Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site mhuxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!js2j From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Is 'Tales of the Teen Titans' supposed to be about heroes? Message-ID: <425@mhuxt.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 16:13:40 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxt.425 Posted: Thu Dec 20 16:13:40 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 02:17:28 EST Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 31 Since my freshman days in college ('78), I've been reading Marvel Comics exclusively. I have, however, recently been rather dissatisfied with some of Marvel's offerings, and have heard some good things about DC comics from people on this group. So I decided to try out a DC title or two, just to see if they were worth reading. I picked up the March and April issues of TOTTT. I thought that the Teen Titans were a group of super heroes along the lines of the Avengers, or the X-men. I guess I was wrong. One scene in particular sticks in my mind. The green shape changing guy gets a telephone call saying that the blond mute guy may have some information the government wants. The green shape changing guy then assumes that the blond guy is a traitor; he turns into a green lion and chases the blond guy around, after ignoring the blond guy's attempt to explain. The blond guy escapes. Later, when his teammates ask what has happened, he lies to them by omission (i.e., he tells them that the blond guy knocked him out, but not that he attacked the blond guy first for no reason.) So what's the story? Is TOTTT about ordinary people with a lot of hang- ups, vices, irrational fears, who just happen to have superpowers? If the green shape changer ALWAYS acts this stupid, lies to his teammates, etc., why do they keep him around? I mean, I don't think I'd like heroes to be portrayed as PERFECT, but there must be some middle ground between that and portraying them as complete jerks. Or did the writers just have the shape changer act out of character so that they could get the blond mute guy on the run for plot reasons? If that's the case, I might as well go back to Marvel. BTW, what are the best DC titles? Jeff Sonntag ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j