| Total Reviews Written | 4 Reviews | Your Average Review Score |  |
| Community Votes | 1 out of 1 users recommended your reviews | Total Comments On Your Reviews | 6 Comments |
|
Anybody else been waiting for Winnick to leave this book for what feels like forever? I sure have. Too bad none of these new writers know what they're doing except Yost. First problem: Terra and Beast Boy were NEVER in love. In comic book time, she was on the team for a month 3 or 4 years ago. Second problem: If Beast Boy actually was in love with her, he sure wouldn't be now. Anybody else give two jerks about a girl they dated a month 4 years ago? Anybody? No. Third problem: Terra didn't have daddy issues. Cyborg says she did. Whatever. Fourth problem: Beast Boy grew up as a character. Johns' Teen Titans, for all its problems with the Young Justicers, did a pretty freaking good job with the New Titans. When Starfire joined the Outsiders and Cyborg went into space, Beast Boy stepped up. He lead the team. He lead the team through 52. He isn't a child anymore. It was a major plot development. To write an issue that pretty much says "Hey Beast Boy is being immature and he needs to grow up" when he already freaking grew up is ridiculous. Character development. Keep track of it, writers. Nobody wants to see the same story told a second time only worse. Fifth problem: Did we just skip every comic after the Judas Contract? Beast Boy fought Deathstroke like a month after and ended up making peace with him. Deathstroke later joined the Titans. But now just the sight of a Deathstroke mask is enough to bring back all these memories of Terra and cause Gar to fly into a rage? I don't buy it. And I love how we're still ignoring how a girl who looked just like that minor character named Terra was a member of the Titans for years and Gar never was anything more than minorly creeped out and now every little thing reminds him of said minor character. And by love I mean hate. Sixth Problem: Cinderblock. He was a throw away character from the cartoon with no personality or unique powers. He doesn't need to be in the comics. So the REAL PROBLEM is the same one that we're seeing across the board in Titans comics. The writers have never read New Titans or Team Titans or Beast Boy or Johns' or Grayson's runs on Titans. They just watched the fucking cartoon. 0/5 
|
|
Red Tornado 1. This is one of those issues I really really was looking forward to and at the same time really really didn't want to read.
|
|
Out of character.
Those are the words that best describe Guggenheim's attempt, and I do stress the word attempt, to write an epic story. The Rogues are not your normal "take over the world" type villains. They aren't even your psychopathic murdering villains. They're bank robbers. They're thieves. They're crooks. Not murderers. The reason they are so successful is because they play by a different set of rules. Captain Cold has been able to kill the Flash a dozen times. But he didn't. Why? Because if you kill a superhero, the other superheroes come for you. He's made sure all his friends know this and the Rogues are only willing to kill a superhero when everything is on the line. But I guess Guggenheim was too lazy to read up on the characters he decided to use to murder Bart Allen. News flash! Inertia and Abra Kadabra aside, none of these characters have any motivation to kill the Flash. None. Zip. Zilch. This whole run was just one bad joke ending in this one terrible issue. Just because a good character dies at the end does not mean it was a good story. Don't waste your time with this garbage. Sidenote: Loves Valerie? Really? He's known this girl for what? A couple weeks? Fail.
|
|
The story starts right in the middle of the action with a nice spread of A-Next battling Loki's army. It's kinda cool to see Wolverine's plucky sidekick ordering around a team of heroes. There's a quick flashback introducing us to our first main character, Kevin Masterson. He doesn't seem like anything special at first. Just the son of a superhero. But that's where the questions that fuel the entire series start. Eric Masterson is dead. The Avengers have been disassembled. Thor hasn't been seen in years. Why? Why indeed.
The bad guys attack and our other heroes are called into play. Jubilee is all grown up and leading the (snigger) X-People which leads to another question. Who the heck are the X-People? Scott Lang's daughter Cassie is all grown up and is a superhero in her own right now. A couple more vets show up and we're introduced to J2 and Mainframe, both of which practically beg us to ask how they're related to the Juggernaut and Iron Man. An odd team but an interesting one to be sure. The plot thickens, the heroes step up and overcome the bad guys. A pretty standard fare but it works. The old guard step aside and leave us entirely with our new heroes. They've each got different reasons for being there but in the end, they seem like a promising quartet of heroes. Jarvis seems to think so at any rate. What did happen to the Avengers that makes him so dang happy that there's a new team anyhow? We'll just have to wait and see. True to the MC2 moto, A-Next #1 has a nice self contained story that is also part of a bigger whole. No cliffhanger but plenty of room to grow on and lots of mystery to be solved later. You don't feel like you have to buy the next issue to have made this one a worthy purchase. You want to buy the next one so you can see what happens next. And that's a pretty good thing in a comic book.
|
