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superfan1 (superfan1) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-14 03:33:00

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char: beast boy/changeling/gar logan, char: pantha/rosabelle mendez, char: robin/nightwing/dick grayson, char: starfire/koriand'r, nsfw: nudity, publisher: dc comics, title: new teen titans

The New Teen Titans #93
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	khamelea 2009-09-14 09:32 am UTC (link)
	Odd that Baby Wildebeest is actually less cutesy in the cutesy Teeny Titans. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-09-14 10:30 am UTC (link)
	There is no part of Mirage's insertion (and bring your own context to the verb) into the Dick/Kory relationship which was not just... at best... sleazy as hell. And the lack of payback for it, in terms of karma if nothing else, has always rankled the hell out of me. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-09-14 12:14 pm UTC (link)
	Well they did have her get raped by her "Nightwing". Which I didn't mind, I HATE Mirage. She's probably the only Team Titan I actually LOATHED. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-14 12:38 pm UTC (link)
	I did wonder about mentioning that as being some sort of karmic payback, bit it happened a couple of years later, in a different title, under a different writer, and would be such a loathesomely squick-inducing form of karmic payback that I'd rather not dwell on it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yaseen101 2009-09-14 10:55 am UTC (link)
	Who are the two women oogling over the Nightwing action figure? (If they weren't fictional character I would have sworn they were eregular posters on SD). JK (Reply to this) (Thread)

icon_uk
2009-09-14 11:16 am UTC (link)

Members of the "Team Titans", a team from a dystopian future who came back to try and make sure it never happened. Think "DC trying to make an X-Force out of the Titansverse". It didn't really work, and they were a sort of unlamented casualty of "Zero Hour".

The one with the odd eyes is Mirage, a shapechanger who kidnapped the real Starfire and impersonated Kory to get close to Dick (She was future!Nightwings lover in her future, and didn't see why that should change just because he was wih someone else (Yes, it's as skeevy as it sounds). She's the one who posed nude whilst in Starfires form, just to PO Kory as shown here.

The other is Redwing, standard winged metahuman female.

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	pyrotwilight 2009-09-14 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	Aww you make Redwing sound so plain. Come on she was Robin/Bucky to the future Captain America/Nightwing with his awesome shield and all. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	yaseen101 2009-09-14 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	You know for someone you describe as a standard winged meta human, she is pretty hot. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-14 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	Well, avian humans do tend towards the more impressive and attractive; Warren, Josh, even Redwing, Sheira, Kendra even, in a neanderthal sort of way, Carter. But you should know by now it's not the bird GIRLS I like, its the bird BOYS! :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	yaseen101 2009-09-15 06:45 am UTC (link)
	I don't mind we all have our own fetishes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-09-15 01:56 am UTC (link)
	She's adorable. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-09-14 11:46 am UTC (link)
	I'm guessing the cover shot is Adam Hughes? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jedd_the_jedi 2009-09-14 12:44 pm UTC (link)
	Now that you've mentioned it, it does look a little Hughes-esque. And it is pretty smexy too! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-09-14 01:52 pm UTC (link)
	Yep yep. He had some work related to the Team Titans including pencilling the first issue of Team Titans (the Redwing issue only though) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	rdfox 2009-09-14 02:20 pm UTC (link)
	He also did a full centerfold shot of Mirage-as-Kory for the issue, too. I don't have a scan handy (I own the issue, but no scanner), but I'm sure it's up on one of the Rule34 boards somewhere. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	nezchan 2009-09-14 12:16 pm UTC (link)
	Ugh, ugh, ugh. I never did like this period of Titans. I just want to live in my own little world where everything that happened after The Judas Contract never existed. Although Jericho wasn't so bad. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	btravage.livejournal.com 2009-09-14 02:15 pm UTC (link)
	Even all the Spotlight stories? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nezchan 2009-09-15 12:01 am UTC (link)
	Mmm, dunno if I read those, honestly. I read the various character mini-series, but that was way earlier. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	volksjager 2009-09-14 01:29 pm UTC (link)
	My God this book must have sucked... (Reply to this)

	saralakali 2009-09-14 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	What's the text right under "EXXXPOSE"? I can only make out "Entertainment for lee...(something) and middle aged men." (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rdfox 2009-09-14 02:22 pm UTC (link)
	Between this version and the version seen on the book's cover (they're different!), it's legible as "Entertainment for Leering Teenagers and Middle-Aged Men." This, of course, being a reference to Playboy's "Entertainment for Men" tagline. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sistermagpie 2009-09-14 01:51 pm UTC (link)
	::sigh:: Even Teeny Nightwing has a teeny mullet. (Reply to this)

	cleome45 2009-09-14 03:10 pm UTC (link)
	CUT... THE... MULLETS!! DC, tell your heroes that they do not wish to look like assholes anymore. (Reply to this)

	silverzeo 2009-09-14 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	The Tiny Titans could kick these loser butts! Nightwing looks like Montana Max... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-14 08:09 pm UTC (link)
	As this IS a spoof of the "Tiny Toon Adventures" genre (even down to internal "Acme" references), that shouldn't really be surprising (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-09-15 01:51 am UTC (link)
	Seriously? Wow, so...this comic came out when I was watching Tiny Toons as a kid? Huh. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-16 09:55 am UTC (link)
	Whoa, that makes TOTAL sense! So li'l Starfire is Elmyra, and... wait a minute - that doesn't make total sense. Who the hell are the others analogues of? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-16 10:28 am UTC (link)
	No one specific, which is why I said "genre" not "series". :) Tiny Toons made fun of itself from it's first episode by acknowledging it was essentially cuter teeny versions of classic WB characters. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-09-16 10:57 am UTC (link)

I suppose - from what I've seen of it, though, the show's strengths came largely through its willingness to break away from from its inspiration when appropriate, to not just be 'Oh, hey! Aren't the Looney Tunes just the greatest? And we're just like them, but younger!' over and over again. I mean, Buster and Babs and Plucky may have been younger versions of Bugs and Daffy, but they're very distinct characters in their own right.

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icon_uk
2009-09-16 11:22 am UTC (link)

The shows major strength was being incredibly funny (Paul Dini's episode of "Batduck and Decoy (the Pig Hostage)" being a highlight, and an early taste of what was to come in BATS), and, in true Looney Tunes style, mocking themselves as much as anything. Most of the characters were based on a classic characteristic signature personality traits(Dizzy Devil - Taz, Plucky - Daffy) etc but yes, they had their own personalities, thankfully.

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psychop_rex
2009-09-16 09:14 pm UTC (link)

Oh, absolutely, but it wouldn't have been nearly as funny if it had centered solely on the basic concept, i.e, 'young proteges of the Looney Tunes'. A good deal of the episodes had almost nothing to do with that concept, and they were some of the best.
But yes, it was frequently hilarious. A favorite moment, from the 'Dream Date Game' episode:

Elmyra: Bachelor #1 - we're out at an expensive restaurant, and you find that you've forgotten your wallet. WHO WAS THE 12TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES?!

Plucky: Pierre Shostakota!

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	mullon 2009-09-14 05:55 pm UTC (link)
	And now I have J. Geils Band stuck in my head. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-14 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	Fright Night? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	mullon 2009-09-15 12:21 am UTC (link)
	Centerfold. (I need to figure out how to link to things.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ada_c 2009-09-14 08:25 pm UTC (link)
	Ugh Mirage. Hate, hate, HATE. (Reply to this)

	blake_reitz 2009-09-15 02:49 am UTC (link)
	I demand a Teeny Titans cameo in Tiny Titans. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	freddylloyd 2009-09-16 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	To me, every issue of Tiny Titans reads like "Teeny Titans." Both have Deathstroke as the little kids' teacher, for instance. (Reply to this) (Parent)

perletwo
2009-09-15 04:57 am UTC (link)

Ya know what? I've been thinking about this since first seeing the post earlier today, and I don't really think Gar would be sneaking out snickering to get Kory's centerfold. I think he'd probably be squicked out by the very idea of it.

Yeah, Kory's gorgeous; but she's somebody he knows and trusts. He feels he can leer at her all he wants as her friend, but I think the idea of millions of strangers doing it would make him blow a gasket. Besides, I have a hard time believing in all those years he hasn't seen at least that much of Kory in nonsexual contexts already, given her lack of cultural body-shame.

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	psychop_rex 2009-09-16 09:53 am UTC (link)
	It could be that he's being so sneaky about it simply because he KNOWS that she's going to blow a gasket when she finds out about it, and he wants to know alllllllll the details when she does. I mean, given his history as a practical joker, I can see him wanting to exploit the situation for comedy a bit. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-16 09:57 am UTC (link)
	If the show in question depicts the Titans as cutesy kid versions of themselves, then why is the Nightwing action figure that results from it one of him as an adult? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-09-16 10:30 am UTC (link)
	It was a multi-media marketing campaign, they were also in discussion for a live action movie (Dick had been sort of hoping that Tom Cruise would play him. This was a long time ago of course..) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	psychop_rex 2009-09-16 11:00 am UTC (link)
	Ah, OK. (Reply to this) (Parent)