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TEEN TITANS #26

Soul Searching

September 2005

Written by Geoff Johns

Pencils by Tony S. Daniel

Inks by Marlo Alquiza

Synopsis

It is one month after Conner Kent (aka Superboy) was programmed by Lex Luthor to attack his friends.  He wonders if he has a soul.  He has read the sci-fi stories and all of them say clones do not have souls.  He wonders why he even has to exist.  Superboy is visited by Raven, who engulfs him to show him the past, the present, and a possible future.  After these visions, Superboy sees a glowing ball of mass.  Raven tells him it is his soul.  She couldn’t see it before, not until he broke free of Luthor’s control.  Raven asks him to come back to the Titans.  But he can’t.  Raven hands him a communicator and tells him when he is ready, call.  Elsewhere, Brother Blood senses the barrier between his hellish realm and Earth weaken. He plans to take advantage of this, aided by his newest 'mother', Lilith Clay (aka Omen).

Review

For me, this issue is easily divided into two parts and I liked one of them, but did not really care for the second part.  The first part is Conner’s narration and then Raven’s visit.  All of this was well done and continued the soul searching (pardon the pun) that Conner has been doing since the beginning of this series.  The fact that Raven can easily identify with Superboy’s plight was a wonderful moment.  The second part to the issue was the vision that Conner saw while under Raven’s spell.  While the present was the best part (and I would have liked to “hear” more of Superman and Batman’s debate) and the past was okay just to fill in the blanks regarding Luthor’s plan, the future section was odd in that I am not even sure the “battle” at the end between the two Superboys was supposed to be the future or something else entirely.  I suppose this is designed to show the battle that Conner has within himself, the fight between good and evil, but ultimately it came off as being cheesy and did not fit in with the rest of the story.  It almost smacked of the need for a fight scene, as if we needed some kind of action in the middle of the softer parts of the beginning and end. 

I don’t know about you, but I am tired of Brother Blood and I keep hoping he will just go away.  I realize this won’t happen.  Just like the Wilson family, Brother Blood is tied to the Teen Titans and will always pop up in some way or another.  But that doesn’t mean I have to like it.-- MRB 

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