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World's Finest: Teen Titans (2023)
by

Mark Waid,

Emanuela Lupacchino (inker),

Jordie Bellaire (Goodreads Author) (colorist),

Chris Samnee (Goodreads Author) (cover_art),

Mat Lopes (cover_art)

Heather Robinson's review

Nov 02, 2024

did not like it

bookshelves: read-comics-titans, fab-five, dick-enthusiast, roy-harper, wally-west

the art was beautiful.

Since the description has ".Before they were the Titans of the DCU, they were..." I had expected this to take place in the past like 2012 at the latest. So all the technology and gen z/alpha memes & slang was very jarring. Any nostalgia was really removed. I mean it's not like the Fab Five use gen z slang as adults. Adult Roy and Dick didn't even know what "Netflix & Chill" means (they still don't know) ... even if it was side characters more using slang, fab five didn't grow up hearing it or they'd be less confused as adults...

And then GarthxDonna 🥴🥴🥴 instead of RoyxDonna was very very uncomfortable...

They even tried to be meta by claiming "every fan is shipping GarthxDonna" and I'm just like no literally no one is shipping GarthxDonna. It would have made more sense for Wally to find Kid FlashxRobin and SpeedyxRobin fanart... 💀

We could have had RoyxDonna nostalgia 😫 😢

Roy not having any idea how non-rich people live was also odd. Roy was probably poorer than Wally before Ollie adopted him???

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