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I have to wonder how closely Mr. Rubert read the stories represented in this collection, because the Wolfman/Perez Titans were anything but a "Junior Justice League". The character dynamics were nothing like the JLA of the time. And there certainly wasn't anything like "A Day In The Lives" in, well, any other DC series of the time. These are still great stories after almost 25 years.
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The Teen Titans second edition, believe it or not was equal to The New X-Men. It's true. The art, the writing, the characters all excellant and matching the classic mutant tales of the time. Unfortunately, the new version of the group forgot the promising super teens helping regular kids idea in favor of a "junior Justice League" concept. This decision ultimately did them in. After all, who needs a slightly younger version, when you could go to the real thing with the JLA, especially with faltering quality and misteps in later issues. But for a number of years the quality of the book remained high and these are the tales to read about them.
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This book reprints the first eight issues of The New Teen Titans. This series really revitalized DC Comics. At the time, most comics readers considered DC comics to be inferior to Marvel comics. Well, this series showed that DC could produce superhero comics every bit as good, if not better, than what Marvel was putting out. Marv Wolfman wrote great scripts that gave the old characters depths that hadn't been hinted at before, and also added intriguing new characters. Of course, the gorgeous artwork by George Perez helped, too. You should buy this book if you want to find out how good a superhero team comic can be.
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The New Teen Titans, wow! This comic was incredible. This edition is fantastic, reading it reminds me of the rush I had when I headed to the local convenience store to get my latest TNTT comic. Oh the story lines, fantastic, I hope with the renewed interest in them due to the new toon on cartoon network they make a movie out of then, the story lines, artwork, doesn't get any better than this, highly recommended.
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In the comic book wars between Marvel and DC - DC was losing ground to the Marvel machine by continually producing superheroes with nearly limitless powers and little thought into producing heroes with real lives and problems (with Detective comics being one of the rare exceptions).
DC needed to react; and they hit the gold mine with an excellent writer, Marv Wolfman, and one of the best comic book artists of all time, George Perez.
Taking the rather anemic and poorly thought out Teen Titans sidekick group. The creative tag team behind the New Teen Titans made it something special, rivaling or exceeding what the greatness of the Byrne and Claremont duo did with the X-men.
The reprinting is better than the original work because Perez's incredible detail comes to full light with the quality of paper here rather than the original newspaperlike mush they had to print on at the time.
So kick back, relax, and enjoy one of the best of the best series to grace the pages of comicdom. Anyone saying the NTT was second fiddle to the revitalized X-men is just fooling themselves. Both share the comic book crown. Perez, Byrne, Claremont, Wolfman... you just can't lose. :)
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