Preview: Titans #23
By Nightwing. Filed in previews |
“As Roy Harper lies in critical condition after the events of JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE his fever dreams show him the perfect future life he wants for the Titans. Unfortunately for him, it’s a life the Titans will never see. Featuring the work of guest writer Eddie Berganza and artists Scott Clark and Ardian Syaf.”
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Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 1:51 am |
Now that the issue is out. What is the reaction. For me, it felt forced! I became a regular fan of the Titans during th Titans Hunt story line and by then the original five had grown up so I’m interested to know if there was any indication back then that Wally and Dick weren’t as close to Roy as the Powers That Be made it look in this issue?
I was always under the impression that all of them got along realtively speaking. I also though I remember reading that it was always suggested that Dick and Donna had feelings for each other and not Roy and Donna. Although, I do like that bit though. It makes the seemingly random hook up of Roy and Donna way back seem a bit more plausable.
In my opinion, I hope this is the first sign that the two will get back together. I always liked that pairing and, I may be in the minority, but thought it worked.
Finally, I know Donna’s backstory is a messy one (and that is putting it mildly) but I didn’t think she knew Diana when she was in the Titans or did this change when she became a mirror image of wonder woman and lived those multiple lives?
Monday, March 22nd 2010 at 6:17 pm |
This issue was more or less a retcon of some of the old stuff, to make Harper’s history with the Teen Titans even MORE dramatic and angst driven. Yeah, Roy is always been the more arrogant one who caused some friction, but never to the extent that Dick ever shouted at him, saying they don’t want him and that he’s essentially a bad person. That never happened in the original stories. Also the fact Dick and Wally found Roy drugged up in the old base is a retcon, because it was the Black Canary who helped Roy get over his drug problem and go to rehab. Dick wasn’t the one to do that but he was one of the only people who visited him in rehab.
The Titans men always had crushes on Donna, even Dick. But he never had a relationship with her, but rather more of a brother/sister thing. Roy however has ALWAYS been implied to have a romantic relationship towards Donna, that has been touched upon time and again since forever.
As for Donna’s backstory, that was retconned again following the events of INFINITE CRISIS. Donna still retains her origins as being a mirror image of Diana and the multiple lives thing, as well as the Titans of Myth. Rhea still saved Donna from the fire as a baby, and took her to New Cronos to be trained. However when they were done training her, they sent her to Diana and the Amazons, who then continued to raise her. Thats how she’s connected to Wonder Woman.
I didn’t much care for this issue because it just kept piling on the angst and pain, and just kept making me glad the series was essentially over, because I don’t think I could stand much more drama and depression
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 at 3:15 pm |
This issue was a big, weird “miss” for me. At first, I was really turned off by the strange ret-cons. Like Roy proposing to Donna as teenagers, and Roy getting kicked out of the group.
Apparently, though, those “flashback” scenes aren’t “real”, according to the DC Source blog: “As THE RISE AND FALL continues to rage, we’re getting a glimpse of how things will shake down amidst the rubble and tragedy surrounding Star City. Oliver Queen has been branded a murderer by his friends. Roy Harper is facing a shattered and twisted reflection of his past life.”
But the solicit says: “As Roy Harper lies in critical condition after the events of JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE his fever dreams show him the perfect future life he wants for the Titans. Unfortunately for him, it’s a life the Titans will never see. Featuring the work of guest writer Eddie Berganza and artists Scott Clark and Ardian Syaf.”
I think that nasty flashback was supposed to be a fever dream. But its so badly written, it isn’t conveyed anywhere in the script. Even more confusing, the second flashback picks up directly from Donna and Roy’s date in TEEN TITANS: YEAR ONE #5. And where that mini was sweet and fun, this issue is dark and ugly in tone. It’s like the writer is desperately trying to do a LOST-style flash-alternative-world story, but forget to tell us.
I also felt the character “voices” were off in either time zone or reality. The whole thing was just a bleak, ugly mess.
Man, this was bad on multiple levels.
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010 at 6:19 pm |
Whew! Thanks, Nightwing. I thought it was just me! I read the solicits and that was what I was expecting, but nothing in that issue led me to believe it was Roy’s dream! I figured the solicits were just wrong.
The writing was REALLY off then. Ugh!