Titans, Vol. 4: Titans Apart by Dan Abnett

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This book collects Issues 19-22 of the Titans and Annual #1.

This editorially-mandated story begins with an issue with the Justice League arriving to bust up the Titans because they're potentially dangerous. The reasons given in the first issue of the book are weak, mainly because the Justice League doesn't have the authority to do it, and the things they're saying about the Titans could apply most easily to them. Because everyone is acting out of characters, Dick Grayson caves to Batman easily.

After that, we get three good issues looking at the aftermath which are mostly pretty good. They focus on what happens when team members like Roy Harper have to work alone and ends up affirming the value of friendship. Abnett does such a great job with the rest of the book, I can almost forgive the rest of the book, but the stupid idea at the core of the book is pretty problematic. In addition, the villains didn't impress me.

So overall, this could have been awful but Dan Abnett made it fair to decent. That said, there are too many problems to give this more than three stars.



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