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scans_dailyThe new issue of Teen Titans is out today, and it's a kind of breather issue between Big Epic Battle Sequences - the one we've just finished with Trigon & Co., and the upcoming Forever Evil sub-issues (numbered #23.1 and #23.2) featuring Trigon and Deathstroke.
You'll recall that last issue ended a little something like this:
(preview image from issue #22)
And that's exactly where we pick up, as was shown in the DC.com preview pages. Cassie jumps in first to snag Bart with the lasso, but finds herself being tugged toward the portal. Bunker brickhand anchors her to the doorjamb, but the frame starts to buckle under the pressure. Enter Beast Boy in octopus form to add to the Titan chain, with Solstice right behind. Red Robin orders Superboy not to join the chain, but instead to focus his TK power on the portal itself. He's able to break whatever force is holding the portal open; Bart is safe and very grateful.
Elsewhere, and elsewhen....
Interesting.
Raven tells the crew she can sense the portal came from another time. Bart tells them he knows he's done something bad but can't remember it; he'd tell them if he knew what it was. The Titans aver that they believe him. "Do we?" purrs Raven; "Asks Li'l Satan Girl," Kon retorts. Tim calls a time-out for the Titans to stand down, relax and process the revelations and changes of the last few days.
Beast Boy and Bunker hang out at the pool, where Bunker says this used to be a fun job. Gar says compared to where he was it's a barrel of laughs. "They say God never gives you anything you can't handle," Miguel muses. "Try saying that after you watch your friends die in front of you," is Gar's reply. "I don't believe in God." But if Miguel didn't believe before, he does once his phone chimes with a text message - He's awake! He's asking for you!
Elsewhere, Cassie and Kon discuss her dalliance with Red Robin. Posting this page because I suspect Cassie is stating an overarching theme of recent arcs here.
Cassie insists she's a big girl, makes her own decisions, and owes nothing to Tim. Scene ends on Cassie kissing Kon.
Tim and Raven are in the war room, where Tim is catching Raven up on all the Titans' secrets, history and enemies. He tells her she'll need to know all this because if anything happens to him, the Titans will no doubt look to her for leadership. (pause while y'all absorb that one.)
"I saw you stand up to your father. Trust me I know firsthand how hard that is to do. He tried to forge you into something you're not. He couldn't break your spirit - couldn't extinguish everything that was good about you," Tim explains when she demurs. "If a demon couldn't do that...then sure as hell nothing human ever will." She takes the compliment gracefully while the art shows her casting a Trigon-shadow on the wall.
Bart is trying to run out his troubles over the water, with Kiran close behind. They make up and are kissing when Miguel hails them to come back aboard.
Fade out on a splash page of Miguel walking away from the boat. So that's "The End of A Titan - but not the one you think!" plugged last issue. (My money was on Kiran, since she's still got a plot thread dangling out there somewhere.)
We have a guest artist in Robson Rocha this issue, whose pencils are serviceable, and inker Wayne Faucher. But I continue to hate the coloring jobs we're getting on this book.
You'll recall that last issue ended a little something like this:
(preview image from issue #22)
And that's exactly where we pick up, as was shown in the DC.com preview pages. Cassie jumps in first to snag Bart with the lasso, but finds herself being tugged toward the portal. Bunker brickhand anchors her to the doorjamb, but the frame starts to buckle under the pressure. Enter Beast Boy in octopus form to add to the Titan chain, with Solstice right behind. Red Robin orders Superboy not to join the chain, but instead to focus his TK power on the portal itself. He's able to break whatever force is holding the portal open; Bart is safe and very grateful.
Elsewhere, and elsewhen....
Interesting.
Raven tells the crew she can sense the portal came from another time. Bart tells them he knows he's done something bad but can't remember it; he'd tell them if he knew what it was. The Titans aver that they believe him. "Do we?" purrs Raven; "Asks Li'l Satan Girl," Kon retorts. Tim calls a time-out for the Titans to stand down, relax and process the revelations and changes of the last few days.
Beast Boy and Bunker hang out at the pool, where Bunker says this used to be a fun job. Gar says compared to where he was it's a barrel of laughs. "They say God never gives you anything you can't handle," Miguel muses. "Try saying that after you watch your friends die in front of you," is Gar's reply. "I don't believe in God." But if Miguel didn't believe before, he does once his phone chimes with a text message - He's awake! He's asking for you!
Elsewhere, Cassie and Kon discuss her dalliance with Red Robin. Posting this page because I suspect Cassie is stating an overarching theme of recent arcs here.
Cassie insists she's a big girl, makes her own decisions, and owes nothing to Tim. Scene ends on Cassie kissing Kon.
Tim and Raven are in the war room, where Tim is catching Raven up on all the Titans' secrets, history and enemies. He tells her she'll need to know all this because if anything happens to him, the Titans will no doubt look to her for leadership. (pause while y'all absorb that one.)
"I saw you stand up to your father. Trust me I know firsthand how hard that is to do. He tried to forge you into something you're not. He couldn't break your spirit - couldn't extinguish everything that was good about you," Tim explains when she demurs. "If a demon couldn't do that...then sure as hell nothing human ever will." She takes the compliment gracefully while the art shows her casting a Trigon-shadow on the wall.
Bart is trying to run out his troubles over the water, with Kiran close behind. They make up and are kissing when Miguel hails them to come back aboard.
Fade out on a splash page of Miguel walking away from the boat. So that's "The End of A Titan - but not the one you think!" plugged last issue. (My money was on Kiran, since she's still got a plot thread dangling out there somewhere.)
We have a guest artist in Robson Rocha this issue, whose pencils are serviceable, and inker Wayne Faucher. But I continue to hate the coloring jobs we're getting on this book.
Tags:
- char: beast boy/changeling/gar logan,
- char: bunker/miguel jose barragan,
- char: impulse/kid flash/bart allen,
- char: robin/red robin/tim drake,
- char: superboy/kon-el/conner kent,
- char: wonder girl/cassie sandsmark,
- creator: scott lobdell,
- creator: wayne faucher,
- group: teen titans,
- publisher: dc comics,
- title: teen titans
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Date: 2013-08-29 07:17 pm (UTC)But then DC never does well with possession storylines. They never want to deal with the moral reality of the violation involved (such as Bendis did with Jessica Jones in Alias). For instance, Mary Marvel? Possessed by DeSaad in Final Crisis to do evil acts, it's basically the equivalent of mind rape or worse. Next time she appears in JSA, characters blame HER for her past behavior. Makes perfect sense. And then of course we have Deathstroke's magic evil juice which was blamed for all Cass Cain's murderous behavior but also apparently made her suddenly give long monologues and overcome her past learning disability enough to take up fluent Navajo. So Cassie's handwaving it away here is par for the course.