Groovy! So gear and ungrotty! Marv and fab!

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

So, Showcase Titans...

It's not nearly as grooveriffic as I thought it would be, although the equal time allowed to hippies, commies and beach bums does bring a smile to the face. What really impressed me wasn't so much Bob Haney as Nick Cardy. Just when I was getting bored, the Cardster suddenly goes through some sort of evolution in art - I get the feeling that DC relaxed their iron grip on the 'house style', or Steranko blew his mind, or both. The page where Kid Flash is riding a bike through the Olde English hillside is incredible. One minute it's all Yellow Submarine style clearline and bold outlines - as befitting a Mad Mod story - then the Flash runs into the fog and the entire style changes to an impressionistic swirl of lines. I can't even imagine an artist doing something like that today...

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 13 April 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

is this worth getting w/o color? I'm sort of totally behind on teen titans

― kenchen, Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I'd say it's a good deal, but it's the kind of thing you either love or loathe. Might be an option for the local library if you can con them into getting a copy.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 13 April 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

"We're superheroes, not social workers!"

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 13 April 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

OMFG: "A KILLER CALLED HONEY BUN!"

also, Tuomas (or anyone else wondering about superheroes roles in society) should check this out (at the library, maybe?), since it really seems to walk right up to the line of dealing with social issues, and then quickly retreats into fighting giant robots.
The Teen Titans sort of set themselves up as a superpowered Peace Corps, and they are frequently asked by the gov't to intervene in contemporary youth issues (the drop-out problem, lynch mobs vs. exchange students, rock music as perverting influence on kids). Then Robin usually says, "The Feds have got some nerve, Batman, they didn't even tell us what they want."
Then Batman says, "Uncle Sam doesn't have to, chum."

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 13:35 (twenty years ago)

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y298/hukl/honeybun.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

At first there are these great panels of the adult superheroes saying things like 'Crazy teens, defying authority' to their sidekicks, who dis them. Aquaman says something along the lines of 'I see young people dismiss their elders on the surface! Tut tut!' and then Aqualad calls him a square.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Monday, 17 April 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

And then Aquaman's all like, "Maybe I should join the Peace Corps, too!" and Mera's all, "YOU'RE NOT LEAVING ME ALONE WITH THIS AQUABABY!"

SOOOO GINCHY.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:19 (twenty years ago)

The Flash is the most uptight square of them all. In comparison to Groovy Batman and Aquaman's undersea aquacommune - not to mention Wonder Woman's hippy feminist sapphic cult - he's utterly un-round. I'd have liked to see Jimmy joining the team for a minute to get Superman's take on these out-of-sight cats.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:25 (twenty years ago)

And then when the Titans are going to, um, Townsville, and they burst out of their secret headquarters in the helicopter they paid for with their own money from rewards for solving crimes, the entrance to their Titans Lair is covered by an ad for the Batman TV show, and Aqualad is all sad because he's going to miss this week's episode of the Batman TV show. Aqualad is the best, because his main concern is always "refreshing my power to stay out of water for an hour".
HIS POWER IS THAT HE CAN STAY OUT OF WATER FOR AN HOUR!!!
I CAN STAY OUT OF WATER FOR LIKE A WHOLE WEEKEND SOMETIMES. I WOULD KICK AQUALAD'S ASS. HEAVENLY HAGFISH INDEED.

xpost, yeah, but (I'm only about a third of the way through) Kid Flash (aka TWINKLETOES) is so go-go-gone over Wonder Chick.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:27 (twenty years ago)

wait, I thought you were saying KID Flash was un-round, and I was rushing to his defense. But yeah, Barry Allen hasn't got a hep bone in his body. (though Darwyn Cooke jazzed him up in New Frontier)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:31 (twenty years ago)

Suffice to say, I'm enjoying this A LOT more than I though I would.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 17 April 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

I think I've overdosed on it though reading the last half of Jimmy Olsen and this at the same time. I'M ALL GINCHED OUT.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I love the way they spell it teen-ager.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

Finally got round to reading more of this, though not all as I was really tired. The art is totally fucking great, sometimes like early Jaime Hernandez, and I really like the Ed Roth-esque hot rod villain Ding Ding Daddy who should make a reappearance in the DC universe (which is where someone tells me that he was the mastermind behind Infinite Crisis of Confidence.)

The male Teen Titans are total squares though--Wonder Girl is always totally flirty and wanting to dance and they ignore her. She must be confusing them with her catchphrase "Suffering Sappho".

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 28 April 2006 07:59 (twenty years ago)

Alex Luthor probably hired Ding Dong Daddy to soup up that big Anti-Monitor Tower.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 28 April 2006 13:31 (twenty years ago)

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.