Honestly, I don't think the older Titans as a team, in their own book, are a priority for TPTB. I'll be soooo happy if I'm wrong. I don't care what happens to Slade. I can't stand him.
There re a few things popping up that may relate to Terra and Geo-Force in issues around Brightest Day.
A strangeportrait of a female member of the Markovian royal family, who looks a lot like Tara Markov, appears in DC Universe Legacies#2 that just came out last month. The only catch is that the story is set in DCU's 1930s and the portrait looks like it dates from the 1700s or earlier. But of course the Tara we know died in the 1980s. I just did a blog post here - see also my Comic Vine blog on this, the post is attached to the CV Off-Topics forum.
In the latest Outsiders issue, GF has just recovered Halo from wherever she disappeared to by using a big mysterious glowing blue machine in the heart of Castle Markov. Is this machine connected to the Blue Lanterns - and is Brion planning on resurrecting his sister? His current crazy and violent behaviour is, according to Didio, a continuation of Deathstroke's claim that he drugged Tara and is mixed up with the Markovs getting their powers. In other words, Brion is currently going down the same road to madness that Tara did - but why? and how? and who or what is causing it? I've always thought it strange that Geo-Force said in JLA that Deathstroke gave him Terra's powers - how could he do this? Deathstroke's not a scientist. But he likely did have connections with the woman whose treatment sparked powers in both GF and Terra.
@Wyldsong: Mento (Steve Dayton) - aka Beast Boy's adopted father - is a powerful telepath and telekinetic. Recent Doom Patrol Issues (I think it was DP #3) show Niles Caulder telling Dayton to stop pretending that he needs the Mento helmet to use latent telepathic abilities. Caulder says Mento's afraid of looking like a freak (mutant), so he uses the helmet to make people think the power comes from the helmet, not him.
Only certain people are able to use the Mento helmet - you have to have telepathic abilities in the first place. The only other person seen using the helmet is Beast Boy. So he definitely has latent telepathic abillities but seems to use them instinctively and hasn't developed them. When Raven turned Beast Boy evil in the 90s, she and Gar spoke to each other telepathically. So she might have that ability at certain times (like when she's gone over to the Dark Side) too.
List includes dead people who imo shouldn't be dead
Titans L.A. - whole team Terra 1 and 2 Beast Boy/ Changeling
Red Star, Pantha, Baby Wildebeest
Anima, Joto - basically the Titans East team under Cyborg, some of whom worked under Gar during 52 (issue #21)
Now on other, related teams Karen and Mal (Doom Patrol) Arcudi's Doom Patrol members who worked under Gar some members of Nightwing's Outsiders, such as Grace Choi
He turned evil in the 90s under the influence of the Mento helmet and then Raven drove him totally insane, to the point where it was implied that he killed a Terra lookalike and possibly ate her body at Raven's command (NT 118). That ship is bad, bad news for him. I just don't understand how people can support that ship with that sort of background between Raven and Gar. I think they either don't know it, or disregard it.
Read the Terror of Trigon arc New Teen Titans #1-5 (especially issues 3-4 - themes shown there are picked up in the Darkening) and the Darkening storyline New Titans #97-130. Esp issues 97, 100, 102, 114, 115, 118, 126-130.
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