Teen Titans 1: It’s Our Right to Fight

Teens go!!
best start for a new team and art is grreat!! New team new mission Go Teen Titans Go!!! Thank you amazon and DC

Collects Teen Titans (The New 52), Issues 1-7The adventure was a lot of fun, and the art was beautiful to look at. This is the exact type of art that I would want out of my superhero comics. I’ll break down each issue in depth below, but for a quick, spoiler-free summary, I would describe this volume as, “the building of the team.” The Teen Titans all come together for the first time in service of a common goal. Led by Red Robin, they face off with a mysterious organization kidnapping and brainwashing teenagers.Here is the issue by issue breakdown:Issue 1: The book opens by introducing us to a “trying to be helpful, but is actually making matters worse” Kid Flash. The media is making a big deal out of metahumans making a mess of things across the globe. Next, we see Red Robin (Tim Drake, a former Robin to Batman) monitoring these world events when he is attacked by a clandestine organization called N.O.W.H.E.R.E. They are on a mission, gathering up super powered teenagers, and trying to recruit them to work for their agency. Red Robin is one of my favorite heroes in all of DC, and he decides that he needs to form a group of his own to combat N.O.W.H.E.R.E.’s plans. He starts by reaching out to Cassie Sandsmark, known as (much to her chagrin) Wonder Girl. The first issue ends with the revelation that N.O.W.H.E.R.E. is in possession of a weapon known as Superboy.Issue 2: This issue, again, opens with Kid Flash (Bart Allan). Tim Drake, working with Cassie, continues to try to figure out what’s going on. He is an awesome detective, maybe second only to Batman. I’m a big Dick Grayson fan, but Tim Drake is an extremely close second to best Robin ever.Issue 3: In this issue, I met a character that I had never heard of before. His real name is Miguel, but he goes by Bunker. He has the ability to create purple psionic constructs, similar to the Green Lantern’s power, but without the ring.Issue 4: It seems that Skitter has transitioned from creature to defeat into a member of the Teen Titans. At the beginning of this issue, Superboy is hunting down Wonder Girl, and Bunker and Skitter are hanging out at Tim’s place. Then, out of nowhere, Kid Flash and Solstice show up. We learn quite a bit about the character’s pasts. For example, Superboy was created a few weeks ago. Bart showed up at an orphanage six months ago with no memory of how he got his powers. Solstice has been altered by her time under N.O.W.H.E.R.E.’s incarceration.There was a cool Easter Egg of sorts, as we saw a Booster Gold advertisement in the background of the Wonder Girl/Superboy fight. One thing to note, not just about this issue, but about the book as a whole: You may think that with a title like Teen Titans, this book would be more aimed at a younger audience. This isn’t the case. In fact, I noticed more sexual comments and innuendos in this volume than any of the other New 52 books that I’ve read so far. On the other hand, there is a young adult literature-like love triangle between Wonder Girl, and her two suitors, Red Robin and Superboy. In the middle of their all-out brawl in this issue, Superboy and Wonder Girl are both remarking that in different circumstances they could see themselves together.Issue 5: Superboy has different powers than Superman. He mentions “tactile telekinesis” at the opening of this issue, and in the last issue he shot something out of his “S” symbol. Superboy destroys the Teen Titans singlehandedly, but it appears that he is changing his stance on N.O.W.H.E.R.E.Issue 6: In the wake of the battle with Superboy, the police want to arrest the Teen Titans because of the property damage. Meanwhile, Kid Flash’s powers are still freaking out from what Superboy did to him. They need help, so they go to Virgil Hawkins, also known as the superhero, Static. Apparently, he’s a genius. Spoilers: Turns out the police detective isn’t who she says she is. She seems to be from a different planet (or possibly a different time period). She knows the true identity of Kid Flash. The most interesting thing she said, in her weird, foreign language, was that “This isn’t supposed to happen yet!” There is a new villain for the team in this issue, named Grymm, but it takes about two pages to defeat him. Then, Kid Flash gets a new costume.Issue 7: The stupidest member of the team is introduced in this issue. Tim has an inside man, undercover at N.O.W.H.E.R.E. His name is Danny, and his power is…I’m not exactly sure, but he is a road that moves or something like that. A road that is a teenager and can’t talk. Yeah, that sounds about right. Wait, no, he can also act as some sort of pan-dimensional doorway. That probably describes him better. Kid Flash has a memory of his mysterious past, so that was kind of cool. The apparent leader of N.O.W.H.E.R.E. is a guy named Zaniel Templar. I’m not familiar with him. But then we meet the real big bad, a guy named Harvest, and he is building a Colony.

I did not order this for myself, my rating is based on how quickly the product got to me and that state it was in when I got it. I got the items in this order about a week after making the purchase-maybe not even a week. The items were all in great condition and I am sure the person getting this and the other comics i bought will be more than happy with them.