Jules

It's really great that Virgil is back, I myself, would rather see him in his own solo comic but I guess we can't have everything. Another thing is that as much as I like Static Shock I remain rather skeptical about him joining the Titans. Was it Tate's intention to include Virgil in his story or was he added last minute so the comic would sell better?

Honestly I'm slowly loosing faith in this run. Out of nowhere there's suddenly new team of randomly picked heroes that call themselves New Titans. So far we don't know anything about them except for the remaining OG Titans. We don't know how they got together, we don't know how Kory, Dick and Tara ended up in Grid's (I just refuse to call him RoboCyborg) dreamworld coffee-fuelled simulation (don't get me started on that DickKory rubbish - I ship them too but I think this was really wrong way how to approach it), since the last time we saw them Tara and Dick were with Raven on Gemworld and Kory was in Space with her sister and flying Titans Towers (ugh...who made that up?). All we got so far was writer mocking the overusage of certain tropes and then pulling up overused trope in the next issue, then let's add mischaracterisation and weird dialogue (calling OG Titans "Boomers" is just so bizarre) to the list. At this point I know I'm sounding like a broken record but it needed to be said.

I personaly didn't like the way the writer is making Dick and Kory look more or less useless. Am I supposed to believe that two the best fighters in the team were the only ones getting hit by Grid's "Nebulizers" (what?) and the newbies are somehow okay? Yea right. Then there was that moment where Steph told Nightwing and Starfire to stand back as support...yea, girl sure and while you're at it let's also leave the Superteen (sorry but I won't call Jon Superman when Clark is still alive and kicking - it's like if Dick and Batman wore the Batman's cape at the same time) on the bench with the rest of the team's powerhouses. Also why is 'Titans, together' "cringe" but 'Titans, go' somehow isn't, Steph? I kind of sense that Tate here wanted to show how the OGs are pathetic and useless and his new team is just so much better and greater at everything and so on... so why are Dick and Victor still there in the upcoming issues? Is it because DC is afraid that bunch of random heroes won't sell so they have to keep the fan-favourites (including Virgil) around for their sakes?

Like @tuxedosaurus said Titans are a family first and a team second. I think this new team should not be a titans team, more like something new with original name. To me it feels like when you take Justice League, remove Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Martian Manhunter, keep only Batman (cuz sales) and add one random hero each from already existing teams (resurrect the dead ones if needed) and sell it as Justice League comic. You just don't change family members because you are bored of them. Sure, sure Titans are constantly changing characters - yeah because DC doesn't understand them.

She had no problems saying Titans Go from the moment they showed up, buy Titans Together? Naaah too cringe man. Also a few panels later she'll say Titans Go again with no issues at all.

Make it make sense💔

Also what these few issues taught us is that to show us how capable the New Titans are we need to knock out Dick and Kory I guess?

Like they were already fighting and Stephanie was in charge as the leader from the start. Even without knocking out Dick I think that, in the moment, they wouldn't have necessarily switched leader? Even after he and Kory woke up she was leading anyways.

I really liked the first issue.

Until the MOMENT Roy is like “nah bro I’m out”

And then Dick is like “🥺🥺🥺 what”

“no don’t go uwu 🥺🥺🥺 Roy come back”

“Roy nooooooo”

“Roooyyyyyyy”

Oh, his greed sicken me

Anyways! Another rough sketch cuz school is killing me, the clothes look like meh but I didnt have too much time to detail then, despise that, I think it looks cute(?

Like, being completely real, he:

Rolls up to Gotham after Batman mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead

Assumes the mantle while… not particularly epitomizing mental health (due to external circumstances of their origin that made them simultaneously tragic and kind of goofy edge lords)

Starts killing people under the Batman mantle, staining the title in the immediate future

Forces Dick to go after him

Even has a fight with Dick while Dick is in extra pissy mode because he triggered Dick’s “Tim Overprotectiveness Syndrome”.

Except, Jean-Paul actually ended up requiring Bruce to go after him, meanwhile Jason was eventually successfully soloed by Dick.

He bootlegged Jean-Paul. BOOTLEG AZRAEL.

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I'm not a fan of, nor do I support, hatred towards any character, regardless of any ship, so I was surprised by a post against Barbara and the DickBabs fandom.

My comment and argument was: "They hate a character simply because it's not the ship they like, and for reasons that aren't even canon anymore.

If they don't care about canon, why don't we hate all the characters who abused Dick in some way instead of hating two really good characters?"

After a long debate, they ended up blocking me from the group, even though I didn't break any rules in any way.

I guess "supporting hate against Barbara" is an unwritten rule.

I once ended up caught in the Mileven vs Byler ship wars and was like "wait...this feels familiar", lol.

Back to the hitting him topic, you were actually so real.

Everyone hates DickBabs because Barbara "is abusive", hitting him a few times... (Even made a whole post about this here) But then there are two or three panels of Kory doing the same, Helena doing the same, Shawn "verbally abusing him" (something they also accuse Babs of), Bruce doing the same, DONNA doing the same, Victor doing the same, Jason doing the same and gosh so many characters.

The only one aside Babs who gets hate for this is Bruce, probably one of the few characters where you can ACTUALLY EXPLAIN why he did that in the first place a few times.

I don't know, it's just so funny how DickBabs gets hate for things that happens with other ships too. Babs hitting him when others did it too, Babs de-aged "for him" when it's not true and Zee was actually de-aged for him in YJ, Babs dating so many BatFam characters (not even in canon mind you) when it's an issue recurring many female characters in general, some are straight up lies...

You know what, anon?

Only for you. This is my one and only publication, coalescing all I understand from the Batman universe over the years. I've been working on it for like 45 whole minutes. You're welcome.

Imagine how crazy it would be see three of the coolest heroes date without a stupid love triangle in the way