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Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus Hardcover – February 26, 2013
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Award-winning fan-favorite writer Geoff Johns' celebrated TEEN TITANS run collected into one giant hardcover tome!
- Reading age12 - 17 years
- Print length1426 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 12
- Dimensions7.56 x 3 x 11.16 inches
- PublisherDC Comics
- Publication dateFebruary 26, 2013
- ISBN-101401236936
- ISBN-13978-1401236939
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About the Author
Johns was born in Detroit and studied media arts, screenwriting, and film at Michigan State University. After moving to Los Angeles, he became an assistant to Richard Donner, director of Superman: The Movie. He and his mentor Donner later co-wrote Superman: Last Son featuring the return of General Zod.
Johns has written for various other media, including episodes of Smallville, Arrow and Adult Swim’s Robot Chicken, for which he was nominated along with his co-writers for an Emmy. He is the Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment and resides in Los Angeles, California.
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- Publisher : DC Comics; Combined edition (February 26, 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 1426 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1401236936
- ISBN-13 : 978-1401236939
- Reading age : 12 - 17 years
- Grade level : 7 - 12
- Item Weight : 2.07 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.56 x 3 x 11.16 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,701,753 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,989 in DC Comics & Graphic Novels
- #26,785 in Superhero Comics & Graphic Novels
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About the author

Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He began his comics career creating and writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. for DC Comics.
His first comic assignment led to a critically acclaimed run on the The Flash and JSA for DC Comics. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and imaginative writers in comic books today, working on titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, The Flash: Rebirth, Superman: Secret Origin, Action Comics, Adventure Comics, Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 through 2005 and 2007 and 2008 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 through 2005. Geoff penned the acclaimed "Legion" episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as a writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN. Geoff is currently working on film projects with Warner Brothers to be announced soon.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank among many others.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022
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Without spoiling anything, I really like Geoff Johns' take on a new generation of Teen Titans especially how the teens are a mirror image of the Justice League (Robin/Batman, Superboy/Superman and Wonder Girl/Wonder Woman) and for the most part the teens don't want to grow as replacements for the Justice League. Hold overs Starfire and Cyborg provided a connection to the previous Titan goldens years of Marv Wolfman and George Perez. Johns' interpretation of Raven also deserves some praise. As the series developed, new characters like Rose Wilson/Ravager, Kid Devil, and others are added while others are removed (such as Starfire leaving to join the Outsiders).
This omnibus effectively ended at issue 50, Johns' last issue, but the series continued for another 50 issues with other tie ins. I really hope DC will reprint the second half of this series in omnibus format. If you like DC heroes, get this and read it.
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2022
Without spoiling anything, I really like Geoff Johns' take on a new generation of Teen Titans especially how the teens are a mirror image of the Justice League (Robin/Batman, Superboy/Superman and Wonder Girl/Wonder Woman) and for the most part the teens don't want to grow as replacements for the Justice League. Hold overs Starfire and Cyborg provided a connection to the previous Titan goldens years of Marv Wolfman and George Perez. Johns' interpretation of Raven also deserves some praise. As the series developed, new characters like Rose Wilson/Ravager, Kid Devil, and others are added while others are removed (such as Starfire leaving to join the Outsiders).
This omnibus effectively ended at issue 50, Johns' last issue, but the series continued for another 50 issues with other tie ins. I really hope DC will reprint the second half of this series in omnibus format. If you like DC heroes, get this and read it.
What this book ISN'T: a way to read the comprehensive Teen Titans with a clear beginning\middle\end.
I finished reading this from cover to cover today, I really enjoyed it and if you like Johns' writing or DC's characters you will probably like it too. It's similar to his style with his Lantern teams except substitute magic instead of outer space (I prefer space though).
There are a LOT of characters in this book. I hadn't heard of most of them before other than Superboy (Conner Kent version), Robin (Tim Drake version), Speedy (Mia Dearden version) and Impulse (Bart Allen). The plots focused on them and Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark version) were my favorites. The stuff with the others was fine too but less meaningful to me. By the end of this massive book it is mostly all "B-level" side characters however, just FYI.
The biggest thing I think you should know is that it kinda counts on you being fairly familiar with the DC universe of that era. It would greatly help you as a reader if you were already knowledgeable on the prior teams (like the previous Teen Titans and Young Justice) and related teams (like the Outsiders or Doom Patrol). Additionally, this book covers so many years that it crosses many major events (such as Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, some OMAC stuff, some Amazon stuff, etc) and a primary character relies on you remembering the Death of Superman \ Reign of the Supermen comics from the '90s. If you haven't read those you may not know what is going on sometimes. You should be able to follow what the Titans are up to and why but you may be lost as to the big picture at points.
Keep in mind most of the Titans also exist in their own separate titles at the time or at least appear in their "family's" stories. Those issues impact them too and they carry that over to this comic, often without explanations. For me personally the most confusing aspects are when members will join the team and leave the team (or die and resurrect) yet one of the two events will be included while the other won't. I don't know if that's because it took place when someone else was writing or what but I just had to go with the flow.
Note for the editors: it really is over 1400 pages long but nearly every chapter has a blank black page separating it from the next so I really think they could've been used to throw in a couple lines of text explaining what is going on outside of the book to get the audience more up to speed.
Lastly, if you are not experienced with a hardcover comic this thick the middle section is quite tough to read in your lap. It's so heavy that you have to hold it open with effort and when the page gets towards the binding you have to work at reading it.
In conclusion if they had made a little more effort at turning it into a single long arc with lots of subplots then it would've been five stars from me. Instead it is just a stack of somewhat related chapters occasionally presented without context and that hurts it's readability as a cohesive epic. If I had known all of this beforehand I still would have ordered the book even though I've only read about half of the other works it depends on.
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Sie übernahmen 1980 den bereits 1978 aufgrund von schwachen Verkaufszahlen eingestellten Titel Teen Titans und brachten ihn als New Teen Titans zurück. 08/15 Superheldenkost mit Teenies machte Platz für charakterorientierte Geschichten über das Erwachsenwerden von jungen Superhelden und obwohl das Melodrama ähnlich wie bei Marvels zeitgleich publizierten Uncanny X-men von Chris Claremont (die sicherlich als Inspiration für die New Teen Titans dienten) manchmal dick aufgetragen war, machen diese Comics auch heute noch Spaß.
Der Erfolg ließ nicht lange auf sich warten. New Teen Titans war der meistverkaufte DC Comic zu seiner Zeit und konnte sogar mit dem Kassenschlager Uncanny X-men des Rivalen Marvel Comics mithalten.
Anders als bei den X-men konnten sich die Teen Titans nach dem Abgang des Kreativteams Wolfman-Perez jedoch nie als dominierendes Franchise etablieren, kreative und finanzielle Fehlschläge haben dazu geführt, dass die Teen Titans immer mehr ins Vergessen gerieten, bis ein gewisser Geoff Johns, der sich mit der JSA, Hawkman und Flash damals anfing einen Namen zu machen, sich ihrer 2003 annahm.
Weg ist der Ballast der 90er Jahre, unverbrauchte Gesichter wie die ehemalige Young Justice-Truppe (der von Peter David erschaffene Quasi-Reboot des Teen Titans-Konzepts) mischten sich unter die alten Recken, die jetzt als Mentoren für die jüngeren Mitglieder fungieren und sorgten so für frischen Wind. Wie bei Wolfman-Perez steht hier die Charakterzeichnung im Vordergrund, die Story kommt jedoch nicht zu kurz und es gibt Action satt.
Johns hat hierbei den Spagat geschafft, klassisches New Teen Titans Feeling rüberzubringen, ohne dabei altbacken zu wirken.
Jedoch kann man nicht alle seiner Geschichten als Homerun bezeichnen (die hierdrin enthaltene, von ihm und Ben Raab geschriebene Beast Boy Miniserie ist meiner Meinung nach sogar ziemlich unterirdisch). Außerdem enthält dieser Omnibus viele Tie-Ins zu Events, die für diejenigen, die nicht so firm in den Geschehnissen des DC-Universums eingeweiht sind, zu Problemen führen könnten.
Zeichnerisch treten hier unter anderen Mike McKone, Ivan Reis und Tony Daniel auf, wobei mir besonders McKone (dessen Arbeit auch das Cover des Omnibus ziert) positiv auffiel.
Insgesamt lohnt sich also dieser Omnibus auf jeden Fall, besonders natürlich für Superheldenleser, aber auch für Young Adult Novel Leser kann ich eine Empfehlung aussprechen, denn diese Geschichten handeln in erster Linie von den Höhen und Tiefen des Erwachsenwerdens, obwohl wie gesagt ein wenig Vorwissen hilfreich wäre.














