Holy Batman this shit sucks. I had to go and check out my Redhood and the Outlaws Rebirth volume 1 copy to make sure this is the same writer. So take Teen Titans but make almost all of them completely unlikable. Then got that N.O.W.H.E.R.E. organization from Superboy comic after them. And this is where Superboy comes into play as well when he wrecks the titans. The Titans here all must unite and become a team or otherwise they will die! Good: Uhhh some decent art? Bad: Tim is so out of character...

This one wasn't even on my radar last fall when I started buying DC New 52 issues online. But I saw the library had a copy, and so I gave it a try. Lots of fun! The story is a little bit fluffy, and the conflict between the characters can be forced at times. The art's variable, but I suppose it fits the tone of the book. I think the series has potential. I am definitely on board for at least another trade, thanks to the prominent role of Red Robin. (I really like when Tim acts like "Batman, Jr"

I LOVE TEEN TITANS!!! (but let me explain how I got here)So...when the New 52 first launched I decided which titles I wanted to read and started by buying the first issue of several titles (and reading reviews of other ones that I was mildly interested in reading). Time went by (September will be the one year anniversary) and I whittled my list down to four comics (Batman, Justice League, Aquaman, and Flash). However, then Scott Snyder's "Night of Owls" Even happened and it forced me to read (ac...

The first thing that someone needs to know about the Teen Titans in the New 52 is that they are actually fun. I ended up reading this series only because it was the only book that Tim Drake was appearing in, and I was expecting the usual misery. I was very pleasantly surprised.As expected, Lobdell put together a very good team. Tim Drake is one of my favorites, and I have no complaints about how he has been written so far. Superboy is one of the characters that I normally have no interest in, bu...

The dialogue and plot are very choppy and often they don't sync up well with the artwork. The story-arc seems promising and I like the direction the Titans are heading in.It does do a good job with the characters. Each Titan's personality is clear as day and the group dynamic between these personalities is interesting. I like the new members of the team; I like the new costumes on Kid Flash, Red Robin, an Wonder Girl. Not sure how I feel about Danny the Street though....If the story were told mo...

(B) 74% | More than SatisfactoryNotes: Bright, buoyant pablum colored by contrivance and quirk, it lacks teeth and flesh: seeking in vain to be hip and edgy.

It has been a few years since I have collected comics so I frequently check the DC comics giveaways here on goodreads. I was ecstatic to win this and get a glimpse into what is going on in the DC Universe. I don't know much that has gone on in the past three years but I know there was a big even that changed everything and DC is rebooting all of there characters in the new 52. I was pleased to see something stayed the same. Before I gave up comics I was reading the series Red Robin and I was ver...

Another of The New 52 titles I decided to sample. Some of the series are "soft" reboots, where little has changed. Some are closer to full reboots of a series such as this one. Some things have remained from the last version of the series. Superboy is still a clone, and Tim Drake is the brains of the outfit. For better or worse Cassie Sandsmark is now a tomb raider, instead of student who followed her mother to digs. Bunker is so out of the closet Gay he might offend Gays, but he comes off as th...

The three stars is largely for something that Lobdell has no control over, the continuity issues. I'm starting to hate this New 52 thing. Why? Because the Bat family books and characters did not reboot with everybody else, as far as I can tell. Which means that we have Red Robin (Tim Drake) both forming Teen Titans for the very first time, while also having been a member of Teen Titans for years, with Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, and Superman, who he is both meeting for the first time and has been fr...

5 🌟N.O.W.H.E.R.E is taking metahuman teenagers from around the world. Red Robin is trying to find them before NOWHERE gets them. He manages to get Wonder Girl, Bunker, Kid Flash, and Skitter. They go to rescue Superboy from NOWHERE.

I'd actually give it 3.5 stars, but I can't. Goodreads should get on that.Anyway, I thought it was pretty good. There were some moments where it felt like it jumped from one thing to another improperly, but that's not too big of a problem.I think I'm in the minority when I say that I actually really like Tim Drake's New 52 costume. Especially since the wings are retractable. I don't think I've had any prior exposure to Brett Booth's art, and I really like it.I don't know how long this first stor...

It was... a comic book. A fairly good example of one, I suppose (or, at least, character development, and no plot holes big enough to drive a truck through). Cliff-hanger ending.Part of why it got a 4 instead of a 3 is that I very much liked that there were several female characters, and not one of them looked like a stick figure smuggling melons. (No rape backstories, either) In fact, 2 of them were not really in any reasonable sense "sexy" (a spider-woman and a woman surrounded by a black clou...

Not as good as it could have been, but I didn't think it was unreadable.Very middle-of-the-road kind of plot, especially for a Teen Titans' originish story.Also, are Skitter and Bunker new characters?Anybody...?I guess I'm waiting to see if it gets better (or worse) before I decide anything.It could get better, right?

I am really enjoying the New 52 run of everything really. I enjoyed this (obviously) as well as Red Hood and Harley Quinn, and Suicide Squad.Just a moment to shout out to Hoopla at my local library! I decided to try and read the whole series of the parts of Death Of The Family that I really liked, so I got on there to see what I could find. And I found this, Nightwing, Batgirl and at least the first three of Batman and Robin, which would at least take me to Death Of The Family there. (As for Cat...

2.5The art is gorgeous but the story is forgettable. It's like an early 90's Image comic, Brett Booth did the art for Backlash back then and its nice to see his art has only improved, but the story.. I wouldn't recommend this volume to anyone, you can defiantly skip it. But I will say if you ever find an issue pick it up it's a fun read. Confused?The problem is while one issue is an ok read, 7 issues is just too much, and it's not even the conclusion in the 7th. Lobdell is a good writer, but her...

Did not expect to like this. Not really been a fan of the Teen Titans or Tim Drake in the past. But this book is really fun and full of action.Tim Drake - To me Drake has always been a lesser Robin. He lacks the strength of Dick and is the kid who came off as useless in Knightfall. This Drake is decisive, smart, and a leader. And he clearly is part of the Bat family in temper. Though I am really glad Bruce Wayne does not visit. I really want him to have a romantic relationship with Not Wonder Gi...

This was a fun read!Its a reboot and we see the new team coming together and new origins for all of them! Someone from the NOWHERE organization is on the hunt for the metahumans and is collecting them and then we have Tim forming his team and rescuing some other meta-humans like Solstice, Skitter and Bunker and then through happenstance meets Cassie and Bart and yep fights Conner and later on he does become their team-mate and thus it falls on these new heroes to fight these villains and also in...

I've been a Teen Titans fan for over 40 years. It was one of the first books I "collected" (that is, I looked for it every month on the newsstand) when I started back in '69. So I've been through the Titans in their many, many incarnations, both good and bad. The most recent Teen Titans book was a lot of fun, utilizing both traditional characters and new characters (long a Titans hallmark). The new 52 version is, in a word, blah. Tim Drake, as the former Robin, now Red Robin, is the center of th...

A shadowy government organisation called NOWHERE is collecting teenage metahumans for some undoubtedly diabolical scheme and even have the clone Superboy as their wrangler. Can Red Robin and co. escape their evil clutches? Scott Lobdell writes a very 90s book for a 21st century audience. NOWHERE – what an awful name! I guarantee the acronym came first, the meaning second, and I couldn’t even begin to tell you what it stands for. It’s just an ominous-sounding name that’ll suit the bad guys. Tim D...

Hmmmmm. Some of it was good, some not so good. I'm not terribly impressed (it's Lobdell, of course I'm ambiguous) but I'll keep going. Hey, it's better than JLI, so that's something!