Onyx

First let me say Hello, this is my first review to this group. But not the first book I ever read. I have been a big fan of the Teen Titans in all their version.

I think the relaunch of Young Justice might be my favorite version, and this team we have now....is my least favorite.

Not to say the line-up is bad, because roughly it has been unchanged since the beginning. It just got hit with the "ONE YEAR" ugly storyline stick.

Teen Titans was never the same since. Between adding 20 new Titan members ( which we never see), The return http://www.comicvine.com/css/images/stars/off-right.gifof classic Titan Jericho. and the introduction of Wendy and Marvin to Dc continuty

This might have been a good idea if Deathstroke wasn't involved. To me this just reads like Teen Titans Go! with a diffrent artist.

And speaking of artist Tony Daniel's work come across uneven and choppy to me.

For example, Robin is tied to a stone pillar in one panel, Jericho and Slade crash through a ceiling(?), Robin is shown being tied in between two coloumns, then in a third panel, he is tied to a pillar again.

Overall the entire book has been a mess which is surprising with Geoff Johns with writing credits.

It is the fact I love the Titans that keeps me coming back, not the execution of the product. I rank this at 3.5 stars...since I can't figure out how to use the ranking systems yet lol

Ok, I can forgive the fact the issue started without knowing how they got together. I can even forgive the new art style Mr Yu. I can even go so far as to say I can forgive the fact the book feels like it should be called the DEFENDERS not the Avengers, all because of one thing.

Seeing Silver Samurai the once great crime lord, arch villian extraordinare, sitting in his den, with his surround sound dvd player watching Mean Girls is priceless

And that is why I like this issue, the humor, and interaction between the team.

Good stuff all around, and you can't beat Dr Strange and Wong, and Power Man and Iron Fist trading lines respectivily in one issue

Granted with the half a million INititive books being realeased, I might have missed where the team was formed and how Luke became the leader, a good choice, but still would like to see how he stepped up to become the man.

Overall not a bad read, but this seems like a book that will take a strory arc or two to get it's feet wet and make some noise.

As a number one issue, left alot of questions unanswered and presented a heck of alot more.

The cliffhanger wasn't really all that surprising ( damn Wizard magazine)

So my excitement for issue 2 is a wait and see status.

And not for nothing, since when are the Avengers running away from a fight with a pack of ninjas?

They better get it together before a certain green skinned gentlemen comes knocking...hard

First of, I almost missed the book on the shelf thinking it to be another Superman title. So especially with the promo pin up released and the fact it is named TRINITY. I found it odd that only one character was on the cover.

As far as the book goes, it was hard for me to wrap my head around it. It came off like a JLA story from the over the top, insanely powerful cosmic/deity level villians to face down.

At the end of the book I did not get the feeling that this is a book that would replace Batman/Superman

I had orginally thought it was going to be a Brave and the Bold style book. One story arc would be batman/wonder woman, another Superman/Wonder Woman and so on.

I'd assume with it being a weekly book we won't have to wit long to get to he payoff, but it was not the start I had that it would be.

HOWEVER, Bags looked great for the few action panels he did get to draw, hopefully Busiek will provide a chance for Bgs to cut loose and really have fun in the DC sandbox. His Flash looked great though.

As far as first issues go, this was not all that great. I will try t oread the end of the story only becuse I am curious how it will tie together. Not because it was so good I had to keep reading...like BOOSTER GOLD( you must read this book) for example lol