Raven: Daughter of Darkness Vol. 2

Raven: Daughter of Darkness #7-12

by Marv Wolfman, Pop Mhan (Illustrator)

Raven is recruited to the legendary Night Force! With a band of mysterious assassins putting the supernatural heroes of the DC Universe in their crosshairs, the Teen Titans' gloomiest member might be the key to their defeat!

The mystical manhunters known only as the Shadow Riders want the young arcanes surrounding Raven for their next prey. And they are all too successful: one of them dies! Introducing...the beginning of a brand-new Night Force.

Marv Wolfman, the comic book writer who along with George P�rez introduced us to the half-demon hero in the pages of New Teen Titans, is once again returning to her world with Raven: Daughter Of Darkness. This graphic novel collects Raven: Daughter of Darkness #7-12.

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Graphic Novels Comics

160 pages, Paperback

Published June 4, 2019

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 3 out of 5]

Wolfman brings back Baron Winters and his Night Force, recruiting Raven along with a bunch of DC's young mystic characters to fight the Shadow-Riders. They are these shadowy creatures that want to kill off "arcanes" which are just DC's mystic characters. As a stand alone arc, it's not bad. I just wish Wolfman hadn't more or less abandoned the supporting cast he had already established with Raven's home life and her new friends at school. To me, that was much more interesting than jumping around to random, nameless dimensions.

[Beeccy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I feel bad giving this volume three stars, but I must admit I find the story a little messy. In this volume, we meet a lot of new characters and probably due to lack of understanding of the overall story arc, I found it frustrating to read as I wasn't sure why the characters that appeared were in the story or what their importance was or what the Shadow-Riders were.

It was fun seeing some new faces, but I failed to understand why Baron Winters needed to gather a group of magical beings or arcane when in the end it seemed the only person he needed was Raven. Who is Baron Winters? Why is he important? Why was Raven continuously appearing to him when he would constantly lie and withhold information.

I'm very fond of Raven, but unfortunately I feel that despite reading a lot of comics from DC that her stories feel out of place or too quickly paced as if the writers were trying to finish the story and move on to the next project.

There were some fun bits in this story too, like Raven referring to the Raven comic that was prior to Raven: Daughter of Darkness to show that that comic belongs in the continuum.

For those that understood the story, please enlighten me on what else I should read to make this story more complete!

[Juan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean, this was alright but not the way I would have wanted to end a two arc series.

I get how Marv Wolfman set it up. The first arc was heavy on Trigon being the baddie with his various children being the ultimate force to help Raven win the fight. The thing is, starting with Arc one, we were meant to truly focus on the Night Riders. Arc two almost totally forgot about Raven's true sisters, regulating them to a barely supportive role that can be easily over looked. The only thing really tying the two arcs together is Baron Winters and his home stead. Me personally, I grew to really hate the rest of the Night Force even though I tried to remind myself that they were meant to be your average American teenager. I guess it was hard on me because Raven herself is so much more emotionally mature. The power set names for each of the arcanes was equally as annoying. I even felt the final issues of the arc really rushed the final battle despite having some elements that saved the volume and made it worth reading. I was glad that Raven's story made mention of the White Carnival story arc from before and played a role in having her reveal her true story to her adaptive family. I sort of hope there are more stories in the future because I genuinely like Raven and her story outside of the Teen Titans. This volumes first arc really made an effort to show the audience Raven's family dynamic with her mother and how it effects her entire faith system.

[Duncan]

Don't bother. This one is EVEN worse than the first one. The ONLY thing than Wolfman's writing, in fact, is actually that he's even still sucking air at all. Here he is, taking characters who SHOULD remain shrouded in mystery and romance, and making fairly obvious modern super-heroes out of them.
Why is this wrong? Well, to start, none of them are ACTUALLY super-heroes, none of them but Raven ever have ACTED as super-heroes, and not one of them, even the title character, gets it right, because Wolfman has NEVER been able to write coherently from point A to point B, and this story is a LOT longer than that.
These characters should've been allowed to stay in their milieux. PERIOD. Being spooky, mysterious, and romantic. And Wolfman should retire. Preferably to a place under a rock in some shady, weedy, ill-kept cemetery.

[Silas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a really good book that was hampered by the fact that it was clearly cancelled about halfway through this volume, and Wolfman made an effort to wrap up all the elements that could have used at least one more volume. I liked the way this volume set up a team of young magic users, which gave me a look at some parts of the DC universe I had only heard about, but never read before. It also wrapped up all of Raven's faceless half-sisters from the previous volume, though not in a particularly satisfying way, and had something of an abrupt, rushed sort of ending which felt a little bit forced, but was likely because of the constraints of the book being canceled. I wish it had continued, but I guess the sales numbers weren't there. Still, it was enjoyable, even if the end was a little bit more of a sketch than an immersive storytelling experience.

[Júlio Gabriel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuação da história passada, aqui ela a Ravena é encaixada meio que numa Justiça Jovem só de personagens místicos e jovens da DC, que possuem alguns nomes interessantes e que são bem legais de se ver, porém a questão sentimental é muito inconsistente, há momentos que os personagens agem de acordo com a ocasião e no próximo capítulo eles estão mega amigos.
O Barão inverno que faz o trabalho de quem junta essa galerinha é beeem chatinho mas cumpre seu papel, a resolução é meio boba mas é uma aventura divertida, o fator família é um dos mais bem explorados da questão.

[Brandy Cross · Rating 2 out of 5]

More of the same from the first volume. Dubious morality chased by questions and concerns about said morality, barely resolved in a "feel good" ending. Iffy storytelling and plot pacing. Sudden dramatic resolution that was not really built into. This might have been better as a longer comic with more space for storytelling and character building, I'm not sure. Still, what a sad waste of a great character.

[Will Cooper · Rating 2 out of 5]

Way better than the first volume but still bad. Fun premise of ancient Shadow Hunters chasing down anyone who has arcane powers...but then squandered by the new Night Force just teleporting into Baron Cape's (or whatever) room and then teleporting elsewhere and teleporting back and teleporting elsewhere.

Also, at the end when Raven is like, "I do not kill." Why not? Why not these shadow killers that seem to not be human and just "born" to hunt down and kill arcane users?

Whateverlol

[Kastie Pavlik · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. I enjoyed this more than vol 1, but the whole "Raven not trusting Winters and doing as he asks anyway" thing got old without any development. The story concept is interesting and could have been better explored. The ending is rushed and the story jumps around at weird times. I like Raven, so I liked seeing her in action. She has so much potential in the right hands.

[Kati · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was really confusing and hard to follow.

[Thea (All About Books) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

[Jennifer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok but now let her be in Justice League Dark. Or actual maintain these friendships I guess??? Like what was the point here?

[Jake · Rating 4 out of 5]

The dialogue never really flows that naturally, but the idea of Raven flexing her powers and leading a Teen Titans Dark is so appealing.... so of course DC quickly abandoned it.

[JestersRaven · Rating 5 out of 5]

Raven is one of my favorite Teen Titans characters and I’ve always wanted to read more comics with her so this was perfect for me

I love the Art-style and Character Designs and the story was great

[Jenna Alcock · Rating 5 out of 5]

Far better then the first volume, really interesting premise.

[Verena Stahlecker]

amazing!

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

I thought I would enjoy this more than I did. Magic team and Raven? but somehow I struggled to get through this one.