I can hear your reaction now: ''who the hell reads comic books?'' Well I per-take in the comic book fome time to time, tho admittedly it doesn't happen as often as I like. Because comic books are far too damn expensive. $5 for a single issue book! That's ridiculous, your medium is not worth that much. Especially considering that I can go to any used book store and pick up a big thick 1000-page giant novel or Omnibus of any sort for less than $5.
What are the Teen Titans you may ask, well they're kind of like the Justice League only younger and made of mainly sidekicks. The best analogy I know is to compare them with soft drinks, the Justice League is Dr.pepper and the Teen Titans are diet Dr. pepper. Though that analogies losing water these days now that's some of the Teen Titans have actually become official members of the Justice League i.e. Cyborg. You think it would be Robin given he's a sidekick to Batman (and he became Batman for a Time), but no just Cyborg the funky robot man who apparently poped up in one of the new live action DC movies.
There's a lot of people who don't pay them any mind, classing them as nothing more than a kind of ''Young Justice League'', not to be confused with a ''young justice'' which is an entirely different team. I personally have always preferred the Teen Titans over the Justice League. I always thought they had more interesting characters with more diverse Powers, interesting personalities and philosophical obstacles to overcome. Most of the team at some point were young teenagers growing up into adulthood it made for the perfect platform to have literal character arcs and explore various relationships between the characters. Like Robin and Starfire Hawaiian may end up hooking up a lot quicker in the comics and they did in that cartoon.
It's within this particular story arc that Dick Grayson the original Ramen will shed his childlike identity and acquiring his new alter ego ''Nightwing'' with his ridiculous disco color blue and black suit.
So the beginning of the comic revolves around this weird colt following this asshole by the name of Brother Blood and it's the weakest part of the whole story. It doesn't really go anywhere and there's not a lot that happens just the destruction of a giant military installation and the death of weird cult leader. Think Jonestown but about 50 times bigger. Really it only sets up that our main antagonist one of the Titans by the name of Tarra is going to betray her friends and sell them out to some weird organization that wants to conquer the world because there's a billion different people in this planet that want to conquer the world for some reason. She's also working with a guy by the name of ''Deathstroke the Terminator'' real name Slade Wilson. he's kind of a b-grade Batman villain. He's always been after the Titans for one reason or another and there's a whole weird story revolving around him and some of his children. It's also heavily implied that he's sleeping with the girl Tarra which is a bit concerning to me. She's only supposed to be 14 years old so congratulations comic book you just made the main villain a paedophile.
As the story progresses you learn most of the background of the character of Slade Wilson and you see a young woman slowly but surely go insane with thoughts of pure rage feeling her every thought. This all then leads to a mighty climax when Terra gets incredibly pissed off and kills everyone (or at least tries to and inevitably ends up killing herself.)
This is also where we get the introduction to the amusing character known as Jericho who was mute and therefore cannot speak. The comics actually have to use sign language to communicate when he means or have a narrator expresses inward opinions about certain things. It was interesting little gimmicks like this that made me like the team so much to begin with. New and creative ways to show off of various characters and what they can do.
Or at least to a certain point after this the entire series gets a bit ridiculous with about 15 different plot lines and lots of awkward and dumb little gimmicks that go over the top even for a comic book.
It's kind of interesting to compare the story of the Judas contract to that of the animated cartoon show of the Teen Titans. Within that show they tryied to portray the Tarra as a more understanding and light-hearted person with her actions in the end of being the results of manipulation rather than just her vindictive nature. Also they couldn't call Deathstroke the Terminator by his actual name, cuz he can't say death in a children's show despite the fact that they kill characters within the show from time to time, but then that's cartoon centering for you.
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