Some lost page from "Teen Titans Year One"

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Remember Teen Titans: Year One, the mini written by Amy Wolfram and with amazing art by Karl Kerschl? Back when DC acknowledged there had been a Teen Titans that included Dick Grayson, Donna Troy, Roy Harper, Wally West and Garth of Atlantis?

Over on his Tumblr, Karl Kerschl has just unveiled a set of "lost pages" from the series, which were supposed to run as a two page episodic story in each issue as a future member of the team tries to track down these new Teen Titans, but never quite manages it in time for their paths to intersect.









In Karl's own word's

The original concept was to do a two-page Beast Boy sequence at the end of each issue, telling the story of Beast Boy (always depicted as an animal) looking for the Teen Titans he’s heard so much about because he wants to join. He visits the locations from the story but is always too late to catch them. In the end, I guess he would have found them and he’d have been included in Teen Titans: Year Two. Presumably.

Anyway, only the first sequence got printed, but when someone actually noticed that we were doing something fun, we were ordered from on high to remove the Beast Boy story from the issues because “animals in the DC Universe don’t talk.”
So there you have it. We only finished three issues of ‘Beast Boy’ before it got cut. Hope you like ‘em!

I can see they sort of have a point about an absence of talking wildlife in the DCU, and Gar's never shown any skills in communicating with animals other than humans, but it's a cute idea, and a shame it didn't make it.

Comments

[psylynce]

But, but there is a talking cat over in Damien:son of Batman! That is completely unfair. Plus these panels are hysterical. I really feel for that rabbit.

[bradygirl_12]

These panels are fun! So naturally, DC killed it.

Nice, seeing 'Robbie' again! :)

[janegray]

Such a pity they cut it, it looks so fun :(

[arbre_rieur]

I'm torn.

One the one hand, this looks fun.

On the other, I do see DC's point in that this series, as I understand it, was actually in-continuity and took place in the regular DC Universe, which still adheres to a certain level of realism. I mean, I wouldn't expect Superman to ever get literally flattened like a pancake after getting stomped by a robot, like some Bugs Bunny cartoon, not even in the most light-hearted Silver Age issue of Action.

[minervasolo]

They work pretty well without dialogue (apart from the rabbits), and though Gar hadn't shown any capacity to talk to animals previously there's no reason he couldn't have had a level of innate understanding with them post-reboot. Not "hi, how are you?" conversation, but being able to pick up "danger, danger over there, danger" from panicking birds.