Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone! from left to right:
Jama Renuka [Witchie-Poo], Alec Swanwick [Captain Thug],
Gabrielle Marin-Reyes [Prosthetic Lass], Hikarimono [Dead Pretty Boy] |
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Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone
A remote colony of humans have carved a home out of an airless asteroid - but their fragile colony is in danger from a threat they can't see coming!
Jamadagni [Jama] Renuka inherited a genetic trait that allowed her to transform reality. The theory is 'magi' - a rare ability that enables users to alter the very fabric of reality. Jama trained under a Gememage Sensei that taught her how to hone her natural abilities. Jama learns to take existing myths and bring them to life! When her colony is threatened by a demonic creature, Jama seeks to recreate a group of heroes to act as the mythological group of Titans from ancient history.
Jama recreates the mythic pattern of a particular team of heroes - the Titans - to combat a great clysm. She gathers together four superhero archetypes: Raven, Cyborg, Starfire and Robin. Jamadagni [Jama] Renuka acts as the sorceress mage Raven; Gabrielle Marin-Reyes is recruited as the weepy Cyborg; Hikarimono, host to an alien lifeform, plays the token alien role of Starfire; and Alec Swanwick is implanted with a personality construct of an ancient hero to embody the group's masked fighting man - Robin.
Knowing the myth pattern, Jama looks for the summoning of a demon. This takes form in the Xenobilogy lab, where a bio-engineered whale morphs into hideous creatures. Jama completes the myth recreation by assigning the members outlandish codenames and appropriate costumes.
The Titans are successful in defeating the creatures - but at a terrible cost. Gabrielle is badly injured and Alec dies in battle. In all the mythological information, Jama knew "all superhero mythology had one charmingly naive concept: in the end, the good guys never ever lose!" Tragically, this is proven both true and false.
Witchie-poo
[Jamadagni Renuka]
Titan Modeled After: Raven
Jamadagni [Jama] Renuka inherited a genetic trait that allowed her to transform reality. The theory is 'magi' - a rare ability that enables users to alter the very fabric of reality. Jama trained under a Gememage Sensei that taught her how to hone her natural abilities. Jama learned to take existing myths and bring them to life!
When her colony is threatened by a demonic creature, Jama sought to recreate a group of heroes to act as the mythological group of Titans from ancient history. In the Teen Titans myth, Raven gathered a group of adventurers to defeat the demon, Trigon. Similarly, Jama acts as the sorceress 'Raven' of myth and gathers together three other superhero archetypes to recreate the Titans!
Powers: Jamadagni [Jama] Renuka inherited a genetic trait that allowed her to transform reality; Jama learned to take existing myths and bring them to life!
Captain Thug
[Alec Swanwick]
Titan Modeled After: Robin
Alec Swanwick is Jama's ex-boyfriend who still harbored feelings for her. When her colony is threatened by a demonic creature, Jama sought to recreate a group of heroes to act as the mythological group of Titans from ancient history.
Recruiting Alec, Jama implanted him with a personality construct of an ancient hero so Alec could act as the 'Robin' of the group. The personality construct Jama used was actually based on Batman [Bruce Wayne].
The Titans are successful in defeating the creatures - but at a terrible cost. Gabrielle is badly injured and Alec dies in battle. In all the mythological information, Jama knew "all superhero mythology had one charmingly naive concept: in the end, the good guys never ever lose!" Tragically, this is proven both true and false.
Powers: None; But the personality construct based on Batman gave Alec all of Batman's combat skills and personality
Dead Pretty Boy
[Hikarimono]
Titan Modeled After: Starfire
Hikarimono is a human host to an alien life form - a sentient creature of pure energy translated into his nervous system shortly after his death. Since entities can only embody fresh-dead corpses, Hikarimono surmises the sentient creature may have killed him. The energy has effected Hikarimono's nervous system, and his speech is stilted; He has trouble using pronouns. Hikarimono later enrolled at a Xenobilogy Lab - to study as well as be studied.
When Jama gathers a group of heroes to act as the mythological group of Titans from ancient history, she recruits Hikarimono. By accessing the dormant lattice energy creatures, Hikarimono can fling energy blasts.
Powers: By accessing the dormant lattice energy creatures, Hikarimono can fling energy blasts; manipulation of electromagnetic energy
Prosthetic Lass
[Gabrielle Marin-Reyes]
Titan Modeled After: Cyborg
Gabrielle Marin-Reyes lost her original body in the Vismavitra orbit habitat firestorm. Her mother had enough influence with the military police corps to transplant Gabrielle's brain in a top-model prosthesis unit. Her new body is actually a decommissioned combat unit.
When Jama gathers a group of heroes to act as the mythological group of Titans from ancient history, she recruits Gabrielle. Disabling the safety interlock, Jama unleashes Gabrielle's potential as a killer combat unit!
Powers: Superhuman speed and strength; programmed combat skills; major weaponry, including grav distorters and quantum fields; ability to produce plastic explosives
Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone [1997]: Elseworlds One-shot. This Elseworlds Special introduces a remote colony of humans who have carved a home out of an airless asteroid. Written and penciled by Manga Maestro Adam Warren, this mini-epic features the exploits of four teens who must defend their fragile colony against a threat that only they can see coming. Adopting the Titans names in honor of the legendary Earth heroes, Raven, Cyborg, Nightwing and Starfire stand their ground on a day that may be their last! Originally, this story was to be featured in THE NEW TITANS ANNUAL 1996, a Legends of the Dead Earth tale.
Titans Go Manga With 'Scissors, Paper, Stone'
An article from Wizard #67 [1997]
Manga hits the mainstream this March when DC Comics will release Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone, an Elseworlds prestige one-shot by Dirty Pair writer/artist Adam Warren.
"I love manga," confessed Teen Titans editor Dan Thorsland. "This project began with plans for a 'Legends of the Dead Earth' Titans annual and my hankering to work with Adam Warren. It seemed natural - he has such a great take on younger characters. This was a project where he could get away with almost anything." Warren was amenable to the idea, come up with a concept and started work. As the first pages came in, the project shifted gears, according to Thorsland. I showed them to [DC Executive Editor] Mike Carlin and he said, 'This is too good to just be an annual; we have to make this a prestige book.' We gave Adam another 10 pages and put it on glossy pages.
The story takes place 6,000 years in the future, as a young woman nomad Jamadogni puts together a team of young heroes to deal with a major crisis, in much the same way Raven pulled together the second set of Titans in the early 1980s. So how will this project be different from a mainstream approach to superhero action? "A lot of what I like about manga is the character design, which you're starting to see in American comics. But another part is the more adventurous approach to storytelling," Warren explained. And Warren pledged that Japanese elements of storytelling will be a part of Scissors, Paper, Stone: "I didn't do anything to make my work more 'American' for this project," he said.
Thorsland agreed: "It's 48 pages of stuff that only Adam Warren could write and illustrate - including action sequences featuring 60-foot monsters and stuff like that. A lot of humor and a lot of torment and angst all mixed up - it's the distilled essence of the Wolfman/Pérez Titans 6,000 years in the future."
Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone ships March 5 at a cover price of S4.95.
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New Titans Annual #10
An evil witch-queen named Raven plots to bring forth her demon father in a fantasy realm known as N'Yarque. Raven performs transforming spells on the prisoners held captive in her Raven's Nest. Her captives - Vict'r Stone, Changeling, Flash, Arsenal, Pantha, Don'na (Wonder Girl), and Nightwing - are given strange powers and abilities.
Using their powers, the seven transformed humans escape and seek the wizard known as Phantasm. Meanwhile, a woman is transformed by goblin mages and is the given the gift of 'starfire.' Starfire and the seven heroes rendezvous with Phantasm, but are attacked by Raven's demon minions. Arsenal, under Raven's thrall, impales Nightwing with a sword. Raven captures the heroes and departs. Phantasm uses the empathic souls of Zaratha to heal Nightwing.
Now empowered by these souls, Nightwing and Phantasm save the heroes and quell Raven's attempts to bring forth Trigon, Raven's demon father. Raven is now cured and her father's evil and fades away. Phantasm offers the heroes a chance to becomes human again, but they have grown used to their new forms. Feeling these abilities have brought forth the best in them, they vow to defend their realm as heroic Titans!
Characters:
Raven: an evil witch-queen; formerly an empathic Zaratha, Raven's good-self struggled to keep her demon side under control; she is eventually freed of the evil by Nightwing
Vict'r Stone: A human fisherman transformed by the evil witch Raven into a half human/half machine
Changeling: A human transformed by the evil witch Raven into a green changeling
Flash: A human transformed by the evil witch Raven into a super speedster
Arsenal: A human transformed by the evil witch Raven - given the ability to control any weapon
Pantha: A human transformed by the evil witch Raven into a female cat creature
Don'na (Wonder Girl): A human transformed by the evil witch Raven - given super strength and flight
Nightwing: A human transformed by the evil witch Raven into a man with birdlike wings; he falls in love with Starfire at first sight and loses his wings upon kissing her
Starfire: a woman given a 'starfire' gift by goblin mages
Phantasm: a good wizard of the Zaratha order
New Teen Titans (second series) Annual #10 [1994]: Alternate Versions of the Titans team battle evil witch Raven in a fantasy realm. Part of the ELSEWORLDS DC Annuals, with alternate version of DC characters.
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Team Titans Annual #2
From the darkness of Chaos came Oranos and Ge, the sky and the earth - lovers, givers of light and terrestrial life. Their own children were the Titans, who were banished to the far end of the galaxy. The Titans gathered children from around the cosmos to bestow upon them the mantle of godhood. This experiment ultimately failed. But the offspring of one such child grew in power and insanity. Calling himself Lord Chaos, he ravaged worlds - even transforming earth into his own battle planet - and conquered over 600 planets.
Survivors and rebels, a ragtag group of people gathered together to liberate their worlds and end Lord Chaos' tyranny for all time! Miriam Delgado was their leader; she was inspired by her lover, Dick Grayson, who led a group of Titans on earth only to die at Chaos' hands. Now upholding his tradition, Miriam gathers together a group of freedom fighters!
When Mirage is captured by Bounty Hunters Judge and Jury, Redwing travels to Ion and meets Charlie Watkins - a hero from Ion who unlocks his race's hidden abilities. She also meets with Battalion, Ion's spiritual leader. Also on Ion are two rebels; Terra - a rebel who manipulates the elements and her companion, Dagon.
The group frees Mirage and mounts a freedom fighting force to liberate Ion. Charlie unlocks his people's powers to transform into energy beings. Sentient computer Prestor Jon betrays his maker, Lord Chaos - while Miri leads her Titans allies, new and old, to utterly destroy Chaos and his battle planet!
Finally released from Chaos' control, Miriam rests with the knowledge that her unborn child will live in a free world.
Characters:
Lord Chaos: a child granted power by the mythological Titans, he ravaged worlds - even transforming earth into his own battle planet - and conquered over 600 planets.
Miriam Delgado: leader of the freedom fighters; she was inspired by her lover, Dick Grayson, who led a group of Titans on earth only to die at Chaos' hands. She is pregnant with his child.
Redwing: a girl who can transform into a warbird of prey! She is the last of an otherwise extinct species destroyed by Chaos.
Battalion: spiritual leader of the planet Ion!
Charlie Watkins: a hero from Ion who unlocks his race's hidden abilities! Under Battalion's guidance, Charlie transforms into a pure energy creature.
Terra: a rebel who manipulates the elements! Travels with Dagon in his sentient Nightrider bat-like space craft.
Dagon: Terra's companion with the awesome might of his sentient bat-like space craft, Nightrider!
Prestor Jon: An artificial life form created by Lord Chaos; It's programming its too good, and when Jon develops a conscience, he betrays his maker!
Charles Richard Grayson: Son of Miriam Delgado and Dick Grayson; An adult Charles Richard Grayson transcribes the events of the story
Team Titans Annual #2 [1994] Part of the ELSEWORLDS DC Annuals, with alternate version of DC characters. A outer-space version of the Team Titans battle the tyranny of Chaos.
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Dick Grayson in Thrillkiller
THRILLKILLER #1-3 [1996]:
Written by Howard Chaykin; painted art and cover by Dan Brereton. ELSEWORLDS.
When bored heiress Barbara Gordon meets free-spirited circus daredevil Dick Grayson, sparks fly right from the start, leading to a scandalous romance and the reckless decision to become costumed adventurers Batgirl and Robin on the rooftops of Gotham City! But mere mischief becomes serious business when Dick's family is murdered, and Batgirl and Robin set out to mete justice on the Graysons' killers.
At the same time, Detective Bruce Wayne is on the job to take down the young thrill-seekers and solve the mystery of the Grayson murders.
The pair continues to battle the corrupt criminal system in Gotham City. Unfortunately, their seemingly carefree adventures come to an abrupt halt when The Joker pieces together the clues to their true identities. Laying her trap, The Joker draws an injured Dick Grayson out of hiding using his family as bait.
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Titans in Generations II
Superman & Batman: Generations II
In the popular SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS miniseries, writer/artist John Byrne (X-Men: The Hidden Years, WONDER WOMAN) introduced readers to an Elseworld where Superman and Batman made their debuts in the years they first appeared in the real world (1938 and '39, respectively), shaping the history of the Earth in thrilling and unexpected ways. A truly generational saga, the story spanned centuries, as both heroes experienced triumphant success and heartbreaking tragedy.
Now, Byrne reenters the world of GENERATIONS to reveal the milestone moments in other DC heroes' careers (during that same period) in the 4-issue Prestige miniseries aptly titled SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS II.
In GENERATIONS II #1, readers witness Hawkman flying into battle alongside the Blackhawks at the height of World War II, with Golden Age versions of Superman, Green Lantern and the Spectre joining the fray. Even as a classic Superman foe is revealed playing a pivotal role in the Nazi onslaught, other forces manifest, as Wonder Woman leaves Paradise Island for the first time and Lois Lane finds herself caught in a fight between Batman and Robin and criminal genius Lex Luthor!
Then the story skips ahead 11 years, as the Justice Society of America and Batman investigate the mysterious "Demon Head" organization; Lois Lane gives birth to Supergirl; Green Lantern Abin Sur meets GL Alan Scott; and Wonder Woman suffers a devastating personal tragedy.
Future issues of GENERATIONS II leapfrog through the decades - spanning into the distant future - as the legacies of Superman and Batman inspire teenaged heroes to form their own super-hero team (the Justice League of America); a romance develops between Batman's successor and the alluring Batgirl; the ghostly Deadman takes Batman into the mind of the Joker; and much, much more!
GENERATIONS II takes DC's greatest heroes through adventures that celebrate every era of super-heroic storytelling. It's a ride not to be missed! SUPERMAN & BATMAN: GENERATIONS II is a 4-issue Elseworlds miniseries in the Prestige Format edited by Mike Carlin. The 48-page issue #1 arrives in comic-book stores August 1 with a cover price of $5.95 U.S.
Titans in Generations II
Dick Grayson and Cyborg are featured.
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