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I read it just before I came over to Legion World.
Paul O'Brien's reviews at the X-Axis always brighten my Sunday nights.
My favorite part:
quote:As I picked it up, I couldn't help thinking: Oh god, it's a DC book. It's bound to be some sort of hideous multi-part crossover mess. But then I stopped, and I reminded myself not to be so cynical. After all, it isn't labelled as a crossover. And even DC couldn't be so stupid as to launch a new series in mid-storyline.
So, after buying it and opening it up, what do I find on page 2?
"The Fickle Hand, part two."
Part two! Two! In issue #1!
And do you want to know the best bit? It doesn't even tell you where part one appeared. I had to Google it. Part one was in Titans East Special #1, which came out last November. You couldn't make it up. Shower of bloody amateurs.
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I paged through it inside the comic book store out of morbid curiousity and have had to wash my hands 8 times a days since to get the smell of hack writing off.
From: If you don't want my peaches, honey... | Registered: Sep 2003
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You know, I still can't believe they opened it with "Part two." I mean, I understand that the Titans East Special was set-up, but Part Two, really (and I laugh at the people who paid $3.50 for this, you didn't get ANY extra story for the extra money, Winnick is just does not write that densely).
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I read it and tend to agree with all of you. I forgot what review I read for New Avengers but they basically stated that Bendis is a shock writer. They revolve a story around a shocking moment that usually isn't even really happening in the comic. Shock jocks of writers were listed as Bendis, Millar, Winick.
While I've enjoyed works by all three I have read some of their works that read like a What If...with characters acting/talking out of character.
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I don't think anybody has started this thread, but has anyone checked out this new series?
I only pick up my comics once a month, so I didn't even clue in that the Titans East special was a part 1 to the new Titans #1 series.
It seems really great to see the original Perez/Wolfman version of the team together, but I'm still reserving judgement. Raven as a high school student? I still don't quite understand her reincarnation as a teen. Anyone care to explain? Why is Beast Boy not called Changeling? I still don't get the reason for that name change.
The return of Trigon? This jury is still out.
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I read issues 1 & 2 last night, and you can prepare your rotten tomatoes that have been recalled from all the fast food places, but... I liked 'em.
Power Boy was the only fatality from the previous Titans East special (that I did NOT buy).
I liked both Churchill and Benetiz' artwork, especially the equal opportunity T&A of # 1. I wonder if Caliente saw THAT pic of Wally...? Benitez' work on # 2 was different... I especially liked his Trigon.
The "Sons of Trigon" storyline has me on board... here's hoping Winnick can rectify past mistakes (like Lilith's untimely and STUPID demise).
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Hm... liked the art in the first issue, didn't like the Benitez at all! Though Trigons portrayal was kind of funny, I don't think it is a great idea to try to return to old grandeur with old stories...
How often has Trigon returned from the dead??? Five times? Isn't this a little bit redundant?
Hope Benitez won't stay as a regular penciller. way to sketchy / manga for my taste.
My biggest hope for this series? Starfire and Nightwing finally getting together... never got over their spoilt wedding in the 90s...
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Your biggest hope got some mileage in #3-- but not in any ongoing sort of way.
This issue was good enough to keep me buying, even though several characters just aren't themselves (a possible explanation for this is included in the plot, however).
I find myself wandering what might've happened if some of the pairs ended up at alternate destinations? For example, would Donna and Flash have had an interlude between the stacks of cardboard boxes?
I agree that there's some spark missing from this cast being together that should be there. I'm hopeful, however.
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There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.
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quote:Originally posted by MLLASH: Power Boy was the only fatality from the previous Titans East special (that I did NOT buy).
And his hand seemed to be twitching after they got him off of the tree, so it looks like they're leaving that 'death' open as well. It's like a cliffhanger, only bad, instead of gripping.
Instead of, 'ooh, how will they get out of this!' we got, 'oh, they're all dead.' [flash forward six months] 'huh, they're not dead and there's no explanation for why?'
quote:I liked both Churchill and Benetiz' artwork, especially the equal opportunity T&A of # 1.
I was a little disappointed that Churchill seemed to lavish such loving detail on the nekkid picture of Wally (and the clothed shots of Nightwing, which looked pretty 'the camera loves you, Biblically...' as well), and yet his pictures of nekkid Kory made her look blobby and grotesque.
I couldn't pick up issue two. The art was too much for me to take.
I'm an art snob. Yes, Muffy, there it is. Pour me another cognac, would you?
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#4 seems *somewhat* more the Titans as recognizable characters resembling the folks that made most of us love the team in the first place.
It's a different sounding 'voice' for Gar, but I kind of liked him here.
I admit it, but I'm not proud of it, I wanted to see Donna and Wally all lascivious for the 'lust' brother. (These guys really need names-- having their given names all start with the letter 'J' didn't help).
An emaciated Trigon proud of his sons for stealing his power actually was a nice touch, I thought. That Raven was manipulating her brothers the whole time- knowing (or thinking she knows?) the outcome was a great topper.
The starfield uni is back for Donna by issue's end, with no explanation given.
Personally, I like the idea that this won't be an offical team- but a group of friends that consider themselves like family getting together often- when they'll just *happen* to go on missions, solve crimes, etc.
I wouldn't take the odds on that really making this seem like anything other than a team book, though.
I'm enjoying this more than a lot of people, but Winick *still* hasn't dug out of the hole he got himself in by offing Lilith back in Crapuation Day.
Upcoming guest-star turns by Jericho and, I think, Tempest? and did I dream up the mention of Red Star? could go a long way to at least keeping me from wanting to kick the dirt in over ol' JW.
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i... i can't read it because of the benitez art. he'll draw wally really normally but then... nightwing and beast boy'll have these weird stretchy faces. i gave him points for giving starfire poochy lips but all the artwork in it is really really inconsistent.
one of the covers had raven's breast doing something so amateur and anatomically incorrect that i didn't pick it up. wait...i have the power of the internet to show you. <--- this is impossible. this destroys my mind.
things like that just tell me immediately "this guy can't draw the ladies, he's just trying to make sure you know that raven has breasts"
actually... let me show you what raven would look like from the front given this pose.
some people like the art though. i liked the first issue well enough, then the dialogue was sort of like "huh? @__@ what... what are you saying to me with your words?"
me and my friend were going to get it to see wally and nightwing's cute friendship but the art burned us too hard.
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oh also... raven's dad... is uh.. this... weird.. scrawny dude... whose legs are perpetually open. like... but he's almost naked. now that in and of itself doesn't sound bad or weird, but... AHH it's so FREAKY?!! i can't explain it!!!. ughghg ok this is a link to one of the pages, ONLY CLICK IT IF YOU'RE BRAVE. it will be in your brain forever. ;_; like... i dunno i know he's supposed to look weak and stuff but... thigh highs don't help, trigon ;_; i warned you!!
i really like how he draws starfire's hair and poochy lips. like... SO MUCH i wish the whole comic was her adventures putting in hairclips and trying different lip gloss. and for some reason drew making out really nicely but... beastboy's face....
the writing... example, they start fighting. like not play fighting like... trying to really hurt one another? and i... thought we were past this @__@;; i mean some people like to see certain characters being mean to one another, and i can see it with certain characters, but to me, certain people shouldn't be at each other's throats!! it's not the characters i'm expecting, i guess?
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ok....i think issue 5 redeemed it quite a bit. actually, just start reading there. it's not like, amazing but it makes a lot more...sense. same with the art, much more solid, not painfully distracting. everything seems a lot more solid and less weird.
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