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The death of Mark Bradley, a background student whom we know little of aside from that he's mlm, is further proof that Titans Academy is garbage.

So what we have is

The Bury Your Gays Trope. Why are they mindlessly using it in the year 2021.

Introducing an absolute flood of new characters that are not being utilized aside from being set pieces. The students barely do anything and when they do it's almost never actually interesting. (Except for Alinta/Bolt. She's cool).

The art making it look like the girls have lego-brick hair in a lot of scenes

Copious amounts a boob socks that seem to pinch the girls' breasts in four different directions.

Wally West being treated like crap by various former teammates because of Heroes In Crisis even though it's been well established that the massacre wasn't his fault and instead was Savitar's, and also established that this is now well known throughout the hero community.

Also Red X spreading misinformation and NOT getting called out at all.

Like Wally is literally standing there having his name dragged in the mud and no one, not even one of his best friends Donna Troy, lifts a finger to explain to the misinformed crowd what actually happened. Cyborg is also there and he ALSO doesn't say anything to support Wally, even though he's also fairly close with him.

Portraying Wally as forgetting his wife, literally one of the top three most important people in his life, when he sees Raven even though that goes against nearly aspect of his characterization.

The above having the side effect of implying that the creepy love spell Raven put him under in NTT is still in effect.

Oh and the whole mystery of "who is Red X?" Yeah, it's badly written, whoever is under the mask is pretentious, and I literally could not be any less invested in this plot line.

Like, out of all the ways they could have introduced Red X this is probably the worst way they could've done it.

Oh and it's also very clear pandering to people who are fans of the 2003 cartoon, as it's making clear attempts to morph the continuity of the cartoon into the comics in order to fit Red X into the story, even though this just creates tons of plot holes. This series wishes it had as good writing as 2003 TT did. (I'm saying this as a fan of that series).

Also the 2003 series ended fifteen years ago. Yes, it was popular (I was also a fan), but it's well past the point for it to make sense for DC to try and keep milking it the way that they do. If they aren't going to make a continuation (like they're doing with the dcau), they should just leave the ideas and concepts it brought foward alone.

Literally the only thing this comic has been good at is throwing out some cute BBRae content and the Wally & Roy reunion.

I'm tired

#rant #semlongpost.#bury your gays #dc crit #teen titans #teen titans academy #titans academy #roy harper #wally west #raven #rachel roth #gar logan #garfield logan #beast boy #changeling #the flash #arsenal #mark bradley #alinta #bolt #cyborg #victor stone #dc

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