4 issue test #39 - Teen Titans (DC Rebirth)

Yes, I know it's another cheat but they use the same logo and this review's late already

It’s DC Rebirth Time again!

I’d previously reviewed a Teen Titans book, it was one of my earliest reviews of this format. It… wasn’t great really, I did drop the book after the 4^th issue and even though a couple of ideas tossed did gain my attention, it was never really enough to bring me back in.

But DC Rebirth has shone a new light on the Titans with a new creative team and a new roster. In the writer’s chair is Ben Percy, who is also tackling the Green Arrow books and with artists… well, there are quite a few of them. The roster, I’ll cover in the description since the first issue is primarily about getting everyone together. Speaking of which, let’s get to it.

Further Thoughts on Teen Titans Go! - Let's Get Serious

On Wednesday, a crossover review with me and Gregs Chan1 appeared on YouTube.

My apologies that the audio quality is terrible, and note that it's completely improvised and the only editing I could do was for the credits.

I plan to spend this completely improvised blogpost explaining further why I'm not a fan of Teen Titans Go! and this episode particularly

4 issue test #8 - Starfire

After DC’s half-assed event Convergence (which was really only there as DC was moving to a new office, although some of the tie ins were good) DC brought us the DCYou, a launch of several new titles with intent of adding diversity to the range. Also as part of this there’s a new semi-existent continuity where some books would exist as part of a wider universe and some would exist in a continuity bubble of their own. I do get why continuity can be a creative problem, especially given DCs line of editorial interferences of late. I don’t see why it’s good for a reader. A good comic should not need you to know masses of information to understand it, removing continuity entirely is only a big FU to the fans of the original continuity as a lot of books are rendered pointless.

OK, I’m going off track a bit. I don’t like the idea of the New52, sure some decent books came out of it, but most wouldn’t have been entirely impossible if it were in the old continuity. Plus continuity became an absolute mess with writers not sure what has and hasn’t happened and as a reader that made me more confused. If you’re gonna reboot, do it with full heart and start over entirely, don’t try and fit events that are convenient into the mix for the sake of it.

But I have tried a few issues of the DCYou, and over the next few weeks they will undergo the 4 issue test. Starting up, we have Starfire

Starfire had been badly treated as part of the reboot. Red Hood and the Outlaws #1 is a disgrace and is a sign of a writer who didn’t care about her character and just made her a sex object. I heard they tried to backtrack on this in later issues but I wouldn’t be surprised if that was in response to the fan outrage rather than pre-planned. So, when the DCYou came around, she ditched Red Hood and Arsenal and migrated to her own book.

Before I start I should mention DC’s Divergence line. It’s basically a set of prequel issues that were released online and contained within several Convergence tie-in issue. It’s my opinion that these should not count as part of this review. A #1 issue shouldn’t require supplementary material so that you understand it. With that said, let’s dig into Starfire #1-4 and we’ll see what we have.