Exclusive Cover Reveal: Cliff Chiang's TEEN TITANS #1 Variant

@captainmarvel4ever: And you shut out the ones that have already read the story of Trigon's merry dance through New York. Those books and stories are told and printed, they are not hard to get, so why not give the rest of us something new and the new breed can catch up to us later.

@dondave: I think he looks like a One Direction

@outside_85: Because comics can't just live on old fans and slowly picking up new ones. It's a different time, comics have more competition then ever before. Before DC's New 52 they were slowly going under, making changes for a whole new generation of readers was the smart thing to do. Although there is no denying that the Teen Titans have been the ones to suffer in the New 52, so hopefully this new series will fix that.

Make Beast Boy crossdress hey it would sell you know it would!

@captainmarvel4ever: The comic industry suffered, because the comic industry did nearly nothing to promote it's existence outside of existing readers for the last 20 to 30 years. Comics vanished from regular newsstands and moved into dedicated stores where the uninitiated don't venture, advertising new and existing books were nearly always inside other comicbooks. The only thing that have gotten new readers in are the various cartoons and movies that basically fail to remind viewers that comics are in fact still being published and not just something a director found in an old shoebox of his dad's garage. It's the industry's own fault it's gotten to this.

That said, comics live primarily off longtime dedicated readers who continue to invest in the stories surrounding their favorite characters. And the companies actually owe it to these people to keep trying out new things to keep the interest going.

If you are going to cater for the new readers, make the stories easy to understand without referring to tons of stuff in other books. Or else you are going to reboot the book every 5 years or so just to retell the same stories over and over, leaving comics as nothing but a temporary fad for the kids.

SO IS BEAST BOY GREEN?

@outside_85: Honestly I think now that comic characters are becoming more popular in the eye's of the public with big movies, and good television series, now is the time for comics to change, to become more accessible to the casual reader. I tried to get into comics years ago, but I couldn't because it of the massive continuity, and when I tell people they should think about reading comics the first think they always say is "I don't feel like reading 50 years of comics just so I can read them" so I don't think I can change your mind, but there is no denying that things are changing, and comics may have to change with them.

@outside_85: But don't you see? They are trying to give us a feeling of the Teen Titans being young and hip! They are giving us a view on teens and their crazy cell phones and social media in the eyes of a middle age comic writer! It's just like the original Teen Titans book of the Silver Age! :D

@captainmarvel4ever: I am sorry, but I genuinely don't believe in continuity being as big a barrier as some people claim it is. Comics are unique in the world of print because they tell ongoing stories with no set end, which on the surface makes them similar to those long-winded TV shows like Dallas or Beverly Hills, who don't have the problem with people getting scared off by the long line of things that's come before.

Now, when I started reading first time around, I started with Spiderman... right in the middle of the Clone Saga, the very first issue I bought I had to wrap my head around that Peter Parker was revealed to be a clone. Sure I was confused by it, but I stuck with it up to the point where I had gotten bored and Marvel having decided to not have national names any more (which was around the time when Peters kid was abducted right out of MJ's womb nearly). And this was in a time when the Internet was largely unavailable.

Years later I got back into comics thanks to Teen Titans and armed with stuff like Wikipedia and Comicvine, getting up to speed of things has never been easier. So again, I am sorry, but if you want to get into comics and just the prospect of the long backstory scares you away, then you really aren't trying.

Looks like Young Avengers....which is cool because Young Avengers was what Teen Titans should've been since the New 52 ended. I support this....

Also

"Ding-Dong, Lobdell's Gone....."

@artisticneedham: plz no. cyborg will ruin it.

@outside_85: People shouldn't have to try, comics are entertainment and entertainment is about convenience. I've met so many people who loved the Teen Titans cartoon series and need a place to start, and all I have to tell them is "This July just pick up Teen Titans #1 and your set" in this world comics need to be that simple to survive.

@captainmarvel4ever: People need to stop putting barriers from yesteryear in their own paths, that's all. Buy a book, read it, look up stuff that's confusing if it's really that important to know.

@outside_85: Fair enough, I don't completely agree, but it's not like us arguing about it will go anywhere.