Judd Winick’s Teen Titans East Takes Cyborg Hostage

Ok. It’s just a drive-by post this weekend as our mega-writing project for the dayjob has us running way past the red line with little time to read comics and even less time to ponder the power cosmic, to say nothing of sleeping, eating or time with Mrs. FBW.

Yet we saw the advance previews on Newsarama.com for DC Comics in November and we see that DC was actually serious when they announced a Teen Titans East Special earlier this summer.

Here’s the upshot from DC Comics via Newsarama.com: Titans Tower is back up and running on the East Coast as Judd Winick, Ian Churchill & Norm Rapmund assemble an explosive new team of Titans under the leadership of Cyborg! But their first mission may be their last as powerful forces gather to destroy all Titans past and future!

Judd Winick & Ian Churchill…together---Rao help us all!

Regular readers of FanBoyWonder know that we don’t hold Winick’s work in very high esteem (No Talent A** Clown). And Ian Churchill???????

Why does an otherwise promising comic book illustrator feel compelled to go OUT of his way to draw cheesecake into even the most benign scenes of a comic book story—there was so much T&A while he was drawing Supergirl that for the better part of a year we expected him to show up in Dateline NBC’s Predator kitchen.

With Winick, however, we rejoiced when we found that Winick’s Outsiders book had been canceled—especially not that long after we had publicly called for either Winick to be removed from the book and/or take Nightwing off the team (and out of Winick’s hands)—now it seems that both things have come to pass.

So now here we are dismayed that Winick has apparently commandeered Cyborg as the lynch pin of his otherwise unimpressive Titans East one-shot.

So Cyborg has gone from being on the short list of Brad Metzler’s Justice League of America to a life on the D-List???? Our old friend Victor Stone—one of the best characters to come out of a stellar group that was the Wolfman/Perez New Teen Titans—deserves so much better than this.

Let us point out the two operative words “one-shot.” If NO ONE picks up the Titans East one-shot, then hopefully this doomed-to-be-flawed idea will die stillborn and thus Free Cyborg from captivity.

Save Cyborg, ignore Teen Titans East!