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And the invisible plane. And the mountain lions. I clearly remember mountain lions from the WW comic book w/audio cassette I had as a kid.

Here's a good example of what I mean:

http://www.dccomics.com/media/covers/4001_400x600.jpg

Donna Troy is a billion times cuter than Wonder Woman, who sorta looks like she could be a dude in drag.

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Donna Troy (especially in her red go-go jumpsuit will always be my favourite comics lady)

But even in her Perez-drawn prime, she was nothing against Donna and her useless lasso, her red jumpsuit and her black leather stiletto boots (NANCY SINATRA, EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!!!!)

Like so?

I'm very fond of that costume - very simple and well designed, and fairly realistic. Certainly a lot more practical and stylish than Starfire's outfit.

I think I remember the version Huk mentions...I recall a very simlilar costume, only with the stars leaning to one of the sides.

Hyppolyte's hair always looked terrible too. It must royal heritage or something like that.

I can't really swallow what she's looking like today, especially after Drew Johnson got replaced by Rags Morales in the regular series. Morales clearly borrows from Alex Ross' idea of making her look like this musclebound truck driver girl or something like that; how cute is that?

Still, the way Adam Hughes portrayed her in this cover got me interested in his All-Star Wonder Woman:

http://www.dynamicforces.com/images/WW189.jpg

Btw, I read somewhere on the net that Dan DiDio hinted that All-Star Wonder Woman was getting delayed since the creative team is already working but it's quite slow. Hughes is famous for his lack of speed, so one could assume that he is already working on this.

apparently, there was a finale episode with every titan EVAH!!! but as i have no TIVO, can't see it—same prob for JLU, which is on at a very inconvenenient time, 10:30pm Sat. Sigh…

Finally...

TEEN TITANS: THE LOST ANNUAL
Written by Bob Haney
Art by Jay Stephens & Mike Allred
Cover by Nick Cardy
Don't miss the TEEN TITANS LOST ANNUAL, featuring the original Teen Titans: Robin, Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, Speedy and Aqualad! Classic Teen Titans writer Bob Haney sends the Titans into space to rescue President John F. Kennedy in this story illustrated by Jay Stephens (The Land of Nod) & Mike Allred (Madman, X-Statix)! Meet new alien races, witness a startling betrayal, and more! It's a secret space adventure that couldn't be told…'til now!
On sale January 9 o 64 pg, FC, $4.99 US

Is that the Allred that appeard in his Solo?

One would guess so - this was done before SOLO, so the art's likely to be flatter and less textured. I'm unfamiliar with this Stephens fellow, though I do recall seeing mention of LAND OF NOD in a catalogue here and there when I was 18 or so.

So...anyone going to pick up the new Titans ("It's like Friends with capes" says Winick) series debuting this week?

Oh hell no. Any lingering temptation I would need to overcome to not buy was squelched when Ian "Bony Supergirl" Churchill was announced as the artiste.

BTW, how great is Teen Titans: Year One? I say it's very very great.

ALL AROUND GREAT, YES. (though I hear Bob Rozakis is a little miffed for not getting any credit, since it's basically a decompression of one of his stories)

He should get in line with the other old farts complaining about frilly foo-foo stuff like "creator's rights" and "royalties" and be happy he got published in the first place, dagnabit!

maybe if he'd done it RIGHT in the first place...

("It's like Friends with capes" says Winick)

well there is now zero chance of me buying this

"It's like Joey, with leotards."

"It's like the American version of Coupling, with man thongs."

I'm gonna give it a shot; it will be my first Winick purchase…I guess I'll find out how atrocious he is for my own damn self…

It's not that he's atrocious so much as it is the concept of "'Friends' with capes" is atrocious. He's just okay.

VM, please save yourself the $3 bucks, and buy yourself a Slurpee. HI DERE is being too kind -- Winick's the sort of semi-competent uninspired placeholding sub-Johns wonk that DC loves to employ nowadays in order to keep their ass-backward trains running on time. 90% of the time, he's like a cross between the good old Marvel Bullpenner chugging out 24 pages of big-zang-wow under Jim Shooter's stern heel and the post-Image hack taking "grim and gritty" to its absurd and cartoonish extreme.

it indeed is suck-ass.

1. each Titan gets a few pages where they are attacked by monsters and evil soldiers…20 pages of full page pin-up art and NO story movement…writing for the trade means nothing happens…took me less than five minutes to read…

2. Raven has now been turned, stupidly but with respect to the cartoon, into a sarcastic goth girl…

3. Starfire is nekkid, which makes me really wonder if DC is right and there are such people who would get titillated by super hero comics…too pitiful to contemplate…

4. they do seem to be rehashing two arcs I've never read…

5. and no, i don't like his dialogue and this Churchill fellow's art is ugly…

So I ain't gonna buy no more…

Slurpee RIP ;_;

Well, I liked Winick's Exiles. At first.

I got the New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 1 from the library recently. Never read any of these issues before, cuz as a kid I started buying the series around issue #30 and that was in the days before reprints and getting back issues was a random process. Generally I'm impressed by how solid it is right out the gate, Perez' art and style are so deeply burned into my mind I kind of think of it as just the archetypal 80s superhero art style, everything is finely detailed and "realistic", anatomies feel like they carry weight and substance even among all the garish colors and fight-scene nonsense. The writing is decent if overwrought and is the one place where the Ghost of Claremont's X-Men really does feel like it looms large - everyone has running monologues in their heads about their feelings during fight scenes, which is p lol. But overall I just dig the world it creates - young, urban, colorful but dangerous. I like it more than the Claremont X-Men tbh.

I've always liked that initial New Teen Titans run better than the Claremont X-Men. But it's definitely the minority opinion.

The only Teen Titans issue I've ever read was this one:

http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/2/23/New_Teen_Titans_Vol_2_9.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20090106023732

which I was gifted when I was maybe 6 years old, at which time the content soared over my head. Been wanting to revisit and check out the whole run to satisfy my nostalgic curiosity. Worth the read, or would I do better to explore the earlier 80s stuff?

I'd start at the beginning. The Perez run is special.

yeah start at the beginning, it's pretty fully formed from the get-go.

re: the Claremont/X-Men comparisons - there's obviously a bunch of parallels, but one of the things I think TT benefits from is having its characters situated in a quasi-realistic identifiably teen milieu. Everyone's always having so many FEELINGS in the X-Men but they're largely about things that bore no resemblance to anything I could identify, whereas in their various secret identities you'd get glimpses of the Titans leading (or attempting to lead) "normal" lives - having a boyfriend, going to college, going on a date, hanging out with friends, arguing with their parents. In between all the cosmic space battles and interdimensional demon stuff. There was a balance there that made it feel more "real".

One thing I hadn't noticed before is how Wally West is a self-professed "midwestern conservative", which kind of ties into his uptight jerkiness throughout most of the series lol

Here's how I read them in the UK:

http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/200997052842-0-1/s-l1000.jpg

That weird age when you are old enough to have your mind blown by Animal Man, but also dig wearing an Atom badge

yeah, i read that too! the issue where animal man has his arm torn off by a giant mutant rat (with accompanying splash page of him bleeding out in an alley) had a profound effect on 10-tear-old me

i dunno who thought putting teen titans and animal man together in the same comic was a good idea but i salute their commitment to making bad decisions

Haha yeah - but lack of congruence aside, all those London Editions DC comics were really well-curated - introduced me to Byrne's Superman, Norm Breyfogle, Grant Morrison, Neal Adams's hairy-chested-love-god Batman... I think there was a proto-Vertigo one too, with Swamp Thing and some Howard Chaykin thing... that lasted about two issues. I have such clear memories of them - and yeah, especially that Animal Man splash page (I was 12 I think).

The US equivalent to that phenomenon was five completely random comics sealed in plastic and sold for a buck at grocery stores and the like. Maybe you guys had that, too? Still fondly recall the single issues of Alpha Flight and Micronauts: the New Voyages and Kull the Conqueror that I read over and over and over with no context or ability to really understand what was going on.

all those London Editions DC comics were really well-curated

yeah, they really were - they introduced me to so many great stories from dc history

the proto-vertigo one might have been swamp thing and black orchid iirc?

old lunch, i saw those bags of random comics a few times in the uk but weirdly more often in spain, where i'd pick them up every time i saw them in supermarkets or newsagents

no idea why or how english-language comics were showing up in bagged batches in catalonia in the late 80s to mid-90s but i loved 'em

Ha yes, family holidays where you starved for reading and were like, "Hey, a glossy magazine reprint of Star Brand in Flemish, why not?"

We could probably do with a thread dedicated to the insane variations of our childhood comics consumption. Like the campground I always went to with my grandparents, where they had a general store whose entire comics selection (in the mid-'80s) was made up of '70s DC horror anthologies. Why was that a thing? I have no idea, but I'm thankful that it was a thing.

start that thread! i wanna tell my stories of piecing together a run of green lantern: mosaic from dogeared back issues found in newsagents across devon in 1992!

Done!: Grab bags and quarter bins: your tales of discovering comics as a clueless youth

dunno who thought putting teen titans and animal man together in the same comic was a good idea but i salute their commitment to making bad decisions

this is indeed a great decision, but what was the Kevin Maguire Creeper stuff in that?

I think that's [indescribably niche trivia alert] from JLI #7, which was running as backup in the UK Superman book and moved over to DC Action after Superman was cancelled.

Cancellations were so dark and lacking in closure back then. You'd turn up to your newsagent on the regular release day and it just wouldn't be there anymore. It was like a way to practice children for experiencing death.

this is the teen titans thread

Sorry

https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/b/bd/New_Teen_Titans_Vol_1_13.jpg

that's better!

Animal Man + New Teen Titans + JLI is an EVEN BETTER combination.

NTT was the only superhero comic I ever followed* as a kid, packed three or four to an issue in b&w Australian reprints circa 1986. Sometimes all the stories in an issue would follow each other, sometimes they'd be out of order, and sometimes they'd leap over to an unnumbered compilation under a Tales Of The Teen Titans cover focusing on one of the members. To tie into the other thread, I remember trying to process what i was seeing the first time I ever went into a comic shop in the city. "These are... colour reprints... of New Teen Titans comics... that haven't come out yet?"

*(as opposed to reading random issues of superheroes, or to reading every Asterix and Tintin and Footrot Flats collection and Kliban-format Garfield and MAD magazine or Kurtzman-era paperback I could find)

did the X-Men ever have an anti-drug storyline? NTT goes hard on that a couple times in typically ridiculous fashion.

more so in a series of after-school specials paid for by the Reagan govt, though IIRC the Runaways storyline in the regular book leant hard on the "drugs destroy lives and all drugs are the same. don't smoke a drug syringe, kids" vibe

I bought a bunch of the US comics on eBay about seven years ago, to try and read the era of the run I fondly recalled in a more coherent form than originally, but unfortunately it turned out that they were not actually good and looked worse in the original colour printings

lol at this: http://www.chrisisoninfiniteearths.com/2017/01/new-teen-titans-drug-awareness-special.html

i def have that book somewhere

I'm trying to get through Young Justice season 3, and at episode 10 or so and it's been rough. Does it get better? And do I have rose-tinted glasses on or were the first two seasons actually good?