tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post115602143991916828..comments2023-05-30T10:15:40.341-04:00Comments on Comics Ate My Brain: Terra Who? and "Who Is Donna Troy?": New Teen Titans #s 35-38 and Batman and the Outsiders #5Tom Bonduranthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07209820912557263080noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post-1156165364688624172006-08-21T09:02:00.000-04:002006-08-21T09:02:00.000-04:00You're welcome -- but what was the other favorite ...You're welcome -- but what was the other favorite story?<BR/><BR/>I agree that "the Robin of the Titans," as you put it, was a team player. That's the weird irony of Dick Grayson's character, starting with his NTT career. He basically trades one association (Dynamic Duo) for another (Nightwing, leader of the Titans). However, the whole time he's making this transition he's striving to be his own man.<BR/><BR/>Maybe that's the rationale behind post-Titans writers giving him Batman's career arcs, but isn't that just another form of association?Tom Bonduranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07209820912557263080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7629130.post-1156125279280898262006-08-20T21:54:00.000-04:002006-08-20T21:54:00.000-04:00Ah, this covers a couple of my favorite New Teen T...Ah, this covers a couple of my favorite New Teen Titans stories: I loved the Outsiders crossover because it clearly used the Batman/Robin relationship so perfectly. It still galls me that most of this has been somewhat retconned. <BR/><BR/>And I think it also shows why a solo Nightwing book tends to not work: the Robin of the Titans was a team player, a leader. Like the Martian Manhunter, he doesn't work as well in a solo book (that's not to say that Nightwing isn't totally misused in the current Outsiders, though). <BR/><BR/>It bothers me, too, that even after the acknowledgement that Robin is better at the team thing, the current writers just have Dick follow Batman's career: solo vigilante in a crime-ridden city, leader of a version of the JLA after Batman disappears, leader of the Outsiders, just like Batman. Bleah.<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, thanks for the trip down memory lane once more!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com