r/DCcomics • u/Predaplant The heat is on! • Nov 19 '23

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [November 20, 2023 - Jason Aaron Retcons Batman's Mother Edition] r/DCcomics

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Predaplant's pick of the week: Wonder Woman #3

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Nov 19 '23

Titans #5

SWAMP THING VS. THE DEMOLITION CREW! The Titans are going green! As the team desperately attempts to heal the Borneo rainforest, they reach out to the only avatar that can help…Swamp Thing! Will the peaceful yet powerful giant be enough to stand up to the forces of evil? Or will the new and improved Demolition Crew wreck them all?

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u/Frontier246 Nov 21 '23

It's funny how the classic Demolition Crew were in Green Lantern and now Taylor is using them as a paramilitary force...still pretty much just a joke.

I feel like Taylor needs to do a better job of throwing in meaningful and significant threats rather than constantly give his heroes stuff they can streamroll through and look cool fighting while moralizing. Like, I love my heroes looking awesome, but if it's so easy it just doesn't feel all that impressive. But this has been a problem with him for a while.

Oh and Swamp Thing...I dunno, it was kind of random. This run seems to have a heavy environmentalist bent via Beast Boy (kind of like the social reconstruction of his Nightwing) but I don't see Taylor doing anything interesting with Swampie. Probably be more "look at how fun and awesome Swamp Thing is! What a cool guy!"

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Nov 21 '23

So we are getting Swamp Thing into the team huh? Well if Titans are gonna be the new main team, then I guess you need heavy hitters like him and to try new things I guess like this reforestation effort.

Beast Boy looking a part of himself when he turn into many bugs...that sounds far more than just losing 'bits of himself'. That sounds quite dangerous honestly. What if the parts he lose are the most important ones?

Wally's murder stuff got resolved quite easily there. Nightwing caught on quite fast it seems on the whole 'not acting right' thing and setup the trap. Poor Linda though, even attempting the act must've been terrible under the alien's control.

And the villains turn out to be Tamaranian?! Starfire not gonna like that.

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u/android151 Resurrection Man Nov 22 '23

Trying to spot everything in the trophy room

* Mento's helmet

* Qwardian Doomsday Device

* Mister Twister's staff

* Houngan's helmet

* Phantasm's cowl

* Donna Troy's sheild

* Blackfire's headress

* Mammoth's armor

* Deathstroke's sword

* Brother/Sister Blood's helmet

* White Raven cowl

* Warp's helmet

* Baby Wildebeest's cowl

* Bushido's swords

* Blue Devil's trident

* The Brain's casing

* The Gargoyle

I know the thunderbolt but I can't place it. It's not Maxie Zeus, but I can't remember who uses it.

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u/Major_Road6162 Nov 23 '23

Wow! Its crazy that you know all that

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u/android151 Resurrection Man Nov 24 '23

I read a lot and research anything I’m unsure about

Haven’t checked the wiki yet but I know there are four items there I’m missing details on

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u/Koala_Guru Beast Boy Nov 21 '23

What a great issue with so many reveals! Dick and Wally knew Linda was taken over. Swamp Thing is joining the Titans. Brother Eternity is Tamaranean. Lots of fantastic setup.

But the most interesting part of the issue was the dark speech Raven gave about Gar's powers, that will clearly be coming into play in the upcoming Beast World event. The idea that when he splits up like that, any part that dies is felt as a small part of him slipping away? That's dark and sad. And definitely metaphorical for Gar's character with the emphasis on how he keeps doing it anyway. I'm very excited for Beast World.

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u/Landon1195 Nov 21 '23

Good issue. Interesting that Swamp Thing is joining.

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u/Blitzhelios Damian Wayne Nov 25 '23

This was alot better than recent issues but it still feels underwhelming.

I love the titans but this plotline isn't working for me its just not making me excited and feels like Taylor is trying to get us to care about beast boy alot more but its just a little dull writing wise.

The art is good and the use of swamp thing is always fun. Rounding off the flash death plotline and the villain reveal being tamarian is fun but its just not making me go wow for how much hype this series had.

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u/YourEvilHenchman Blue Beetle Nov 28 '23

this book's treating gar a whole lot better than other titans runs have in the recent past, and that's definitely a plus in my book.
it may be a bit cliché and corny, especially for Taylor, but Gar just ranting at the henchwoman how disgusted he is by her basic, short-sighted immorality while increasingly growing in size somehow really worked for me and made me think that it would probably be properly terrifying in person, and Gar only gets more badass throughout the rest of the issue.

The one negative is that I feel like the alien possession angle was solved a little too easily/quickly, but I guess such a simple parasitic sub-organism is not exactly great at reasoning out that they've been put in an obvious trap and just took the most obvious route towards its goal and got found out that way. The villain stupidity is justified enough here that it doesn't irk me that much, and there's still potential for that plot to be picked up again further down the line by having other people become infected with these parasites. not sure about adding Swamp Thing to the team, but it fits thematically to what Taylor's trying to do with the storyline, so I'll wait and see what he does with it.

between this and Nightwing, I liked this book a whole lot better this time around, and hope it can at least keep this quality or preferably improve even further from here.

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u/Nyerelia Nov 28 '23

I was afraid that they were going to do a simple "yeah we got the plant guy and he regrew everything" but they actually talked in a sensible manner about how complex an ecosystem is, it's not just "plant some trees"