Titans (2023-) #28

by John Layman, Pete Woods (Artist)

Spinning out of the world-shaking events of DC K.O.! Before the heart of Apokolips terraforms the planet into a hellscape, the Titans lead the evacuation of the Earth! While the team splits up to save as many people as possible, old friends and new allies join the fray to save humanity from extinction. The next major Titans storyline starts here!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2025

About the author

John Steele Layman is an American comic book writer and letterer. Layman is most known for writing Chew, published by Image Comics.

Reviews

[Jadyn❀ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m glad they acknowledged the people that Waller successfully convinced the Titans could not be trusted, but I’m honestly surprised that it’s not a bigger issue. I would have thought they’d at least have a non-Titan Justice Leaguer (like Superman I guess?) make the evacuation announcement so the people could trust it more post-Beast World. Sending Beast Boy to handle the protest when the people hated him the most after that event was a particularly baffling choice. One of the most interesting parts of this issue was Raven’s discussion with Terra. Are they leaving Terra behind? (Or, more specifically, is that Raven’s plan?) What IS the plan for people like the villains in Arkham?
The cameos from Titans past like Miss Martian, Bumblebee and Steel was cool, and I hope these continue throughout the tie-in issues. The end of the issue was also cool, and I hope they let Kory kick some serious butt.

[Colin Post · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting color to the bigger DC KO event. Some of the dialogue is over dramatic but I guess they are trying to avoid a literal apocalypse! I’m a sucker for huge-scale stories that flip between different cities around the world, and this gives me that!

[Rory C · Rating 4 out of 5]

How do you attempt to pull off a plan to evacuate the entire population of...THE WORLD! (those last two words should be best enunciated in the voice of the late, great, Norm McDonald)

So this is a pretty interesting tie-in, which can't help but make me think of what the evacuation plan for New Zealand would be.

I had read the first couple of issues of this new series of Titans and will have to go back and give this series a proper read through.

[Arthur Marchetto · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostra uma nova frente de atuação dos planos no evento, coordenação entre os personagens. Uma história bacana que une algumas pontas. Mas é por aí.

[Cybernex007 · Rating 3 out of 5]

With any event you always have the question and problems that come up when asked how it fits into the rest of the current ongoing comics, and it feels like most of those issues were forced to be explored and ultimately pretty unresolved in this series, lol. At points it feels like the team for titans wasn’t let in on the details unfolding in other series and they were forced to go back in and add in dialogue to mention resolutions to problems that were also resolved in the main DC KO series. But at the very least, it looks like Woods may be hearing all the comments (at least mine, lol) about those sharp jawlines as they are smoothed out a bit this issue, unfortunately we also have to trade that for Roy and Donna fully moving into a relationship this issues which is just disappointing. As this event is a direct DC KO tie in, the titans get stuck with the massive job of overseeing the evacuation of everyone on earth. Now I thought this would be a piece of cake from the DC KO setup. They mentioned that t spheres went out and teleported as many villains as possible to the phantom zone so they wouldn’t be an issue, while everyone else can get setup in giant brainiac tech infused cubes that can hold everyone and get them off world…that doesn’t come up at all this issue. They do mention using brainiac tech to shrink major cities but they don’t mention any of the giant cubes or the criminals being teleported away?! And both of those come up as issues!!

This issue starts with cyborg, who is barely in this issue aside from the start as he is part of the tournament, giving a world wide broadcast announcing the evacuation. Following the straight ignoring of the brainiac tech cubes in DC KO, the three titans towers have been retrofitted with space tech to fly people into space…which just seems like such a short sighted idea especially with Nightwing and Nightwing prime actively using the one in Bludhaven as a base. But the titans really only get a moment to say goodbye to each other before branching off to their assignments and for Donna and Roy to pop up to the old JL lunar base to meet with Jon Kent for overseeing everyone’s movements. Feels like Jon could be better used literally anywhere else to aid the evacuation, but whatever. We get a few scenes where Donna thinks back to a pretty stressed out cyborg message he sent only to the titans about his role in this tournament, allowing for Roy to be there to calm her down and reassure her that they’ve got this. Speaking of relationships I gag at, apparently Raven was assigned to work with bumblebee real quick with some last minute tech and exposition dialogue and the question of what to do with Terra as she is currently recovering in a Star Wars healing tank and Raven actually realizes she is only pretending to sleep and pops into her head to have a quick chat. Which ultimately devolves into Terra trying to and dialing to piss Raven off. I do have to admit, I quite like Donna overseeing everything and redirecting people to where they need to go. Natural leader and on this scale she doesn’t crack, nor should have needed the support from Roy but whatever. Of course they also deal with hero deniers and Waller loyalists we saw from the black lightning run a bit back, who are dealt with by bear girl who used her powers to compel them to sleep. But as the issue comes to a close it seems like we have an even bigger issue, Starfire is currently in space and needs immediately backup as granny goodness and her female furies, and a whole horde of parademons have just shown up to attack them! I guess that makes sense…I mean seeing them in the recent new gods series attempt to usher in darkseid means they would take that opportunity whenever they could. But where did they get the parademons from? Most of them should still be back in Apokolips fighting the scavengers. Ehhh, whatever.

[Joshua Tompkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I actually enjoyed this issue, even though I feel like it makes very little sense. The Titans are undertaking the evacuation of Earth before Darkseid arrives. This is obviously a huge project and we see them split the task up and are all over the world. It's fun seeing all the characters they interact with as well as the protestors! The thing that makes no sense is, this doesn't seem to have a point. If the K.O. Tournament is supposed to reset the universe, or Darkseid is going to absorb everything anyways, then what difference does it really make?

[RubiGiráldez RubiGiráldez · Rating 2 out of 5]

Naves de huída planetaria y Jonathan Kent en medio???... Escalofríos recordando DCesos.

No hay mucho que decir. Les ha tocado de lo peor de los tie-ins de evento de no poder hacer mucho al atender a cuestiones del gran argumento y recordando cabos sueltos de su cabecera troncal. Eso sí, ver a los Titanes siendo amigos y familia me llena de orgullo y satisfación.

[Alexis Moreno · Rating 3 out of 5]

i didn’t lol the issue at first since it just felt like plot moving without any emotional investment but then it started to slow down or at least show more dimensionality and i appreciated reading about it more. reading how cyborg had to say goodbye without actually and how much cost it actually took just to do a semi adequate job. how insufficient the titans are but still the best for the job.

[Mark Cubillos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Because my subscription is all out of whack, this has been a weird back and forth between KO being completed and these issues tied to KO. That’s what I get for not shelling out for the full ultra. Oh well, the Titans are apart in trying to save the world from Darkseid’s return.

[PixieART · Rating 5 out of 5]

The teen Titans have to evacuate Earth! Sad and Exciting.

[rafaela (taylor's version) · Rating 2 out of 5]

2, 25

[ceodantes · Rating 3 out of 5]

oh hell yeah jonu çok iyi çizmişler bayıldım

[Landen Wilson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kinda boring but important ig

[Jordie Novack · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading all the DC KO tie ins may have been overly ambitious