Titans East

by Adam Beechen and Geoff Johns

Since the first appearance of Robin, teenaged heroes have banded together to fight evil and learn from each other...as the Teen Titans! The all-new "Teen Titans", including Deathstroke's daugter,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401214479
• ISBN13: 9781401214470
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: DC Comics
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Cuisinart1965

Very good story! Love the return, rise and resolution of the characters in this story.

Eastward bound

The Teen Titans meet their match when Deathstroke organizes his own group of Titans, the Titans East. Among the members are former Kid Flash nemesis Inertia and a drugged up Batgirl, and soon enough Robin and co. are in up to their heads in a world of hurt. In one of Geoff Johns' final arcs on the series he helped relaunch, Titans East displays what Johns does best; as he fleshes out newer Titans member Kid Devil's backstory, up's the ante of the relationship between Robin and Wonder Girl, and sets the stage for more mayhem to follow. His ability to make you care about what would be considered otherwise minor heroes in the grand scheme of things shines very bright here, further proving that Johns is the best superhero writer in the business today. The various artwork from Tony Daniel and Adam Beechen is quite good as well, making Titans East all the better, and strengthening Johns' already incredibly solid run on the series he brought back from the dead.

east and west, never the two shall meet

It's east vs. the west. Deathstroke is up to his old tricks and it's up to Robin (Tim) to lead his team from the west and a friend is going to help him out. He's going to need it.

Great Read!

TEEN TITANS: TITANS EAST is the latest graphic novel gathered from the pages of the newest incarnation of the young heroes in the DC universe. Led by Robin (Tim Drake, actually the third person to wear the Robin uniform), the team consists of Wonder Girl, Miss Martian, Kid Devil, Ravager, Cyborg, Raven, and Jericho. They formed the new team after the events of Infinite Crisis (which would take a HUGE column to explain). This volume opens up with an introspective peek into Kid Devil's life. Since he mysteriously appeared in the pages of the monthly comic series, writer Geoff Johns works his familiar magic in bringing the character to three-dimensional life. I love watching Johns write stories like this, and I knew I was going to be in for a treat when I started in with first-person narrative from Kid Devil. Johns has got a deft, sure hand with every character he touches. I've yet to hear him strike a false note. To be honest, I wasn't very enamored of the Kid Devil character. He looks kind of neat and is probably fun to draw for the artists, but he just didn't appear to have much depth. After Johns's first arc of the TITANS EAST storyline, I can safely report that just isn't true. Eddie Bloomberg (Kid Devil) is, literally, a tormented soul. Hero worship was what brought him into the hero biz when he wanted to be the sidekick for Blue Devil. I never much got into Blue Devil either, but he was pretty interesting the way Johns presented him. And, in the end, it was hero worship that boomeranged and trapped Eddie in a situation that could leave him as one of the devil's own - literally - when he turns twenty in three years. That story detail is left dangling for the time being, but I was good with that. As the story moved into the next section of the arc, Deathstroke the Terminator attacked the Teen Titans with a group of super-powered kids he'd gathered and called Titans East. Long-time readers of the TEEN TITANS will remember that Deathstroke has been a main opponent of the Titans since writer Marv Wolfman created him for the reboot of the series he did back in the 1980s. Johns is very clever about his plotting. He generally is. Sometimes he lays all his cards on the table and lets the readers simply watch him work magic. Other times, he keeps a card hidden or turned over or turned so that it looks one way when it's really another. That's what he does in this graphic novel and it makes it a little difficult to talk about much of the plot without giving too much away. Jericho and Ravager are the son and daughter of Deathstroke. Jericho He tells the Titans that he's there to reclaim what is his. Of course, a battle to end all battles ensues. In Deathstroke's corner there is Batgirl (who we find out later is drugged into listening to Deathstroke), Risk, Sun Girl, Bombshell, Kid Crusader, Match, Inertia, Enigma, and Duela Dent. If you're not a comic geek, the names aren't going to mean much and it would take too long to expla