In the coverage of the Superman panel yesterday, Newsarama reported that Geoff Johns had hinted strongly at a desire to use Kid Flash, Red Robin and Wonder GIrl in his Adventure Comics run as well as Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. My first thought on hearing about this was that it raised a number of questions–not just in terms of storytelling, but in terms of office politics.
Even if Johns himself hadn’t referred to them as the “Good Teen Titans,” one has to wonder how getting Young Justice back together would impact a floundering Teen Titans title, stocked with B-listers and supported by a franchise partner-book in The Titans that’s one of the worst DC is currently publishing. Incoming writer Felicia D. Henderson, a Hollywood transplant with no comics pedigree and some fans already skeptical about her hire, might not appreciate the implication that hers are the “Not-Good” Teen Titans, either.
This, mingled with the fanboy-bashing PS at the end of Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds #5, seems to indicate a rather cranky week from the normally genial Johns, too. With a reputation as one of the nice, easy-to-work-with guys in comics, it’s a little surprising to see him taking potshots at fans AND one of his company’s tentpole books in the span of 48 or so hours (granted, he wrote Legion of Three Worlds months ago, but you get the idea).
July 24th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Given how everything at DC these days reads like professional fan fiction, a writer not having a comics pedigree is a great endorsement to me, not a drawback. Hopefully it cuts back on fan wankery.
July 24th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I agree with T there. Ivory Madison – iirc – doesn’t have a comics pedigree, and her Huntress: Year One wasn’t altogether unfortunate.
July 24th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
It’s also not like the Superboy Prime/fanboy connection came out of the blue… it’s been there for years. It just reached its logical conclusion (for now).
July 25th, 2009 at 6:39 am
Two JLAs.
Two JSAs.
Two Teen Titans.
That’s DC’s thing these days.
(Not to mention multiple Flashes, GLs, Robins, Batmen etc.)
I don’t get it either.
July 25th, 2009 at 8:33 am
Come on, Rick…Marvel has the same “thing” going on…multiple versions of any team or character who sells!
July 27th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
My first thought on hearing about this was that collector-solar.com it raised a number of questions–not just in terms of storytelling, but in terms of office politics.
August 13th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I’m hoping he can get them to use, because then it /would/ be the ‘Good Teen Titans’ again. Really, it’s no surprise the other book is foundering, with the god-awful plotlines it’s had since even before OYL stripped out everything I liked about it. And historically, a Teen Titans comic without a Robin founders within a year or so.