Turns out they've been doing the comic book store circuit ever since, with many changed characters, changed premises, and changed titles: The New Teen Titans, Team Titans, Titans, and finally The New 52, which appears in issues of Teen Titans, Titans Hunt, and Ravagers.
Yeah, that's why I don't read DC Comics. Who wants to read a hundred issues of a dozen titles to get the story?
Forging a tv series out of such a complicated storyis risky business (really, who in the real world has ever heard of any teen sidekick except Robin?). It was announced in 2014, went through the ranks of acceptance and rejection, and finally premiered on the DC Universe network in October 2018 with an 11-episode first season. Most of the Titans are young adults, with some new teens added.
According to rumor, in Season 2 they are planning to introduce a gay Titan. Bets were on Bunker, canonically gay in the 2012-2013 comic book series. But they have just cast Joe Wilson as Jericho, who has a long backstory of closeting: he was originally meant to be gay in the comics, but the authors changed him to straight, but in Rebirth he was bisexual, and...
1.Brenton Thwaites (top photo) as Dick Grayson, the Robin of the comics now retired and working as a detective in Detroit. No superpowers, but very athletic.
2. Ryan Potter as Gar Logan, one of the early Titans, then a member of the Doom Patrol. He can turn into a tiger, which I imagine is very effective against bad guys with guns.I guess he's like Beastboy.
No beefcake photos of Superboy? Really?
What's with all the Titans lacking in superpowers?
5. Curran Walters as Jason Todd, the new Robin. You didn't know that Batman keeps changing them when they die or get too old, did you?
That's it for the male Titans. I'm disappointed. Where's Cyborg? Kid Flash? Aqualad? Gnarkk the Caveman?
Beefcake seems rather limited, for a series about superheroes.
9. Alain Moussi as Batman (uncredited).
Um...how about Brooker Muir as the Superboy body double?
PostscriptL Joe Wilson is history. The new actor to play Jerocho is Chella Man, a trans deaf person of color. Talk about breaking down barriers!
ReplyDeleteIt's more Wolfman and Pérez wanted to avoid stereotypes. Art kid, sleeps around albeit ethically (doesn't lead people on, always has condoms), not of a mama's boy, refuses to join family business. Seems like a LOT of gay tropes to put on one character. Plus, Raven needed a love interest. (Even if she's about to destroy the world...) At the time, Kid Flash thought she shouldn't exist. (Which, considering her destiny...) Robin had Starfire, Beast Boy was still convinced Terra wasn't "really" a traitor (and basically waging a war on the entire Wilson family), and Wonder Girl (not gonna happen in the 80s, but, she's from a lesbian utopia, so...) was engaged.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Kid Flash, I think Kid Flash has a whole confusing story. And right now he's dead or non-existent in every DC universe currently running.