Review: Teen Titans #13
You guys are probably not going to believe me, but the newest issue of Teen Titans is actually good! Really good! Delightfully good! Teen Titans finally does what I’ve been suggesting this entire time: it slows down, nixes all that frantic action and actually spends some time treating its characters like real people instead of ‘x-treme’ cartoons. Even as an issue filled with narration and flashback, it’s still fun to read. Wonder Girl spends almost the entire issue telling her New 52 origin story, with Red Robin and Superboy providing witty commentary. And I do mean ‘witty’. I had some actual smiles and chuckles reading this comic.
Teen Titans #13
What’s that? There’s almost an entirely new creative team on Teen Titans #13? Ooooooh, that would probably explain a lot.
Comic rating: 4/5: Good!
The overwritten sledgehammer of Scott Lobdell is gone! While he still provides the overall story, fellow longtime comics scribe Fabian Nicieza steps in with the actual script, and the difference is extraordinary. I’ve always liked Nicieza’s work, but here it sings. The trio of Titans are charming, funny and sound like real teenagers bickering and bantering. Even Wonder Girl’s origin story is fun to read, since it’s an entirely new tale, with absolutely no connection to the Greek Gods or Wonder Woman. That might annoy some longtime Cassie Sandsmark fans, but I’m not one of them, so I wasn’t bothered. My favorite character, Tim Drake, got a new origin with the reboot. So it’s the same with Cassie. But trust me, hers is pretty cool.
The brightly called and frantically kinetic pencils of Brett Booth are also gone, replaced by Ale Garza, who brings a more simple innocence to the team. Don’t get me wrong, I liked Booth, but seeing this issue, it’s clear that he was only contributing to the insane feeling of the previous Teen Titans issues. I said it in almost all of my reviews, but the New 52 Teen Titans was written and drawn as if they didn’t think the audience had any sort of attention span. The art and the writing were wild and wacky, full of motion and movement and everything one might think a teenager likes. But it made for a bad series that never took the time to get to know its characters.
Teen Titans #13 is exactly what I’ve wanted from this series. It doesn’t solve every problem, but it’s a step in the right direction. It definitely helps to flesh out Cassie’s character a lot more. I only wish the rest of the team were in the book, but sometimes it’s better to focus on just a few characters. You can get a lot done that way, as Nicieza and Garza have now proven.
Join me after the jump for a full synopsis and more review!
Warcraft Mega Bloks Get Their Own Commercial!
World of Warcraft Mega Bloks (LEGO knock-offs) are out and on the stands, and if I were a rich man, I’d own as many as I could. Even though Mega Bloks are far inferior to LEGOs. We all know it, I’m just saying it. Still, I rather like the mix’n’match armor.
I did buy one of the WoW Mega Bloks sets, the single orc warrior figurine. I’m a sucker for orcs, especially Warcraft orcs, so I definitely wanted to get that one. The little figurines are neat, and even come with weapons. Though personally, I kind of want to buy one of the other figurines to give my new orc armor, that way he’d better match my Orc Shaman Tannenbaum, who finally, at long last, leveled up high enough for Northrend the other day. Just sayin’…
Because Any New Hobbit Thing is a Good Thing
It’s been a slow geek news week, so anything as awesome as the first TV commercial for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is worth posting.
This movie just looks fancier and fancier with each new trailer and commercial. It’s going to be a good one, I can tell! Now we just have to hope that the world doesn’t come to an end before the movie is released in December. The cosmos couldn’t be that cruel…could they?
The Tap-Dancing Dead
I’m surprised there aren’t more zombie musical parodies, considering how many zombie properties are out there these days.
Though considering how many amateur and bargain basement zombie movies are out there, maybe there is one already. But this one, at least, is kind of catchy by AVbyte! I do hope you enjoy.
And nobody spoil season three of The Walking Dead! I haven’t seen any of the episodes yet! Though I have been playing The Walking Dead video game, which is a lot of fun.
6 Best and 6 Worst Male Superhero Halloween Costumes
We are living in a golden age of dressing up as a superhero for Halloween. The success of the superhero film industry has made them the #1 choice for any Halloween party-goer or trick-or-treater. Heck, The Dark Knight alone had to have raised the Joker costume quotient by 2,000%! And I would hope to see a ton of Avengers costumes this year.
Exactly right
I did a List of Six last year about the best and worst female superhero costumes, and it’s been a pretty popular list this fall. So I decided to revisit the idea and do a list of the best and worst male superhero costumes. Being the nerd that I am, the list is based on two things: costume quality and accuracy. This isn’t about the most popular costumes. The girls’ list was also judged on sluttiness, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for men. Superheroes should be an obvious Halloween costume, because the heroes are wearing costumes themselves. So one would think that designing a Halloween costume should involve just recreating the superhero’s costume as accurately as possible.
Apparently not. But sometimes they get it right. All of these costumes were found online available for sale.
