It is likely to be getting colder outdoors, however inside Titans Tower, issues are heating up! Teen Titans Academy Vol. 1: X Marks the Spot brings collectively your favourite Titans with younger heroes in coaching. And with the return of Titans this week on HBO Max, there’s by no means been a greater weekend to cozy up with the Teen Titans and escape to a college all of us want we may attend.
To correctly enroll in Titans Academy, you’re going to want to get your paperwork in (studying) order. These are the comics that comprise Teen Titans Academy Vol. 1:
- Teen Titans Academy #1
- Teen Titans Academy #2
- Suicide Squad #3
- Teen Titans Academy #3
- Teen Titans Academy #4
- Teen Titans Academy #5
- Teen Titans Academy 2021 Yearbook #1
You could find all of those comics on DC UNIVERSE INFINTE. Now, it’s time to get to class!
The Premise:
The Teen Titans are prepared for his or her subsequent mission: mentoring a brand new era of superheroes! The old fashioned Titans open up the tower to show and prepare teenagers with uncommon talents. Headmistress Starfire and fellow college Nightwing, Raven, Donna Troy, Beast Boy and Cyborg have confronted numerous risks, however they’ve by no means encountered something like operating the newly branded Roy Harper Titans Academy.
When the Titans uncover somebody on the faculty has placed on the masks of Pink X, Nightwing’s outdated persona and somebody longtime DC followers will bear in mind from the Teen Titans animated collection, they’ll should uncover their identification earlier than Pink X’s darkish plans come to fruition—or will the scholars determine it out first?
Let’s Discuss Expertise:
Tim Sheridan groups up with artists together with Rafa Sandoval, Steve Lieber and extra for the primary arc of the collection. Sheridan lately tailored Batman: The Lengthy Halloween into a shocking animated movie starring Jensen Ackles and Josh Duhamel. His admiration for the Bat-Household exhibits in each the two-part function and this ingenious new comedian guide collection.
The story that performs out in X Marks the Spot contains the core Teen Titans Academy title one crossover difficulty of Suicide Squad and a particular annual difficulty, and every artist who contributes provides their very own persona to each the compelling college students and iconic academics. Sandoval, who penciled the primary collection, is a DC veteran who has labored on books akin to Hal Jordan and the Inexperienced Lanterns, The Flash and Catwoman. He’s at the moment engaged on the brand new Black Adam solo collection.
A Few Causes to Learn:
- Every pupil at Titans Academy has a narrative to inform. Virtually all of them, with notable exceptions like Billy Batson, are new to the DC Universe. This guide is their first massive journey and it’s a doozy. There’s Alinta, the Velocity Power-powered sprinter with prosthetic legs; Sew, a mystically animated doll with sufficient persona to star in their very own miniseries; and the mysterious Matt Value, who has Kryptonian-like powers however a previous that’s unknown, even to himself. I have to know extra about all of them.
- Activity Power X has a banger of a crossover on this first arc. Peacemaker and Amanda Waller butt heads greater than ever throughout a mission to the Titans Tower. This Squad lineup can also be intriguing, with Connor Kent, Culebra and Nocturna within the rotation. The crossover difficulty simply may encourage you to dive into the 2021 Suicide Squad collection in your subsequent weekend studying escape.
- The unique Teen Titans are right here to remind you why they’re a few of your favourite superheroes. Not solely is it nice seeing iconic Titans like Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven and Donna Troy collectively once more, however a few of them even get collectively once more. (Sure, I’m speaking about Nightwing and Starfire.) Plus, Cyborg will get put in command of instructing Residence Ec. How will you resist checking that out?
- The Bat Pack. Sure, I already talked about the scholars, however this trio is so entertaining, they’re on the record twice. Chupacabra, Bratgirl and Megabat describe themselves as “junior nihilist detectives,” which is principally all it’s good to find out about them. Oh, you need extra particulars? The three orphans are from Gotham, the place they admired and studied Batman’s each transfer. Learn their origin tales in Teen Titans Academy.
Why It’s Value Your Time:
Beast Boy and Cyborg wrangling lessons as academics is simply a part of the enjoyable. Teen Titans Academy introduces contemporary new faces to the DC Universe with a wealth of potential, each as superheroes and as characters—and each has a lot potential. In case you miss the early days of the Teen Titans, otherwise you’re only a fan of teenaged superheroes basically, make Teen Titans Academy your subsequent Weekend Escape.
Teen Titans Academy Vol. 1: X Marks the Spot is now out there in bookstores, comedian outlets, libraries and on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE.
Kelly Knox writes about all-ages comics and animation for DCComics.com and her writing may also be seen on IGN, Nerdist and extra. Observe her on Twitter at @kelly_knox to speak superheroes, comics and popular culture.
NOTE: The views and opinions expressed on this function are solely these of Kelly Knox and don’t essentially replicate these of DC Leisure or Warner Bros.
