DCnU Young Justice Family

I figured I'd open this up so folks can talk about the YJ slate of books. I'm really enjoying Teen Titans a lot, although I understand that not everyone feels that way.

Lobdell did some neat things that, even though it wiped out the last series' worth of continuity, accepts its existence. For example, using Solstice was a really cool touch. Also, I'm pretty "meh" about Ravagers, but at the same time won't complain if it ends up really good.

Any thoughts?

I find myself about middle of the scale on Teen Titans. I can get into it but then it's not fully my cup of tea as the changes in a lot of cases are kind of "eh" to "meh". I'll probably give Ravagers a shot even if I'm kind of not really into what changes are going on there and what we've seen so far.

I thought the 1st issues of both Superboy and Teen Titans were great but after that felt both titles really lost momentum, especially Superboy.
N.O.W.H.E.R.E. isn't really a great antagonist. As far as shadowy cabals go, it's been rather bland. Maybe things will pick up when they encounter new enemies.

Double post, I know, but is anyone reading the Culling storyline?

The Teen Titans annual came out yesterday and it kicks off the 4-part story that's running through Superboy, Legion Lost, Teen Titans, and then the new book, Ravagers. The annual was actually really very good. I would recommend it to anyone who has dropped or was thinking about picking up TT. How the stories are weaving together is being done well and then new book coming out of this story looks really promising... I'm excited about Beast Boy and Terra, mostly!

Yeah, same. I was disappointed in her offing to quickly. And like you say, I'm excited this NOWHERE arc seems to be wrapping up... I'm ready to see where the TT go after this! And I'm really into reading Ravagers for BB and Terra.

Were Thunder and Lightning characters in the old DCU?

I agree with Lorr. All this buildup to the Culling and it's the Hunger Games...which I just saw a few days before. WTF--?

I think KF is either Inertia or a twisted version of Bart.

Is the legion lost book worth getting only for the crossover? I picked up batman and robin for night of the owls, but honestly I could have skipped it.

DON'T YOU DARE!!!

Finally got caught up with LEGION LOST.

Originally posted by Tyler5618 Need to pick Ravagers up soon. I read the preview though and the dialogue was pretty painful. With TT, it just feels like a total mash-up of stuff and no real resolution to anything. Lobdell, dude, they need a reset button... they need a chance to establish themselves as a team, figure out how they will be organized, where they will live even. He's just sending them from story to story to story and we havent even gotten a chance to breathe and see if they are a real team or not. Just feels like he's piling on too much and not giving any of it a chance to settle in.

Now I could be wrong here Tyler but I think the issue is that Lobdell isn't writing this like its a rebooted series. Let me explain.

For all intents and purposes this is the first Teen Titans and a brand new team with like 99% of the heroes being brand new heroes. Red Robin, the most recognizable of the group, is the one character with history and a past in superheroing, so if anything he should be the backbone of the book (which, to be fair, he is). But what about the rest of them?

If this was just a Titans (no reboot) book then I could excuse alot of this because we'd have established histories and relationships to talk about, refer to, and draw upon as readers. Instead we have a group of new characters setting a precedent as essentially the first team of this type and no type of cohesion is being shown. THis still feels like a group of disparate heroes fighting together.

I get that the first arc is the "Get the band togehter" arc and I'm totally cool with that. But at least we could have gotten more into the mind of Bunker, Solstice, and Skitter. I feel like I known nothing about them and that I don't care too much for them beyond surface stuff and visuals. Then you have the mysteries surrounding Cassie and Kid Flash, which is cool and one of the highlights of the run.

I think he should have waited on the Culling thing and the Culling story should have had a better resolution. I get that he is trying to sprinkle things but I felt like with a story like this that bad guy dude (forgot his name already) should have been defeated. He could have faked it like Sinister but this felt hollow.

I really tried to love Teen Titans but I just couldn't. The characters are one dimensional, the dialogue is horrible, the art is ugly, the pacing is off, the plot goes no where and the team has no chemistry. There is just nothing I enjoy about this book, which sucks since it has three of my favorite pre-52Nu characters in it.

I think Lobdell avoided that problem with other books bevause they had history to draw on. Here essentially he's creating history.