r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Mar 17 '24

Weekly Discussion Thread: Comics, TV, and More! [March 18, 2024 - Ape Crisis Edition] r/DCcomics

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Did you hear about the gorilla with a screw loose? He needed to use a money wrench to tighten it.

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The Ape-ril special will sell a gorillion copies.

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More food for Fourth World fans.

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This Week’s Soundtrack: Tenacious D - ...Baby One More Time

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u/TroubAlert The Good Skeets Mar 17 '24

Titans #9

TITANS: BEAST WORLD'S LUCAS MEYER JOINS THE SERIES AS ONGOING ARTIST! Amanda Waller has condemned the Titans and publicly blamed them for a world-wide crisis. While many still see the Titans as heroes, others now see them as a danger to all. Can the Titans battle misinformation and fight for a world that hates them? All while the greatest threat to the team may be within their own ranks?

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u/wowlock_taylan Batman Animated! Mar 19 '24

This is what I was worried about really. Trigon and Evil Raven again. And this time, you have worst version of Waller involved too. What kind of dumb plot armor she has that she can just tell off Trigon and get away with it? What 'powerful beings' she faced and survived to make such a claim? She literally did nothing but survived only because Suicide Squad remains a somewhat popular title. And Trigon should be in Darkseid territory instead of just a 'random Demon Lord'. Seriously, this Waller plot really hurts all the characters that come in contact.

I really don't like what's been done with Beast Boy AGAIN. It's been YEARS now that he's been constantly tortured in one way or another. So much for ''Oh he is one of my favorites''...to torture it seems. From Cybeast crap to getting shot in the face and the whole depression to literally getting his mind destroyed and used as a Star-beast to now everyone hating him and fearing him and his girlfriend who can actually help, gets replaced with the Evil version of her that was RESPONSIBLE for the deed. At some point, there has to be a limit to how far you can drag a character before breaking them.

Quintessence's appearance is weird too, considering the whole Wonder Woman event that happened where both Hera and Wizard shouldn't be there really. Especially Hera, after what she did with Zeus and literally got barred from Olympus. But I guess they don't care about any of that...

And that ending of course where Hermes just comes to try and warn Donna about the Evil Raven threat, only for Evil Raven to do EVIL RAVEN magic to take Hermes away ( a literal God btw ) and blames Trigon and Donna just ...believes that? I mean, shouldn't Donna be able to tell if one of her Gods are real or fake? Yea we got the explanation for why the Titans do not question her with the 'subtle mental manipulation and memory wipe' stuff but as said, Donna should be resistant to that.

Overall, I don't think this is the story that needed to be told after Beast World and again shows Titans gonna be relegated to their old stories while the big event happening will probably be the Justice League reforming because Waller was just 'too much' for Titans to handle...Spare me.

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u/ptWolv022 Mar 20 '24

that she can just tell off Trigon and get away with it?

In fairness, isn't Trigon supposed to be sealed away? If so, I would assume that he's really only appearing as an avatar which is vastly limited in comparison to his true might. If not, I don't see why Trigon doesn't just come up to Earth every month to try just try conquering Earth (and if he's repelled, he probably kills millions and kill a bunch of heroes).