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Captured by bad guy Harvest to fight in his gladiatorial games, Superboy, the Teen Titans and the Legion Lost crew join forces against lackeys the Ravagers. So Part 2 of The Culling crossover is pretty much like Part 1 in last week’s Teen Titans Annual #1 – young metahumans making war, making friends and making like dead […]
Read More Superboy #9 reviewThe creature called Harvest sets his lackey Omen onto the Teen Titans in his efforts to corrupt them into joining his Ravagers. Omen has the ability to manifest a person’s worst fear, breaking mind and body. This brings revelations both external and internal – Red Robin fears turning into a literal red robin; Wonder Girl […]
Read More Teen Titans #8 reviewIf the comics can link up, I reckon the reviews can too. So what have we here, as DC’s ‘Young Justice’ titles start their first official crossover? First off, Superboy, in which the Clone of Steel faces his biggest threat yet, the teenage powerhouse known as Grunge … for no reason I can see, unless […]
Read More Superboy #8 review and Legion Lost #8 reviewKid Flash’s run-in (sorry) with Superboy has left him out of synch and in danger of vibrating to death – can the rest of the Teen Titans find someone to save him? Who’s the emotion-controlling loony at STAR Labs who uses Skitter against the other teen heroes? And why is someone from the 31st century […]
Read More Teen Titans #6 reviewThis issue picks up where Teen Titans #5 left off … hang on, that’s not quite right. This issue begins a few pages before the end of Teen Titans #5, wasting its first five pages on the exact same moments. I might not care so much were DC not telling us to read that issue […]
Read More Superboy #6 reviewSuperboy has pretty much beaten Wonder Girl but before he can turn her over to his masters at NOWHERE, her new friends – christened the Teen Titans by Red Robin – arrive on the scene. After a bunch of individual tussles, they lie defeated but score something of a win … Superboy tells the shady […]
Read More Teen Titans #5 reviewArtist Kenneth Rocafort and colorist Blond present a killer cover for the fifth issue of this consistently excellent DC New 52 original. The imposing monster. Helpless hero. Hurting heroine, hair flowing like blood. And all imposed on a gorgeous winter scene … The artwork’s just as impressive inside, in a more sequential way, of course. […]
Read More Red Hood and the Outlaws #5 reviewContinuing his quest to find the killers of the All-Caste, eastern martial artists who trained him after he quit as Robin, Red Hood Jason Todd turns up in a Colorado bar. Wingman Roy Harper, aka Arsenal, leaves Jason to it when he instigates a fight, apparently due to his liking for the ladies. As it […]
Read More Red Hood and the Outlaws #4 reviewKid Flash breaks out of the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. facility, taking another prisoner, Solstice, with him. Wonder Girl dresses up as a nurse to get information out of one of the brothers who comprise the villainous Thrice. And Red Robin, travelling cross country by train with teen insect queen Skitter, meets another new hero, Bunker. Ah yes, […]
Read More Teen Titans #3 reviewThe Red Hood, Starfire and Arsenal descend into the depths of the Chamber of All in search of the Untitled, slayer of assassins’ guild the All-Caste. Yes, the names are the pompously vague type typically associated with Himalayan mystical realms in comics, but don’t be put off – this is a gripping issue of the […]
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