I haven't bought comics in about six weeks now. Vegreville has no comic store and moving ate up much of my time. I'm thinking I'm going to have to switch to a mail order service. Might as well update my reservation list.
Getting the axe for sure is Teen Titans. I like the artwork but I am not hot on the writing at all. As much as I love the characters from Young Justice, I can't stand the fact that the comic basically ignore the histories of these characters, and changed their personalities in such a way that I don't believe these are the same heroes. That probably wouldn't bug me if it wasn't for the fact that strong, really strong emphasis is placed on Teen Titans history. Reading Teen Titans makes it feel like writer Geoff Johns was thinking "COOL! I wanna put all this cool Titans history into this book and show off how much I know about the DC Universe but I know nothing about Young Justice so I'll just make it up because I can." I also don't enjoy the amount of "shock value" throughout the issues I have read.
I'm probably coming off as a Young Justice zombie, but if I'm not enjoying a book, why should I be spending the money on it? There are other things I do not like about the book, but that reflects on my personal taste in comics so I won't dwell on it. I was going to try the book out for about six issues. Who knows? Maybe it won't be so bad if I read a full story arch. So I thought about it. And the decision came down to this:
The fact that even though I am against buying variant covers of comics, I'd rather be buying the holofoil covers of the Street Fighter comic than buy Teen Titans.
Getting the axe for sure is Teen Titans. I like the artwork but I am not hot on the writing at all. As much as I love the characters from Young Justice, I can't stand the fact that the comic basically ignore the histories of these characters, and changed their personalities in such a way that I don't believe these are the same heroes. That probably wouldn't bug me if it wasn't for the fact that strong, really strong emphasis is placed on Teen Titans history. Reading Teen Titans makes it feel like writer Geoff Johns was thinking "COOL! I wanna put all this cool Titans history into this book and show off how much I know about the DC Universe but I know nothing about Young Justice so I'll just make it up because I can." I also don't enjoy the amount of "shock value" throughout the issues I have read.
I'm probably coming off as a Young Justice zombie, but if I'm not enjoying a book, why should I be spending the money on it? There are other things I do not like about the book, but that reflects on my personal taste in comics so I won't dwell on it. I was going to try the book out for about six issues. Who knows? Maybe it won't be so bad if I read a full story arch. So I thought about it. And the decision came down to this:
The fact that even though I am against buying variant covers of comics, I'd rather be buying the holofoil covers of the Street Fighter comic than buy Teen Titans.
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