Something that I find can be done very poorly in classic comics being brought into the current day is new characters that have never existed before.
I think this is also a great jumping on point for adults too actually, especially if you never read a Teen Titans book. Choosing a YA writer to write a teenage character is generally always a good choice but here I think it works best of all with Raven being a character who is accessible now to younger readers. This vision of Raven measures up to everything and more that i was hoping for.įor a start, Garcia is the perfect choice for writing this. Like many, my first time meeting Raven was the Teen Titans cartoon on Cartoon Network and the subsequent DC animated works after. People always come to a comic with the idea in their heads of how they experienced a character for the first time and how the new version compares. Re-imagining characters in a new way is a hard thing to pull off, especially in comics. But as she grows closer to her new friends, her foster sister, Max, and Tommy Torres, a guy who accepts her for who she is now, Raven has to decide if she’s ready to face what’s buried in the past…and the darkness building inside her. And when impossible things start happening, Raven begins to think it might even be better not to know who she was before. Raven remembers everyday stuff like how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she can’t remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. When a tragic accident takes the life of 17-year-old Raven Roth’s foster mom–and Raven’s memory–she moves to New Orleans to recover and finish her senior year of high school.
This book also was one of the graphic novels I couldn’t wait for last year since I have been following Gabriel Picolo and his amazing art for years. It has also been a while since I read a Teen Titans story. Now it has been a WHILE since I covered comics on the blog.
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