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Because you demnded it! Even more Teen Titans news!
Rumour has it that the same team that brought you the Animated Batman and JLA programs are considering a Teen Titans cartoon. More info can be found here.
This really pisses me off. OK, so it's just a rumour, and a rumour for a superhero cartoon no less. But I just can't imagine what the audience for a team composed of Robin, Changeling, Raven, Cyborg, and Starfire will be. Does anyone outside of a few hardcore fans of the 80s series even know who half these characters are? People who care tell me the appeal of that run was it's soap opera like structure and mature themes (for the record, I hated the Wolfman/Perez era). How is that supposed to translate to a cartoon series, other then confuse even larger groups of people?
I've heard of three oppurtunities for the Batman producers to switch gears and create series that would be less grim and a little more fun. Legion of Superheroes, Shazam, and now this (the Alex Ross sketches for the Shazam series are ace, and they are probably the greatest work I've ever seen from him). Why not make a light-hearted Teen Titans, like the 60s comic, with a small core of characters that not only have their equivalents in the adult team, but also have powers that are easily idetifiable. Something fun! I have an episode of the cartoon they made in the 60s of the Titans, and it's brilliant. At least it would be better then that horrid JLA cartoon.
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ID YOU SAY... TEEN TITANS?!? Get excited, silver age fans! One of Jay's all-time favourite comic scribes is back! Bob Haney, the king of DC camp, co-creator of the Teen Titans, the Doom Patrol, and author of the wackiest Brave and the Bold issues EVER is back with an all-new Teen Titans story! TEEN TITANS - ELSEWORLDS, pencilled by Jay Stephens, inked by Mike Allred, and coloured by Laura Allred, promises to be a genuine flashback to the fab days the early sixties, and guest stars none other than... President Kennedy!!! Keep your ever-lovin' eyes peeled for this one, due out in the summer from DC comics, of course!