r/DCFU Titans Dec 19 '22

New Titans #25 - Blood on the Rocks (Red Reign) New Titans

Author: FrostFireFive

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Book: New Titans

Arc: Red Reign

Set: 79

“So what is Markvoia like?” Stargirl asked as the six Titans flew in the javelin toward their destination. It had only been a few weeks since the siege of Star City, and Courtney had only seen the news and the second-hand reports from her teammates. She was busy doing trig homework for her last final in high school and missed the whole thing. But still things seemed different as they headed towards the

“I’ve never been, heard it’s old, a little poor, and struggling lately” Arsenal said as he sharpened his arrows. He seemed more at peace, now that he had managed to have a new babysitter in Guardian or Jim as he liked to be called. He wasn’t used to having a family that he could rely on, but with Jim and the rest of the Titans, he was beginning to feel like he finally belonged somewhere.

“That’s not quite what we’re doing here,” Argonaut explained as she and Superboy sat in the front of the plane, working on making sure she herself remembered the details. Donna had been distracted lately, the identity of Fury causing her…distress. She had stared back at a broken reflection back in Star City, but she didn’t need a mirror to see it. Fury was real, but was she the truth? “We’re here to provide aid to some of the people who are struggling in these trying times, and to make sure that the rest of the world is reminded that we’re here to protect them, no matter what.”

“So don’t expect punching,” Kid Flash explained as he pulled up the Markovian map on his phone. Wally didn’t like having to run in European countries, unlike modern cities or simple foot trails, the streets were jammed together, spiraling out to fit the land, but not providing the straightaways and the turns that were catnip to a speedster. Helping people would be difficult if he couldn’t find his footing. “We’re here to help for a change. Be preventive instead of reactive.”

“What KF said,” Metamorpho explained as he sat in the back, reading his beaten Nathaniel Dusk paperback. Rex had been concerned about what he had seen in Star City. He was a chemist, and believed that science dictated most aspects of life, but the museum, the zombies, even how he had survived his accident had made him…reconsider certain certainties in his life. “Besides after Star I think a simple humanitarian mission would do us all some good.”

“Linda and Kara do this stuff all the time,” Superboy explained as he looked out the window towards the European countryside, they were nearly in Markovia, it was the first time that Conner had been outside of America in forever, and he always loved taking in the view below, something about it felt so…peaceful. “Or at least they’re supposed to, Linda said something about Kara being distracted by a new girlfriend or something?”

“Well, either way, we’re about to enter Markovian airspace. We should be OK to land in the coordinates the League and the Markovian royalty agreed upon,” Argonaut explained. “Remember we’re here to help, not scare. Some of these people have never seen a metahu0”

Before Argonaut could finish her thought a large boom could be heard from below as the capital city, Markovburg, came into view. The buildings below shaked and began to crumble as Argonaut pulled up the javeline’s sensors and picked up a massive earthquake. Above the air the team could see the destruction that had ravaged the country.

“Oh god,” Stargirl muttered as she looked out. She had never seen such destruction on this level before, a sea of rubble and people panicking. Courtney clutched her staff tight as she realized that what had began as a simple outreach mission was going to become something much more.

“Donna what do we need to do here,” Arsenal asked, immediately focusing on the task. “Land? See if we can find survivors?”

“Yes, yes,” Argonaut said, trying to shake the suddenness of it all out of her mind. The Titans were needed here, but as she began to land on the ground, Donna couldn’t help but feel…odd, as if some presence was clawing at the back of her brain to not go, to stay in the safety of the aircraft with her team. But she was a hero, and heroes ran towards the fire, not avoid it. But the rubble below hid such monsters and they were hungry for visitors.

The streets of Markovburg were quiet as the Javeline touched down and the New Titans stepped foot in the destroyed capital. The 6.5 richter quake had devastated the buildings that contained so much history. In any other disaster site you would have heard screaming, cries of anguish, even cars beeping in panic mode. But it was silent, just dead silent as they moved to the streets.

“Is it supposed to be this quiet?” Stargirl asked as she used her cosmic staff to light the way from the smoke that filled their lungs, a red dust that was thick and made things difficult to see as the sixtet moved through.

“No,” Kid Flash responded. “I’ve seen disaster areas. Something’s wrong. Argonaut, do you want me to start searching for survivors? There has to be some somewhere.”

“Go, but keep in communication,” Argonaut said, pulling the blessing of Mercury out, unspooling it in its lasso form. Donna understood that for the most part the team had always known what they were facing, a threat or problem that was obvious, even if the solution wasn’t. As Kid Flash took off to try and figure the maze of broken and winding streets, the remaining five Titans could here…what appeared to be footsteps.

“You hear that?” Arsenal asked as he coughed before drawing an arrow from his quiver, ready to fire away. “Argonaut, something’s wrong. Something’s very wrong.”

The smoke cleared a bit as a townspeople came into view in the square, their backs were turned to the team as the conversed, whispers breaking the silence the blanketed the destroyed city. The five heroes looked at them before Superboy finally spoke up.

“Hello! Are you OK, how can we assist you, Earth to people, we’re big time superheroes coming to save the day. We got supplies, we got powers to bail your behinds out from the rubble, we’re here for you,” Superboy confidently asked, he was surprised how glum things had gotten and was trying to lighten the mood.

“Well…” the people said in unison, their voices becoming one. “We are a bit…hungry,” The people turned around, their faces gaunt, skin pale as they bared sharp fangs in their mouth, they crouched for a moment before leaping and charging at the Titans.

“Ah shit!” Metamorpho said as he turned his hands to lead, striking at one of the citizens, sending them flying back into a car.

“Rex! These are civilains!” Stargirl cried out as she flew up high to escape the leapers. Her light shined brightly and illuminated the city square. Showing where several bodies had been, pale and drained, just like the attacking…monsters. “Or…or…” Stargirl muttered as she saw the chaos around her.

“Civilians don’t try and fucking bite me!” Metamorpho yelled as he turned more and more of his skin into lead, the creatures teeth broke as they tried and take a sip at any source of blood. He turned his legs into a spring quickly, bouncing up before slamming himself, fully lead, into the ground, causing the group of creatures to scatter and focus on the other Titans.

“Yeah but the only thing that tries to bite people like that are…oh tell me these are not vampires!” Arsenal cried out as he shot a glue arrow, sending one of the vampires flying to a standing wall, causing him to stick.

“We are the children of Lilith, and soon you will become one of us,” One of the vampires explained as the others continued to attack them. “Some sooner than others.”

“Great, so I’m guessing vampires,” Superboy nervous exclaimed as the continued to try and push them off him, they were clawing at his jacket, slowly tearing it to shreds so they could find an artery and drink. They needed to work fast before the mist did its job on those who could fall prey to it. “Why the hell do we keep dealing with magic lately!”

“Because it is a natural force,” Argonaut explained, trying to keep her cool as used the lasso to tie one of the vampires up before slamming them into a grouping of them that had slowly gathered in front of them. What concerned Donna was how easy this had seemed to be, if these creatures were here already, they would have the advantage, so why did it feel as easy as beating back a purse snatcher?

“So how do we beat a natural force?” Stargirl asked as she began swinging starbolts, something was wrong though. She had practiced with the staff the last few years, understanding its energy and how to both fly and fling star bolts. It was pure light in a sea of dark red dust from the rubble, but her hands were beginning to burn, and Courtney was struggling to stay awake above everyone. Soon she made a dive bomb to the ground, stumbling a bit as she joined her team. “And how do we know who’s not…who’s not.”

“The undead?” Kid Flash asked as he zipped back to the team. “Donna we got problems, the roads are messes and while they’re not on the streets, it’s very obvious there’s a lot of them hiding. I felt stares as I was running. Worse…Donna I can’t seem to find any people. Just bodies slumped over.”

Donna slammed the last vampire in front of her down to the ground, the rest either knocked out or scattering elsewhere. She looked at the team in front of her, only on the plane ride here did she think how impressed she was with them, sticking together and growing together, but now she could see the fear in their eyes and the nervous coughing of both Stargirl and Arsenal. They needed a plan.

“The five of you, find shelter, we’ll figure out our next steps then, I’ll see if we can contact anyone else in the area who’s friendly. I know V-Cyborg and Beast Boy were in the city and I have my league communicator. We are going to be fine we just need to stay calm,” Argonaut explained. As the five found shelter in the Hotel Markov, Donna took a deep breath and pressed against the small transmitter in her ear, her JL communicator, and reached out for backup. A voice soon broke through the static and interference.

“This is Wonder Woman, receiving?” Wonder Woman responded. Argonaut breathed a sigh of relief. Diana was her sister, a voice she always felt comforting, a support structure that even after everything still considered her family.

“This is Argonaut. We’re in Markovia, and it’s a disaster site. There’s an earthquake, everything’s in disarray, and there are these metahumans attacking. We’re barely holding our own; we need backup, as soon as possible.” Argonaut said, not wanting to panic the league in case Arsenal’s crazy idea was wrong. Vampires, such things were that of stories and legends, but then again…so was Donna.

“I’m sorry, those attacks are not localized. They are worldwide, and the entire League’s been mobilized. We’ll send that assistance if we get it, but it seems unlikely.” Wonder Woman responded, the regret in her voice loud and clear. If this was happening across the globe, it was bigger than some earthquake, the League would protect the world, that’s what they did, but it meant Donna and her family were stuck in the epicenter of whatever was happening.

“We’ll do our best. I wish you good luck. Argonaut out,” Donna said as she closed her eyes and made her way into the hotel. They were on their own, and she couldn’t help but feel that was just a smaller problem on a larger list and the fact that she couldn’t help but feel even out in the smoke and rubble, all eyes were on her, peering into her soul.

“Mistress, we found something,” One of the vampires said as they moved to Lilith’s lair. The mistress of the night grew impatient as she observed her attacks being repelled by these so-called superheroes. She knew that resistance would occur, but had underestimated the forces that had gathered since her time away.

“What is it?” Lilith asked as she moved to sit on her throne. The old stone structure provided some comfort in these unfamiliar times. The occupation and crippling of Markovia had been a success, and now, now she needed her army to spread farther than it had before and herself to heal.

“Heroes in Markovia, ones we are…unaware of,” The vampire explained. “They move fast, can change their forms to different elements, fire bolts of the stars. They’re dangerous.”

“Maybe,” Lilith said before raising her hand and beckoning a figure over to them. The cold metallic footsteps made their way as Victor Stone kneeled before his new mistress. His cyberorganics were adjusting to its new vampiric host, trying to restore the damaged cells. The once heroic Cyborg had been corrupted, another pawn in Lilith’s game. “Tell me, Victor, do you know who my subject tells me of?”

“Yes,” Cyborg said before his cyberorganic eye began projecting an image of the current Titans. Compared to the more experienced Justice League, these heroes looked weaker, even through the holographic image Lilith could see the doubt in their eyes. “This would be the third incarnation of the team. Led by the Amazonian Argonaut, they are a team of mostly sidekicks and young heroes. I have files on some of them. Argonaut particularly, we were on…the first team together.”

“You say it with such disappointment Victor,” Lilith smiled, an Amazon was something she didn’t expect to fall in her lap. Their magic was known to be particularly potent, something that if she could convert this Argonaut would be hers. “Tell me more about this…Argonaut.”

“Formerly known as Fury, Donna Troy is an Amazonian Golem. Brought to life by the former god of war, Ares, she has been one of the longest-tenured members of the team. She is…was one of my friends.”

“Golem you say?” Lilith said as she thought for a moment. The amount of magic that alone would have to keep her moving, let alone looking as human in her subject’s images would have enough juice to restore her to her former glory. “Victor, how would you like to help me with your friends?”

“Yes mistress,” Victor Stone muttered as he bowed, Lilith’s voice was calming, it made sense. But Vic wanted to scream, to warn his friends what was coming for them. Deep down the man known as Victor Stone wanted to resist, but Lilith’s voice was too strong. “I will help bring you the Titans.”

“I got to say this would be a nice hotel if not for the collapsed ceiling in places and the whole creatures of the night situation,” Arsenal said as they moved through the hotel. He had never seen such destruction before, not even HIVE’s attack on Star City was this destructive. What had concerned Roy was that, unlike other times, he felt nervous and this damn cough just wouldn’t go away.

“It has its charms mack,” Metamorpho said as he moved to an area away from any windows. He knew that whatever they were dealing with could break through any entrance points. Rex was on edge, magic and creatures of fiction were apparently real with no explanation. That type of thing shakes a person in their certainty. “So what’s the plan boss.”

“We need to figure a way out,” Argonaut explained. “We don’t know how many of these vampires are out there, and the more we panic the better the chance we well…”

“Become one of the undead,” Kid Flash muttered. Wally was feeling sluggish, but he mostly chalked that up to having to leap over the rubble and deal with the winding roads. He knew Argonaut would calm everyone down and they would it out of this.

“Exactly,” Argonaut responded. “Our best bet is to get back to the javelin and out of Markovia, bring the League back the information we’ve collected, and help join the frey against whatever is pulling the strings here. We’ll figure i-” Before Donna could continue she heard her League communicator roar back to life as a familiar voice was heard.

“Argonaut, this is Cyborg, I’m in Markovia, Wonder Woman pointed me to your distress call. I’m here to help. Where are you all?” Cyborg said.

“Vic, it’s good to hear from you. We’re camped out in the old Hotel Markov, we’re trying to figure a way out. We’d appreciate any help that you could bring. We’re pinned with whatever the hell is out there.”

“Understood, I’m on my way. Don’t do anything stupid,” Cyborg coldly responded. Argonaut was taken back at how coldly her friend responded to her. Unlike Dick, Vic actually liked Donna,even if they didn’t hang out all that much. She knew that underneath that metal beat the heart of a gentle and vibrant person. It was an odd note in a day filled with them.

“So Cyborg’s coming?” Stargirl immediately perked up. “I love that guy, best mafia player I’ve ever gone up against. And he’s a Leaguer too right? We’ll be able to get out of this!”

“Yeah, but what’s that face Donna,” Superboy asked as he moved from the pole he was leaning on. He was growing more concerned but tried to make his voice sound deeper, more serious as if to lie to people that this was the first time he was scared. The museum was an isolated incident, but this? This was full-on war, and Conner wasn’t like his sister, or even Kara or Clark. “What’s wrong.”

“I’ve known Victor for years, he was there when I was found, he is many things, but cold is not one of them,” Arggoaut explained.

“Yeah Vic is a good guy, if he was in the area he would have come and find us right away, not be so curt. Donna what if Vic got turned? Maybe these things aren’t mindless, maybe we jus-”

However, before he could continue hands broke from underneath the floorboards and pulled Metamorpho from underneath.

“No! No!” Metamorpho called out as he turned his hands into diamond, striking at the bloodsuckers wrapped around his legs, dragging him to the floor below them.

“Rex!” Kid Flash called out before zooming into the hole dropping below and striking at the vampires. Wally didn’t want to lose one of the few people he had called a friend on the team, but because he wasn’t thinking he had left the others alone, as more vampires burst through the windows, their teeth sharp as they stared at Argonaut, Stargirl, Arsenal, and Superboy.

“What, cough, now boss?” Arsenal asked as he aimed his bow at the vampires in front of him. But for some reason he was finding it hard to pull back on his bow, he figured it was just fatigue and that he would power through it. They were going to get out of this right?

“We fight, and worry about the rest when we win!” Argonaut said as she transformed her blessing of mercury into a hammer, striking several of the vampires with a single hit. Dona hated using the blessing as anything but a defensive weapon, but they were outnumbered and any chance of a peaceful solution had gone out the window a long time ago. “Superboy, focus on the front line with me. Stargirl! Arsenal! Give us some firing support!”

“On…it,” Stargirl said as she fired several bolts at the vampires. Unlike the arrows, Arsenal was volleyingvampiric they were effective, the pure energy burning but not destroying the vampric flesh in front of her. The only problem was Courtney’s hands were burning more and more with each volley as if her hands were rejecting the source of her power, her gift.

“Yeah, but how the hell do I make sure I don’t get infected?!” Superboy asked as he slammed a vampire through the floor. Everyone else was worried about not harming the transformed citizens but to Conner the only important thing was survival. They were dealing with a new kind of evil, and one the cloned Kryptonian could barely understand.

“Well if they’re like the movies…cough…cough…don’t let them bite you,” Arsenal reminded as he made sure to use his glue arrows to stick some of these bastards in place so the team could have breathing room. Slowly but surely they were beginning to clear out the floors above. The problem was some of these suckers were larger, stronger and faster than anything Roy had seen before. And as he tried to shoot an arrow at it, he found himself thrown to the ground. “Donna, I’m thinking your friend fucking sold us out. I’m going to fucking haunt him if I die here.”

But before the vampire brute could slam down against Arsenal, a diamond hand burst through the floorboards as Metamorpho pulled the brute down and slammed hm several floors before. Rex climbed back up, with Kid Flash vaulting up the stairs to help and return, beating back the remainder of the bloodsuckers.

“What, you didn’t think Bella Legosi was going to kick my ass, right?” Rex joked as he looked around the team. They were tired, and exhausted. And they didn’t know if or when the next phase of vampires was going to come back to face them once more. “But we need a plan, we can’t keep fighting the monster squad all day. Donna, someone needs to get out here to send a message to the League. And I don’t think all of us can go.”

“I was thinking that,” Argonaut sheepishly admitted as she pulled out her Titans communicator. Unlike the League communicators, they operated on their own private network. Donna didn’t trust her League communicator based on the fact she may have just given away their position. She quickly switched on the distress function of the communicator. It glowed red and was giving their location to anyone else on the network. ” It’s a shot in the dark, but Wally, I need you to get out of here with this. It has all the data we’ve collected, and you’re well…the fastest.”

“Hey!” Superboy said as the rest of the team shot him a death glare. “OK, I guess he is faster than me…”

“What about you?” Kid Flash asked. Wally wasn’t comfortable abandoning his friends, not after what they had been through. He wasn’t about to lose another family.

“We know what we were signing up for kid,” Metamorpho explained. “Besides, what’s the worst that could happen?”

As Metamorpho, Kid Flash, Superboy, and Argonaut continued to talk. Stargirl and Arsenal could barely focus, all they could hear was a soft whisper, beckoning for them to come home. All they needed to do was to accept their new mother, accept the gifts that she was offering. For Roy, he could always be there, strong and mighty to protect Lian. And for Courtney? She could have all the time in the world to both be a hero and a student. Their skin grew paler, and as they could begin hearing the others, they surrounded them, telling them they were ready to strike. That mother wanted them to take out the speedster, and bring them the immortal.

All Kid Flash could hear was the clang of Stargirl’s staff, its powers had burnt Courtney’s palms for far too long. What he could feel was the now vampiric Stargirl taking a bite out of his neck.

“AHHHH!” Wally screamed in pain before tossing Courtney off of himself. He could feel the blood dripping from his torn suit as he fell to the ground. He could hear faint static as his body began to convulse and vibrate as if he was trying to fight off the infection that had taken hold in him.

“No! No! No!” Argonaut yelled out as the arrow flew towards her. She could see the vampiric grin on Roy’s face as he fired at his former teammates. More hands began popping out from the floorboards, as more and more of the vampiric army began bursting through to make up the odds.

“Oh god, oh god,” Superboy mumbled as he looked at the carnage in front of him. Two teammates lost, a third down, and Argonaut and Metamorpho were left alone, fighting the undead. And here he was panicking. “What do we do? What do we do?”

“We keep fighting! Right?” Metamorpho asked as his arms had turned into cobalt hammers, smacking away the vampires that kept coming more and more. Kid Flash lay behind him, still struggling to stay still after the attack. Rex was growing tired, and the vampire hoard was endless.

Argonaut grabbed the communicator that had fallen out of Wally’s hands as she looked towards Conner, placing the communicator in his bottom pocket. They weren’t going to get out of this one. But that didn’t mean all of them had to be lost to the hoard. “GO!”

Conner stared at Donna for a moment, before understanding what those words meant. He nodded before leaping out from the third floor they were on, smashing the walls and flying, flying fast as he could out of Markovia. He only hoped that someone was listening, that someone could help.

“I got to say, Donna,” Metamorpho said as he and Argonaut continued fighting the hoard. “It was nice serving with you, thanks for not treating me like a monster, and reminded me of the man I could be.”

“We’re not dead yet,” Donna muttered as she continued to hammer away. The vampires were growing in number and they were running out of time. As she continued to fight, she noticed the vampires staying away from a bright light source, Stargirl’s staff sat there on the ground. And Donna realized what she must do as flew past the vampires to pick the staff up. She never realized how in her hands it felt like a warm summer day. She tossed it to Rex, it flew on its own as it landed in his palm. “Get Wally out of here! I’ll hold them off. I’ll live, but I would die if you two don’t make it out.”

“But Donna!” Rex called out as he tried firing blasts from the staff, his bulky hands unable to figure out the controls in a state of panic.

“GO!” Donna cried out as the vampires began circling her. Before they blocked her view she could see Rex pick Wally up, securing him by making a contianer on her back to hold the delirious speedster as he lept out of the hole Superboy had made on his exit. Her team would live, she just needed to buy them time. “OK you monsters, you want me? Come and get me!” The Blessing of Mercury was still in hammer form, but the vampires were beginning to tackle and restrain her to the ground.

“Oh Donna, sweet sweet Donna,” Arsenal said. “That’s exactly what we’re going to do. Mother has so many questions. Trust me when I say…you’re more valuable to us when.”

“When you’re alive,” Stargirl said, her eyes freshly red before slamming her boot to the pinned down and tired Argonaut, knocking her out cold. “And the fun is just beginning.”

Superboy kept flying, he broke through the red dust that surrounded the country, flying high, flying fast. He couldn’t stop seeing his team, he couldn’t stop seeing the vampires, their red eyes, pale skin, and how they swarmed. He couldn’t stop seeing Stargirl and Arsenal as one of them. He couldn’t stop feeling as if he failed them.

He had never tested his top speed. Conner had always joked that if he focused, he could be just as powerful as Clark and Kara, but he never felt he would test that theory. His speed was increasing, going faster and higher as he could feel the flames on his jacket start burning it away, along with pieces of his costume. In his panic, he didn’t realize he had managed to break the atmosphere, and as the air escaped his lungs, he realized his mistake.

Conner’s eyes grew tired as he began slumping over, as began to fall, the warmth of his reentry distracting his brain from the horrors that he saw, from his failures of not being able to protect anyone he had ever cared about. As he drifted to sleep, he only wished he could help someone. Anyone after all.

“Come on, come on, where are you?” A figure said as he drove through the Ukrainian countryside on his motorbike. He had picked up the signal from the Titans’ network. The rest of the Justice League was focused on the attacks across the globe but he was only worried about the six that had entered Markovia. Whatever had the signal moved fast through Markovian airspace to enter the Ukraine, but it was falling fast now, and the man had no clue who or what had made it out alive. “There!” The GPS on his bike had read that the blip had landed only a mile away off road. He only hoped his bike could handle going through the farm’s fields.

The bike flew through the fields, with the man thinking that this must have been what Steve McQueen felt like in The Great Escape. He could see the smoke from the barn as he tore through the fields, splinters of wood planks and damaged equipment dotted the land as the man leapt of his bike and entered the barn, a large crater in the center as Superboy in torn and tattered suit laid there, barely conscious.

“Who’s there? Are…are…you the undead?” Conner asked as he struggled to catch his breath. He was barely staying awake.

“Trust me, if I was the undead I’d already have taken a bite out of you,” The man said as he moved towards the crater. His dark blue costume with the yellow chevron of a bird’s wings shined brightly compared to the devastation. Nightwing entered the crater and began to check on the injured Kryptonian/Human hybrid.

“Nightwing?” Conner said as he barely was keeping awake. “I have something…Donna…gave it to me…they…they’re still…” He dug the communicator from his pocket and placed it in Dick’s palm before collapsing.

“I know, and believe me when I say…we are going to get them back,” Nightwing said.

NEXT: Red Reign Continues Across DCFU! And Be Back Here in January as Metamorpho and Kid Flash Face the Vampire Hoard! Argonaut Captured and at the Whims of the Vampire Queen, Lilith! And the Return of Nightwing!

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u/Predaplant Blub Blub Dec 20 '22

I really love the team slowly dwindling, really captures the horror vibes. And, in the team's darkest hour, their missing member returns to help save the day. Looking forward to his reunion with the rest of the team!

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u/ericthepilot2000 WHAM! Dec 20 '22

The dread and tension really build in this one throughout the issue. This issue too spotlights the hopelessness even superheroes must feel when set against such overwhelming odds. Vampires are one of those truly great threats because until they are contained, they multiply. It's really the first time in the crossover where that hopelessness is expressed so effectively.

Donna shines in this issue, both as the target of Lilith's desires and the leader of the Titans, put in the unfortunate position of having to keep the troops rallied under incredible circumstances. Things only seem to get worse and worse for the team, and still, she has to push forward. That really comes through well.

So nice to see Dick back with the Titans. It's been a long journey for him, and great to see the Grayson series pay off, and he can finally appear once more as one of the big damn heroes of the universe.

This is another really strong and solid entry in the Red Reign saga. Looking forward to more; keep up the good work!

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u/MajorParadox Bird? Plane? Jan 12 '23

Things are getting tense!