Remember this new comic book from DC, The Ravagers? I picked on it a couple days ago because, based on the cover, I thought it was made up of a bunch of brand new characters that nobody would care about.

Turns out I was wrong.

Turns out they only look like nobodies from a distance

Thanks to an interview with writer Howard Mackie at Newarama, I now know that only the big, brutish looking guy is a new character, named Ridge. Everyone else is a revamped version of a known character, just like I’d suggested! We already know that the buff redhead up front is Fairchild. Well the red wolfman is a new version of Beast Boy. He’s red instead of his usual green because of something to do with Animal Man, which makes sense. Animal Man is doing something pretty freaky deaky with the animals of the world, and if this new Beast Boy taps into that same animal freaky deakiness, then red is a good color for him.

The brunette in the middle with the yellow circle on her shoulder is a new Terra. And the last two, the black guy on the left with the chest beam and the white girl on the right with the freaky half-hair are a new Thunder and Lightning! Which is cool, because I’ve thought they should have a bigger roll ever since they appeared in that one episode of Teen Titans.

So there we have it. DC Comics shoved my criticism back in my face. Point to you, DC.