From: albert@chain.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Teen Titans
Date: 15 Oct 1992 21:57:21 GMT
Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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In article <1bki91INNkrl@uwm.edu> dray@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Daniel Ray Giese) writes:
>   This got me to thinking, since I too, as many have, have personally
>   epxerienced the depths to which the Titans have sunk.  There has
>   been on Omnicon (the LSH newsletter) several different stories
>   inspired by that group, and was wondering.  If anyone (in particular
>   Mr Jones or anybody else who realizes the poor quality in the book
>   now) would be willing to write a differing version of the Titans
>   (particularly focusing on a Team Titans team, I think there must be


	Well, speaking from a totally academic standpoint, the problem
goes back to the begining of Titans Hunt.  It was there that Nightwing
got the lobotomy, and everyone in the Titans started acting like idiots.
	Now, were I to take over the Titans _today_ (she-yeah, right,
and monkeys might fly out of my butt), I'd be _REALLY_ tempted to pull a 
Dallas (or perhaps some sort of Time Travel bit) to restart Titans Hunt,
and fix the countless logical holes in it. 

	Ferinstance:  You're Steve Dayton, the 5th richest man in the DC
Universe.  Your son and the rest of the Titans have been kidnapped.  
Do you call:
	a> The Old Teen Titans (Flash, Aqualad, Speedy, Hawk, Dove, Danny 
Chase, Flamebird, Harlequin, Golden Eagle and Lilith), 99% of whom attended
a wedding AT YOUR HOUSE A WHILE AGO, so you've got smorfing invitations with
their names on it.
	b> The Justice League (specifically BATMAN, who you know has ties
to Nightwing, and is the argueably the World's Greatest Detective)
	c> a single mercenary that _you've_never_met_ and _alomst_killed_your_
_son_ once.

	Or: You're Nightwing, you barely escaped being captured by a Wildebest,
and you're positive the rest of the Titans are captured or dead.  And you
are supposed to be brilliant.
Do you:
	a> nab his costume, and play Wildebeast, AFTER calling someone from
a & b above to back you up
	b> go in solo, so if you screw up, your friends are totally screwed

	Or: You're an EVIL VILLAIN trying to genetically engineer 
bodies for the umpty-up thousand souls that make you up. 
Do you:
	a> kidnap some random schlub with the meta-gene
	b> kidnap a super-hero team, who is sure to be missed

	Or: You're the Flash (or Batman or Hawk and Dove or ...)
The tower of the New Titans has just blown up.  
Do you:
	a> check it out, since they _are_ your friends
	b> not read the papers with the headlines
"TITANS TOWER EXPLODES. HUNDREDS OF LIVES LOST."

	(Dammit, I'm frothing again.....)
	
	If you answered 1c> and b> for the rest, you too are qualified to
edit the New Titans.

	Now, I wish I had the time and talent to take over writing the 
New Titans, even as fanfic.  But the current hole they're in just 
keeps getting deeper.

	Teeny Titans?  GACK!  That's worse than Live Wire.
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