Comments on: In this issue, a Titan dies! Again!

By: comiccadet

comiccadet — Sun, 24 May 2009 03:18:40 +0000

Once you kill off donna, lilith, conner, bart, terra, etc, im not even interested enough to care..im sorry but this comics is unable to shock. i suspect its not even a death, just a ploy cover to get a little bit of attention. i stopped buying these titles months ago and glad i did. i dont reward DC for lousy storytelling or bad artwork.

By: Rantatouille

Rantatouille — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:06:42 +0000

@Ram
You can respectfully disagree all you want, but you’re totally wrong. Kid Devil wasn’t created as a derivative of Beast Boy, he was originally “Gofer” in the Blue Devil comics, which were popular in their time. He later built his own devil suit and became his sidekick. It was a humor comic with a very different vibe and origin from Doom Patrol (where Beast Boy started), more a hollywood-esque Movie-star + snarky boss + sidekick dealey. Beast Boy was more a super-human adopted by a superteam as family — and way more emo from the start, with his tragic backstory and all. KD was brought back onto the scene and given powers (which are quite obviously totally different from Beast Boy’s later).

Blue Beetle is a way strong character, which you’d know if you actually read his series instead of reacting with a kneejerk hate-on (most likely because of a throbbing mancrush for Ted Kord like so many have). He’s a resourceful kid with a good heart and a great sense of humor, who tries to look at all the angles like Ted did, and studies Ted’s notes–and is likely exactly the kind of replacement Ted would’ve picked, and even tried to save Ted in the pages of Booster Gold. He’s also nothing like Iron Man–he didn’t make the armor, after all, and he doesn’t have a ton of tech-savvy. He’s not a self-made hero like Stark, he’s more strategy-smart and highly adaptive to whatever’s tossed his way. He rolls with the punches.

Bombshell…well, she kinda sucks, but she’s not derived from Ravager either. She’s derived from Captain Atom. Military brat part of an army experiment. Dur.

Of course, ALL the Titans are derived from older heroes. That’s the point. Wonder Girl’s derived from Wonder Woman and Donna Troy, Robin is derived from the other Robins and Batman, Superboy is derived from Superman–that’s, y’know half the point of the Titans, to give a home to heroes that are sidekicks/derived from other heroes, so if being derived from another hero makes those three suck, then by definition ALL the Titans suck.

Before trashing other superheroes you don’t like because of the typical kneejerk fanboy hate-on that doesn’t impress anybody, at least get your facts straight.

P.S. There are no bad characters, just bad writing, and sweeping statements that are opinions instead of facts, but are stated like facts, like “They’re not strong characters in their own right” only make you sound like a basement-dwelling tool. Trashing on characters you dislike that others like just makes you look like a whiny fanboy stereotype. Just because I love Jaime Reyes doesn’t mean I trash on Ted Kord, for instance. (Namely because BOTH characters are cool). Leave the Simpsons Comic Book Guy impression to the wayside, dude.

By: Old/Wise

Old/Wise — Thu, 21 May 2009 21:36:54 +0000

Is it a person or an identity dying? Cause since Buck and Jason Todd came back, death is a non-issue.

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:06:02 +0000

@Gill
I respectfully disagree. Kid Devil’s character is a derivative of Beast Boy, Bombshell is a derivative of Ravager, and Blue Beetle is a weak replacement for Ted Kord with some Iron Man thrown in. They’re not strong characters in their own right. But to each his own.

@Fantabularo
I with you 100%!

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:25:14 +0000

Shocking.

Not.

By: Fantabulero

Fantabulero — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:11:30 +0000

Meh, based on the most recent line-up I’ve seen, the odds are pretty good that I couldn’t care less about whoever it is who dies. The only character left I even care about is Wonder Girl. So as long as she’s alright, they can kill as many members as they want… and fill those empty roster spots with Tim Drake, Bart Allen and Kon-El.

By: nk13

nk13 — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:14:15 +0000

Hmmm…. at last count, 19-20 dead Titans (going back to the early days even)…. and most all of them in recent stories where they were cannon foder/wasted excuses for just having SOMONE die. Seriously, this series and the whole Titans franchise has NOSE-DIVED into utter crap! One more and I’m outta here for good….. even artist supreme Geroge Perez won’t get me back…..

By: wallruss

wallruss — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:07:24 +0000

It’s probably Eddie. He doesn’t have powers anymore anyway and I don’t think the whole Red Devil thing really caught on.

By: Gill

Gill — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:29:11 +0000

@Ram

im going to have to respectfully disagree with you, Eddie, Jaime, and Amy are the only reasons im buying the book still, they are certainly more fun and dyanmic than anyone else in the cast.

but yeah this whole “titans dying” thing is getting wayyyy out of hand.

By: Ram

Ram — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:57:58 +0000

I hope it’s Kid Devil, Blue Beetle, and Bombshell, chopped into little pieces and all crammed into one coffin. I hate the three of them.

By: BandB54

BandB54 — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:52:22 +0000

Teen Titans has been on a down turn since Geoff Johns left the book. They need to do something to pump new life into the titans franchise. Thus far the only solid book out of the lot is Tiny Titans. Bring back Marv Wolfman and George Perez , or even Peter David who handled many of the characters in Young Justice instead of having a revolving door of writers and artist who don’t seem to know the continuity, or care for the characters. I don’t care who they kill as long as it is a good story which is respectful to what has come before.

By: carloshll726

carloshll726 — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:52:11 +0000

Hope it’s not Robin.

By: Woerlan

Woerlan — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:49:10 +0000

Too many deaths to make this series interesting. Every single arc has been about people attacking the Titans and making life miserable for them. When will these heroes do something HEROIC? How long has it been since they went and thwarted a villain or did something proactive?

The purpose of the Titans lately is to be targets and to die every few months. Almost like New X-Men back in the day, except these Titans aren’t dying from being caught in a racial war crossfire. They’re dying just coz they’re Titans.

You do not make a team book and change the cast this often. Team books need a stable core, otherwise people lose interest. If they’re even remotely intelligent and really need to kill someone, it should be Jericho, just so we can be spared the pain of having that waste of character space in another story.

By: Mr Wesley

Mr Wesley — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:16:29 +0000

And screw the spoiler freaks. If you’re not watching Lost, you deserve to be spoiled.

By: Mr Wesley

Mr Wesley — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:15:54 +0000

Peter Pan:

He was never revived to begin with. That’s the twist.

By: JK Parkin

JK Parkin — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:12:38 +0000

I was talking about him coming back to life when they returned to the island, in a totally unexpected plot twist … kind of like superheroes coming back from the dead.

Dunno what the rest of you guys are talking about.

By: Peter_Pan

Peter_Pan — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:22 +0000

Hey, Locke is dead again?

By: Max Criden

Max Criden — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:57:56 +0000

Wow, is it really necessary to spoil the Lost season finale like that? Glad I saw it, but seems pretty unfair to the DVD-waiters.

By: Mr Wesley

Mr Wesley — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:12:59 +0000

If a Titan falls in the forest and nobody is there to care, does it make a sound?

By: Bruce D. Spruce

Bruce D. Spruce — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:11:25 +0000

I think it’s Tim Drake’s Robin, who will be “dying” to continue his search for Bruce Wayne as Red Robin.