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| Available 11-19-2014 |
TEEN TITANS EARTH ONE HC VOL 01
DC COMICS
(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Terry Dodson & Various (CA) Rachel Dodson, Terry Dodson
In the vein of Superman: Earth One and Batman: Earth One, DC is also publishing an updated take on its angsty adolescents heros, the Teen Titans.
For the Superman
and Batman Earth One titles, DC brought out the big guns, using all-star
writers J. Michael Straczynski and Geoff Johns respectively. Unlike the two
flag-ship character origin stories of EARTH ONE, Teen Titans is scribed by Jeff Lemire, a writer known for standing
on the edges of the traditional DC story-lines (i.e. Animal Man, Green Arrow).
Lemire's creator-owned work has established him as the
go-to-guy for stories of adolescents with a dark twist (see his award winning
series Sweet Tooth). So readers
familiar with Lemire's previous work will carry and expectation of weird into
these pages.\
Though reader's expectations may be different than what is
delivered between the gutters. While this is a very different take on the
origin of the Teen Titans, it feels as though DC editorial had a strong idea
for the story before it was given to Lemire.
Without spoiling the experience of reading, what is well-written, well-drawn a teen-angst super-hero origin story, I'll say that the story feels like the Superboy origin was put into a blender with MARVEL's The Runaways.
I liked it and give it 3.5/5 stars.
The art is great. Dodgson's work is perfect for the story.
His style has just a hint of anime to it, that I think many young-adult readers
will feel comforting, especially if they aren't regular tights-and-capes comic
readers.
Teen Titans fans are diehards. I doubt that this book will
please the fanboys and fangirls. I do think this is an original take on a group
of characters that have forever been haphazardly thrown together. What Lemire
and his team did right, is give these characters a reason to be together, a
reason that stands independent from the "put all the sidekicks on a
team" reason of the past.
Trent's Rating: 2.5/4 ATOMIC BETA MeV's
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