Titans Grow! (Fixing The Teen Titans Books)

When DC Rebirth started I was pretty happy with the treatment of The Teen Titans and The Titans. The Titans felt like a familiar visit back home. And Teen Titans felt like a breath of fresh air with a favorite selection of colors. Then "No Justice" happened and now Nightwing is put on The Justice League's bitch-duty and Damian is killing people again. So much potential lost, so many opportunities wasted. Well, when The Teen Titans are in trouble, you know who to call! Let's revamp DC's young heroes with this Raffi's Roster!

Teen Titans

Rather than push The Teen Titans in a darker, edgier direction like that dope Adam Glass is doing, I'm actually going to pay attention to the last seven years of character development and give Damian Wayne a team of supportive, optimistic teen heroes. Superboy is supposedly going to return from space a teenager, but he is also Damian's best friend. He also fills Beast Boy's charming, funny, youthful role amongst the team. Solstice can fly, shoot beams, and manipulate light. She's very friendly and uplifting, she fills a Starfire role. Skitter is the team's stealth-member, using webbing, wall-crawling, and super strength. She is morally conflicted like Raven, but more to the point her powers can make her unstable. And finally Bunker who can create light constructs. He is openly gay, very confident and supportive of his friends. I think he brings an interesting realism to the team, similar to Cyborg. There's a nice mix of race, origins, and powers in this team. Together, I can see these Teen Titans helping kids around the world. Kidnappings, human trafficking, perhaps even the children of super-villains coming to terms with their parents.

The Titans

Next up, The Titans. I like to refer to this team as "the reunion show". The current story with The Titans is about Nightwing and his new team maintaining new meta-humans all over the world. And that's a decent premise, making The Titans the first responders to newly empowered individuals. I like the idea of Nightwing and friends even tutoring meta-humans for a short time. So I basically reinstalled Dan Abnett's team of Nightwing, Donna Troy, Arsenal, The Flash (Wally), and Tempest. I took out Omen because she isn't a founding Teen Titan. But I did add Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy, the latter two are considered trainees and Starfire is there to pull Nightwing's heartstrings. I wanted this team to be a combination of the founding Titans and the recognizable Titans. But I'm saving Cyborg for the next team.

Young Justice

And finally we have Young Justice. Because we can't have a successful TV show without a comic to bank off it's success. My idea for Young Justice is pretty simple: Cyborg decides his place on The Justice League isn't enough for him. So he suggests a smaller, more precise team of heroes to command. Specifically, a team of teenage heroes who can inspire young people around the world to be heroes in their communities. Coming off the back of his failed Gotham Knights Program, Red Robin joins as second-in-command. Ex-Teen Titans Aqualad and Wonder Girl come out of the woodwork to lend a hand. Martian Manhunter's niece Miss Martian joins the team. The recently rediscovered clone of Superman-Connor Kent/Superboy-reluctantly joins. And arriving from another possible future comes Impulse, grandson of The Flash. With his team Cyborg plans on educating young people around the world on how to use their gifts, while also stopping the villains the JLA don't have time for. However, Cyborg has a secret agenda. If any member of The Justice League goes rogue or is mind-controlled, there will need to be someone to take their places. That's why each member of the team is an understudy of a JL member, to replace them one day. Victor only hopes that day will never come.
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Which of these teams do you want to see in action?