DCU Comic Book Reviews

TITANS #9

Walk With Me

March 2009

Written by Judd Winick

Pencils by Howard Porter and J. Calafiore

Inks by Wayne Faucher and J. Calafiore

Covers by Tony Daniel and Sandu Florea

Synopsis

The Titans have locked themselves within their headquarters, knowing that one of them has been possessed by Jericho.  That someone is Nightwing.  Jericho tells Nightwing he needs help.  Jericho recalls the first time he ever possessed someone, his friend Eric.  It happened when he was a small boy.  The reason he remembers is because Eric is still with him.  In fact, everyone he ever possessed is still with him.  Most of them are filled with hate and the dark ones are talking to Jericho.  And they are slowly controlling him to do bad things.  Jericho wants Nightwing to help him.  Just then, the Titans learn that Jericho was behind the assassination of the presidential candidates.  The Titans want to let others know where they are and the fact they have Jericho.  Nightwing tries to convince them not to.  However, the decision is made for them:  the Justice League is outside the building and wants inside. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This is a difficult book to review because I can neither praise it nor damn it.  It just kinda lies there, flat and uninteresting.  It lacks anything to truly engage me or interest me as a reader, but at the same time it isn’t bad enough for me to get angry or upset at it.  I think this is a credit to Winick’s skills as a writer.  His ideas may not be that original or inspired, but I think he does enough with the basic story that it doesn’t fall to stupid or insipid.  The problem is that like the first story arc of this title, all of the stories are derivatives of earlier, better stories.  There is nothing new to the table, so to speak.  Yes, Winick pushed through a retcon of Jericho’s origin that doesn’t (willingly) contradict previous stories, but ultimately it is more of the same thing, not anything new or different or exciting.  So it is difficult to develop any enthusiasm for whatever is happening to Jericho.  Obviously I think your mileage may vary, but for me there is nothing here that holds my interest, but I have to admit that Winick is doing a solid job in delivering the story.  Even if it is dull. 

Based on this issue, it looks as if the events take place after the events of DCU:  Decisions (which I decided not to review).  Except it doesn’t quite match (so to speak).  When we last saw Jericho, he was stuck in the body of Match, which we see here at the beginning of the story.  In DCU: Decisions, Jericho was jumping from person to person and was not confined to Match (and confined to STAR Labs, where he was being held for investigation).  I suppose one could argue that Jericho was using Match for his dastardly plan to take of the Titans, but that hasn’t been explained here. 

 

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