Adam Glass' Teen Titans

I'm not going to lie. This sounds promising.

>syfy.com/syfywire/inside-the-creation-of-teen-titans-new-characters-with-the-comics-creator

>Could you share with us how you came to assemble this roster, let’s take the familiar faces first?
>Robin - Damian Wayne: There is no team without Damian. He’s found his raison d’être after "No Justice," and I saw this as a chance for Damian to not have Dick Grayson’s hand-me-downs. He could have his own crew, his own group of next generation people who are of the same mindset as him, people he could mold.

>Kid Flash - Wally West: In my world, he’s a little Johnny Storm. If you’re 13 and you have superpowers, you’re going to be blowing up Instagram and Twitter. He’s socially media savvy. He’s doing his thing and having a great time, and at the same time, he’s a superhero. He’s listening to his mentors, but he’s starting to think, "I don’t know how much I believe that’s the way to do it." So Robin finds a kindred soul in Kid Flash and definitely finds a kindred soul in Red Arrow.

>Red Arrow - Emiko Queen: Emiko and Damian could be brother and sister. They’re raised by assassins, ninjas, and their moms are criminals and masterminds. So they have a very similar history and look again, a little differently when fighting crime.

>So it goes back to the core. We have a Flash, we have a Batman, and we have an Arrow. My son’s 14-years-old, he loves me, but I know he wants to be his own person. In the past, I think the idea was the sidekick wanted to be the mentor, I think this generation is different, they want to be themselves. They’re thinking about the idea that maybe the mentors don’t know the best way to be a superhero: "Maybe the rules you played by are not the same rules I play by."

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>Crush - Lobo's illegitimate daughter
>In the real world, would it be too hard to believe that someone like Lobo, in the '90s or early 2000s, got drunk in a bar in New Mexico, and had a one-night stand, four or five times? [Laughs] And he a had a kid out there that he wouldn’t know about. So we created this character named Crush, who is a 15-year-old girl who does not know her father, doesn’t want to know her father. She’s read everything there is to know about her father, she knows what’s out there about him, so if she ever met him, she’d chop his head off and use it as an ashtray. The attitude doesn’t fall far from the tree.

>In our society, men are able to be aggressive, we’re able to have rage and have all of these things, where women have to eat it and take it in, yet they have it. I remember when my daughter would get upset at school, I got her a punching bag and she would start hitting the bag. I was like, whoa, she’s got a lot of rage in her. To me, Crush is created because of my daughter, so Crush is girl rage, she’s fight club. She says it the way it is and doesn’t care. There’s no politically correct with her, she’s a hammer, and I think is going to be a really fun character for the DCU. She was raised in a foster home so she doesn’t know her mom or her dad, so there’s a mystery to who her mom could be too.

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Roundhouse
>Roundhouse is a character that was created by my son and I. It was the last character I came up with. He said, “Dad, what about a guy who bounces?” I replied to him that he was too young to remember Bouncing Boy and the Legion of Superheroes. Then he said, “What if he could turn into different elementals? What if he could turn into fire, lava, metal…” That was different. He came back with a name, Roundhouse, which we looked up. Nope there’s not a Roundhouse that exists, so he’s our Garth, and he’s new to the superhero game.

>Kid Flash found him on YouTube, turning into a wrecking ball to Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball”. Emiko doesn’t like him at all, but they wanted Kid Flash, so they inherited Roundhouse too. At first, it feels like amateur hour, but over time, I think he’ll win both the trust of the team and prove that he’s a superhero.

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>Emiko Queen: Emiko and Damian could be brother and sister.
Shippers BTFO.

Jinn
>Jinn is Arabic for “genie” and she’s 8,000 years old, but she was locked up for most of her life by her master in her version of a bottle, and so she’s out in the real world for the first time as a teenage girl. She has her secrets, things that she’s done in the past that she’s not telling the team about.

>At first glance, people will say she’s another Raven, but there’s a lot going on with her that will quickly separate her from Raven. She may or may not get involved with somebody romantically on the team. She’s a lot of fun.

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>Shippers BTFO.
Good.

Cute.

Isn’t Glass the same guy who wrote the first few arcs of New 52 Suicide Squad? What else has he done since then? Because that comic was hot garbage on it’s best day

Why is Damian suddenly a JoJo character?

So how big a part is the fun element going to play in Teen Titans?

>I just wrote on a show for Showtime called The Chi, and I wrote a lot of the kids stuff on that, as I was the only one in the room who had a teenage boy and girl in the house. Everything I write has a sense of humor to it because that’s life, you know? I spent five years working on Supernatural and that was something we did a lot of. It takes the pathos out of stuff when you mix it with comedy.

>Right off the bat, I can tell you that Kid Flash and Roundhouse are a comical team, they’re both interested in the same things and asking each other, "You get that on camera, dude?" "Sorry, I was busy fighting a bad guy, couldn’t catch you." They’re always making references to social things and playing video games together. Emiko’s very funny in a very dry, sarcastic way. I think she sees this team is beneath her skill set, so she is constantly riding everyone, and everyone sees her as a Debbie Downer, but she really wants the team to be tight.

I can see that in a Red Arrow.

>Absolutely. So she fits the mold. There will be tons of fun and jokes. I can’t help but write that way.

Thank god no Raven and BB.

It always promising in the beginning.

>doesn’t want to know her father
>She’s read everything there is to know about her father

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>this sounds promising

This is how they trick you, user. The interview seems full of good ideas, and then the execution is shit.

>Adam Glass
>promising

>In my world, he’s a little Johnny Storm. If you’re 13 and you have superpowers, you’re going to be blowing up Instagram and Twitter. He’s socially media savvy. He’s doing his thing and having a great time, and at the same time, he’s a superhero
I mean i guess. I can't stop him from writing him like that so ok.

>Emiko and Damian could be brother and sister

good, good...one more ship killed for damijon to happen

>she’s 8,000 years old,
DC wants the legal loli audience

This
Percy's interviews sounded okay at first but his run was also shit

Never underestimate the Titans curse.

Smart move by DC

>Red Arrow - Emiko Queen: Emiko and Damian could be brother and sister. They’re raised by assassins, ninjas, and their moms are criminals and masterminds. So they have a very similar history and look again, a little differently when fighting crime.

Now that I think about it, how many DC teenage heroes have this exact backstory and why do I have the impression they are all asian?

I want to see her now even more that the first time that I saw her..

Remember, people were actually hopeful for Lobdell's Teen titans because of the interviews.

>Thank god no Raven and BB.
Looks Like DC Comics Is Trying to Fix Its Massive Teen Titans Screw-Up

How original, Bouncing Boy Metamorpho.

To be fair, there is an a huge assassination group in the far east run by an immortal. Ras al ghul and his league probably needs entire bloodlines devoted to killing for him.

Jon ?

>angry jailbait
Noice

Go to hell.. That will never happen.

hes dead user

Bendis

>hes dead user
52 Superman ?

I got 3 with Cass in current continuity. Then theres Rose with the reverse white dad is the baddy and Lian Harper out of current continuity.

Now I want Shiva, Shado, and Talia to form a new League of Mom assassins with their kids opposed.

you're right, then why are you mad? also, there's a lot of fanarts and fanfics, so...

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bendis, he's gonna kill jon so clark can have another kid (a black one this time)

Too bad I liked black, gay Aqualad

Can't wait!

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this sounds nothing like Blally

>brown
>8000 years old
>loli
This most definitely turns my penis into the big penis

Good point, where's Jackson and BB gonna go?

He’ll probably be in a Young Justice book

Oh yeah, we still don't know where Tim is going.

Young Justice and Outsiders seem like they'll be the next books DC puts out, which is an awful lot of team books

I want Emiko, Damian and Jon to have a threesome where the former compete to see who's a better lover for Jon

Source?

This run needs to be successful if only so we get more porn

The part OP missed

>Did you come to this roster based on who the adversaries are going to be? Have you thought that far down the road on who the villains are going to be and how the team's powers and abilities are going face off with specific villains?

I’ve already written three issues, so I’m deep in. [Chuckles] Yes, I always say, What’s a familiar idea with a fresh take? So Titans have certain people who are staples to them. I definitely want to touch upon those, and visit those, but I also want to create new people for a new generation. So it’s a little mixture of both.

There may be characters you’ve seen before, maybe in new ways. After that you’re going to turn around and meet some new character that will hopefully have the weight of some of the old characters. Damian has to not just carry on the fight with the enemies of his his father, Dick, and TIm -- he needs to create his own. You’re going to see a lot of that for this title.

>This is an interesting time to observe the current generation of teenagers. How much have you looked at youth culture, how much are you observing not only what the Parkland survivors are doing but also around the world and how it relates to the new era of Teen Titans?

Well, I have two teenagers at home, so I live it everyday. My daughter, as we speak, is marching in L.A. with her fellow students and with my wife. My son is here (at Wondercon) with me. This plays a huge part in my story.

Damian has figured out a way that he wants to move forward and realizes that the rules that were set before him aren’t perfect 100 percent. As he would like to say, his dad and the boy scouts started something a long time ago, but things evolve, things change. He’s evolving and changing and realizing that... going back to the election, it was, "They go low, we go high." Damian says, "We’re in a street fight. If they go low, we go lower."

This is about winning, this about saving people. He’s sick of this revolving door that is Arkham Asylum, Blackgate, and Belle Reve. How many people have to die because we’re playing a game of honor and being better? "Justice League: No Justice" shows this too: grownups don’t always know what they’re talking about.

To your point, we’re seeing it in the streets right now with these (Parkland) kids. They’re going, “Hey, if you can’t pass the laws, you can’t get together as a government, while we’re getting shot at and killed in our schools, we’re going to do something because you aren’t. And our new Teen Titans are going to be a real reflection of that.

>Finally, this is a teen book, so I’m expecting high school banter, the team chemistry to be a big part.

No doubt.

Roundhouse is CUTE!

What's the twitter?

He means she doesn't want him in his life.

I appreciate Glass' optimism, but I'm still concerned based on the reaction here.

>Lobo's illegitimate daughter
Has this faggot even read any Lobo? There's a fucking planet full of Lobos one night results and they all hate him so much they pooled their resourceses to hire some top notch assassin to kill him.

>So Robin finds a kindred soul in Kid Flash and definitely finds a kindred soul in Red Arrow.
>Emiko and Damian could be brother and sister.
Please don't uproot Percy's roots.

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Outsider is going to replace RHatO :(

That was fast.

Dropped.

Tomasi super Sons or DC can burn for all I care.

She probably read up on him then realised she didn't want to get to know him personally.

>we want the "tank girl" audience

no, it's 0%
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That is a really good image and it pisses me off for some reason.

The next annoying fucking cosplay

>In our society, men are able to be aggressive, we’re able to have rage and have all of these things, where women have to eat it and take it in, yet they have it.
What fucking society does this faggot live in? The din of female screeching over muted men is such that all you hear is women complaining and marching about literally everything while men are emasculated soy men and constantly told their feelings in things literally don't matter.

>Emiko doesn’t like him at all, but they wanted Kid Flash, so they inherited Roundhouse too.
I like the idea that he's an unwanted tag-along.

>she’s 8,000 years old
>she’s done in the past that she’s not telling the team about
Guys.......I skipped school 6.5k years ago.

>"You get that on camera, dude?" "Sorry, I was busy fighting a bad guy, couldn’t catch you." They’re always making references to social things and playing video games together.
So just like Beat Boy is on the current TT Percy run?
>Emiko’s very funny in a very dry, sarcastic way. I think she sees this team is beneath her skill set, so she is constantly riding everyone, and everyone sees her as a Debbie Downer, but she really wants the team to be tight.
So exactly like Damien is on the current TT Percy run?

Did he even read Percy's run? I fucking hate it when new writers can't even be bothered to put in some minimal reading effort.

The execution is the important thing.

Outsiders is replacing BoP.

this run is going to die screaming

> She's another Raven
> Character is literally going to be the Starfire from "All New Teen Titans". You know from the era where she would straight up murder people because she was a slave for nearly two decades and the only thing keeping her at bay was her lady boner for Dick.

But she's going to be like Raven because she uses magic
Don't get me wrong I'm actually super excited about this but it's kind of a flagrant disregard for history.

So... Young Justice?

Robin Damian->Robin Tim
Kid Flash->Impulse
Red Arrow->Arrowette
Crush->Wonder Girl+Lil Lobo
Jinn->Secret+Empress
Roundhouse->Superboy Kon???

why are you insulting young justice??

>There is no team without Damian.
Red flag.
>raison d’être
Another red flag.
>people he could mold.
Third red flag. Damian is 13 years old. He’s no one’s mentor.

>In our society, men are able to be aggressive, we’re able to have rage and have all of these things, where women have to eat it and take it in
Christ.

>turning into a wrecking ball to Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball”
Come on dude that song is 5 fucking years old. Be a little less “how do you do, fellow kids”.

>My daughter, as we speak, is marching in L.A. with her fellow students and with my wife.
Alright I’m fucking done. Fuck this book.

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I love how you can always tell the newbies from older characters in lineups like these. The sad part is Damian, NuWally and Emiko aren't even that old.

Literally the only interesting addition, and even she's over-designed and dumb looking.

It's okay to not read something if it's terrible. I don't think that current writers should read anything DC published after 2004.

Cass was the original one, Damien was a copy of Cass.

Rough riders

Her costume is hideous especially her footwear

My favorite new character.

Rather Raven stuck to her solo series.

I MISSED YOU.

>Cass was the original one

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That’s why Rose became a enemy of Cass in Batgirl final run

> lobo is last of his race
> suddenly bastard daughter
i hate this kind of shit

>She may or may not get involved with somebody romantically on the team.
I've seen enough anime to know where this is going:

>That is a really good image and it pisses me off for some reason.
The fucking duckface on Robin made me twitch.

>He hasn't read Lobo: Infanticide, doesn't know about Slobo, does not remember Miss Tribb, etc.

>So we figured: Marble's not using Mania and when we cloned Fantastic Four in Terrifics people seemed to dig it so, why not?

You mean WHAT ARE THOSE?

>Dick Grayson's hand-me-downs
I'm not even sure if this is bait. What a cunt.

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>He said, “Dad, what about a guy who bounces?” I replied to him that he was too young to remember Bouncing Boy and the Legion of Superheroes.
How about Speedball?

>Then he said, “What if he could turn into different elementals? What if he could turn into fire, lava, metal…” That was different.
Metamorpho is in Terrifics RIGHT NOW and Absorbing Man's in Black Bolt.

>Garth, and he’s new to the superhero game.
He's your Goldballs and/or Butterball, more like.

Her information put that with the time we will see her less similar to raven... Maybe her powers are different and...

I like Raven but she is serious and I think that this character will try to be happy and enjoy her new life, after 8000 years..

>I'm not even sure if this is bait. What a cunt.
Why bait? It's true. DC has treated the W/P Titans as a set of hand-me-down teammates given out to the other Robins.
It's why Outlaws stopped being shit when they switched to Dark Trinity. Why Tim's Titans was 90% shit (and DC still hasn't learned its lesson). They just keep swapping out the Robin and retelling the same stories.

>Kid Flash - Wally West
>having a great time

>Robin finds a kindred soul in Kid Flash
He clearly doesn't get the characters, it'll be shit

And Kon-El was the ORIGINAL SUPERBOY... And looks now, unfortunatelly he was replaced..

Again this... Uggg...
Stupid Supersons serie.. Creating this strange fanbase..

What a shame that Glass see both characters as a brother and sister..

I will be happy for see both as a couple and see angry the robinxsuperboy fans.. Insulting my robin with that fanbase..

I really don't see anything promising

I like how he is using his kids as references for these characters. They'll probably have a bit more character because of it.

yes, again...I have +300 for your complains

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Let us have this, you have Trump.