"My name is Wally West. I'm the fastest man alive!"
I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.
Preview of next issue: https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/12/dc-preview-titans-10/
DC: Dick Grayson, Wally West, Donna Troy, Yara Flor, Titans
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Have to say this looks pretty good! Very happy to see Titans back on track after a couple decades of 'neglect'.
I need to to reread Lazarus planet Trilogy
How much of Liam is left in there? It can’t be much since trigon murdered his brothers and he doesn’t care.
One of the many many stupid things in "I am not Starfire".... why doesn't Mandy have a teen cousin to fight? If Blackfire is old enough for a teen daughter... then Blackfire who is older....
I suspect the writer of that wasn't the least bit interested in Blackfire, and certainly not the least bit interested in giving Blackfire a daughter. As I understand it, the main character wasn't even Starfire, but a self-insert of the writer herself and the story just a metaphorical retelling of her own childhood as an overweight, gay or bi teen dealing with her own issues of not conforming to impossible standards of what young women were "supposed" to look like. And the backlash was a bunch of butthurt fans hearing the initial premise and building up an idea in their heads of what the story was going to be about (and who Starfire's daughter was going to be), only to find out that the writer had a completely different story in mind that incorporated absolutely none of their ideas or expectations.
Yeah, it's a self-insert story that shoehorns the DC comics setting into the self-insert.
It also makes the self-insert look like a horrible person. That's the weirdest part. The self-insert isn't shown to be a good person. Literally the only good thing she does is fight her aunt Blackfire when Blackfire shows up on Earth for no reason and takes Starfire hostage. But the logic of why any of that even happened is non-existent. (yes I did actually find a copy of it so I could see the whole thing) It was crap because it doesn't have coherent story telling.
If she wasn't interested in Blackfire.... why was Blackfire the third most important character? Why even have Starfire as the mom? Oh and the time scale in it is insane. Mandy is late teens and half-Human. How long has this version of Starfire even been on Earth? It's setup like the Teen Titans cartoon! If it's set 16+ years after Starfire arrived on Earth.... why is everything so much like how it was when Starfire FIRST arrived on Earth?
And no you don't get to play the "alternate timeline" card as an excuse since... if you do most of the backstory evaporates into the void. This story establishes such a tiny handful of it's own continuity beats that it NEEDS the mainstream continuity to make up the vast bulk of the setting and lore.
I just remember Blackfire wearing the most revealing outfits in that book...because she was evil I guess .