Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus

First, the unavoidable: you're going to have to figure out a new way to hold a book to read this. Everything by Geoff Johns is beyond great and this is no exception. The art ranges from great to mediocre depending on artist. McKone is awesome when he's the one doing the pencils. However, everything in here takes place in between so many other events that I read at the time, but few would remember today. These include, but are not limited to: Identity Crisis, Infinite Crisis, and the convoluted deaths and resurrections of Donna Troy and Jason Todd. Including any more material was out of the question, but I wish the issues of Robin related to the death of Tim Drake's parents were present here. More than most updates, the story continues and references older arcs, in this case specifically the Judas Contract. Even considering all of this, I couldn't recommend it more whole heartedly. High points in particular include the stories about Deathstroke, Raven, the future versions of the Titans, the crossover with the Outsiders, and the issue focusing on Nightwing and Superboy. Thank you.

A tremendous collection of Geoff Johns Teen Titans run. 50 issues all in one huge volume! The bulky nature of the book can make it cumbersome to read. But for the value and quality it can't be beat.

Item came in just as described. Might take a minute to ship, but give it a few days and you’ll be good to go!

What this book IS: a way to read all of Geoff Johns' Teen Titans stories at once, at high quality production and a good price.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.

Great book,but difficult to read. Too thick to lay flat until 400 pages in and seems as if it could collapse from its own weight.

Convaluted overall story, seems like they change it on a whim. However I like all the little moments between the characters. Also Rose is really whiney.

This is the era of Teen Titans that make me pick up this team as my favorite all over the DC Universe. Geoff Johns made no mistake across his venture on this amazing tales of the young and not so young Titans. Each arc show you how wonderful will be to have this continuity back on place, the development of each plot makes you want more and more. Each character growth on incredible ways across this omnibus and makes you realize how much they have to sacrifice to be young heroes. You cannot go wrong with this collection.

Nice book and art

Th massive tombstone of a book contains the entire Teen Titans series by Geoff Jones. Fans of the 80s series by Marv Wolfman and artist George Perez will ne familiar with most of the characters. This series takes off with some connections to that .Georgeous action packed artwork on large pages , this is a feast for new and old readers alike.The initial issues were published by Indian Gotham comics but that were only a handful.You get the jackpot by buying this.Fantatsic paper quality by DC.

This book is fantastic. It has everything Johns ever did related to Teen Titans, in one big heavy collection. It's fun, it's engaging, and the art is a little slice of perfect. The only complaint I have is that it would be nice if they added a few of the stray issues from other books, or other things that Johns DIDN'T write, because there are a couple points where it makes a jump with no explanation. In the end it's still a fantastic collection, and the binding is great quality, so for that, it's still worth every penny. Teen Titans go!

Wenn es um die Teen Titans geht, fallen einem als Comicleser immer zwei Namen ein: Marv Wolfman und George Perez.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.

All perfect

Perfect collection of the Geoff Johns run of the Teen Titans. A must buy for any Geoff Johns fan or Titans fan the price may be a bit much but worth every penny given it’s around 1400 pages of content