Teen Titans #12
Cover Date: December 2015
Released: 21st October 2015
⋅ Writers: Will Pfeifer ⋅
⋅ Pencilers / Inker: Ian Churchill ⋅
⋅ Inker: Norm Rapmund⋅
⋅ Colourists: Tony Aviña ⋅
⋅ Letterers: Corey Breen⋅
⋅ Editors: Eddie Berganza / Mike Cotton ⋅
Continued from Teen Titans #11, above.
Tanya isn’t in this comic at all, but as it’s the bridge between this and the next issue, which she is in, and as the last part was pretty easy to sum up, it’s worth covering it here.
So this basically revolves around four characters Red Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash. And whilst it’s covered in the story we’re meant to just ignore that at the end of the last issue neither of them were at the MAW prison!
Indeed there not at the prison but at the wrecked apartment where they first met. First, we finally get to find out what happened with the massacre, In the biggest splitting of hairs, it seems that when his body detected the Durlanshis brain shut down and his body did the murdering. And to be fair Conner does feel that he should pay for what he did, and in a reversal, Cassie is the one who wants to get help for Superboy.
Bart then has similar moments about fighting a war in the future, and this time COnner tells him it’s okay as he speaks from the heart. Then Cassie has her moment about how she adopted this very spiky armour to help defend the Earth for Trigon. Now I don’t know about either story so I can’t comment on how all this works, but it seems pretty solid comic book stuff.
Red Robin then gives the better together speech, and ironically as part of the Batfamily he doesn’t apparently have some trauma, though apparently, he was spying on the rest of the Titans before they got together. Luckily any anger the others could find is dispersed when he throws some robin-themed shurikens at the real cause of all these flashbacks, Harvest!
No, I don’t know who he is either, but apparently, he’s been set up before in the comics. Apparently, he tried to raise Conner as his son to fight in some form of future conflict, hence the whole weapon thing of Conner. Conner gets his moment and explains that he can’t really feel as he thinks of himself as a weapon, and apart from some maybe possible Ace vibes, it’s pretty messed up logic all around.
He leaves and Harvest tells the others that he’s been training them up to eventually all become an army for his nefarious plans, leaving the three Titan’s considering everything that they’ve discovered today.
It’s actually all solid stuff, dampened by it involving stories I’ve not been following. Still, at least all the storylines are wrapped up and we can finish up (hopefully) the last dangling plot thread, that of Manchester Black and the Elite…
