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Teen Titans (2014)
Teen Titans, Volume 3: The Sum of Its Parts
A WORLD AGAINST THEM
The Teen Titans were the greatest team of young heroes ever assembled. Now, in the eyes of millions, they're heroes no more.
After the shocking revelations about Superboy shook the team to its core, they're divided amongst themselves and hunted by the outside world. Their leader, Red Robin, is more isolated than ever—even as a legion of idealistic but dangerously untested young people takes to the streets of Gotham City, using his identity as an emblem for revolution.
To survive as outlaws, the Titans will have to come together as never before and count on the help of unlikely allies—including former Batman protégé the Red Hood, no stranger to outlaws himself. And if they make it through, even more stunning secrets await them...
Writers Will Pfeifer (RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS), Scott Lobdell (SUPERBOY) and Greg Pak (ACTION COMICS) join a talented team of artists including Ian Churchill (SUPERGIRL), Miguel Mendonça (WONDER WOMAN) and more for TEEN TITANS VOL. 3: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS—a thrilling chapter that takes the team from Gotham City to Themyscira and beyond!
Collects: Teen Titans #14-19.
The Teen Titans were the greatest team of young heroes ever assembled. Now, in the eyes of millions, they're heroes no more.
After the shocking revelations about Superboy shook the team to its core, they're divided amongst themselves and hunted by the outside world. Their leader, Red Robin, is more isolated than ever—even as a legion of idealistic but dangerously untested young people takes to the streets of Gotham City, using his identity as an emblem for revolution.
To survive as outlaws, the Titans will have to come together as never before and count on the help of unlikely allies—including former Batman protégé the Red Hood, no stranger to outlaws himself. And if they make it through, even more stunning secrets await them...
Writers Will Pfeifer (RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS), Scott Lobdell (SUPERBOY) and Greg Pak (ACTION COMICS) join a talented team of artists including Ian Churchill (SUPERGIRL), Miguel Mendonça (WONDER WOMAN) and more for TEEN TITANS VOL. 3: THE SUM OF ITS PARTS—a thrilling chapter that takes the team from Gotham City to Themyscira and beyond!
Collects: Teen Titans #14-19.
144 pages, Paperback
First published August 30, 2016
About the author
Scott Lobdell
1,641 books234 followersScott Lobdell (born 1960) is an American comic book writer.
He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.
He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.
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August 2, 2026
(B) 73% | More than Satisfactory
Notes: At first not-great, just sheds dead weight and deviates; it ends okay, ho-hum, but, hey, at least a solid arc's conveyed.
*Progress updates: Issue #14 ◦ Issues #15-18
Notes: At first not-great, just sheds dead weight and deviates; it ends okay, ho-hum, but, hey, at least a solid arc's conveyed.
*Progress updates: Issue #14 ◦ Issues #15-18
August 4, 2021
The series is really suffering from a lack of direction and constantly changing creative teams. The first several issues the Titans just flounder from city to city with no direction or purpose. It's boring. The last arc featuring Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman was far better. Hopefully Greg Pak will stick around a while.
February 8, 2021
5 🌟
Cassie finds out who her father is.
Cassie finds out who her father is.
June 2, 2017
This was better. Liked the cameo by Wonder Woman but wish it would have been flushed out more (thankfully I have read the entire run of 52 Wonder Woman and knew who Lennox and Cassandra were already and why Lennox's dead head was in WW's apartment).
October 28, 2016
This jumped around so much it made my head spin.
May 2, 2021
Turns out I had finished this weeks ago and forgotten -- and like some comic book plot, I had forgotten that I had forgotten, even to the point of rereading an entire two issues from the middle before figuring out that I had completed the whole thing.
Which is how memorable this collection is. Isn't. Whatever.
At the end of Volume 2, the Teen Titans had been doing a little B&E on the M.A.W. super-max (perhaps meta-max?) prison, when they got busted by some hero or mercenary that I was probably supposed to recognize, but didn't. The team is now Red Robin (whom readers know as Tim Drake, 3rd-ish Robin), Bunker, Beast Boy, Wonder Girl, Power Girl (the Earth 1 successor to Karen Starr), Kid Flash (Bart-maybe-Allen from the future), Raven, and Chimera (a Durlan).
In issue 14, they never make it to booking. A fanboy of Wonder Girl, something-Reiser, got meta-powers a few issues back, and he turns to his monster form to "rescue" the Titans. Issue 15 is a mixed-up segue to some Bat-Family issue where Robin runs off to Gotham (which is never resolved here), and a small team going to an encounter with a partycular Professor intent on Blood -- stealing blood from the Titans and getting it to Brother Blood...
Issue 16 has a badly-plotted battle and the badly-arranged departures of Chimera, Kid Flash, and Reiser (oh, kids, gone so young! We hardly knew you.) And the departure of the team to Heaton, Pennsylvania. What, what?
Issues 17 thru 19, well... the plot improves, as a quest for Wonder Girl develops that will change a small corner of the DC universe. I hope you were paying attention back in the first five volumes of Wonder Woman, because that plot comes along to haunt the Titans as well. But it gives a nice wrap-up to some questions from the Cassandra story lines in WW, and that's good.
Not a fan of this collection, obviously. Plotting is rough, scene transitions have some disconnections, there's too much exposition, and the art (quality and content) varies wildly around the lower half of DC's normal quality. Apparently Red Robin can be in two places at once, as he has been drawn into a scene in his Nest while he is supposed to be on the streets. It's a lot of that sort of thing...
Which is how memorable this collection is. Isn't. Whatever.
At the end of Volume 2, the Teen Titans had been doing a little B&E on the M.A.W. super-max (perhaps meta-max?) prison, when they got busted by some hero or mercenary that I was probably supposed to recognize, but didn't. The team is now Red Robin (whom readers know as Tim Drake, 3rd-ish Robin), Bunker, Beast Boy, Wonder Girl, Power Girl (the Earth 1 successor to Karen Starr), Kid Flash (Bart-maybe-Allen from the future), Raven, and Chimera (a Durlan).
In issue 14, they never make it to booking. A fanboy of Wonder Girl, something-Reiser, got meta-powers a few issues back, and he turns to his monster form to "rescue" the Titans. Issue 15 is a mixed-up segue to some Bat-Family issue where Robin runs off to Gotham (which is never resolved here), and a small team going to an encounter with a partycular Professor intent on Blood -- stealing blood from the Titans and getting it to Brother Blood...
Issue 16 has a badly-plotted battle and the badly-arranged departures of Chimera, Kid Flash, and Reiser (oh, kids, gone so young! We hardly knew you.) And the departure of the team to Heaton, Pennsylvania. What, what?
Issues 17 thru 19, well... the plot improves, as a quest for Wonder Girl develops that will change a small corner of the DC universe. I hope you were paying attention back in the first five volumes of Wonder Woman, because that plot comes along to haunt the Titans as well. But it gives a nice wrap-up to some questions from the Cassandra story lines in WW, and that's good.
Not a fan of this collection, obviously. Plotting is rough, scene transitions have some disconnections, there's too much exposition, and the art (quality and content) varies wildly around the lower half of DC's normal quality. Apparently Red Robin can be in two places at once, as he has been drawn into a scene in his Nest while he is supposed to be on the streets. It's a lot of that sort of thing...
June 13, 2022
Well, if it wasn't for the second half of this book, this would be a total mess.
It's been a long time since a i have read Teen Titans, Volume 2: Rogue Targets, so a can't remember almost anything of it, and i was not in a mood of a re-reading, so i tried to follow through. The Titans are on a run, the were arrested for helping Superboy, then they're free, some characters that i really wasn't remember just goes away as well, just to pave the way for Rebirth. And that was that. A big, bad, purd of nothing.
Then, Greg Pak and Ian Churchill grab the ties of the book, and then we got a good super hero story. We got the arc Who is Wonder Girl? And we finally learn something about Cassie's past, with a nice feat by Wonder Woman. Good stuff.
It's been a long time since a i have read Teen Titans, Volume 2: Rogue Targets, so a can't remember almost anything of it, and i was not in a mood of a re-reading, so i tried to follow through. The Titans are on a run, the were arrested for helping Superboy, then they're free, some characters that i really wasn't remember just goes away as well, just to pave the way for Rebirth. And that was that. A big, bad, purd of nothing.
Then, Greg Pak and Ian Churchill grab the ties of the book, and then we got a good super hero story. We got the arc Who is Wonder Girl? And we finally learn something about Cassie's past, with a nice feat by Wonder Woman. Good stuff.
October 30, 2017
Me parece muy decepcionaste como la calidad de las historias de los Teen Titans ha disminuido tanto.
Este volumen no tiene una historia sólida. En un número relataban una historia y la dejaban sin terminar, para complementarla en otro lugar. Y en el siguiente número el equipo está en otra ciudad con otra historia. Es triste porque para mí los Teen Titans tienen un potencial muy fuerte y lo están desaprovechando en gran medida.
Este volumen no tiene una historia sólida. En un número relataban una historia y la dejaban sin terminar, para complementarla en otro lugar. Y en el siguiente número el equipo está en otra ciudad con otra historia. Es triste porque para mí los Teen Titans tienen un potencial muy fuerte y lo están desaprovechando en gran medida.
August 29, 2016
I have not seen a comic book edited this badly since the 1970's. There are characters drawn into panels while other characters are asking where they are, and there are word bubbles pointing to the wrong characters. This was a truly pathetic job in comic book editing.
May 17, 2018
Teen Titans: The Sum of Its Parts picks up where the previous trade paperback left off, collecting the next six issues (14–19) of the 2014 on-going series.
It is said that fame comes and goes and for the Teen Titans – their fifteen minutes are up. Once considered heroes, they're considered criminals now. Under arrest by Alpha Centurion, they are publicly led in chains into prison. However, Alpha Centurion's nemesis, Doomed, rescues the Teen Titans and frees them from their clutches. Now the Teen Titans are not just wanted criminals, but Outlaws.
The Robin War tie-in (Teen Titans #15) is written by Scott Lobdell and Will Pfeifer and penciled by Ian Churchill and Minguel Mendonça. The issue is split into two stories – one is having Red Robin and Red Hood helping out the We Are Robin group from getting caught and arrested. While the second half deals with the Teen Titans fighting Professor Pyg, while Pyg got away in the skirmish, what was worrisome was he got blood samples from each of them.
While as a rule, I rather loath tie-ins included into trade paperback like this (I prefer them with the event trade paperback itself). It is usually jarring and seem like an outlier to the rest of the trade paperback, because it seems out of place and the story within in never finished. However, this may be an exception, because the last couple of pages of the previous issue (Teen Titans #14) led into this tie-in and it was not a story solely based on the event, but also continue the story. While the event side of the story won't continue in this trade paperback the other half would.
The rest of the trade paperback deals mainly with a story centered on Wonder Girl and her origins. She had been hearing voices, drawing her to her father's petrified head on the mantle of Wonder Woman's apartment in London. The voice calling to her Cassandra, a demigod child of Zeus and Wonder Girl’s aunt – she called out to her niece, her namesake, to help resurrect her father with the help of the Rod of Asclepius. However, she used the rod to restore her voice – Cassandra is a child of Zeus with the power to manipulate the will of others with her voice and it was Lennox that ripped her throat out when she ordered a group of people to kill each other just for the fun of it. Fortunately, before Cassandra could order them to die – Bunker managed to block his team’s ear with tiny bricks so they can’t hear the command. In the end, Wonder Girl using the power of the Silent Armor to rip Cassandra throat out and used the last powers of the Rod of Asclepius not to resurrect her father, but to heal Cassandra's throat, but not her voice. It also stars Wonder Woman.
Scott Lobdell and Will Pfeifer's wrote the first two issues of the first half of the trade paperback (Teen Titans #14–15) and Pfeifer wrote Teen Titans #16. Greg Pak wrote the Wonder Girl's centric story to complete the trade paperback. For the most part it was well written – a little chaotic – well maybe more than a little chaotic, but there were a lot of story to cover with a limited amount of space and because of that it seemed rather disorderly.
In one issue (Teen Titans #16) the writers have to downsize the team, so Chimera was returned to her home planet with a somewhat epic battle. In the mêlée, Kid Flash had something to do and left the team, and Doomed in his civilian form had to return to Metropolis and return to his job at S.T.A.R. Labs. I understand to limit the size of the team, but to have so many unceremoniously written off was rather jarring. However, we were not left much time to mourn their absence, because the Teen Titans are now fugitives, until Tim Drake can clear their names.
Teen Titans: The Sum of Its Parts had five pencilers with Ian Churchill penciling the most issues with five (Teen Titans #15, 17–19), Miguel Mendonça with two issues (Teen Titans #15–16), and Noel Rodriguez, Tom Derenick, Alvaro Martinez with one issue each (Teen Titans #14, #18 & #19 respectively). Surprisingly, with so many pencilers the art flowed rather smoothly, while there were some pencilers where their style of art didn't jive all too well with the rest of the trade paperback – it wasn't all too bad.
All in all, Teen Titans: The Sum of Its Parts is a rather good continuation for this Teen Titans series, it had its shining moments, but the first part was rather a mess and slightly chaotic. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the conclusion of the series.
It is said that fame comes and goes and for the Teen Titans – their fifteen minutes are up. Once considered heroes, they're considered criminals now. Under arrest by Alpha Centurion, they are publicly led in chains into prison. However, Alpha Centurion's nemesis, Doomed, rescues the Teen Titans and frees them from their clutches. Now the Teen Titans are not just wanted criminals, but Outlaws.
The Robin War tie-in (Teen Titans #15) is written by Scott Lobdell and Will Pfeifer and penciled by Ian Churchill and Minguel Mendonça. The issue is split into two stories – one is having Red Robin and Red Hood helping out the We Are Robin group from getting caught and arrested. While the second half deals with the Teen Titans fighting Professor Pyg, while Pyg got away in the skirmish, what was worrisome was he got blood samples from each of them.
While as a rule, I rather loath tie-ins included into trade paperback like this (I prefer them with the event trade paperback itself). It is usually jarring and seem like an outlier to the rest of the trade paperback, because it seems out of place and the story within in never finished. However, this may be an exception, because the last couple of pages of the previous issue (Teen Titans #14) led into this tie-in and it was not a story solely based on the event, but also continue the story. While the event side of the story won't continue in this trade paperback the other half would.
The rest of the trade paperback deals mainly with a story centered on Wonder Girl and her origins. She had been hearing voices, drawing her to her father's petrified head on the mantle of Wonder Woman's apartment in London. The voice calling to her Cassandra, a demigod child of Zeus and Wonder Girl’s aunt – she called out to her niece, her namesake, to help resurrect her father with the help of the Rod of Asclepius. However, she used the rod to restore her voice – Cassandra is a child of Zeus with the power to manipulate the will of others with her voice and it was Lennox that ripped her throat out when she ordered a group of people to kill each other just for the fun of it. Fortunately, before Cassandra could order them to die – Bunker managed to block his team’s ear with tiny bricks so they can’t hear the command. In the end, Wonder Girl using the power of the Silent Armor to rip Cassandra throat out and used the last powers of the Rod of Asclepius not to resurrect her father, but to heal Cassandra's throat, but not her voice. It also stars Wonder Woman.
Scott Lobdell and Will Pfeifer's wrote the first two issues of the first half of the trade paperback (Teen Titans #14–15) and Pfeifer wrote Teen Titans #16. Greg Pak wrote the Wonder Girl's centric story to complete the trade paperback. For the most part it was well written – a little chaotic – well maybe more than a little chaotic, but there were a lot of story to cover with a limited amount of space and because of that it seemed rather disorderly.
In one issue (Teen Titans #16) the writers have to downsize the team, so Chimera was returned to her home planet with a somewhat epic battle. In the mêlée, Kid Flash had something to do and left the team, and Doomed in his civilian form had to return to Metropolis and return to his job at S.T.A.R. Labs. I understand to limit the size of the team, but to have so many unceremoniously written off was rather jarring. However, we were not left much time to mourn their absence, because the Teen Titans are now fugitives, until Tim Drake can clear their names.
Teen Titans: The Sum of Its Parts had five pencilers with Ian Churchill penciling the most issues with five (Teen Titans #15, 17–19), Miguel Mendonça with two issues (Teen Titans #15–16), and Noel Rodriguez, Tom Derenick, Alvaro Martinez with one issue each (Teen Titans #14, #18 & #19 respectively). Surprisingly, with so many pencilers the art flowed rather smoothly, while there were some pencilers where their style of art didn't jive all too well with the rest of the trade paperback – it wasn't all too bad.
All in all, Teen Titans: The Sum of Its Parts is a rather good continuation for this Teen Titans series, it had its shining moments, but the first part was rather a mess and slightly chaotic. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the conclusion of the series.
December 26, 2024
Gets better after the We Are Robin crossover, because there’s no resolution for all that within this book, and the rest of the Titans’ fight against Professor Pyg is super unsatisfying. I’m happy that the Titans truly do feel like a team in this book. It definitely comes across that they are friends who care about each other and support each other (as demonstrated by the “Who Is Wonder Girl?” arc, which was probably the best thing here). The team was getting a little big and did need some paring down, but Bart’s departure was as sudden as his return and explained just as poorly. Justice for Bart, can’t wait to get to him being Impulse again in more recent books.
August 14, 2017
Adding sloppy continuity to all the sins of the previous volume is not an improvement. When you go from having your heroes surrounded by police in one panel to 'one week later' with no explanation, and in a few pages have a big fight ended in one panel because the bad guy basically said 'I'm stronger', followed by our 'heroes' deciding to become road-wandering vigilantes - a change that lasts for all of one city. Lazy writing from beginning to end.
May 21, 2017
Well, it's readable and avoids being ridiculous, but it's pretty poorly plotted. It's not really convincing when the team splits over Superboy, it's never really clear what's going on with the British dude, they break into a prison for... no reason? And then Superboy just splits. The end.
March 30, 2019
The first couple issues felt like filler, but I enjoyed it when they started exploring Cassie's origin, tying in Wonder Woman and previous characters from her amazing run by Azzarello.
February 26, 2017
I enjoyed this Volume a lot. For the most part it flowed very well. The artwork was good. The writing felt mostly organic. I went into this one with low expectations, so maybe that's why I was so pleasantly surprised. This had some good twists and turns. I liked the Robin War tie in. Overall, a fun read.
January 2, 2017
While I do love me some Teen Titans, this iteration is hard to like. There are a lot of seemingly random departures and arrivals and crisscrossing story lines.
And after three volumes they are just now really almost becoming a real team. Team books should not take this long to come together.
But, in spite of all of that, the art is typically appealing and there are a few few good character moments here and there. I'm sure I'll finish the series out as they are available digitally.
And after three volumes they are just now really almost becoming a real team. Team books should not take this long to come together.
But, in spite of all of that, the art is typically appealing and there are a few few good character moments here and there. I'm sure I'll finish the series out as they are available digitally.
September 26, 2016
Public library copy.
Run of the mill stories and art, except the sensational covers, but more of the same old, same old content. Despite reading the books at the library whenever a new book comes out, the only time the book was really good and I was also buying the books was when Geoff Johns wrote it. I really wish Ian Churchill would draw something creator-owned again.
Run of the mill stories and art, except the sensational covers, but more of the same old, same old content. Despite reading the books at the library whenever a new book comes out, the only time the book was really good and I was also buying the books was when Geoff Johns wrote it. I really wish Ian Churchill would draw something creator-owned again.
November 13, 2016
Sadly what could be a much better volume about Wonder Girl and origin is hindered by dangling plot threads (what happened to superboy and who is the shirtless kid) and being part of a bigger event that is really not in the arc (We are Robin).
April 8, 2017
The Teen Titans are on the run, and it seems as if no place is safe. The first few chapters of this book are a painfully disjointed mess, with characters joining and dropping from the team lineup in a matter of pages. Encounters with Professor Pyg and a group of Durlans seem to serve no purpose but to force the Titans into moving on to the next city. However, there's some redemption to this volume with the last two chapters focusing on Wonder Girl and her background. Get ready for some flashbacks to the early New 52 Wonder Woman run.
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