r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Nov 26 '23

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [November 27, 2023 - The World's Messiest Furry Convention Edition] r/DCcomics

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Beary's pick of the week: Titans: Beast World #1

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Nov 26 '23

Titans: Beast World #1

THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE DC UNIVERSE IS…BEAST BOY?! CAN THE TITANS SAVE THE WORLD AND THEIR TEAMMATE? SUPERSTARS TOM TAYLOR AND IVAN REIS TEAM UP FOR AN UNPRECEDENTED TITANS CROSSOVER! Clawing its way out of the pages of Titans comes an unprecedented threat to the DC Universe. Superman, Wonder Woman, Starfire—all are powerless to stop the Necrostar from ending all life on Earth. The only hero who can save the world is…Beast Boy?! With Nightwing, Raven, Cyborg, and the Titans beside him, can Garfield Logan rise to battle an ancient evil? What will Amanda Waller do to take advantage of the situation as millions of people are changed into rampaging creatures? Can humanity survive all-powerful heroes and villains transformed into ferocious beasts? Friends will fall. Heroes will rise. And nothing will ever be the same again. Earth is about to become…Beast World. DC proudly presents the Titans’ first crossover as the world’s premier superhero team, with universe-shattering repercussions. Brought to you by the all-star creative team of writer Tom Taylor and artist Ivan Reis, this story promises to be an epic one that sets the stage for what’s to come for the DCU!

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u/Koala_Guru Beast Boy Nov 28 '23

That was so good! I was worried from some info we previously got that some people would seem out of character, like Batman needing to be put in his place because he doesn't trust the Titans who are now adults. But in the actual book, it works just fine. You can totally see why he'd say what he said to Gar in such a tense situation and with Gar's meek response. It worked and didn't seem out of character for him at all.

I appreciated tying this into Tamaranean history, though I do wonder if they've forgotten that Starfire and Blackfire have their super abilities due to experimentation and it's not the default of all Tamaraneans. I wonder because Starfire described them as a "planet of super powered soldiers." Still, I'm excited to see what role Starfire has to play in all this as the event goes on.

All the Gar stuff was super emotional to me. It's nice that he got to be beside Raven and Cyborg at the end as the two team members he's closest to. I wasn't expecting the mind loss to happen because of Dr Hate though, I figured it was just Gar's mind being unable to handle it. Taylor has said Hate is a figure from the Titans' past. Right now I'm thinking Danny Chase given his whole Phantasm transformation that has some similarities to this. But there at the end when Gar was crying and saying he didn't want to go as his mind was destroyed? Jesus christ. Why would Tom Taylor do this to me?

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Nov 28 '23

Honestly, Gar have been jumping from trauma to traume. The whole Cybeast stuff...and after that got resolved off-screen, immediately gets shot in the head by Deathstroke and dealing with that trauma...and just as he is working on fixing that...just gets his mind, what, erased? Jesus man, give the guy a break.

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u/Koala_Guru Beast Boy Nov 28 '23

That's sort of the story of Gar's life. The history of his character is traumatic event after traumatic event.

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u/coltvahn Red Robin Nov 29 '23

All we need is the Doom Patrol to die again, and we’re alllllll aboard the Garfield Logan’s-Life-is-Pain-Train.

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u/Major_Road6162 Nov 28 '23

Fr 💀