TEEN TITANS #4
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Art and cover by BRETT BOOTH and NORM RAPMUND
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
The time has come.
I just can’t do anymore. I can’t go on pretending I’m 15. I’m not. I’m 40 and reading a book like Teen Titans makes feel even older.
In my defense, I don’t act 40, or look 40, or do things that 40 year olds are suppose to do. I credit my young-at-heart nature to the fact that I DO read comic books.
Is reading these things a last ditch effort to hold on to my youth? Maybe. But I think that is only a small part of the reason. The biggest is that I love the medium and the way a comic book can tell a story that ONLY a comic book could tell.
Stories like Watchman, Dark Knight, Preacher, Sandman, Swamp Thing are the ones in the forefront of my mind that ring the loudest, and amazingly I still feel a sense of awe about when I read them even at 40 years old.
Now I’m not saying I can’t read Teen Titans because it’s not on the level of those type of comics – not many are – no, I am saying that reading a line like, “Hell to the yeah!” spoken by Kid Flash in this 4th issue of Teen Titans was like a punch in my gut – like a slap in my face – “Hey Erik! You are fucking old bro!” I have to stop reading comics written for 15 year olds. It’s time.
(side-note: But then there are times when I’m reading Ultimate Comics Spider-Man late at night in bed, Transformers the Movie playing in the background, pop-corn and soda on the nightstand, and I feel that everything is right in the world. It’s a feeling I never give up)
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Art: 3 - Good
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Hell to the yeah? Really? That just shows Scott Lobdell is even older. I mean seriously, I heard someone say ‘tight” the other day and I felt that they were out of touch, and I’ve actually yelled at kids to get off my lawn.
You’re older than my by almost a decade and have more hair than I do, so there’s that. Feel better, grandpa. Read OMAC if you’re not already. It’s for guys like us that remember Marvel’s New Universe and the Image launch. I’ll be over here drinking prune juice and playing bingo.
great comment. made me this old grandpa laugh. 😉
Lobdell needs to hang out with real teenagers – like in that movie with John Cryer where he plays a cop that goes undercover at high school (see, told ya I’m old).
and yeah, I’m reading OMAC and liking it. Funny thing is, Keith Giffen is pushing what? 80? And still manages to write better pop-culture centric dialog then Lobdell.
Hell to the no you won’t drop this title because you know qhat a fun read it is, and you’re gonna want to know what happens… giving Lobdell a 2 on story c’mon now that’s brutal, did it really suck that bad?
Sorry my friend but this title is Hell to the DROPPED! 😉
and no, a 1 would have been brutal. A 2 on the other hand seemed right. Lobdell is doing good things over on Superboy and I was hoping he would bring that style of writing over on Teen Titans, but it’s just not happening.