DCU Comic Book Reviews

TITANS #14

Disconnected

August 2009

Written by Eric Wallace

Pencils by Michael Shoyket

Inks by Wayne Faucher

Cover by Angel Unzueta

Synopsis

At Titans Compound, Vic Stone (aka Cyborg) is doing a systems update when Gar Logan (aka Beast Boy) stops by to tell him he needs to take a break away from the compound and away from the team.  Gar suggests Vic try a dating service.  Later, Vic visits returns to Harlem.  There, he encounters Ron Evers and the First Church of Anti-Technology.  Ron attempts to have Vic renounce his cyborg side.  Vic receives a code red alert and leaves.  At STAR Labs, Vic learns that an experiment with combat armor has gone wrong.  Vic is able to difuse the situation.  Several days later, Vic leaves a note for Gar.  He is on a date.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

On its own, this was not a bad story and certainly fits the bill of one of the “down time” stories between big story arcs.  I like the idea of showcasing one of the team members, giving them a chance to be in the spotlight, especially of someone like Vic who doesn’t really appear in any other books.  The issue starts with all of the bad things that have happened to him lately, putting his depression and uncertainty in perspective and by the end we see some nice character development.  On that level it works.  However, it really didn’t click for me completely as I don’t think I got a complete picture of who is Vic Stone.  The problem is that there are a lot of characters that have appeared elsewhere, most particularly the recent Cyborg mini-series.  I will give credit to Wallace because even realizing that there is a history between Vic and Sarah or Vic and Ron, I could follow the story and I wasn’t completely lost.  However, I think I might’ve enjoyed the story on a deeper level if I knew more about the characters and their history (like how Ron and Vic knew each other and what happened to Ron’s hands).  Still, the issue accomplishes what it needed, even if some of the foundation was based on stuff happening elsewhere. 

I do have to say that the brief scene with Starfire didn’t seem to make much sense.  I suppose it is a set-up for a future story (or single issue), but it felt out of place.  Wallace tried his best by keeping Gar and Roy in back-to-back scenes so the transition from Vic to Kory back to Vic felt natural, but it was still a little jarring. 

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