Issue Description

The Red Hood pays the Titans a visit to claim his rightful place...over Robin's dead body! And what does Donna Troy's return mean for the team?

SPOILERS

The recently ressurected Donna Troy calls Cyborg in Titans Tower around 8:45 Sunday night and she asks him to join her team of superheroes to investigate a rip in space that sparked the Rann-Thanagar War. Cyborg agrees and tells her that he'll have their spaceship ready soon but Beast Boy objects being left behind. Cyborg excuses himself and as they walk through the walls, Beast Boy complains that he is a junior member anymore. Cyborg agrees with him and while he is gone he appoints Beast Boy leader.

As they continue to walk through the hallway conversating, an unseen intruder observese them musing about how he knew that Cyborg and Beast Boy were inseperable, but he never knew them so it doesn't bother him when he electrocutes the veteran Titans.

Raven on the other hand is sleeping in her bed as the intruder looks at her. The intruder actually liked Raven and felt sorry for her even when she lectured him on control his temper which made him reckless and a danger to himself. She even said it could get you killed on day. As the intruder reflects on how right she was, he sincerely hopes that she has a nice dream or two for once as he makes her breathe in knockout gas.

As the intruder stalks through the halls of the empty Tower on Sunday night and after Superboy quit and Speedy, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl are home for the night there is no one else in his way. The only person conscious and all but aware is Robin who is talking to Batman on his cell phone and after he abrutly ends the conversation, the intruder reveals himself as the Red Hood.

Robin recognizes him as the person that has been cleaning up Gotham the easy way and the Red Hood replies by undressing himself revealing himself to be Jason Todd and attacking Tim.

Meanwhile, Wonder Girl is in her room watching TV with her lasso and boots off but her mom walks in wishing to talk. Cassie is upset that her mom was hiding the fact that her father is Zeus. Before anything can progress, a news bulletin pops up showing Wonder Woman over the dead body of Maxwell Lord who is tied up in her magic lasso ahocking the two into silence.

Jason and Tim continue fighting as Jason is skeptical at the fact that Tim learned of Batman's identity and tracked him down out of sheer skill.

In Smallville, the Kents are watching the news as well with the breaking newstory of Wonder Woman killing Max Lord. Martha Kent doesn't think its her but Johnathan thinks it is her but that man was up to something funny and she was running out of options. Conner walks in and asks what happens when other people like Clark run out of options. Mr. Kent protests it's not his way and Conner agrees saying it isn't Wonder Woman or his but they did it anyway.

As Conner sulks in the corner in his roomer, Jason is beating the crap out of Tim who flies through a door and lands in the Hall of the Fallen Titans. Jason pauses for a moment and cools off, taking in his surroundings. He yells out that they don't have him considering he was a Titan and smashes Troia's statue.

Robin gets a couple hits in but Jason quickly turns the tables on him proving to be a much better hand-to-hand fighter than Tim and rips the R insignia off of Tim's chest before punching him into unconsciousness.

Tim awakens at the sound of Starfire's voice as Troia picks up the R insignia. Tim slowly gets up with help as Herald, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, and Bumblebee cuddle around him. Beast Boy asks who did it and Robin says Jason Todd. Herald just shakes his head at the revealation and Bumblebee notices Raven staring at the wall. Everyone sees what Raven has been staring at the wall with Jason's handwriting in Tim's blood saying Jason Todd was here.

9:45 Monday morning, Beast Boy and Raven are the only ones at the Tower cleaning up the mess in the Hall of the Fallen Titans, Raven talks about Jason's aggressive competitive nature but it has nothing to do what BB's confusion relating to death. Raven says that she can feel it in her soul-self and she has felt something odd for awhile, considering that life and death has lost its meanings. The doorways between them have been cracked open and soulsa re slipping in and out but the doorway must be closed.

Before she can finish her explanation of life and death, Raven shudders and collapses as a result of the Spectre's destruction of magic in the Days of Vengeance storyline. Raven's powers whirl out of her control becoming a living portal and knocking Beast Boy off his feet and crashing into Lilith's statue. Out of Raven's cloak comes out Lilith herself dressed as Omen but shows herself to be undead. Following her is Brother Blood, freed from his prison as portal Raven crackles with orange electricity.

On the other side of town, Jason is leaving for parts unkown admitting to himself that Tim is good and has friends. Jason is left wondering if he was a Titan for a longer period of time would he have been a better Robin and a better person.

Teen Titans (2003)

Publisher

DC Comics

Volume Description

Superstar writer Geoff Johns reunites the sidekicks of the greatest heroes of the DC Universe once more to re-launch the DCU's premiere team of super-teens, the Teen Titans! Featuring Kid Flash, Superboy, Raven, Beast Boy, Wonder Girl and more!

Teen Titans (Volume 3)

Final Team Members: Red Robin (Tim Drake), Wonder Girl (II), Beast Boy, Raven, Superboy (II), Kid Flash (II), Ravager (IV), and Solstice.

Former Members: Cyborg, Starfire (II), Speedy (II), Aquagirl (II), Hawk (III), Dove (II), Zatara, Offspring, Talon, Power Boy, Little Barda, Molecule, Bombshell, Mas, Menos, Young Frankenstein, Osiris, Enigma, Joker's Daughter, Red Star, Captain Marvel Jr., Hotspot, Argent, Mirage, Flamebird, Terra (II), Kid Devil, Miss Martian, Jericho, Supergirl, Blue Beetle (III), Kid Eternity, Static, and Robin (V).

Second Feature: Ravager (#72-76, 79-82), The Coven of Three (#83-87)

This volume of Teen Titans spun out of the shattering events of Graduation Day, an event which featured the death of both Donna Troy and Lilith and saw the end of both Young Justice and the Titans. Scribed by Geoff Johns, this incarnation of the Teen Titans began as a training initiative on the behalves of Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy and featured the main cast of Young Justice. The team does battle with a returned Jericho, Deathstroke, the new Ravager, and the new Brother Blood, all while picking up new members, such as Raven and Speedy (Mia Dearden). A popular story arc during the first portion of this series was the Titans of Tomorrow arc. This arc featured the current team being flung into the future to find themselves totalitarian rulers of a dystopia society. The team remained very solid during the first 33 issues leading up to Infinite Crisis and One Year Later.

Infinite Crisis did a number on the Teen Titans and completely altered the team. Superboy was killed, Kid Flash was aged and depowered, Starfire was lost in space, Cyborg was shut down for a year, Speedy quit the team to train with Green Arrow, and Robin had left to travel the world with Batman. Beast Boy and Raven attempt to keep the team going but have no success, with over 20 new members during the One Year Later gap. Robin returns and begins to right the ship by bringing back old members and new ones like Miss Martian and Kid Devil. This portion of the series featured Deathstroke's Titans East, the ramifications of Amazons Attack, and the return of the villainous Titans of Tomorrow. The elder Titans, such as Cyborg and Raven, quit the team to return to New York and restart the Titans, leaving the teenagers alone for the first time in this series.

With the kids all on their own now, things begin to head south as Geoff Johns leaves the writing duties to Sean McKeever. The transition was poor as McKeever was given storylines and they were obviously not his own. His own work shined during the On The Clock story arc which featured the introduction of the Terror Titans. The Teen Titans were all suddenly filled with a lot of emotion and teen angst that was not common of them in earlier issues. Many members began to leave the team or be kicked off as was Supergirl's case. After the death of Titans Tower's caretaker, Marvin, Robin leaves the team to deal with the events of Batman R.I.P. and puts Wonder Girl in charge. Wonder Girl builds her own team around the remaining members of the previous, with the new additions, such as Aquagirl, Static, and Kid Eternity. Soon death comes back to the Titans and Red Devil sacrifices himself to save San Francisco. The rest of Wonder Girl's leadership is marred by poor situations and poor writers as Sean McKeever hands over the reigns to Felicia Henderson. While Henderson started strong and promised many desired story arcs such as the return of the resurrected Superboy and Kid Flash, her run was messy and nonsensical. Raven and Beast Boy returned to the team and the Teen Titans battled a mystical entity known as Wyld which lead to most of Wonder Girl's team to be rendered inactive following the mission.

Soon after, rising author, J.T. Krul, becomes the head writer and re-establishes much of the earlier line-up but with Wonder Girl still at the helm. The team dynamic has been reevaluated and the book has shown marked improvement since Krul has taken over. It is during this time that Robin (Damian Wayne) briefly joins and Tim Drake returns to the team, but now as Red Robin. It is following this that Wonder Girl willingly relinquishes leadership to Red Robin. Krul promises such new plotlines as the debut of a new Titan named Solstice, the team's meeting with the new Aqualad, a family reunion for Ravager, and a possible new love interest for Superboy.

For Post Flashpoint volume 4, refer to Teen Titans.This series has been collected in the following trade paperbacks:Teen Titans: A Kid's Game - (#1-7)Teen Titans: Family Lost - (#1/2, 8-12)Teen Titans: Beast Boys and Girls - (#13-15, Beast Boy #1-4)Teen Titans: The Future is Now - (#16-23, Teen Titans / Legion Special #1)Teen Titans / Outsiders: The Insiders - (#24-26, Outsiders #24-25, 28)Robin: The Teen Wonder - (#29, Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #100, Nightwing #101, Batman #428 and 442, Robin #126 and 132)Teen Titans: Life and Death - (#29-33, Teen Titans Annual #1, Robin #146-147)Teen Titans: Titans Around the World - (#34-41)Teen Titans: Titans East - (#42-47)Teen Titans: Titans of Tomorrow - (#50-54)Teen Titans: On the Clock - (#55-61)Teen Titans: Changing of the Guard - (#62-69)Teen Titans: Deathtrap - (#70, Teen Titans Annual #1, Titans #12-13, Vigilante #5-6)Teen Titans: Child's Play - (#71-78)Teen Titans: Hunt for Raven - (#79-87)Teen Titans: Team Building - (#88-92, Red Robin #20, Wonder Girl #1)Teen Titans: Prime of Life - (#93-100)

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