DCU Comic Book Reviews

TEEN TITANS #28

Legacy, Part Two:  Impure Thoughts

November 2005

Written by Gail Simone

Pencils by Rob Liefeld

Inks by Rob Liefeld

Cover by Rob Liefeld

Synopsis

Kestrel, agent of the Lords of Chaos, has taken Raven’s soul.  The Teen Titans follow Kestrel into another dimension.  As the Titans fight Server Aja and Cross Christina, two meta-teens he recruited for his efforts, Robin slips away to deal with Kestrel on his own.  Kestrel uses an image of Robin’s dead father to distract him, but Robin refuses to believe it.  Although Kestrel wins the battle, Robin is saved by the arrival of the rest of the Titans.  They continue the fight, allowing Robin enough time to deliver the blow to nerve clusters that immobilizes Kestrel.  Then Cross Christina takes Kestrel’s own claws, which can tear through dimensions, and cuts a path through Kestrel.  Meanwhile, the Titans recover Raven’s soul and set her free.  Later, Wonder Girl visits Raven and stays to comfort her. 

Review

This was a serviceable and average ending to a rather dull and uninteresting story.  I still get the feeling that this story has been compressed into these two issues, a fact that seems borne out by the fact that regular writer Geoff Johns will be back at the helm for the next issue.  This issue, however, does not feel compressed and seems to flow better but there seems to be seem extraneous stuff that might have worked better if the previous issue had been fleshed out a little more.  I wonder about the inclusion of Hawk and Dove, who seem to be added simply because they are supposed to be Kestrel’s natural enemy.  Otherwise, there was nothing for them in this issue, either good or bad.  They appear with the Teen Titans and apart from the fight don’t do much.  Out of all the birds, it is Robin who plays the lead role, both in terms of action as he takes on Kestrel and character arc as he deals with the loss of his father.  Despite that, the ending with Cassie and Raven is probably the best part of the issue.  I think there are some good ideas in this story arc in terms of family and loss, but unfortunately it gets lost in the Kestrel story line (and does not really connect to Hawk and Dove in terms of family with the Titans, so again their appearance just does not make sense)  and the compressed feel of the story. 

If it weren’t for the fact that he was named in the issue, I doubt I would have recognized Jack Drake.  It just does not look like him.  Worse, he looks different, first appearing to be overweight with round cheeks and then appearing a little more buff.  I have not had much exposure to Rob Liefeld in more short comic-reading exposure, but based on these two issues of Teen Titans, I am not all that impressed. -- MRB

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