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The Judas Contract

Nov 03, 2003 02:15

I read the The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract TPB (written by Marv Wolfman, pencils by George Pérez, inks by various) today, and though I had fun reading it, it was still weird in a way. The cause for this feeling was mainly that of course Dick's transition from Robin to Nightwing has been retconned to much more confrontational versions, and I ( Read more... )

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Various cereta November 2 2003, 19:21:25 UTC

# Slade/Wintergreen? Way slashy. Slade/Terra? Way creepy. But I liked reading more of Deathstroke's story.

Ditto, ditto, and ditto. It's tough, because despite everything, I find myself liking Slade's character more often than not, and his having an affair with a 15-year-old girl is reeeeally tough to get past.

# I was surprised how much I liked Kory. Okay, I'm still not quite over her looks and skimpy costume, but I'm getting there.

Ditto again, and I think sanj had much the same reaction.

# I've been wondering what kind of job/occupation Dick has during this.

AFAIK, none. I'm not entirely sure how's he's supporting himself, except again that his "split" with Bruce was a retcon. In this continuity, there's no reason to think he's not living off of money Bruce gave him. Don't know about the nameplate, though.

I'd be curious to know your overall reaction to Terra, though.

Re: Various ratcreature November 2 2003, 19:54:24 UTC

I didn't wonder so much about the money, as about what he's doing with himself besides being a Teen Titan, all the others have jobs or school. And at least according to the retcon version Dick didn't stay in college long. But what we saw in the panel was clearly a work area. He was writing something on a typewriter, there were filing cabinets, that nameplate ( ... )

Re: Various greenygal November 3 2003, 12:11:14 UTC

It's tough, because despite everything, I find myself liking Slade's character more often than not, and his having an affair with a 15-year-old girl is reeeeally tough to get past.I've never really had a problem with this. This is in large part because of the fifteen-year-old girl in question (it's not as though he took advantage of her blushing innocence, and like 'Rith I'm pretty sure it was her idea to start with), but also, well, I don't consider having sex with a consenting fifteen-year-old nearly as bad as trying to kill a bunch of teenagers for no better reason than because your psycho son tried to kill them and failed. If I can forgive him for the main plot of the Judas Contract (and for better or worse, I pretty much have, although I still think the Titans, and Gar specifically, let him off too lightly on that count), then sleeping with Tara is no big problem ( ... )

kerithwyn November 3 2003, 10:40:48 UTC

Winick's version of Blood is a watered-down version at best. But I'm (obviously) having issues with Outsiders altoghether.

Slade just rocks, pure and simple. It seems to me that he teamed up with Tara simply intending to control her, she showed up in his bedroom one night, and he went along with the "seduction" because he realized she was an utter psychopath and to refuse her might have gotten him killed. He knows how to handle dangerous creatures.

Kory deserves far more credit than she gets from most (more recent) readers, and I lay a lot of that on Chuck Dixon and Devin Grayson, who were inclined to dismiss her as a passing fling in regards to Dick. Anyone who read the W/P Titans knows better.

Nope, no job. Living off his trust fund from Bruce, IIRC.

Donna.... *sigh* She IS the Titans. There isn't a reason good enough for her death, and I refuse to acknowledge it in any fic universe I write.