In other words, this is a thread for the original TV series cause I recently started rewatching it and I am SO PUMPED I love this show so much. Btw, I am watching them on DailyMotion by searching the titles of the episodes with the help of the Wiki episode list.
Only the original series. For fucking shame on you. Also cartoon Starfire is lovely and I continue to be conflicted about comic Star. Who is a concept I REALLY REALLY love. But then you have writers like the fucktool who wrote Red Hood and the Outlaws. If I ever get a hold of his stupid ass he will pay. Pay for taking a potentially interesting concept and running it into the fucking ground with as much sexism as we can shake a stick at. stop fucking up my sexual space daughter comic writers let her be the awkward sex happy warrior culture nerd i know she can be I've thought about writing Teen Titans fic in the past that basically creates what I want out of a Starfire. Which would be bits and bobs from various comic runs and from the cartoon. And just "sexual warrior alien" done in a way that doesn't make me hate the author. Comics wise I'm most fond of the 80's New Titans run, though I'm also really fond of the dorky Silver Age Titans. Not at all familiar with the books after the New 52. I kind of just dropped most of DC hard after that.
In terms of the Titans my favorite both in comics and the show is Raven. Not sure if I prefer comic Raven to cartoon Raven, as they both have bits and bobs I'm very fond of. Raven though. Good shit there. She should become "We explode into psychic death storms when we emote at all" buddies with Mob.
Oh shush no need to get elitest. Honestly would probably read the comics if I knew 1. where to find them 2. buying them all wouldn't put me in a debt comprable to my student loans.
I'm not actually getting elitist. If you ever do read the comics the 80's New Teen Titans is the only run I really feel is WORTH it. Which is sad.
As far as the where typing it into google reveals sellers. Amazon you can get the collected volumes of the 80's runs for about 11 dollars a pop. Or 16. Comixology offers online collections at 13. Alternatively piracy is very big in the comics reading community For Reasons.
:s Thank you for the info but no, I think you were. If you're around my age, which most people on the forum are, Teen Titans is what was on TV when you were a kid/teen, the comics are something you'd have to go digging for.
Spoiler: Image Teen Titans was one of the first shows I ever really sat down and watched with my father. I kinda blame it for getting me into the DC Universe in general, in fact - I was always a Batman fan and I watched Justice League too, but once I got interested in the show it was the gateway that brought me to watching Batman and Superman's individual animated series later, which led to the comics, and so on and so forth. Teen Titans was of interest to my dad because he's always been a big superhero fanatic, kind of like me, and it was one of the initial things that really helped us connect on a personal level. I've got a lot to thank it for. I think, looking back, my favorite Titan was Robin. I always sympathized with being overworked, overstressed, and kind of bringing it all on yourself because you felt like you had to or that it was going to benefit somebody else in the short/long run. Plus he was just compelling as a character, a well-written broody guy who didn't led it inundate and dictate his entire character. He harkened to Batman without being his level of antisocial.
No, actually I'm not. It's sarcasm based on the fact that I really fucking hate elitist comic book fans. Also I'm more than aware that the comics were things you'd have to go digging for. When it was airing, when I was "Your Age" and happened to be a kid, the comics were next to impossible for me to find. Especially since I only knew of one local comic book store, which then quickly closed. While I did manage to find a few collected volumes largely I was stuck reading entirely out of order flimsies very, very occasionally. Which meant my primary exposure was through the cartoon. So, no, I'm not being elitist.
Anyway, that aside. Teen Titans isn't the show in particular that got me interested in DC characters. That was the Batman and Superman shows that had aired before it. Which are the reason that Mr. I Can't Fucking Spell His Stupid Name will always be voiced by Gilbert Godfried to me. The Teen Titans show is the one that I liked enough to actually try and find comics for, though. Which as stated above was pretty hard! I had more success than some, but I wasn't as successful as some others. Like the fans who were aware of the comic line that existed based off the show in particular. That would wait till I was in highschool and aware of where to pirate this shit. The comics were definitely a weird thing to come across due to differences in characterization. Robin was an entirely different deal and as I said earlier shit with Starfire just is not at all what happened in the show. For most of the cast of the show they took the basic idea of the character's concept and then made it something else that was more fit for what they were attempting to do. The show portrayals did end up affecting the comics though, resulting in things like Beast Boy/Raven becoming a thing in them. A really fun thing for me once I actually read the source material of most of the show's major arcs was going back and comparing them to the show. The Slade arc isn't there in the comics and is entirely a show thing. A really, really well done thing and entirely unique. The Raven arc is based off the comics, though it was went about in a very different manner. The comics had started with her getting the team together to stop her father, and with her having the explicit knowledge that she was going to die. So comic Raven was less broken up about the "my emotions literally kill things" and more "I am going to die and there is nothing else left for me". And Terra involved a whole other character in the comic who wasn't at all present in the cartoon, Jericho. My favorite of those major arcs probably being the Raven one. Granted that might be because Raven is my favorite character and I am biased but whatever. It was lovely and fun. Very fun. Well not fun fun, but more fun in the "oh my god everything is terrible and I am sad" kind of way. Which is the best sort of fun really. Which reminds me that my actual favorite episode is probably the one where Starfire and Raven switch bodies. Which is entirely behind why I ship them together. Really I may as well just ship the entire team together, but Star/Raven is important dammit. Like how Raven/Beast Boy is important.
Your whole post is full of things I agree with and nodded along to, but this part in particular stuck out to me: I rewatched that episode something like a dozen times because of the very, very compelling and adorable character writing. It was also one of the first episodes I caught, and I think that how well that explored their characters without getting egregious contributed heavily to me deciding to watch the show in the first place. It's a special little nugget amidst a sea that was already gold.
i love that episode! it was super cool to younger me, watching them have to learn to use the other's powers and discover how they both tied to emotion but in totally different ways good shit
DIVES IN AND SCREECHES I LOVE TEEN TITANS I LOVE THIS THREAD raven was my fave I really liked the Journey Into Her Mind episode I even did a halloween as her when I was a Wee Bab
YESSS. Just holy shit it was really lovely how they managed it. A lot of the character work in the show in general has been lovely, but that for me was the height of it. It also was important to me because of weird emotional issues. So seeing people with two entirely different emotion based powers and two very different ways of dealing with those was nice. And helpful I think. I'm still a horrible emotional wreck but that meant things to see and still does now. Especially the bits where they figure out how the other's thing works. Because through that I feel like they realized bits and bobs that may have been missing from their own ways of doing things. this episode was choice and resulted in my first bout of selfshipping
so much of the writing was just REALLY well done like....this was one of the first shows that had me Thinking about the villains, and worrying/wondering like...what got them there, why are they doing what they're doing??? and then they had the Goofy villains which was fun too??? (I like the eps where Shit Goes Wrong but they Start with the aftermath and we're stuck tracing it back to How It All Began 10/10) OH MAN MAD MOD MAD MOD WAS FUN oH!!! OH!!!! OTHER FAVE BUNNY RAVEN EPISODE
the episode with umm, gosh i haven't seen it in ages so i might be misremembering, but i think the villain was called mother may i? that one gave me chills
YEAH THAT'S THE ONE I MEANT THE BIT WHERE IT STARTS MIDWAY THROUGH The Shit AND YOU GOTTA WORK OUT WHAT TF IS GOING ON
