This was a squarebound Elseworlds book, and I wonder how it sold. OK, looking it up, 21,066 copies? And I have at least two? Ranked 131, but it was at a higher price-point than most of the titles around it...wow, outranked by Superboy and the Ravers #9 and Untold Tales Legend of Captain Marvel? Sometimes I just want to take comics, as a collective, by the ear and have a little word with it...Titans: Scissors, Paper, Stone is just good, man. It's exceedingly well-crafted and despite not really featuring the classic Teen Titans still says a lot about them.
In a far-flung future, a young witch realizes her satellite home was going to be in danger. To combat that, she ritualistically puts together a mythical team to fight the threat, patterned after the legendary Teen Titans. While she was the magic-y 'Raven' type, she recruits an energy alien living in a human corpse and a girl with a decommissioned military cyborg body as her 'Starfire' and 'Cyborg.' The last team member is her ex-boyfriend, but running a programed personality, of a certain famously brooding superhero, who describes "Dick" to a T: "A good-natured thug, lacking super-powers, but well-armed with a positive attitude." The new team has to face a colossal military death machine running amuck, but the witch is confident since in the super-hero myths "...in the end, the good guys never, ever, ever lose!" Maybe, but there might be more to that...
So, this has been reprinted at least once; and that Comichron sales page kicked over to eBay links to this one: there's several out there on the cheap, and I highly recommend it.
Thanks for reminding me about this one. I’ve still yet to read it, so hopefully I’ll find it online. I remember the Wizard ads for it at the time, and I may have seen it out in the wild in a comic shop somewhere, but maybe not otherwise I’m pretty sure I’d have bought it just for the Adam Warren art alone because I was big fan of his art style back then, which caused me to grab the issues of Gen 13 he wrote & drew.
ReplyDeleteThey definitely should adapt this, especially since it would fit well with the current Suicide Squad anime series that’s out.
You still haven’t watched CRISIS yet!? It’s good. Well, at least the last part of the trilogy is, being the best of the 3. Definitely devote an afternoon to watching.