Teen Titans: Your thoughts and mine...

[WizarDru]

When the WotC store was brand new, it was pretty awesome. WotC's changing fortunes, and now their changing retail strategy makes them just another board-game and tchotchke store (they won't even stock Dungeon or Dragon magazines).

Allied Hobbies is in the same mall, and has reverted to being the better store. They emphasize modelling and similar hobbies, but they have an appreciable collection of top-tier RPG products and carry plenty of minis and collectible games. The staff clearly plays many of the games, so that doesn't hurt.

The Compleat Strategist can be very good or very bad, depending on the day, who's working at that moment and the phase of the moon. After they screwed up two orders of mine following months of incompetence, they've dropped down to an impulse-buy-only store for me.

Incidentally, if you're in Malvern, you might consider Shorecon 2003, where we're having a gathering.

 

[WizarDru]

When strikes..............the DOUBLE POST!

 

[Klaus]

I just don't know why they chose to add green back into Robin's costume (making it resemble the animated Dick Grayson's first costume). I thought the latest Robin costume from Batman:tAS, being all red and black with yellow only on the belt and the "R" was very good.

Speaking of Titans, anyone checked out the recent Teen Titans relaunch? In a nutshell, the Teen Titans are now Robin (Tim Drake), Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark), Superboy (Kon-El), Impulse (Bart Allen), Changeling (Gar Logan), Starfire (Koryand'r) and Cyborg (Victor Stone), with Raven set to join in a few issues. It's written by JSA's uber-scribe Geoff Johns.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Starfire and Raven back eh? Might be worth picking up the graphic novel when it comes out.

 

[Klaus]

Yes, it sounds really good (I only read the preview that ran in Wizard, but it's now available at http://www.dccomics.com .

In short, the new Titans Tower is located in San Francisco (being partially financed by the city of SF and some Silicon Valley folks).

And one of the first people to take interest in the Titans is Deathstroke, who doesn't want the kids to get together.

Oh, and Michael Turner (Fathom, Witchblade) did an alternate cover for issue #1, where Starfire takes center stage (as well she should!)

 

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Oh, and Michael Turner (Fathom, Witchblade) did an alternate cover for issue #1, where Starfire takes center stage (as well she should!)

I got the mike turner cover, it's very nice. The first issue was real good, i think it's going to be a popular series.

 

[Rackhir]

I've liked very much pretty much all the other DC shows from those guys, but not the teen titians. Especially since they all look like the Pre-Teen Titians. Have they mentioned any ages for the characters, since they look like they are about 11 or 12?

 

[WizarDru]

I've liked very much pretty much all the other DC shows from those guys, but not the teen titians. Especially since they all look like the Pre-Teen Titians. Have they mentioned any ages for the characters, since they look like they are about 11 or 12?

Not so far. My gut feeling is that they are mostly around the 14-15 range, with cyborg probably around 16. Robin is the most noticable, being considerably shorter, but if we use BTAS Tim Drake as a starting point, that would sound about right. Starfire would be very close to Robin's age, I'm assuming. Raven is a tougher one to guess, as she could just be short. Beast Boy is presumably the youngest.

I remember, back in the 80s, thinking that the Teen Titans didn't really look like Teens to me, in the beginning...particularly Raven. I don't particularly recall caring what age Starfire was, as long as she kept dressing like that. But hey, I was 12.

For what it's worth, my daughter considers Starfire to be her favorite and my son is partial to Robin. But Robin gets a bonus there, as he works with Batman, who easily beats out Superman in my son's book.

 

[Scarbonac]

I'm unhappy with it; after the great work adapting DC properties done on Batman:TAS, Superman Adventures, Batman Beyond and Justice League, Teen Titans hits a sour note (hell, The Zeta Project was a superior effort, even though its status as yet another retread of The Fugitive theme might make one dubiouis).

The pseudoanime style is distracting and the characterizations are (to be polite) coarse in the extreme, with Starfire ringing almost completely untrue. The Naif aspect of her persona is handled well, but she's been turned into the Mihoshi-esque ''Screamy-Girl''!

That's Changeling's role!

Kory is the sweet, semi-hedonistic ass-kicking warrior-nudist, daggone it!


While Goth is reasonably close to Raven's original portrayal, psuedoanime Raven is far too grumpy.

Cyborg was the angry and depressed member of the team; now he seems like a happy jock in a metal suit.


Some the characters have these things called names: Garfield , Victor, Koriand'r, (or Gar, Vic and Kory) and (I'm assuming) Tim; the Titans regularly used their real names rather than the code-names at least in private.


Raven didn't fly, back when I read the book; she teleported.


I desperately miss Kid Flash, Speedy and Wonder Girl (not Aqualad, though; what a loser he was!).

 

[LuYangShih]

I like Teen Titans better than any of the other DC cartoons I have seen so far. Regardless of whether or not it is a perfect adaptation of the comics, it is just plain fun, which is more than I can say for the other DC cartoons in most cases.