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Titans (2016)
Titans, Vol. 6: Into the Bleed
After their battle with Storrm above the Drowned Earth, the Titans find themselves lost...in space!
Stranded on an alien planet--far away from their Earthbound responsibilities, with no means of getting home--they're forced to fight against an enemy that has been lurking in the shadows since the inception of this version of the Titans: their own inner demons.
While stranded, Beast Boy finally succumbs to his more monstrous tendencies and could become the most dangerous thing on an already dangerous planet. The Titans are forced to square off against a savage and gargantuan Garfield! Will the Titans be able to maintain their fractured team in the face of extraterrestrial adversity and sinister secrets coming to light? And even if they can, how on earth will they ever get back home?
Find out in the sixth volume of Titans! Collects #29-36
Stranded on an alien planet--far away from their Earthbound responsibilities, with no means of getting home--they're forced to fight against an enemy that has been lurking in the shadows since the inception of this version of the Titans: their own inner demons.
While stranded, Beast Boy finally succumbs to his more monstrous tendencies and could become the most dangerous thing on an already dangerous planet. The Titans are forced to square off against a savage and gargantuan Garfield! Will the Titans be able to maintain their fractured team in the face of extraterrestrial adversity and sinister secrets coming to light? And even if they can, how on earth will they ever get back home?
Find out in the sixth volume of Titans! Collects #29-36
200 pages, Paperback
First published January 25, 2019
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July 12, 2019
This current incarnation of the Titans ends just as it's establishing itself as an offshoot of the Justice League. This definitely wasn't the traditional Titans book we're used to at this point. It was just a group of young heroes helping out the JL with all the Source Wall nonsense. At least, Dan Abnett was able to wrap all his ongoing plotlines. One missed opportunity is that when Raven had split into good and evil versions of herself, she should have had three sets of eyes like her father, Trigon as established in previous stories when she turned evil. Oh well. This incarnation was quite the up and down. At this point, they should hand the book back to Wolfman and Perez if they want to resurrect the Titans.
May 1, 2025
3.75 stars
May 3, 2024
Far from feeling like the Titans, it's actually an okay story (at times) if you disassociate it from the franchise. Donna is the only remaining original member, and whilst the new team continues to lack chemistry, the plot pushes them forward better than before. The out in space team bonding is definitely the highlight, and Kyle Rayner's short lived foray is a welcome addition. Another twist villain does, however, sink the experience from what could have been a three back down to a two.
June 23, 2019
While trying to find some critical information for the Justice League during Drowned Earth, the Titans find themselves marooned on an alien planet that forces them to look at their team in a new light. Then, a new addition to the team gets them home just in time to battle Mother Blood as she attempts to use the magic of Unearth to infect the Multiverse with the power of the Red! The Titans head Into The Bleed as their series comes to an explosive conclusion.
Identity has been a bit of an issue for Titans since it was rebranded after No Justice. The idea of the team chasing down Source Energy metas was a good one, but it got thrown to the side quite quickly, and the loss of Nightwing hurt the team a lot. As compelling as this group of characters should be, they don't have quite the same oomph as the classics do - hats off to DC for trying something new though, and the addition of Kyle Rayner for the final six issues of the book was a nice touch, given that they're not doing anything else with the Corps at the moment.
Into The Bleed is the type of magical bullshit story that I love, and the crazy power-of-love type ending that concludes it all is exactly what I wanted from the book. It takes a little while to get there, but it's worth the trip, and I'm glad Abnett took these last few issues to wrap up all of his storylines rather than trying to start anything new. It all ends very open-ended for the team, but the crises they've been dealing with are all neatly tied off, and I appreciate that.
The art's a little more all over the place, although I'd never say it's bad. These eight issues include contributions from Clayton Henry and Minkyu Jung, before Bruno Redondo comes on to round everything off. It's a weird little mix of talent, but I'd say they all work pretty well - Redondo especially seems to gel well with Abnett, having finished off his Earth-2: Society book too.
Titans isn't a bad book - it's just not as good as it could have been. There are some solid stories, but the characters at their core never seem to rise above to anything truly special. It's still a nice read, and it's never boring, but there's definitely untapped potential here.
Identity has been a bit of an issue for Titans since it was rebranded after No Justice. The idea of the team chasing down Source Energy metas was a good one, but it got thrown to the side quite quickly, and the loss of Nightwing hurt the team a lot. As compelling as this group of characters should be, they don't have quite the same oomph as the classics do - hats off to DC for trying something new though, and the addition of Kyle Rayner for the final six issues of the book was a nice touch, given that they're not doing anything else with the Corps at the moment.
Into The Bleed is the type of magical bullshit story that I love, and the crazy power-of-love type ending that concludes it all is exactly what I wanted from the book. It takes a little while to get there, but it's worth the trip, and I'm glad Abnett took these last few issues to wrap up all of his storylines rather than trying to start anything new. It all ends very open-ended for the team, but the crises they've been dealing with are all neatly tied off, and I appreciate that.
The art's a little more all over the place, although I'd never say it's bad. These eight issues include contributions from Clayton Henry and Minkyu Jung, before Bruno Redondo comes on to round everything off. It's a weird little mix of talent, but I'd say they all work pretty well - Redondo especially seems to gel well with Abnett, having finished off his Earth-2: Society book too.
Titans isn't a bad book - it's just not as good as it could have been. There are some solid stories, but the characters at their core never seem to rise above to anything truly special. It's still a nice read, and it's never boring, but there's definitely untapped potential here.
April 11, 2019
Ever since "No Justice", the Titans book lost its direction and, sooner than later, it marked its cancellation. Too bad, because we lost the original Titans again.
As much as I love Dan Abnett's writing, I think he did never get what the Titans were about. The ties that bound them together and the complexity in their relationship as friends and teammates. It wasn't about letting them hug every other minute, it was way beyond that, it was about a shared history, a common goal and ideals, about love and some bits of jealousy here and there, you know, as with real friends.
When the team got stranded in a another planet, they got this huge opportunity to explore who they were, but odd as it was, they all had this crazy guilt trip... Talk about missed opportunities.
Too bad the book closed when there was so much energy put into it when it was launched after Titans Hunt. And the timing couldn't be worse. I mean, the Titans TV series was powerful enough to deserve its comic book counterpart.
When the original cast of the Titans got dropped after "No Justice", they tried to copy the Wolfman/Pérez formula once again. They had Nightwing and Donna Troy, then the "second-generation" Titans with Beast Boy and Raven, and they added Steel (as Cyborg's counterpart) and Miss Martian (as Starfire's). Well, it just doesn't work that way. Some characters may look the part, but they aren't the same and can't be replaced that easily.
I guess the deadly wound came when Nightwing left the book and got replaced with Kyle Rayner (yeah, they look similar, too-- that just made me roll my eyes). This is not how things work.
Pretending an odd pack of characters with no history together care about each other this much never worked in a book that was based precisely on long-lasting friendship. They never had the chance to hang around a bit other than saving the world. They needed to have some pizza, swim in the pool, fool around a bit. You know, they needed to bond. A book about close friends doesn't work without close friends. It's that simple. And thus, this new direction basically killed the vibe and in time, the book as well.
It's a shame, because the last story at Unearth was quite charming.
*Read as single issues.*
As much as I love Dan Abnett's writing, I think he did never get what the Titans were about. The ties that bound them together and the complexity in their relationship as friends and teammates. It wasn't about letting them hug every other minute, it was way beyond that, it was about a shared history, a common goal and ideals, about love and some bits of jealousy here and there, you know, as with real friends.
When the team got stranded in a another planet, they got this huge opportunity to explore who they were, but odd as it was, they all had this crazy guilt trip... Talk about missed opportunities.
Too bad the book closed when there was so much energy put into it when it was launched after Titans Hunt. And the timing couldn't be worse. I mean, the Titans TV series was powerful enough to deserve its comic book counterpart.
When the original cast of the Titans got dropped after "No Justice", they tried to copy the Wolfman/Pérez formula once again. They had Nightwing and Donna Troy, then the "second-generation" Titans with Beast Boy and Raven, and they added Steel (as Cyborg's counterpart) and Miss Martian (as Starfire's). Well, it just doesn't work that way. Some characters may look the part, but they aren't the same and can't be replaced that easily.
I guess the deadly wound came when Nightwing left the book and got replaced with Kyle Rayner (yeah, they look similar, too-- that just made me roll my eyes). This is not how things work.
Pretending an odd pack of characters with no history together care about each other this much never worked in a book that was based precisely on long-lasting friendship. They never had the chance to hang around a bit other than saving the world. They needed to have some pizza, swim in the pool, fool around a bit. You know, they needed to bond. A book about close friends doesn't work without close friends. It's that simple. And thus, this new direction basically killed the vibe and in time, the book as well.
It's a shame, because the last story at Unearth was quite charming.
*Read as single issues.*
July 3, 2019
Titans: Into the Bleed picks up where the previous volume left off, collecting the last eight issues (Titans #29–36) of the 2016 on-going series and collects four story lines: "Marooned", "The Other Side", "Last Rites", and "Into the Bleed".
"Marooned" is a two-issue storyline (Titans #29–30) with "The Other Side" an one-issue story line (Titans #31) has the Titans: Beast Boy, Donna Troy, Miss Martian, Raven, and Steel trapped on a planet, as they find a manner to escape and forced to deal with their inner demons. Green Lantern Kyle Rayners finds them and helps them out and joins the Titans.
"Last Rites" is a one-issue storyline (Titans #32) with "Into the Bleed" a three-issue storyline with an epilogue (Titans #33–36) has the Titans facing off with Mother Blood and her Church of Blood as most storylines are concluded with this story. "Last Rites" is told from the perspective of Mother Blood and serves as a decent prelude into the last storyline "Into the Bleed".
Dan Abnett penned the entire trade paperback. For the most part, it is written somewhat well. The first half of the trade paperback is a mediocre story that introduced Green Lantern Kyle Rayner as the newest member of the team – an interesting addition, but I wished I knew more about him. Last I heard he was a White Lantern. The second half of the trade paperback ended the series much too quickly, but understandable since the series was coming to an end.
Bruno Redondo (Titans #33–36), Minkyu Jung (Titans 29–30), Clayton Henry (Titans #31–32), Brent Peeples and Christian Duce (Titans #31 and #35 respectively) are the pencilers for the trade paperback. With so many pencilers and different styles the artistic flow of the trade paperback is rather rough.
Over all, this Titans series started off rather strong with rather good storytelling and penciling. However, things started to spiraled downwards when the Titans momentarily broke off and the storyline from then on fluctuated too much. Abnett did the best he could with the editorial interference with Justice League: No Justice event and the sudden retirement of Dick Grayson as Nightwing in Batman #55, where he was shot in the head.
All in all, Titans: Into the Bleed is a somewhat good conclusion for an overall mediocre series.
"Marooned" is a two-issue storyline (Titans #29–30) with "The Other Side" an one-issue story line (Titans #31) has the Titans: Beast Boy, Donna Troy, Miss Martian, Raven, and Steel trapped on a planet, as they find a manner to escape and forced to deal with their inner demons. Green Lantern Kyle Rayners finds them and helps them out and joins the Titans.
"Last Rites" is a one-issue storyline (Titans #32) with "Into the Bleed" a three-issue storyline with an epilogue (Titans #33–36) has the Titans facing off with Mother Blood and her Church of Blood as most storylines are concluded with this story. "Last Rites" is told from the perspective of Mother Blood and serves as a decent prelude into the last storyline "Into the Bleed".
Dan Abnett penned the entire trade paperback. For the most part, it is written somewhat well. The first half of the trade paperback is a mediocre story that introduced Green Lantern Kyle Rayner as the newest member of the team – an interesting addition, but I wished I knew more about him. Last I heard he was a White Lantern. The second half of the trade paperback ended the series much too quickly, but understandable since the series was coming to an end.
Bruno Redondo (Titans #33–36), Minkyu Jung (Titans 29–30), Clayton Henry (Titans #31–32), Brent Peeples and Christian Duce (Titans #31 and #35 respectively) are the pencilers for the trade paperback. With so many pencilers and different styles the artistic flow of the trade paperback is rather rough.
Over all, this Titans series started off rather strong with rather good storytelling and penciling. However, things started to spiraled downwards when the Titans momentarily broke off and the storyline from then on fluctuated too much. Abnett did the best he could with the editorial interference with Justice League: No Justice event and the sudden retirement of Dick Grayson as Nightwing in Batman #55, where he was shot in the head.
All in all, Titans: Into the Bleed is a somewhat good conclusion for an overall mediocre series.
August 14, 2021
I didn't know I never finished this series.
I wish I didn't...
Okay it was the worst thing ever it was just bland, like this entire freaking run. There's some good ideas, the start is actually fun with the Titans having to rediscover working together. Having Kyle join the Titans was a actual pretty cool idea. But then nothing happens. They go into this weird DnD type world which is over the top and silly and not fun. Then it just ends with Raven unlocking her powers...yeah this was boring as hell.
2 out of 5.
I wish I didn't...
Okay it was the worst thing ever it was just bland, like this entire freaking run. There's some good ideas, the start is actually fun with the Titans having to rediscover working together. Having Kyle join the Titans was a actual pretty cool idea. But then nothing happens. They go into this weird DnD type world which is over the top and silly and not fun. Then it just ends with Raven unlocking her powers...yeah this was boring as hell.
2 out of 5.
October 14, 2022
Yes, you're right, I should've read vol. 1-5 going into this. Honestly, the art was pretty good up till the end and it felt a bit choppy. The character styles were really cool, but their personalities were so different from what I'm used to so it was simply jarring. Little to state, the comic probably is good for someone, but it was not the one for me.
July 25, 2020
5 🌟
Donna Troy takes over as leader of the Titans after Dick is shot. They are stranded on space then get back to Earth where they are joined by Kyle Raynar. They travel to Unearth to stop the spread of the Red.
Donna Troy takes over as leader of the Titans after Dick is shot. They are stranded on space then get back to Earth where they are joined by Kyle Raynar. They travel to Unearth to stop the spread of the Red.
June 28, 2022
Well, just another book that really suffered with the mega sagas of the DC Universe, but i believe Dan Abnett did it well.
On the first story of the volume, we see the team lost on another planet after the Drowned Earth stuff (that i haven't read and probably won't), facing their fears and their inner selfs, and them, for some reason, Kyle Rayner found their beacon and just becames an part-time member of the team. And on the second story, Mother Blood finally made her move about The Red.
The last arc of the book is really cool, like, The Titans on a Tolkien middle-earth kind of place but, really, i cannot see this Lord Travesty guy and this world and don't make a connection with it, between Malekith, Swartfelheim and the Dark Elves. I believe Dan really drank some of this Jason Aaron's influence.
And the art was really good. This probably is the story that really brought Bruno Redondo to light and has shown us why he's one of the most important artists on the american scene right now.
Anyway, a good finale, for a average run, that had it ups and downs, but this last two books made it worth to follow through.
On the first story of the volume, we see the team lost on another planet after the Drowned Earth stuff (that i haven't read and probably won't), facing their fears and their inner selfs, and them, for some reason, Kyle Rayner found their beacon and just becames an part-time member of the team. And on the second story, Mother Blood finally made her move about The Red.
The last arc of the book is really cool, like, The Titans on a Tolkien middle-earth kind of place but, really, i cannot see this Lord Travesty guy and this world and don't make a connection with it, between Malekith, Swartfelheim and the Dark Elves. I believe Dan really drank some of this Jason Aaron's influence.
And the art was really good. This probably is the story that really brought Bruno Redondo to light and has shown us why he's one of the most important artists on the american scene right now.
Anyway, a good finale, for a average run, that had it ups and downs, but this last two books made it worth to follow through.
September 8, 2019
(Short review for time constraint. Maybe expand later. Just points now.)
- After Drowned Earth, stranded on a planet near the source wall. Rescued by Kyle Rayner
- Kyle joins team
- Resume mission against Mother and the Blood Cult
- Fighting moves to Unearth, a realm created in a novel, now made real by Source Wall energy
- Reunite all parts of Raven, she is able to save everyone and trap Mother in The Bleed, a space between realms, which they close off.
Will the team be disbanded now that they've fulfilled the mission the Justice League gave them?
Overall, pretty good, though the story dragged on a little bit too long.
Recommend, but needed primarily to finish the storyline.
- After Drowned Earth, stranded on a planet near the source wall. Rescued by Kyle Rayner
- Kyle joins team
- Resume mission against Mother and the Blood Cult
- Fighting moves to Unearth, a realm created in a novel, now made real by Source Wall energy
- Reunite all parts of Raven, she is able to save everyone and trap Mother in The Bleed, a space between realms, which they close off.
Will the team be disbanded now that they've fulfilled the mission the Justice League gave them?
Overall, pretty good, though the story dragged on a little bit too long.
Recommend, but needed primarily to finish the storyline.
November 26, 2019
[Read in single issues]
Replacing Dick with GL Kyle? Weird flex.
I'll take it but can the next iteration of this group have BOTH?!
Replacing Dick with GL Kyle? Weird flex.
I'll take it but can the next iteration of this group have BOTH?!
April 15, 2022
A disappointing end of this series. Such a great beginning but butchered by crossover events. I guess this is the end of the Rebirth Era in DC. The setup in Titans Hunt is what intrigued me to follow this series but unlikely things happen where four of the main characters are gone and for me there is no resolution in the story that started in the Rebirth Era.
April 30, 2020
I know this book series had to end, but it was because the powers that be at DC took away all the main characters from the book, and left the series completely toothless as it gummed its way to the end. I don't blame Dan Abnett, because he did the best he could with the tools that he had. I just wish that this book series had been given the respect that it deserved.
November 29, 2020
Synopsis: The Titans end up on an unknown planet after Steel boomtubes them off earth in a panic during the events in Drowned Earth. The team spends a bit there until they eventually get a beacon up and going. Green Lantern Kyle Rayner shows up and takes them back to earth. While running some tests on Beast Boy, these gnarly flesh-like, blood vines burst out of his body. This thing that claims to be the Parliament of the Red and tells the Titans that the Cult of Blood is close and if the Titans want to defeat them, they have to go back to Unearth, that place from that writer's mind last volume.
They do just that, but we get a backstory of a woman named Sonya who was a member of the Cult of Blood. Due to her education background, Blood himself assigns her to investigate the Red. She does that while looking for a way out of the cult for her and her friends. However, when the Source Wall breaks she happens upon the actual Parliament of Red and is exposed. She intends to lure the Titans to Unearth to use their abilities to open a direct line into the Red to infect the entire universe with.
The Titans enter Unearth and are immediately attacked by hordes of creatures. Kyle and Steel are captured while the rest are left to fight. With the help of the trickster character the creator made, Kyle and Steel are able to get free and free Raven's soul-self. With her soulself returned, Raven takes on Mother Blood and the Titans trap her in the Bleed. The exposure to the Bleed, which negates Source Wall energy, turns Beast Boy back to normal (yes, he's still green).
Nightwing approaches Raven about joining the Teen Titans again and the fate of the rest of the Titans is left unsaid.
Review: I'm bummed this was the send off for Titans since it was cancelled. There's a couple of things it does well and others it completely ignores. This could be that maybe Dan Abnett didn't have enough notice to wrap the story up in a better way or I could be wrong and this was the ending chosen. Let's start with the bad and end with the good.
First off, what the hell happens to the Titans? Seriously, what happened? We only get what happened to Raven, but what about the rest of the team? It seemed sloppy and like it was only setting up another book which would only involve Raven of the current team. I want to know what's going to happen to Donna, Steel, Beast Boy and the rest. Are they just done being the Titans? What's going on?
Second, I envisioned the finale to be more epic than it turned out to be. The solution seemed really simple when the build up to it was better than the reveal. Raven takes care of Mother Blood in like two pages. It's ridiculous. I don't even want to go into the Unearth stuff because I didn't hate it, I guess I wish the subplot with the creator and his creation wasn't a thing.
The good stuff is basically that I love the characters and their dynamics and Beast Boy got returned to normal so that pretty much brings the story objectively full circle. I enjoyed the Mother Blood stuff to an extent. I am more interested in the Cult of Blood more than I was before, however. I did like the addition of Kyle Rayner and I thought he fit nicely; I wish we could have read more stories with him as part of the team Again, such a random group that works so well. The art is good throughout the volume even if Donna's forehead is a big as fuck in some panels.
Last thing I want to say is my thoughts on the series as a whole. The series is disjointed between volumes 4 and 5 due to larger events in the DC universe, but that doesn't mean it isn't good. I have enjoyed every book in this series, even this one despite its flaws. I grew to love Donna Troy more than I thought I would, as well as Steel, Omen and Miss Martian. I love these characters and I hate saying goodbye because I don't know where most of them are ending up, but mostly you, Donna. Give the series a chance. I think it's a good time and solid throughout.
They do just that, but we get a backstory of a woman named Sonya who was a member of the Cult of Blood. Due to her education background, Blood himself assigns her to investigate the Red. She does that while looking for a way out of the cult for her and her friends. However, when the Source Wall breaks she happens upon the actual Parliament of Red and is exposed. She intends to lure the Titans to Unearth to use their abilities to open a direct line into the Red to infect the entire universe with.
The Titans enter Unearth and are immediately attacked by hordes of creatures. Kyle and Steel are captured while the rest are left to fight. With the help of the trickster character the creator made, Kyle and Steel are able to get free and free Raven's soul-self. With her soulself returned, Raven takes on Mother Blood and the Titans trap her in the Bleed. The exposure to the Bleed, which negates Source Wall energy, turns Beast Boy back to normal (yes, he's still green).
Nightwing approaches Raven about joining the Teen Titans again and the fate of the rest of the Titans is left unsaid.
Review: I'm bummed this was the send off for Titans since it was cancelled. There's a couple of things it does well and others it completely ignores. This could be that maybe Dan Abnett didn't have enough notice to wrap the story up in a better way or I could be wrong and this was the ending chosen. Let's start with the bad and end with the good.
First off, what the hell happens to the Titans? Seriously, what happened? We only get what happened to Raven, but what about the rest of the team? It seemed sloppy and like it was only setting up another book which would only involve Raven of the current team. I want to know what's going to happen to Donna, Steel, Beast Boy and the rest. Are they just done being the Titans? What's going on?
Second, I envisioned the finale to be more epic than it turned out to be. The solution seemed really simple when the build up to it was better than the reveal. Raven takes care of Mother Blood in like two pages. It's ridiculous. I don't even want to go into the Unearth stuff because I didn't hate it, I guess I wish the subplot with the creator and his creation wasn't a thing.
The good stuff is basically that I love the characters and their dynamics and Beast Boy got returned to normal so that pretty much brings the story objectively full circle. I enjoyed the Mother Blood stuff to an extent. I am more interested in the Cult of Blood more than I was before, however. I did like the addition of Kyle Rayner and I thought he fit nicely; I wish we could have read more stories with him as part of the team Again, such a random group that works so well. The art is good throughout the volume even if Donna's forehead is a big as fuck in some panels.
Last thing I want to say is my thoughts on the series as a whole. The series is disjointed between volumes 4 and 5 due to larger events in the DC universe, but that doesn't mean it isn't good. I have enjoyed every book in this series, even this one despite its flaws. I grew to love Donna Troy more than I thought I would, as well as Steel, Omen and Miss Martian. I love these characters and I hate saying goodbye because I don't know where most of them are ending up, but mostly you, Donna. Give the series a chance. I think it's a good time and solid throughout.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 7, 2026
Wow, well that was definitely another epic adventure for the books.
First of all, I must admit that I quite enjoyed the opening act of the Titans' crash-landing on a forbidden planet, which helped enhance their connections as a team. This team really did feel like a hodgepodge at times when compared to the original Titans but in a way, that's the point of being a Titan. The Titans at their core are a group of metas, humans, aliens, advanced robotics, and mythical beings, with various gifts and backgrounds uniting to fight for the common good. The main overarching theme is that the Titans are people from all different backgrounds who come together to do good and rise to the challenge.
Secondly, I have to be honest by stating that Unearth was by far the worst setup for this book. I personally did not enjoy all of the mythical/fantasy elements incorporated because the landscapes appeared barren and dull. The world was not immersive enough to take you on a journey nor hold your attention and quite frankly it falls outside of the realm of anything superhero-based. I wanted to like it but I found myself to be more frustrated than anything.
Thirdly, I liked that they switched the lore of Mother to make her history more palatable to readers who have not read Batman Eternals. Although, I still think she is an awful a villain with no redeeming qualities. Whenever DC deals with this type of cult theme ie. Blood Brothers, St. Bartlett, Cult of Religion etc. my skin kind of crawls because they are never handled well and the stories are usually heavily magic-based. I think that as far as this arc goes this portion was handled the best as the cult had a clear motive to capture and use the source energy. Although, despite the premise for the Blood cult being well written, I didn't like all the history about the Primordial Red or the Bleed.
Finally, this was a fantastic volume for the leading ladies in this arc. It isn't often that DC pulls together a predominantly female-driven team especially within major teams like the Titans so to see all the women of this arc get their flowers was rather special. Miss Martian's powers and vulnerabilities really shone from beginning to end, Steel's incredible intellect was prominent as well as his navigational skills related to the Bleed, Raven's character depth/internal battle with her identity was brilliantly written and finally, Donna rose up to be a true leader.
Out of everyone on the team, Donna had the most transformative role in this Titans arc as she began worried about being viewed as a weapon by he friends/JLA to reasserting herself in her identity to losing a close friend/love Roy Harper, and finally becoming the leader of the Titans.
My only gripe is that Beast Boy was consistently underwritten/utilized and that we needed to see more of Garfield and his internal struggles with the source energy tainting his powers. Kyle on the other hand was very well done as a last-minute add-in. He served his role well as a supportive Titan and mentor to Steel.
Overall, this series had a lot of ups/downs. I think the original Vols 1-4 were my favorite as we gain a lot of rich depth and discussions about what it means to create a legacy. We also shine a light on the mentor/pupil relationships that exist within the Titans & the JLA. Vol 5 was a great transition Volume for our new team and the comparisons between Miss M & Nightwing were also extremely well done. Whereas, Vol 6 felt a little thrown together and a bit lost in the whole Unearthed story arc. I would give this volume a 6.5/10 🌟. The parts it does right, shine the best but the rest of the story including the climax fell flat and didn't serve our heroes well.
I quite enjoyed this series as a whole and can't wait to read more Titans in the Dawn of DC Titans arc.
First of all, I must admit that I quite enjoyed the opening act of the Titans' crash-landing on a forbidden planet, which helped enhance their connections as a team. This team really did feel like a hodgepodge at times when compared to the original Titans but in a way, that's the point of being a Titan. The Titans at their core are a group of metas, humans, aliens, advanced robotics, and mythical beings, with various gifts and backgrounds uniting to fight for the common good. The main overarching theme is that the Titans are people from all different backgrounds who come together to do good and rise to the challenge.
Secondly, I have to be honest by stating that Unearth was by far the worst setup for this book. I personally did not enjoy all of the mythical/fantasy elements incorporated because the landscapes appeared barren and dull. The world was not immersive enough to take you on a journey nor hold your attention and quite frankly it falls outside of the realm of anything superhero-based. I wanted to like it but I found myself to be more frustrated than anything.
Thirdly, I liked that they switched the lore of Mother to make her history more palatable to readers who have not read Batman Eternals. Although, I still think she is an awful a villain with no redeeming qualities. Whenever DC deals with this type of cult theme ie. Blood Brothers, St. Bartlett, Cult of Religion etc. my skin kind of crawls because they are never handled well and the stories are usually heavily magic-based. I think that as far as this arc goes this portion was handled the best as the cult had a clear motive to capture and use the source energy. Although, despite the premise for the Blood cult being well written, I didn't like all the history about the Primordial Red or the Bleed.
Finally, this was a fantastic volume for the leading ladies in this arc. It isn't often that DC pulls together a predominantly female-driven team especially within major teams like the Titans so to see all the women of this arc get their flowers was rather special. Miss Martian's powers and vulnerabilities really shone from beginning to end, Steel's incredible intellect was prominent as well as his navigational skills related to the Bleed, Raven's character depth/internal battle with her identity was brilliantly written and finally, Donna rose up to be a true leader.
Out of everyone on the team, Donna had the most transformative role in this Titans arc as she began worried about being viewed as a weapon by he friends/JLA to reasserting herself in her identity to losing a close friend/love Roy Harper, and finally becoming the leader of the Titans.
My only gripe is that Beast Boy was consistently underwritten/utilized and that we needed to see more of Garfield and his internal struggles with the source energy tainting his powers. Kyle on the other hand was very well done as a last-minute add-in. He served his role well as a supportive Titan and mentor to Steel.
Overall, this series had a lot of ups/downs. I think the original Vols 1-4 were my favorite as we gain a lot of rich depth and discussions about what it means to create a legacy. We also shine a light on the mentor/pupil relationships that exist within the Titans & the JLA. Vol 5 was a great transition Volume for our new team and the comparisons between Miss M & Nightwing were also extremely well done. Whereas, Vol 6 felt a little thrown together and a bit lost in the whole Unearthed story arc. I would give this volume a 6.5/10 🌟. The parts it does right, shine the best but the rest of the story including the climax fell flat and didn't serve our heroes well.
I quite enjoyed this series as a whole and can't wait to read more Titans in the Dawn of DC Titans arc.
April 18, 2022
Not bad. A nice end to the story featuring the Blood Cult, but over all this series of Titan books has been confusing. Not much seems to carry on from one to the next, but they’ve been good enough.
It feels like every graphic novel that covers the multiverse has the same theme though. There’s always an over all bad guy who wants to take complete control and create their own multiverse or destroy the good guys because they think that their version of Justice is corrupt. There were very similar veins to the Dark Nights Death Metal throughout here.
Also I read number 5, and I don’t remember it ending the way this one started, so there’s that overwhelming feeling that I have missed so much in the story leading up to this collection in volume 6. Like they keep referring to Nightwing not being around and I’m thinking oh he must be off elsewhere helping someone else so he couldn’t be with the Titans, but then right at the end there’s something about him being “gone for good, lost to a maniac’s stray bullet”. And unlike other stories, there’s no note from the editor telling you where to read up on that story so I’m feeling completely lost.
At least Garfield is in this tale to keep the humour alive and kicking, and it’s intriguing seeing a green lantern appear. I need to look more into the Green Lantern and the GL Corps.
So much to take in with DC, but I’d take DC over Marvel any day of the week. ;)
It feels like every graphic novel that covers the multiverse has the same theme though. There’s always an over all bad guy who wants to take complete control and create their own multiverse or destroy the good guys because they think that their version of Justice is corrupt. There were very similar veins to the Dark Nights Death Metal throughout here.
Also I read number 5, and I don’t remember it ending the way this one started, so there’s that overwhelming feeling that I have missed so much in the story leading up to this collection in volume 6. Like they keep referring to Nightwing not being around and I’m thinking oh he must be off elsewhere helping someone else so he couldn’t be with the Titans, but then right at the end there’s something about him being “gone for good, lost to a maniac’s stray bullet”. And unlike other stories, there’s no note from the editor telling you where to read up on that story so I’m feeling completely lost.
At least Garfield is in this tale to keep the humour alive and kicking, and it’s intriguing seeing a green lantern appear. I need to look more into the Green Lantern and the GL Corps.
So much to take in with DC, but I’d take DC over Marvel any day of the week. ;)
July 14, 2019
As good as one could expect given the Titans' very disappointing reboot in V5.
The first few issues ("Marooned") don't have much plot, but they do make the nice plot point that the Titans are a family, by having them rediscover that.
After that the final issues ("Into the Blood") do a nice job of connecting up Mother Blood and the Unearth, to bring together some of Abnett's major plot points. The story is not particularly surprising, nor are there any real sacrifices, but it's a good enough bookend.
Overall, it's very disappointing how much the potential of Abnett's Titans was squandered from its wonderful beginnings. I suspect DC Editorial was the culprit, killing off so many of Abnett's characters and stealing away his lost-history plot, leaving him with ... nothing ... which is pretty much what we got in these final volumes.
The first few issues ("Marooned") don't have much plot, but they do make the nice plot point that the Titans are a family, by having them rediscover that.
After that the final issues ("Into the Blood") do a nice job of connecting up Mother Blood and the Unearth, to bring together some of Abnett's major plot points. The story is not particularly surprising, nor are there any real sacrifices, but it's a good enough bookend.
Overall, it's very disappointing how much the potential of Abnett's Titans was squandered from its wonderful beginnings. I suspect DC Editorial was the culprit, killing off so many of Abnett's characters and stealing away his lost-history plot, leaving him with ... nothing ... which is pretty much what we got in these final volumes.
November 28, 2020
*I’ve read a lot more than I’ve reviewed... so one sentence takeaways! (Roughly.)*
Better than the last one. Still not as good as the Titans we had with Rebirth, but this story concentrated more on comic book action--a fantasy-fueled adventure--rather than trying to be super deep. There's a time and place to be deep--and while this book did have nice moments of character development, particularly when they were all stranded on that unknown planet--it also knew when to BE a comic book and go on an adventure. At times, it took itself too seriously, but not so much that it was a distraction. A better balance, to be sure, in comparison to the previous volume. (Oh, and also... Kyle Rayner Green Lantern!)
Better than the last one. Still not as good as the Titans we had with Rebirth, but this story concentrated more on comic book action--a fantasy-fueled adventure--rather than trying to be super deep. There's a time and place to be deep--and while this book did have nice moments of character development, particularly when they were all stranded on that unknown planet--it also knew when to BE a comic book and go on an adventure. At times, it took itself too seriously, but not so much that it was a distraction. A better balance, to be sure, in comparison to the previous volume. (Oh, and also... Kyle Rayner Green Lantern!)
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 9, 2022
The book is heavely impacted by what happens in other series which is not easy to deal with for the writter and to follow for the reader. 3 key characters are made unavailable due to other writters and it takes place in parallel of an extremely complicated Justice League run.
All things considered, it was a good final arc but a very "meh" run.
This ends the Rebirth run. If I remember correctly, the initial plot was that someone stole their time. I am not sure it was solved in another serie or event, but there is zero mention to it in the remaining of the run. I am still not sure who was supposed to have known / worked with who, and who were new relationships in this continuity. The relationships are a complete mess here, which is not good for a Titans title...
All things considered, it was a good final arc but a very "meh" run.
This ends the Rebirth run. If I remember correctly, the initial plot was that someone stole their time. I am not sure it was solved in another serie or event, but there is zero mention to it in the remaining of the run. I am still not sure who was supposed to have known / worked with who, and who were new relationships in this continuity. The relationships are a complete mess here, which is not good for a Titans title...
November 15, 2024
68/100.
Después de un quinto volumen que me hizo abandonar la serie, decidí leer el último ya por terminarla. No me arrepiento: me ha gustado, pero dudo que me vaya a cambiar la vida. El volumen comienza por los Titanes encerrados en un planeta sin habitantes. Ahora que no está Nightwing, tienen que aprender a convivir entre ellos, a conocerse y a ser amigos. En medio de las peleas, encontrarán un punto medio.
Acto seguido, una villana (Mother Blood) les pone contra aprietos. Este final de la etapa me ha gustado más porque se centra en Raven, uno de mis personajes favoritos. En especial, el último número del volumen me ha dejado con muy buen sabor de boca.
Después de un quinto volumen que me hizo abandonar la serie, decidí leer el último ya por terminarla. No me arrepiento: me ha gustado, pero dudo que me vaya a cambiar la vida. El volumen comienza por los Titanes encerrados en un planeta sin habitantes. Ahora que no está Nightwing, tienen que aprender a convivir entre ellos, a conocerse y a ser amigos. En medio de las peleas, encontrarán un punto medio.
Acto seguido, una villana (Mother Blood) les pone contra aprietos. Este final de la etapa me ha gustado más porque se centra en Raven, uno de mis personajes favoritos. En especial, el último número del volumen me ha dejado con muy buen sabor de boca.
January 8, 2021
Wow, what a story line! It has been quite a wild ride following the Titan's storyline and these comics truly captured my interest. I couldn't put them down today (although I should be studying for exams). And now I keep wondering how it continues. I want to know how Nightwing is doing, how Donna will continue, if the Titans stay together or not (as this seems to be the last volume? but might be that I'm just not informed about upcoming comics). It was interesting to see Batman and the Green Lanterns Corp!
July 16, 2019
Basic Plot: The Titans head into Unearth to save Raven's soul self, stop Mother Blood, and plug up the source wall breach once and for all.
A solid ending to the series. The art was good and the plot moved along well. The jokes/puns about Unearth being a ripoff of Tolkien were funny, and well placed. The action was intense and high stakes. Overall, I wish the whole series had been this well put together, and I am sad to see the series end.
A solid ending to the series. The art was good and the plot moved along well. The jokes/puns about Unearth being a ripoff of Tolkien were funny, and well placed. The action was intense and high stakes. Overall, I wish the whole series had been this well put together, and I am sad to see the series end.
July 26, 2021
Look it's just a mess, you know? The people writing this had nothing to say about these characters who are forced to bounce between every DC crossover event under the sun. I gave it four stars because I'm stupid over that scene between Raven and Nightwing, but the whole thing is such a disservice!!!!
June 20, 2023
Part of my DC Rebirth Reading Order list:
This volume was quite fun. Do not know if they just through everything as the series was getting cancelled, but this volume really made me enjoy the Titans.
The only issue I have is that every threat across different books in my DC Rebirth Reading Order feels apocalyptic, multi-dimensional... which kinda irritates me.
This volume was quite fun. Do not know if they just through everything as the series was getting cancelled, but this volume really made me enjoy the Titans.
The only issue I have is that every threat across different books in my DC Rebirth Reading Order feels apocalyptic, multi-dimensional... which kinda irritates me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 8, 2022
Completely fine. They get lost on a planet and start to lose themselves then are saved. Then a bad woman tries to take over the Red via returning to Unearth! Nothing too special, but everything is wrapped up now, so we can continue to live our lives.
August 2, 2019
Being Abnett it's a pro story and does a great job of tying off the Titans at a time where it seems difficult to move forward as is.
June 15, 2020
This version of the Titans thuds to an end. There were a few bright spots such as Donna Troy leading and Kyle Raynor joining up, alas Abnett couldn't get the job done.
September 20, 2022
29-30, Marooned, ☆☆☆☆
31-32, Last Rites, ☆☆☆
33-36, Into the Bleed, ☆☆☆
31-32, Last Rites, ☆☆☆
33-36, Into the Bleed, ☆☆☆
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