with comics in the first place. It really sucks that it didn't make it into the DCnU

[domino_blue]

I still don't know why it didn't make it in. I mean that's one of the most seminal runs of all the DCU, it would be like overwriting Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. Plus Deathstroke only works as a "badass" if you know about his start in the Titans.

[icon_uk]

They wouldn't be able to push the current Teen Titans team as the "Extra special super-duper first one" if Dick had run a Titans, and Deathstroke as he has been portrayed since Identity Crisis has so little to do with the NTT run that's it's approaching the painful.

[domino_blue]

actually why not just call the new team Young Justice and while yes it would live under the Shadow of PAD's run it would at least be able to keep both teams plus it ties into the TV show.

[bradygirl_12]

Yeah, its really hard for me to be ok with that aspect of his character having been erased. The Marv Wolfman era Titans is what made me fall in love with comics in the first place. It really sucks that it didn't make it into the DCnU.

Don't worry, in five years they'll reboot again. :)

[junipepper]

I hold to the idea that somewhere, there's an Earth where the re-boot never happened, and Our Heroes go about their business with their histories intact. *nods*

[bradygirl_12]

LOL! I've been doing that since COIE! :)

[akodo_rokku]

Holy crap Kori's HAIR.

[q99]

Yea, she had hair at the time.

[icon_uk]

In fairness, it looks more like the hair had a little Kory at the time.

[q99]

In comparison, other Koris are effectively bald.

[crinos]

It looks like she's carrying Cousin It on her back, like Cousin It is a Jedi Master and making Kori carrying him on her back as part of some Yoda Style Jedi training,

[icon_uk]

Tribbles were considered to be hair-accessories on Tamaran.

[crinos]

And they're great for the grill.

[glprime]

*canned laughter*

*claps*

*Seinfeld mouth noise transition*

[akodo_rokku]

That really looks more like the hair has her.

[kenwyn89]

Because the colour of the hair is off... it looks like she's being glomped by cousin It.

[whitesycamore]

And because of the length of the parting, it also looks like she has a giant, mekon-style head underneath it.

[auggie18]

New Krypton, New Tamaran, New Earth. Remind me not to visit any planets with "New" in the name, that never seems to end well.


This looks like a fun run on the Titans. I'm assuming it was never collected into a trade? It'd be nice to see more stuff from it. (I have the Titans/JLA: Techinus Imperitive, which I think has this team, but that's it.)

[icon_uk]

It had fun moments like this, (and there's a film night I might post yet which has some nice moments) but it grew to be something I pretty much intensely DISliked;

Dick insisting on keeping his ID secret from the newbies, which is unlike his entire history with the Titans (Batman kept his secret from the Outsiders and Dick took him to task for it), Dick keeping secrets from the team, Kory leading the Titans into invading the Gordanian homeworld by lying to them and saying they were DEFENDING against a Gordanian invasion.

And then we had "Tartarus", a collection of villains so random it makes the average Legion Recruitment drive look like a masterpiece of planning and co-ordination.

[auggie18]

I love Legion Recruitment drives. They go from "Let's have you do a task that is nearly impossible" to "as long as you aren't howlingly incompetent, you are totally in," depending on the run/universe/writer.

[icon_uk]

Indeed, and I love them for that, but as the basis for a serious threat to this incarnation of the Titans? Not so hot

We had Vandal Savage leading it, Gorilla Grodd working for Savage for no apparent reason), Cheshire (Who Roy still had a thing for, despite her having nuked an ENTIRE COUNTRY), a Red Panzer who was so dull he was killed halfway through and reaplced by someone even less competent and it didn't make any difference, Siren (an eco-terrorist mermaid, in and of itself a fun notion) and Lady Vic (A second rate Deathstroke wannabe from Dixon's Nightwing run). Eventually it was revealed that when former Titan Lilith was coerced into locating the team for Savage, she had deliberately chosen a team which would fall apart through bickering, which shows good forward planning on her part, but doesn't make them look any more impressive as a team.

[shadowpsykie]

teehee okay... i am, soooo bad... but the first thing i thought when i saw that second to the last panel is that super man is REALLY happy amd that "Super CROTCH SHOT" proves it.... damn....

[icon_uk]

Superman is always happy when his Dick is talking to him

[shadowpsykie]

O_O....

teehee

[moetushie]

Aren't we all.

[jcbaggee]

If mine's talking, I'm a wee bit concerned.

This one would be okay though.

[shadowpsykie]

mine talks to me all the time :D its really disconcerting sometimes :D

[raspberryrain]

It's just for improved circulation!

[rdfox]

So *that's* where they got the idea for Tamaranean clothing in the Titans cartoon from...

[q99]

Yea, I did like it when she wore a bit more.

[shadowpsykie]

for me its not so much the wearing more... but the fact this just LOOKS better. though i would probably alter the coloring a bit....

[q99]

Yes, that is a large part of it ^^

They're stylish cloths.

[rdfox]

The sleeves really bug me. There's no reason to have sleeves that cover the "outside" of the arms, but not the "inside."

[mishalak]

Sure there are. Sweat happens more on the inside of the arm, if you want to keep naturally cool but keep the sun off your shoulders and outside of your arms... Now I'm designing new gardening clothes in my head, to the old tee shirt drawer!

[icon_uk]

When the "fabric" appears to be some sort of metal, I'd say NOT having it in your armpits would be a lot more comfortable.

[q99]

Yea, if it's for protection especially.