Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Dr. Gym'll's Cultural Rarities Oh Yeah, That Forum: The Titans THE TEEN TITANS... but WHO are they-- WHAT are they NOW?!?!

Robin can fly! Superboy has an S-shield tattoo that looks like a UPC-code! Wonder Girl wears (and IS) a hood! There's some interesting bug-looking chick and a less-interesting tar-covered girl! Kid Flash runs fast still!

Together they are-- THE TEEN TITANS!!




Grooviness levels TO BE DETERMINED!!!

Let's meet back here after we read # 1 and either bask in awe of this sexcellent new comic-- or curse ourselves for parting with our cash for such a piss-poor product!

As is well-known, there can be NO in-between!

If the bug-chick calls herself "The Bug-Eyed Bandit's Daughter", I suspect the grooviness level will be extremely high!

But if, as I have read online, she is called "Bugg".... uggh.

I like "Bugg-Ugh" for a name.

Tar Tart would be a groovy name for the other chick!

Zippy Taper instead of Kid Flash.

Red Robin with wings looks awesome.

It really makes him stand out from other Robins, from Batman and from Nightwing.

Bugg needs a new name, stat. Also, I've seen Caterina Zeta-Jones, dear, and you are no Caterina Zeta-Jones. Stop crawling around with your butt in the air.

(With Wonder Girl right behind her, it looks like 'Bugg' just got let off a leash by her dom...)

They said Robin can not fly (at comicon i think), unless they changed things, he glides or is propelled by short bursts. (seems like the new articles say he can fly )

I think he should fly ... they have the technology. His name's Robin.

Tar girl ... is named 'Charcoal' IIRC .... she burns and has fire powers but she *burns black* (<--- reminds me of Hole lyrics)

Bug girl is gross.

who are those tiny figures in the background underneath tar girl and above kid flash ? Looks like XS speeding around!! .... maybe?

This is the real cover ? -->
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/06/09/dc-relaunch-cover-to-teen-titans-1/

I assume the other character there with the fists is 'The Wall' that they are talking about in this article :

http://www.comicvine.com/news/scott...perboy-teen-titans-exclusive-art/143502/

I always get cranky when a new creative team creates "the newest, coolest character(s)" instead of bothering to update one of the dozens of neglected Titans of years past. I'm dumbfounded that with a Young Justice cartoon in limbo somewhere that more of those characters didn't translate into this book. It seems like such a missed sales opportunity.

Still down with Robin having wings and the logic behind it. As for the changes to Cassie, I want to wait and see. Judging from her expression on the cover, I may like Charcoal. Not sure about the other new people yet.

"Bugg" is quite possibly the worst-named character I've ever heard of in comics.

I really have to question the taste level of a writer that could come up with that.

Robin's new outfit looks really good though - possibly the best of all the DCnU designs I've seen (though that really isn't saying much).

I have decided I will be buying and reviewing--and there is no wishy washy opinions! I'll either love this like it's Tolstoy or I'll hate it like it's the 'inane five word posts thread!

I will give it a chance though. It can't be worse than the last 2-3 years of the title.

Is that Bart as Kid Flash or somebody else?

I believe Lobdell confirmed its Bart. It's definitely not Wally, as editorial loves to remind us in interviews.

I wonder if the Wally bit is some kind of subterfuge and they have something really big planned for him. Otherwise, I just do not understand the reasoning. Not when Grayson and Harper are in use.

Donny and Garth should be around, too.

The fiddle-faddle with these five is a big reason I'm so leery of the 'relaunch'.

I think DC is so determined to make fans forget what they ever liked about Barry Allen that having Wally around might remind them of a time when they actually missed Barry.

While I encourage creativity in writers, I wonder why they felt the need to create so many new characters instead of using existing ones?

This article mentioned character diversity via introducing more ethnic minorities - what about unused (and still living) Titans like Mirage, Solstice, Hotspot?

Oh well, here's hoping the new characters will last!

It does seem that making a title named 'Teen Titans' that was entirely composed of Young Justice members and new characters, instead of actual, yanno Teen Titans was part of their design intentions.

It's not like they don't have a dozen or more potential Teen Titans of ethnicity they could have used, like Hornblower/Vox or Bumblebee or Static or Hotspot or Mirage or Osiris or Aquagirl 2 or Solstice, etc., etc. all of whom actually *were* Teen Titans...

Donna Troy is the 38th most popular DC character ... according to this reader poll!

http://goodcomics.comicbookresource...arvel-comic-book-characters-master-list/

... Seems like she should be somewhere in the new DC.




(Not to mention Power Girl at number 18. )

^ Dick Grayson/Nightwing turned out to be the 3rd most popular DC character in that poll!!

Beating everyone but Bats and Supes.

and Wally West was #6 beating out (notably) Barry Allen and Wonder Woman.

:shakes head:

Oh, DC...

and NONE of the Legionnaires made the list! except Superman, Superboy , Supergirl.

At least the Legionnaires will still be appearing, unlike all those others who are in limbo

I wonder where the Legionnaires ranked, though. I think some of them at least made the Top 100 - my money's on Brainiac 5.

re: the new TT comic...

I was kinda 'meh' over issue 1, but number 2 was much more solid for me.

So I'm going to stick with it.

I liked #3-- though I think it's taking too long for the team to come together. And it's really hard to put questions about what is/is not 'history' out of my head as a reader. Bunker was pretty fun- not at all the Extrano that some feared. Well, there's a little 'Extrano' in there, but that's a good thing, when you get down to it.

Red Robin, not meaning to put together a team? Huh.

Kid Flash rescuing Solstice in parallel to Red Robin rescuing Skitter and encountering Bunker provided a well-built structure for the story.

I'm not loving this Wonder Girl. At all. Can't get past Donna's nonexistence (as far as we know to this point) or the fact that she's a car thief (who can fly!!) Is she still a daughter of Zeus? Maybe she's trying to throw Hera off her track... that, I'd buy.

I fear Wildstormization is coming, too (I realllly don't like that aspect to the new DCU. At all.)