WOHOO! Lobdell is gone YAY! No more parallell time line, all-kowing judas travaler... i mean harvest BS which makes no sense due to this entire line of books being rebooted/rewritten with every re-printing of an issue and trade! Now we can hopefully have REAL characters rather than those things that Lobdell wrote about (i would say those Gary/Mary-sue's, but they didn't even quilify for that description). Everything can only go up now.... right?
As with many people here i HATED the Lobdell run for so many reasons (you name it) and i think we all just forgot that this series actually existed as it never actually had an impact on the wider DCU (except in their appearance in Forever Evil). The characters were not the characters that All of us wanted to read about, having been beaten and mangled into figures who didn't ever resembled the Titans we'd come to read about prior to the launch of the new continuity but being thrown to our faces with the label "new 52. everything old is new again and nothing is the same" meaning "we don't actually have to read about these characters as we can just make shit up about them, make them darker and edgier as we possibly can, make them all red/wear red, and have no external characteristics or anything else which links them as being kids/young adults trying to figure out how to be a super-hero in a world where right and wrong are not so clear etc." To finally get a new series is, for the most part (prior to reading it) a godsend and a breath of fresh air. It is unfortunate that the *shudder* Lobdell continuity cannot be erased as a result of the "wibble-wobbley-timey-wimy" which was painted all over his series (just as DC did with their Legion of super-heroes run, relagating them to earth 2 in their final issue despite strongly claiming that they, and their legion lost counterparts, were actually from teh future of the main continuity earth) but as the series goes on we might just find out that the Lobdell stuff gets ignored/re-written in the background (or we can all hope). Beast boys back as being green. That is a positive as far as I'm concerend (and i know that he was "meant", meaning "an-exscuse-made-up-to-justify-an-unnecessary-change", to be red due to the whole Animal man/Sawmp Thing Green, Red and Rot connection, but asethically he's better in green and it adds a whole new, unused in the lobdell run colour pallet to the team). Raven costume i still do not like, but isn't she still meant to be evil raven right now? if so than we may see her return to "normal" later on. The absence of SB and KF are not a major concern right now, esspecially due to the mess made of their histories/characters by the previous run, and i think fixing them properlly would be a better solution than just letting the messed up incarnations back into the book. + we may actually get Tim Drake as a character rather than the "olympic level gymnast, super-haking, sidekick-not sidekick" Gary stue character that we got in the previous run.
Now obviously i'm asking for WAY to much. but i think we all wanted changes such as these after the last Titans run. Sure we want other characters back in it (statick, Blue Beetle, Aqualad, Artimus (who isn't killed off straight away), miss martian, red devil, bombshell etc....) but i think, considering the character overload we got in the Lobdell run during the abismall "culling" experience getting the characteristics of 5 previously runied would be better than ruining other characters (some more). I do enjoy Rocaforts art work and for that reason alone will be picking up the first issue. As for Pfeifer i am unsure, mostly due to my limited knowledge of his work. I'm aware form his CV page that he wrote on Catwoman for ~33 issues (a series which i know nothing about and have only recently started to find back issues for to feed my collecting habit) but i'm also aware that he also wrote "Amazons Attack" which, to put it politely, was not good. Now i have no idea what he's done since then, but i'm confident that whatever her writes will be an imporvement (to what scale i cannot say) to what we have had previously.
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