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Linkara: Hello, and welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. But if you've been following "March of the Titans" so far, you would know that we're not looking at bad comics this month, but a series featuring my favorite superhero team, the Teen Titans.
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Linkara (v/o): However, for the next two weeks, forget the "Teen" part of that title. This was the first Titans book that was mostly about the adult heroes, though there were still some younger heroes, as I'll get into. Before we do, though, there are some bits of backstory we need to talk about.
Linkara (v/o): First up is the issue of Donna Troy. As I've brought up before, her backstory kept getting rewritten or she kept losing her powers on whatever whim the writers brought up, and we've got another one of those. Okay, get this: remember Wonder Woman's mother, Queen Hippolyta? Well, she's got her own fair share of people who want to screw with her. In yet another unnecessary revised origin for Donna, she was actually a mirror duplicate of Wonder Woman as a little girl meant to be a playmate since there were no other kids on Paradise Island. One of Hippolyta's enemies, named Dark Angel...
Linkara (v/o): Dark Angel kidnapped Donna, thinking she was Wonder Woman and decided that the best revenge was to make her live lifetime after lifetime that always ended in tragedy. Each time she died, everything would reset and the world would forget her. However, then the whole "being rescued by the Titans of Myth" thing happened. So her having a life that ended in tragedy got the kibosh put on it. However, Dark Angel is a pissy sort and went and erase the world's memory of her and, well, erased her from existence. With the assistance of Wonder Woman, Queen Hippolyta and The Flash, however, they managed to restore her to life. The one caveat, though, was that they restored her using The Flash's memories of her.
Linkara (v/o): Yeah, as you might imagine, this is something that plays into this book. The next thing we need to discuss is an Elseworlds story called "Kingdom Come" and its sequel "The Kingdom". Why? Well, because they have an impact later in this series as well. DC has this weird relationship with its "dark future" stories, like they always want to see things head towards them, even if the entire idea behind them was that they were a possible future. They did this with "The Dark Knight Returns" when that was extremely popular. Suddenly, elements from that book needed to play a part, like hinting that Green Arrow would lose his arm because of Superman. "Kingdom Come" was the same way. It told a story where Superman had retired after it became clear that the public accepted and exonerated murderous antiheroes, openly approving of their methods over his. However, when those same antiheroes then screw up big time and end up accidentally nuking Kansas, Superman comes out of retirement aaand... unfortunately, overreacts. He and his group end up going too far the other way, to the point where they start becoming more oppressive. And thanks to the machinations of Luthor, things come a head with a lot of people dying. Superman resolves to change his ways and be better.
Linkara (v/o): The sequel, "The Kingdom", is not as good, but it had different goals in mind. It's a very complicated story, so I'm only going to talk to you guys about one thing that was introduced in that story: hypertime.
Linkara (v/o): Well, in a nutshell, hypertime was DC's way of introducing the multiverse without really introducing the multiverse. You'll recall that the 1985 story "Crisis on Infinite Earths" was supposed to shut the door on parallel universes altogether. "The Kingdom" introduced a new concept behind the multiverse to make it work, while still keeping to that. Hypertime is the vast interconnected web of parallel universes and timelines. It flows like a river, with a central line, that being the main DC Universe, while branching off into tributaries like alternate timelines and Elseworlds stories. And on top of that, those tributaries can come back again and flow into the main universe and appear in different ways, like a new costume for a character or perhaps someone just thinking of a loved one or a friend they hadn't thought about in years. It was a pretty clever way of handling it, I thought. Unfortunately, the majority of writers and fans just didn't really take to it, hence why in "Infinite Crisis" and "52", the more traditional multiverse was restored, with parallel universes just vibrating at different frequencies or whatever and a space caterpillar eating parts of their history. Because that's much more sane and logical!
Linkara (v/o): At the same time as Issue 1 launched, there was also a "Secret Files and Origins" comic published for the Titans that was full of dossiers on team members, villains and a few short stories. One of them actually gave an explanation for what happened with Arsenal's group of government-funded Titans. It's not really all that important, but essentially, Arsenal deliberately sabotaged the group's public image so they'd all be fire by the government. Nothing overly malicious that would screw them all over, but he could see the team wasn't jelling as a family, and all its members were going to be going their separate ways anyway. It's something to remember about the guy and why "Rise of Arsenal" is even more frustrating: HE'S HONESTLY NOT THAT STUPID. People underestimate him and don't realize he has a good head on his shoulders. Sure, he's never gonna be Nightwing-level smart, but that's the difference between being raised by Batman versus being raised by Green Arrow, whose reaction upon finding out that teenager Roy Harper was doing heroin was to throw him out on his ass.
Linkara (v/o): Anyway, like with the "Countdown" review or the "Team History" segment, this is gonna be a lot of summarizing. Sorry, but that's what happens when I stupidly decide to take a look at 25 comics at a time. The series itself begins with our heroes under attack by the H.I.V.E. You remember them, right? Of course you don't, because I barely mentioned them in the "Team History" segment. See, the problem with The H.I.V.E. as villains is that they're not very interesting bad guys. It's basically just a big, well-organized terrorist group in the Cobra tradition, where they can afford to equip everybody with armor and have logos painted on everything and stuff. The H.I.V.E. themselves are not that great. It's everything else that they've set in motion that's interesting, like the original contract with Deathstroke. Subsequently, Issue 1 focused not on them battling The H.I.V.E., but rather seeing the original five Titans deciding to get the band back together while at a Red Lobster.
Linkara: Not really. All the previous times we saw you guys break up, you either had already left the team or because it was you wanted to go back to school. Or were you guys sharing a dorm room together, too?
Linkara (v/o): Flash convinces Nightwing it's for the best for him because, well, he's starting to become more and more like Batman. Batman during this phase was very much the dark loner, despite his huge network of former sidekicks, to the point where it was policy that Batman was an urban legend in Gotham, with only so many people believing he actually existed.
Linkara (v/o): Meanwhile, we see the H.I.V.E. reforming under the mysterious new H.I.V.E. mistress, but assisted by a man named Damien Dahrk. Silly name, yes, but he was actually conceived to be a break away from traditional villainy. Anyone out there familiar with the "evil overlord" list? Basically, it's kind of a gag list of stuff like "My evil minions will wear clear, transparent helmets so heroes can't disguise themselves as a minion" or "Among my advisors will be a five-year-old child. If they can spot a problem with my plan, I will not go with that plan." And thus, Damien Dahrk is a late '90s business type, constantly on his cell phone...
Linkara (v/o): ...negotiating his evil plans. Hell, check it out. He even has a utility belt of gadgets. That's awesome. Back with the Titans, Nightwing and Flash make a ten-dollar bet that Flash will stick around longer than Nightwing will. It's a losing bet, to be sure, considering Flash is on two teams. Anyway, Nightwing agrees to form the team, with the goal of training the future generation of heroes. After all, the five of them had the advantage of working alongside the greatest heroes ever, but sidekicks are a dying art. Thus, younger heroes need better training. Albeit, that just makes the next bit kind of confusing, since all five volunteer a hero to be recruited, and among them are Starfire and Cyborg, who are both veterans. Well, okay, they say it's because they need people to supplement the team, since some of them are really damn busy. Troy then nominates Argent from the 1996 team, who does fit the bill for a young hero needing direction, especially since we saw in the "Team History" that she is serious about heroing. Flash nominates Jesse Quick, who at the time was both kind of new, but also a veteran. Jesse Quick is the daughter of two Golden Age heroes, Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle. She's able to access super-speed through the use of a mathematical formula that taps into an other-dimensional realm called the Speed Force, where the modern-day Flashes tend to get their powers from. And by the way, I love Jesse's costume. I can't exactly pin down why, since it's not like the outfit reflects her speed or anything. It just looks good on her, probably thanks to the artist of "The Titans", Mark Buckingham. Buckingham was the penciler on "The Titans" for the first sixteen issues, and he has a style that's hard to describe: a bit cartoony, but he's excellent at expressive faces.
Linkara: And sometimes, you don't realize just how important it is to have expressive faces until you've read three dozen comics where all the characters are going like this, (grits his teeth and speaks through them) regardless of their mood.
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