DCU Comic Book Reviews

TITANS #6

Together.  Together Forever

December 2008

Written by Judd Winick

Pencils by Julian Lopez

Inks by Prentis Rollins & Bit

Covers by Joe Benitez and Victor Llamas

Synopsis

Raven has joined with her brothers and she has the Titans captive.  Earlier, Beast Boy, battered and beaten, tells the rest of the Titans that Trigon’s sons have taken Raven.  The team uses a magic Ramat Stone to track her down.  Trigon’s sons are waiting and they are able to overcome the Titans and defeat them.  However, Raven takes her brothers down.  She then attacks the Titans, but is stopped by the essence of herself within the Ramat Stone.  Raven then defeats her evil self and returns the Titans home.  Later, the Titans are discussing what happens when the alarm rings.  Flash goes to investigate and finds Match, with Jericho locked inside.  He needs help. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Well, that was…well, that certainly was…whatever it was.  I am not sure what it was, really.  It was nice to see the other three brothers finally show up, not that there was much for them to do.  Or much of a personality, other than the obvious traits connected to whatever Sin they were supposed to inhabit.  But then this is a hallmark of Winick’s run on this title.  He tosses a lot of stuff at the wall, but ultimately there is nothing really there (much like the backgrounds to the panels) and not much of story based on the plot.  Raven turns into the daughter of Trigon, but it seems more like a stunt that anything of consequence.  It doesn’t mean anything because she doesn’t do much when she inhabits Pride.  The change happens, but then pretty quickly we get the deus ex machina with the Ramat Stone and suddenly everything is hunky dory.  Instead of an examination of sin and evil and purity and good, we get a mystical stone, which also allows the Titans to find Raven without needing to, you know, actually search for her.  It all feels rather convenient.  And too easy.  I am not saying that defeating Raven should’ve been hard, but the Titans didn’t have to do anything.  They got their butts handed to them, yet they win.  So, in essence, the Titans are window dressing for Raven’s battle, which is really not a battle at all.  Just a brief story in which the writer thinks it would be good to have Raven turn evil but not really knowing what to do with that idea.  Maybe the next story will improve a little bit. 

It is interesting to note that Raven, on the first panel, refers to her brother as “Avarice,” but the bubble on Page 6 refers to him as “Greed.”  Looking up the definitions, avarice refers to wanting money while greed refers to wanting more of one thing, but usually refers to money.  So, the words are similar but different.  Based on the depiction of the character, I would say “Avarice” is the best description. 

 

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