DCU Comic Book Reviews

TEEN TITANS #47

Of Clowns And Clones

July 2007

Written by Adam Beechen

Pencils by Chris Batista

Inks by Jonathon Glapion

Cover by Randy Gree

Synopsis

Three days ago, the Joker’s Daughter is killed in Gotham.  Today, the Teen Titans, including beast Boy, Donna Troy, and Nightwing, attend a burial service for Duela Dent.  Afterwards, Nightwing, Donna, Robin, Wonder Girl, and Ravager decide to investigate Duela’s death.  They talk to the actress that Duela kidnapped just before her death and learn of the Jason Todd’s (aka Red Hood) involvement.  Later, they visit Jason who says he was helping Duela and was not responsible.  Donna Troy, who had talked to Jason after the funeral, believes him although the rest are not sure.  The team then goes to Manhattan to investigate the scene of Duela’s death.  While there, they are contacted by a disembodied voice from above that tells them to forget the case.  They are then instantly transported to San Francisco where they stumbled upon Match beating on the rest of them.  Jericho is inside the body of Match, but is having a tough time controlling himself, eventually going crazy and attacking.  With the others, they eventually calm Match down so Jericho can take control once more.  Later, Wonder Girl and Supergirl are watching tv when they hear the news of the Amazons attack on Washington DC.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

There are some good things in this issue and some bad things.  Most of the bad things are directly related to Countdown.  It just seems like this particular issue has been hijacked by the weekly series.  While I don’t think it is necessary to read Countdown to understand what is happening here, I think it is helpful and that is problematic for most readers.  I am lucky in that I read most of the DC’s offering, but I can imagine someone reading this and not Countdown would get pissed off that part of the story is missing.  It is one thing to reference another issue, like Duela’s death in #51, but quite another to put a scene in Countdown that happens in the middle of two scenes in Teen Titans.  It’s like a tennis match.  Read the pre-service in Teen Titans, read the service in Countdown, and read the aftereffects in Countdown. 

And to top it off, the ending leads directly in another mini-series, this time Amazons Attack.  This means the next issue will also be incomplete, unless one happens to be reading Amazons Attack.

I am going to have to go back and re-read the last issue because I am just confused.  Why is Jericho stuck inside the body of Match?  Why can’t he return to his own body?  For that matter, where is his body?  Did he gain his body when he was resurrected and then lose when he switched bodies?  I am trying to think back and determine if the switch to Match was the first time he had done that since his resurrection.  I think so, but I am not sure.  I may have to go back and re-read previous issues to find out what missing.  Regardless of what I may or may not find, this confusion is not good; Beechen should’ve explained it to the reader in some form but because he doesn’t it left me scratching my head as to what is going on. 

Some of the good things that I liked included the brief scene of Raven and Gar somewhat, or rather not all, discussing their brief romantic kiss sometime ago.  Since this has been some time since it happened, I like the brief tease, but I hope this is something that will be re-visited later. 

While I liked the Wonder Girl scenes and her attempts to get over the death of Conner, I am hoping that there will be some resolution to this story sometime soon.  At some point Wonder Girl needs to get over it and move on.

Comic Connection

The conversation between Donna Troy and Jason Todd right after the burial service can be seen in Countdown, issue #48

 

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