tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post4233899824936222002..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Teen Titans: The Hunt for Raven trade paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-3915213507180152942011-12-22T12:26:44.461-06:002011-12-22T12:26:44.461-06:00I'm all in favor of voting with your wallet, E...I'm all in favor of voting with your wallet, Esteban; I have no plans to pick up Penguin: Pride and Prejudice nor the new Ray series when they come out in trade, because they just don't interest me. That's a situation where even if I'd heard great things about the series (I haven't, necessarily), I'd still probably skip them or wait a while to buy them -- they just don't appeal to me personally, though they may just as easily appeal to others.<br /><br />Henderson's book did interest me -- if not because of Henderson herself, then because of the characters. I wanted to see Superboy and Kid Flash rejoin the Titans, and I wanted to see Static return to Dakota, even if I could guess that both would turn out to be a disappointment, and they were. <br /><br />Perhaps I ought avoid a book if a sufficient number of people tell me it's no good, but then I'm letting others decide what I read instead of making decisions based on my own interests, and that's no good either. Just as many people would say Final Crisis was a hot mess as that they loved it -- if I took the detractors word for it I'd never have read the book, and I adored it. Everyone's got to build their own canon -- yours might have Penguin in it, and mine might have Hunt for Raven -- and that can't be a bad thing; there's too many subjective factors affecting the decision to pick one book out of hundreds of choices<br /><br />Whether it's even possible for a trade-waiter to vote with their wallet, or if those creative team decisions will already have been made (as in Henderson's case), I'm not sure. Most of the time I buy "off the rack," but if a book's very important to me, I pre-order it; if it's not, I wait and buy it later. Is that voting with my wallet? Again, I don't know.<br /><br />Keep coming back, Esteben; I love the contrary opinions that get me thinking. I'll tell you now, though, that I'm getting the new Lobdell/Booth Teen Titans -- I like the characters, I don't hate the previews I've read so far, and case in point -- it's interesting to me, even if not to others.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-78786738477158533172011-12-18T02:29:59.771-06:002011-12-18T02:29:59.771-06:00I actually liked Henderson's run until the las...I actually liked Henderson's run until the last two issues. I was a bit taken aback when I looked around the Internet to see what the consensus was and I realized that I was possibly the only person on Earth who didn't hate her run.<br /><br />I thought her stories weren't bad, and her take on the characters and their interactions was actually very good and made sense for where the book was at that time. You could see the team slowly start to come together and work as a team, even if Cassie had to rule with a bit of a heavy hand to get them there. Which was helped by the fact that Henderson had a stable line-up, something poor McKeever never did.<br /><br />I didn't like the abruptness with which she dealt with Wonder Girl and Superboy's relationship (and yes, Wonder Girl knew he was back as soon as he came back, since Conner and Bart showed up in front of the Titans at the end of Legion of Three Worlds), but I could see what she was trying to do, and it wasn't a bad idea, so I let it go. Krul ended up doing the same thing, but handled it much better.<br /><br />Then the last two issues hit, and suddenly the dialogue was so bad that I could barely force myself to read it, and the story was wrapped up too easily and ended up falling flat. I was shocked by the disparity. It had gone from a run that I was really enjoying to simply terrible comics. I've been wondering how I'd like Henderson's first 10 issues if I went back and read them now, but I'm honestly afraid that I'll retrospectively hate them.Imitorarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03789589943902054909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-83649559026308015142011-12-16T19:38:31.859-06:002011-12-16T19:38:31.859-06:00Trust me, if CE could stomach this book up until H...Trust me, if CE could stomach this book up until Henderson's run, it can only go uphill from there. Not that Krul's run was very good, but it was definitely better than what came right before.shagamuhttp://mbbforum.com/mbbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-12293342185924790582011-12-16T18:30:03.317-06:002011-12-16T18:30:03.317-06:00Your optimism is heartbreaking :D
Isn't it a ...Your optimism is heartbreaking :D<br /><br />Isn't it a good policy not to buy something? If it's that bad, that widely criticized, shouldn't you just not buy it so there is a change in the creative team and things get to improve, maybe even by sheer luck?<br /><br />Maybe a book dropping from 20k to 0 from one month to the next will get the editor fired, and maybe someone who actually knows his job, may get assigned to the book.<br /><br />I strongly recommend you not to pick up the new Titans book. And you don't have the "completism" as an excuse for your compulsion, since is a whole new series (and a very bad one).Esteban Pedreroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02228835664979178502noreply@blogger.com