Titans: Total Chaos

New Teen Titans (1984) #90-92

by Marv Wolfman, Tom Grummett (Artist), Gabriel Morrissette (Artist)

Suffering under the tyrannical rule of Lord Chaos, a group of rebels calling themselves Team Titans travel back in time to prevent the birth of their frenzied overlord and save their future. Their plan is kill Chaos before he’s even born. What they didn’t plan for was Chaos’ mother being Donna Troy—a founding member of the Teen Titans and friend to the New Titans—or for Chaos himself to follow the team into the past!  The New Titans must now divide their attention between defending Troy’s life from the mysterious Team Titans and fulfilling their initial mission of tracking and capturing Deathstroke, the Terminator. Amidst all the fighting, neither Titans team nor the legendary assassin anticipates Chaos’ arrival and the plan he has to ensure his birth and reign of chaotic terror! Can the Titans of the present and future work together to defeat the coming chaos? Or will their bickering be the beginning of their end?  From comics author Marv Wolfman (Nightwing, The New Teen Titans) and artists Tom Grummett (Superboy), Kevin Maguire (Doom Patrol), Art Nichols (Justice League America) and more, Total Chaos will keep you on the edge of your seat! This volume collects together for the first time ever Deathstroke, the Terminator #14-16, New Titans #90-92 and Team Titans #1-3.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Dc Comics, Superheroes

321 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Marvin A. "Marv" Wolfman is an award-winning American comic book writer. He is best known for lengthy runs on The Tomb of Dracula, creating Blade for Marvel Comics, and The New Teen Titans for DC Comics.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was more of a launching point for the new Team Titans book than a crossover where Deathstroke happens to cross paths early on. Donna Troy is going to have a baby that will age himself into Lord Chaos with his godlike powers and take over the world. So the Team Titans come back from 2001 to kill Donna before she can have the baby and Lord Chaos comes back to stop them. Sound stupid yet? If not, there's more. The Team Titans launched with five #1 issues, each one having a separate origin story for a member of the team. The origins took place 6 years in the future in 1998, yet it looked like a few hundred years from now.

The art was good. You can never go wrong with Kevin Maguire. I'd forgotten how much Tom Grummett was emulating John Bryne at the time. But, oh man, so many mullets!

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

This isn’t as bad as it could be — the Deathstroke issues have some redeeming value. This arc was part of an attempt to revitalize the flagging Titans franchise, and it pretty much wrecked it altogether by injecting a dose of the 90s right into a major artery. Deathstroke got his own title, and Team Titans, the extremist team from a dystopian future, got a book — one that got not only five variant covers for the first issue, but five different stories under those covers.

The result of all this was a loud, flashy mess that went off the rails in a hurry — writer Marv Wolfman has nothing good to say about this part of the run, and the editor didn’t get half of his ideas implemented.

Worst of all, though...the mullets. Oh my god, the mullets.

[Brendan Mckillip · Rating 3 out of 5]

Serviceable 90’s DC team book. The crossover with Deathstroke seemed unnecessary and the story ultimately seems to serve no other purpose then to provide a launching of another new team book - Team Titans. I was quickly reminded how lame Terry Long was as a character and how annoying it can be when writer Marv Wolfman insisted on having every character have at least one line of dialogue in every panel. So tiring.

None the less, even though Deathstroke’s inclusion in the crossover seems forced, I enjoy the issues focusing on him. Overall, the story was fun to read. The art is fantastic at times. Especially Kevin Maguire and Tom Grummett’s contributions.

[Pantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. This was good. So Donna troy’s son becomes a dictator god in the future and the rebel Titans, names Team Titans, from the future go to the past to try to kill Donna Troy, before she can give birth to her son. Then her dictator son from the future goes back to the past to stop them. The Titans and Team Titans don’t get along too well, but we get some great moments with both, and the development between the two teams is good. We learn their backstories and we get lots of tensions, even within the team themselves. A must read. Also the arguments between Starfire and Mirage were so funny I loved them.

[Julia Pika · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hated Lord Chaos and the "future" titans. Mirage is the worst of them--what exactly was her plan? Make out with her future boyfriend while disguised as his future ex? That was an insane plotline and how they treated Dick/Kory during it was awful. The "future" Titans were argumentative bastards with no redeeming qualities.

[Index Purga]

Recopila Deathstroke, the Terminator #14-16, New Titans #90-92 y Team Titans #1-3, que parcialmente habían sido editados por Zinco en los 90s.

[ISMOTU · Rating 4 out of 5]

This might be peak 90’s for the Titans as they crossover with Deathstroke the Terminator and the Team Titans from the far flung future of 2001.

[Bj Shea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Insane 90s comic story. Love that second Nightwing suit. Tom Grummet art is great. Other than that it’s an insane story