#titans
I don’t think I’ve ever properly captured the love/hate dynamic Dickkory had in s1 in one of my fics. It’s all love/love every time. I’m so hopeless istg
I imagined Kory’s dress in the last two chapters (and part of the next one) looking something like this. In shades of purple, of course.
Granted I tend to edit as I go a lot but this seemed important to point out since it’s a matter of characterization. I initially had Rachel chasing Gar with the water gun but I’m thinking now that it would more likely be the other way around. Here’s the new line.
The only comfort he takes in the situation is the fact Rachel has properly been coaxed from her lonely corner. Him trying to talk her into playing whack a mole or order a Shirley Temple hadn’t worked, and she’d rather fall into a pit than sing Karaoke. It takes Gar chasing her with a water gun to get her out of her own way for at least a moment, no time to mope when you’re escaping a watery assault. If Dick had tried something similar then Rachel would have seen right through it. She probably would have ended the night right then and there because Dick just isn’t the contagious sort of fun that Gar is. As they weave their way through the crowd, a few of the partygoers look annoyed but most of them cheer him on. “Get her kid!” they yell after him encouragingly.
I’ll probably flesh the scene out a little bit more today before continuing with ch. 7
I don’t know what most people’s relationship with comic canon but for me. I just…ignore… whatever I don’t like. Like I don’t generally care for ginger Jason or rapist Talia Al Ghul, so I just pretend it’s not true to my version of the DC universe. There’s some aspects that I might re adapt if I think they could be interesting but I don’t feel beholden to what is canon and what isn’t. I don’t really want to argue over what is correct pre-new 52 or post crisis or dc rebirth or future state shenanigans.
As far as how canon Slade is, He’s not as interesting as I think he could be. I know that he’s done fucked up stuff (relationship with Terra? really???) but I don’t find those to be interesting. This Slade is still a bad guy and not the best dad ever by any means, but at this point his kids are pretty fucked up in their own right and nobody in this family is sane that Slade for the most part just wants some peace and quiet and will kill to get some.
- Rose probably gets along the best with dad but has no impulse control whatsoever (she’s no longer allowed to fly any planes after crashing the 3rd one this year)
- Joey talks to Ghosts and hangs out with Dick, he’s weird and a traitor
- Grant…Slade isn’t sure if he’s real half the time everyone including Grant acts like he’s a ghost haunting the house, he mostly freelances or stays with mom
My Slade is a bit of a combination of Captain America and a Geralt of Rivia wannabe. He wants to be a cool and chivalrous Knight but that has never been in the cards for him. He wishes Rose could be like Ciri, Joey could have been kinda like Jaskier before the throat thing, and Grant was like Bucky Barnes before dying.
As far as I’m concerned with Slade he’s a captain America (Steve Rogers) if nobody had any expectations or respect for him because he was a symbol of truth and justice… and was treated less than human for killing people, because he could never be a proper hero. A sort of anti captain America situation where everyone has the worst idea of him believing he could never do good, and Slade is just doing what he feels like he should do anyways. Not a hero, never loved, and never respected but he’s still out here doing what he was made for and that’s pretty much all he’s ever known. He’s been trained to be practical and to be a strategist that looks at everything and anyone as pieces on a board to manage to get the job done. Sometimes people get hurt because of it. He generally tries to not feel much about it.
He has a family but they don’t care that he’s the most badass assassin and one of the top mercenaries in the world, he’s just their dad who’s a mean and stoic hard ass and nobody is afraid to call him out on it. He has a butler who doesn’t give a shit about being nice, but it always there when he most need it , like Alfred but actually an asshole. A brother who is a depressed unkillable annoying wacko that hangs around sometimes to “keep him on his toes” and he’s probably the only one who understand him. An ex-wife that he suspects might have a bigger kill count than him (she’s just better at hiding it because she doesn’t run around with bright orange to advertise) and a (mostly) one sided rivalry with Bruce Wayne and a mutual hatred of Dick Grayson (Dick would unplug his life support if given the opportunity).
I never drew casual titans so !!
Teen Titans Spotlight On…
When one looks back on the 1980s comic book industry as a whole, the more observant reviewer will probably draw parallels between DC’s Teen TitansandMarvel’s X-Men - mainly for the fact that they were both ‘team’ books and hot properties for their respective companies*. Knowing a good thing when they saw it, Marvel created several spin-off 'X-books’ (i.e. X-Factor,Excalibur,New Mutants) throughout the decade. DC also had the same idea and the 80s saw various Teen Titans spin-offs such as 1982’s Tales of the New Teen Titans, 1984’s Baxter edition (set 1 year in the future from the current Tales of the Teen Titans series), and 1986’s Teen Titans Spotlight On…series.
InMarv Wolfman’s own words, the Teen Titan Spotlight On… series was inevitable as Wolfman had different characters he wanted to explore within the Teen Titans universe and he really couldn’t deviate from the story lines of the regular series to focus attention on any individual characters (at the risk of alienating the rest of the team). In my opinion, Wolfman did something brilliant with this series - as opposed to writing all of the issues himself, he had some of DC’s top talent write the issues (while he still retained creative control) - this allowed writers who were not normally affiliated with the Titans to bring a different perspective to the series. You can probably go ahead and call this an 'anthology’ series, due to the creative teams changing with almost every issue. For anyone who may be concerned - yes, George Perez still contributed covers to the series.
I’m kind of feeling this series was overlooked by the fans due to it being a spin-off and all. This is a shame, since if you are a Teen Titans fan/DC continuity hound like myself, this series is absolute gold. As mentioned, there’s lots of attention given to secondary characters who don’t normally get much characterization, so it’s always nice to see something like that. Due to space constraints, I’m basically going to give an overview of the highlights of this twenty-one issue series.
The series debuted with a two-issue Starfire story in which she tries to battle Apartheid (with a little help from a character who looks strikingly familiar to Nelson Mandela) written by Wolfman himself. The story dealt with real-word issues (concerns of social and political relevance injected into the story line) and Wolfman inserted a few subversive political statements, but the main goal was to raise political awareness about the war in South Africa. The first issue was not submitted to the Comics Code Authority for approval (contained crucial story elements that were in violation of code) and therefore does not have a CCA seal on the cover. These issues received a lot of press, as Apartheid and South Africa were all over the media in 1986. This storyline received mixed reviews from readers, but great attention from the media. Starting a new comic book series with a controversial story line was a very intelligent marketing move, Mr. Wolfman.Wolfman later went on to say that he did not wish for Teen Titans Spotlight On… to become “the relevant comic of our time”, and the series pretty much stayed away from topical issues after that.
A few lesser-known Titans get some attention in this series, namely Jericho (Deathstroke’s son), Aqualad, Wonder Girl, Thunder & Lightning, and Frances Kane/Magenta. Frances Kane/Magenta (who many fans compared to Marvel’sPolaris) became a recurring character in Flash v2 several years later. True story: Frances Kane’s superhero name, 'Magenta’, was pretty much invented on the fly by Barbara Randall,Tony IsabellaandWolfman before the issue went to print. Hawk (of Hawk & Dove) got a two-issue solo story written by Mike Baron that takes place sometime between the death of Don Hall (old Dove) and his introduction to Dawn Granger (new Dove). This series was not immune to the Millennium company event and had two cross-over issues: one teaming Aqualad and Aquaman together (written by Dan Miskinand Gary Cohn), and another spotlighting Harbinger written by Barabara Randall (as a direct tie-in to the New GuardiansseriesSteve Englehart was writing). An Omega Men spotlight issue was included (written by Todd Klein and illustrated by Erik Larsen) which took place after the Omega Men series had been cancelled. What’s the Titans connection? Starfire’s brother is a member of the Omega Men and the Omega Men were created by Wolfman. Fans loved the issue (gave them a sense of closure) and hoped it was a prelude to a new Omega Men series (or at least more stories). 'Nay’ to both.
Not sure if many readers remember, but the Doom Patrol were connected to the Teen Titans mythos (the connection being Changeling, who was the ex-patroller named 'Beast Boy’) and this became extremely prevalent in this anthology series. Aqualand battles ex-patroller Mento in a story by John Ostrander (and illustrated by Eric Larsen), the Brotherhood of Evil (who were originally Doom Patrol villains) get an issue to themselves and a Changelling/Robotman team-up (written by Paul Kupperberg and drawn by Dan Jurgens) served as a prelude to Kupperberg’s 1987 Doom Patrol series. Mr 104 (AKA Mr 103) appears for the first time in two decades in the Changeling/Robotman issue, only to be killed off for good later that year. (don’t call it a comeback)
There are three issues that really stand out above all the rest of the great stuff in this series, and I’ll tell you why:
Teen Titans Spotlight On… #13 (1987) was a Cybrog story written by J. Michael Straczynski that pitted him against Two-Face. During the 80s, the Teen Titans typically fought their own gallery of rogues (i.e. Fearsome Five, Deathstroke, H.I.V.E., Trigon’s forces, Blackfire and company, etc) so it was a pretty cool concept to have Cyborg battle a Bat villain. It gave a nice sense of continuity reminding readers the Batman and the Teen Titans all inhabited the same universe, and it was a great story to boot.
Teen Titans Spotlight On… #14 (1987) had Nightwing return to Gotham City to save Batman. This story was written by Micheal Reaves and featured one of Nightwing’s first encounters with Batman post-Crisis in DC. Yes, Nightwing did first appear in Tales of the New Teen Titans #44 (1984), but the 1987 Batman reboot kind of messed up continuity for Batman and affiliated characters, so while I’m not sure if this counts as Nightwing’s first 'official’ encounter with Batman, it seems to be a significant enough story for Nightwing fans to want to collect it. I’m not really 100% how many times Nightwing has met Batman for the first time in the DCU. If any Nightwing historians want to 'school’ me on this matter, I’d be happy to quote you. :)
The last issue of the series, Teen Titans Spotlight On… #21 (1988) was a throwback to the 1960s Teen Titans team (Robin, Aqualad, Wonder Girl and Kid Flash) where they kind of play as a 'mod squad’ to combat organized crime. Written by Mark EvanierandSharman Divono, it wasn’t a retcon, but it was inconsequential enough to be just slid in there and not really have any impact on Teen Titans history. Dan Spiegle illustrated this issue, and if you don’t know who Spiegle is, he’s the artist that illustrated a large variety of Gold Key Comics titles from the 1960s, giving this 1960s Teen Titans story an even more 'authentic’ feel.
Teen Titans Spotlight On… ended suddenly with issue #21. I say 'suddenly’ because there was no real fore-warning that the series was in any sort of trouble in regards to sales. Actually, it was teased in an earlier letter column that Raven would be having her own solo story in issue #22. The reasons given for the sudden cancellation was that Wolfman was too busy with other projects to keep overseeing this series, and the reason he was so busy was because other great Teen Titans projects were in the works (a new Titans team book, a Teen Titans graphic novel called ’Titans of Myth’ by WolfmanandPerez, and a Nightwing solo series). I seem to recall reading something about Perez stating that he no longer wanted to draw monthly issues of anything anymore, and that he would rather only draw Graphic Novels. None of these projects saw completion within the alloted time schedule, btw.
Other than the few negative comments about the Starfire/Apartheid story, fan reaction to this series was incredibly positive. Fans loved the concept and the line-up of writers and artists. There were many requests for Nightwing stories as well as Bat-girl (old Titans West character) stories. Oddly enough, this series generated a lot of hype for a Titans West series that never materialized. I’m thinking it had something to do with Hawk’s two-parter, which gave false hopes to fans that a Titans West revival was in the works.**
Doug Moench wrote a Wonder Girl story that fans felt was a real missed opportunity to explain the whole post-Crisis Wonder Girl/Donna Troy origin which Wolfman had been promising readers for the past 2 years. Could you really blame Moench for not wanting to jump on that grenade? I’m assuming Wonder Girl/Donna Troy’s elusive post-Crisis Wonder Woman connection was going to be revealed in the ’Titans of Myth’ graphic novel WolfmanandPerez were working on.
*In 1982, the New Teen Titans and the Uncanny X-Men even had an inter-company cross-over.
**It was, but never saw the light of day. Read the full story at http://www.titanstower.com/titans-west-that-wasnt/
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The philosophy that Titans are “unmovable walls” and living shields is so funny considering how aggressive their abilities are. Like they have a shield and then everything else is just smashing the fuck out of everything.
“I am the wall that defends humanity and I will grind you to dust.”
bungie: here, a titan man
me:father
bungie:wha-
me, a tiny hunter, dangling off the titan’s arm:DAD
its 12 am ignore this
Zavala: strict dad but he loves u
Shaxx: gets too excited at sports games, will tell you to punch your bullies
Saint: the one thats really good at cheering you up when youre sad
Saladin: …..Exhausted Grandfather™
you’ve heard of the tower dads,
now get ready for the lore dads
Radegast: always busy with work but will 100% drop everything if you ask for help.
Silimar: chaotic good and stubborn, will help you with making school projects/3D models, tells you get back up when people knock you down
Rezyl Azzir: he’s famous like celebrity but tries hard to make time for you, leaves a goodbye letter when he disappears.
Sloane: the butch “dad” that all ur lesbian friends are swooning over and she teaches you how to tie a tie and make a fist to punch bullies without hurting yourself
Wei Ning: starts fistfights with your bully’s parents
Blackfire out here cracking me up
She just playing with me
I’ve been feeling in an art slump lately, so I ended up drawing Kori. She’s seemingly becoming my accidental go to whenever I’ve wanted to doodle my way out of a block haha
Tried not to over-design and just have fun with this one!
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Drew Kori as a bit of a mental break from work.–
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Theoi Summary - Selene
Σεληνη (seh-LEE-nee) - Selene AKA Mene
Goddess of the Moon, fertility, childbirth, and the months
Ouranic Titaness
Symbols: Crescent, lunar disc, bull horns
Animals: Bull, cattle
Colors: White, silver
Plants/Herbs: Selentropes
Stones/Crystals: Selenite, moonstone, silver, quartz
Retinue: Hesperus, Astra
Relations: Endymion (husband), Hyperion (father), Theia (mother), Helios (brother, sometimes father), Pandeia (daughter), Nemea (daughter), Herse (daughter), Horae (sometimes daughters), Menai (daughters), Narkissos (son)
Identified with: Artemis-Hekate (Hellenic/Roman), Artemis (Hellenic), Hekate (Hellenic), Hera (Hellenic), Luna (Roman), Máni (Norse), Chandra (Hindu), Soma (Hindu), Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto (Japanese)
Festivals: Pandia (14h Ela.), Noumenia (1st of every month)
Epithets: Phoebe (Bright), Aiglê (Radiance), Pasiphae (All-Shining), Ilithyia (Aid in Childbirth), Mene (Moon/Lunar), Pandia (All brightness)
