DCU Comic Book Reviews

TEEN TITANS #67

The New Deal, Part 2:  Born In Blood

March 2009

Written by Sean McKeever

Pencils by Fernando Dagnino

Inks by Raul Fernandez

Cover by Eddy Barrows and Ruy Jose

Synopsis

Brother Blood is able to escape captivity.  He is in Hell, but feels that Trigon needs him.  First, he hungers, especially for the one who sent him to his prison.  Kid Eternity.  When Brother Blood finds him, he realizes that Kid Eternity’s powers have diminished.  The two fight and end up in San Francisco in front of Titans Tower.  The Teen Titans attack Brother Blood, but he is able to fend them off.  When he attacks Red Devil and takes his power, he feels the taint of Neron.  He then realizes that fighting the Titans is not his priority, Trigon is.  Brother Blood then disappears.  He also leaves Red Devil powerless.  In New Hampshire, Brother Blood finds his new mother.  

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Over in Titans, I have complained for awhile now about how the title is simply mining older stories, going backwards to tell stories rather than pushing the team forward.  And what do we get in this title?  The return of Brother Blood.  What I find most interesting about this backwards trek is that it seems to be happening right in the middle of the team gathering new members.  The usually cast of sidekicks are gone (Kid Flash, Robin, Superboy), to be replaced by a batch of newer teens who aren’t not necessarily sidekicks (such as Blue Beetle and Bombshell).  I would guess that by mixing the familiar with the new, DC is hoping to ease readers into whatever new team they have decided upon.  To me, however, is shows a lack of originality in creating new stories for the Teens (and it is even more disappointing after the Titans Tomorrow red-dux that McKeever wrote). 

Having said all that, this isn’t a bad issue, per se, although frankly it wasn’t all that good.  The opening is pretty good (if a tad confusing; was Brother Blood’s prison in hell or did he escape to hell) and slightly ingenious way to get Blood and Eternity out of hell.  The rest of the issue, however, is essentially a big long fight scene.  It follows the template of the villains fighting each of the heroes to showcase the hero’s powers (and stupidity) and was done well enough that I wasn’t annoyed by it all, but (again) I wasn’t overwhelmed.  I might have felt different if it were someone other than Brother Blood. 

I was not expecting the development with Red Devil, but it makes sense within the context of the story.  I am curious to see how this works out and what will happen.  I can’t imagine DC would toss Red Devil aside, so eventually he will get his powers back at some point.  It is just a question of how.

 

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