From today's reveal of the New New New New New Teen Titans:
Tim Drake is forced to step out from behind his keyboard when an international organization seeks to capture or kill super-powered teenagers. As Red Robin, he must team up with the mysterious and belligerent powerhouse thief known as Wonder Girl and a hyperactive speedster calling himself Kid Flash in TEEN TITANS #1, by Scott Lobdell and artists Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund.
I have a few comments:
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AHHHHHHHHH MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sweet lordy but that's the most set hideous costume design EVER. Dear
Jim Lee--please stop. The 1990s are over.
**To the weaselly claims of "
not a reboot"--
right. Either these are all new characters using the old names, or it's a reboot. "
Tim Drake has to step out from behind a keyboard" sure sounds like he
wasn't Red Robin before, and there's a conspicuous lack of the
Robin symbol on his costume. And a
Tim Drake who doesn't know
Dominatrix Wonder Girl,
W.I.L.D.Cats Kid Flash, or
Emo Superboy, and
wasn't Robin before...look, there's no way you can do that without a full reboot, or ridiculous selective amnesia.
Sure, it could all be explained with a few sentences; maybe they're all new, and they just used odd phrasing to describe Tim. Yup,
sure.
**So,
Warner...you spends
millions and millions on your lawsuit to maintain ownership of Superboy...and
this is what you do with him??
Seriously...at this point I'd rather have
Superboy-Prime back.
**Just for the record, that had better
not be
Wally as Kid Flash...that is a warning,
DC.
**This convinces me more than ever that DC is going to do a pretty thorough reboot on
Superman himself, and I'd put money on the fact that
Grant Morrison is finally going to get to adopt some version of his
Superman 2000 proposal. The loss of the red trunks, separating Superman and
Lois...these have long been proposals of Morrison, and he's supposedly writing
Action. And what the heck...maybe DC can make the "
new" Superman different enough to salvage something after 2013...