Welp. I Read New 52 Teen Titans.

And I have since come to a conclusion. See I plan on doing this again for someone else's comic history. Be it Justice League or Green Lantern. I haven't decided yet. I still have most of Titans in Rebirth to get through. Having read Titans New 52, I have decided something.

In any other Comic history read through I do, I will not be bothering with their New 52 run.

Now let me clarify something: Was this the worst run in Teen Titans history? No. Not even close. Not even a little bit. 08 was FAR worse than anything Scott Lobdell did, and hell, even the tail end of New Teen Titans was a lot uglier, and a lot more confusing than this ever was. No. This was not the worst Titans run in their history by a longshot.

But it was the most pointless.

I got into comics in Earnest through rebirth. I had been a DC fan for years, but mostly through satellite material. Movies and TV shows. Rebirth is when I really got into Superhero comics as a whole, and began to love them as much as I love them now. And the thing I kept hearing was "Rebirth is impressive considering it's still technically the New 52 continuity." To which I only have one thing to say.

No it isn't. This is not even CLOSE to the same continuity. Not even in the same area code.

The amount of things brought up here that's been straight up IGNORED by Rebirth is Staggering. Rebirth seems to treat Flashpoint as a standard crisis event. There were changes, yes, but most of what came before it remained intact. New 52 however tried (poorly in my opinion) to make it seem like a whole new Continuity had taken place. One which, again, was quickly ignored by Rebirth. I can see why, at the time, it seemed like the worst thing ever because of that. Now it just seems... Well, like a waste of time.

And I gotta ask, anyone who got into comics in the New 52, are you sore about that? I imagine it has to. I'm actually very sorry about that, if you are. I've had continuities I've liked be ignored or retconned out of existence, it can be really sucky. No, I didn't like this continuity, I certainly don't think it was worth the old Continuity, but that must have sucked if you DID like the New 52 having DC tell you that the comics you loved were a horrible, horrible mistake. And what's worse, a majority of the population agrees. I hope this doesn't sound condescending, it's not meant to be, but you have my sympathies.

By the end of Pfiffer's run on the book, it started getting SAD. Like... Almost humorously sad. I started seeing ads for Rebirth. Ad after Ad for it in fact. One time it was an Ad for Titans rebirth, and it was at that point I noticed that the creative team stopped caring entirely about what they were doing.

This is gonna be a weird reference, but there's this MadTV sketch called "Forever Furniture." The deal is that Will Sasso plays the owner of a furniture store that is going out of business because of his bad spending habits, and is close to having a breakdown while shooting a commercial for a Going Out of Business Sale. That's the vibe. That's the vibe the last eight or so issues of this run have. They know none of this is going to matter come a few months, and they are both bitter, and slightly apathetic about life. There's a thing that happens at the end of the run that I know to be undone come Detective Comics Rebirth. With little to no explanation.

To quote Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force: It don't matter. None of this matters.

So yeah. On to Rebirth and the stuff that came afterwards. I've actually read the first volume of this run, and I know it's good. So I'm excited!