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New Teen Titans Vol. 14 is the incredible continuation of the late 80's action-packed tales from Marv Wolfman of the Teen Titans!

The Titans must battle some of the most powerful adversaries—Gizmo, Disruptor...and Tritan?! But is there a mastermind organizing this terrible attack?

In The New Teen Titans Annual #4 learn what terrors await our Titans when a mysterious stranger invades...and influences...their dreams?

And don't miss the origins of Nightwing as Dick Grayson reflects on his life and how he became the hero known as Nightwing!

Collecting incredible tales from the late 80's, this volume contains Secret Origins #13, Tales of the Teen Titans #91, The New Teen Titans #41-49, The New Teen Titans Annual #4, and Secret Origins Annual #3.

416 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 2022

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Marv Wolfman

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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.

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784 reviews33 followers
August 18, 2022
Who thought Danny Chase was a good idea?

Anyway, this volume wasn't as good. The first few were, but a lot of these were just rehashing origins or previous volumes and there were major gaps between stories, like Wildebeest and Nightwing learning about Jason Todd. The art was also a little less consistently good. I just didn't enjoy it a much as some of the other ones. I'll of course keep reading what comes next. This is just the nature of long-form storytelling
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December 13, 2022
A tough read, very wordy, but if you've been reading these volumes all this time it feels like a definite ending to the greatest group of Teen Titans ever written.... Yeah, even the stuff after and current can't compare.... You really can't go back, can you?
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June 4, 2024
I can’t believe we’re all the way into the fourteenth volume of this title. The last few volumes focused on longer arcs, from adventures on Tamaran to exploring Raven’s newfound personhood. This volume hops around and shows off a wide assortment of story types without a particular central unifying theme. More time with our Titans is always welcomed. Oh, and Danny’s here too.

Ugh. Danny. Since being introduced to him a few volumes ago, I learned that 1.) I can’t stand him and 2.) it seems no one else can either. Good to know. Our resident Cousin Oliver gets a lot of focus early on as the book tries to justify his existence. Honestly? It doesn’t feel good. Kid characters can be fine, but Danny is so obviously an audience stand-in, a perfect example of the “smart ass kid surrounded by capable badass adults so the audience can self-insert” archetype prevalent throughout the 80s and 90s. In theory he could work, but the execution is a miss. The mainstay Titans all have their roles:

Dick is the dedicated leader, a tactical smart guy who’s cunning is basically a super power, and who’s central struggle of finding a place to belong as he leaves behind childhood into adulthood is the crux of what the “Teen” Titans is all about.

Donna is the level-headed one with a family and job, but a total bruiser in combat. She’s strong, determined, independent, but also compassionate. She’s the closest thing to a unifying force in the group when Dick isn’t around.

Kory is passionate, emotional, and a tour de force of power. Her storylines exemplify her fish-out-of-water experiences on Earth, and she’s used to examine the morality of the human condition. She’s Dick’s love interest as much as he’s hers, and their romance is a backbone of later story arcs.

Victor is our science hero. Started as a high school sports star who was super intelligent but downplayed it in favor of excelling with his body. Then his accident turns him into the hero Cyborg, and suddenly his body becomes something he’s ashamed of. He struggles with feelings of self-worth and his stories tend towards more dour, emotional tales. They also dip into awkward 70s White Lib examinations of racism which, y’know, mean well but didn’t age so great. Like at all.

Raven is our magic hero. The catalyst which formed the group, Raven’s lock on emotions and her own humanity has been a constant throughout the many volumes of the title. She runs the gamut of feeling no emotion to feeling all the emotions, which puts her in an interesting state of flux. Of all the characters, Raven may be the most changed from her first appearance.

Joseph is the most emotionally stable member of the team. He’s got a dark backstory and an antagonist parent, but he earned the team’s trust through his compassion and sheer congeniality. His disability is an important aspect of his character but doesn’t define him. He’s a supportive friend and speaks volumes without words.

Gar is the annoying one.

Danny is also the annoying one. But he’s younger, a dead-ringer for Chucky the Good Guy doll, and everyone constantly talks up how amazing he is at every opportunity. His hyper intelligence and “wit” make him smarter than both Dick and Vic. Danny is painful to follow.

Sigh. So. Danny. We see Danny in school plotting like an incel supervillain because he has no friends. I take notes as I read, just anything that comes to mind, and I jotted down that this happened on page 20. By page 26 I wrote “I want Danny to die.” It took six pages. That probably sums up my feelings pretty well. Danny ends up being prevalent throughout most of the arc, and I tried to focus on the positives and find something I like about him. I don’t dislike characters easily, I swear, so there had to be something redeeming about the little goblin. And then, as if by miracle, something was: The Titans are sent in to investigate a retirement community for secret agents (or maybe secret agents just choose to go there, can’t recall if they said) and we meet Danny’s Grandpa. Finally, we have someone who’s shilling for Danny feels natural and not entirely reality-breaking (I haven’t dropped my theory that Danny is a reality warping Titans fanboy who’s using his power to get close to the team and self-insert in their adventures.) Grandpa Chase calls Danny “Little Prince” which was actually cute, which I hated. (Sidebar, but when meeting a retired British service agent Gar says “This is neat!” like he’s never met a Brit before and I laughed. You need to get out more, Gar.)
Danny gets injured in the ensuing fight and has a massive breakdown. Normally I’d be very much aghast at Danny’s signature whining heightened to eleven, but I liked this bit. And not just because Danny got hurt! His reaction felt realistic and believable, for anyone much less a preteen. Unfortunately, Danny then gets to be the focus of the framing device for a recap issue where he’s a complete asshole to a clearly traumatized Gar. There’s technically two recaps in this entire volume! That’s pretty much the last we see of Danny until a very strange decision made with the last issue of the volume. We’ll get there in a second.

Aside from Chase: A Danny Story, we’ve got the Mother Mayhem/Baby Blood plot to be neatly wrapped up in a tidy epilogue for the Brother Blood arcs. I’m sure they’ll never revisit this for drama in the future. Phobia, from the Brotherhood of Evil, gets a really nifty spotlight mini-arc that compares and contrasts her with Raven. Phobia has always been the coolest member of the Brotherhood in both terms of power and design (those eyebrows are fleek) and watching her run around and metatextually shame Dr. Crane is a delight (luv u Jonathan~) The resolution to her arc seems like it might be trying to absolve her of, uh, a ton of murder. So. There’s that too.

The middle of the volume starts dropping references to the Crisis on Infinite Earths, which I assumed are retconned since a byproduct of the Crisis was to eliminate memories of the multiple worlds. This can make reading through kind of confusing as events occurred during the Crisis, including the deaths of some characters, which get detail dropped randomly throughout. What will become the Donna Troy Origin issue starts here as Dick makes a comment about her ~mysterious origin~. I can feel my dread for how poorly handled that’s going to be.

One of the last collection of issues involves the reoccurrence of Russian hero Red Star—friend of the Titans— as he is forced to battle against the Titans, and then ally with them when Sickle and Hammer, two other Russian agents, attempt to assassinate him. Red Star has some classic Wolfman Male Hero Surliness, and he looks like Wally. Mentally I’ve been referring to him as ‘Soviet Wally’ (Solly, for short.) Solly’s plot involves being used as a tool by his government and the warring factions within. It’s like the Captain America: The Winter Soldier film, just with less time to breathe. There’s also the added complication of name dropping real-life people in the story, like Gorbachev, which dates the story tremendously. The most notable thing about the arc itself, aside from how brutal the antagonists are (the image of Sickle catching her bloodied weapon has stuck with me) is how Sickle cries out about their diplomatic immunity when the Titans are stopping them from attempted murder. According to my extensive research (read: three web results using Google) diplomatic immunity does, in fact, literally protect you from recourse in the US for committing murder.

That’s so jacked.

The last story is strange. It’s the second(!) recap in the volume, focused on the origin of the Titans and centered on Dick. Dick is trapped in a nightmare which is whisking him through past events, like a well-researched fanfic. I didn’t fact check everything shown, but from what I know and remember, it was all on the up-and-up. Very impressive. The story focuses on Dick’s personal growth, from his mischievous days as Robin leading the first iteration of the team, to the angrier young man he became. From Robin to Nightwing, his complicated relationships with Bruce and Kory, and finally, where he is now. And I gotta say— this is great. I mentioned before that Raven is the most changed character, but she’s not the only character to evolve. All the characters have grown a ton since the first volume. Dick’s growth has taken a long while, but even through some of the harder bits (some of the Brother Blood stuff was tiring) I love the journey he’s taken. He’s become more mature and surer of himself, coming in to his own as Nightwing.

The story also gives us some sure details on Dick’s personal timeline at this point: his parents died when he was ten and he became Robin, and he mentions he is twenty now. This is a big boon to my personal timeline Post-Crisis, Pre-52 headcanon that’s as irrelevant as it is self-indulgent to even mention in a review. Just thought I’d share.

The focus on Dick isn’t what’s so odd about this last story. It’s the best part! The weird thing is the story’s timing. Since the end of the previous issue we learn that Jason Todd has died, Dick and Kory have been struggling over the last few weeks despite being at a good place only last issue, Danny was kicked off the team (!) and Donna got an entire redesign and new hero name. An editor note mentions this occurred in an issue that isn’t collected in this volume, meaning we’ve suddenly jumped in time with this story. I can imagine a few reasons for doing so, but it makes reading through this feel very… odd. I assumed we’ll see these events play out in full in the next volume, but at that point why not just place this story after those issues? It’s a weird choice that makes a first-time reader’s head spin. It really felt like a test to see if we’re paying attention.

I deserve to see Danny kicked off the team.

The story itself is pretty good, but the way it hobbles the pacing is a big red mark.

Some other general thoughts:

As always, I love Victor and when he gets the focus. I’ve gotta admit though, I’ve not been sold on Victor x Dr. Sarah Charles. Maybe it was because I like him with Sarah Simms (why are they both named Sarah??) or because I missed the issues that gave them time to grow, or because Dr. Charles seems so much older (we learn in this volume she’s 28 to Vic’s 20, which isn’t so bad but they are on totally different planes of maturity), or that they just don’t have much chemistry. The back-and-forth with their relationship takes a lot of their time, and it also felt like it wasn’t really going anywhere. I didn’t really hate the storyline we got, but it was more that I cared about how it would change Vic than whether or not the relationship succeeded, if that makes sense.

Vic deals with more unwanted sexual attention from problematic villain Godiva. It’s treated as a bit, because he’s a man, but his extremely blatant discomfort when she keeps messing with his mind and kissing him makes me squirm in a not-so-great-way. I’ve got a high tolerance for most things in fiction, but I think the way men can be casually SA’d in stories and it’s treated like a joke is one of the few things that really gets my goat.

Joey continues to weirdly be my heart throb of the series. He’s just so cute. I always think it is super cool when the artists show off him using his hand signs in conversation. His broship with Dick continues to be awesome.

Terry only appears once in the whole volume. That used to be something that would make me cheer, but I find now I would much rather deal with him than Danny. We don’t know how good we have it until it’s gone, I guess. His shows up hanging out with Dick, which is nice. As a huge proponent of the Dick/Donna friendship, I like that he makes an effort with Donna’s husband.

“Oh well. If they want to be idiots that’s their right, I guess.” – Kori’ander. Great line! Kory gets some great moments, such as when she fights Sickle and Hammer with her arms tied behind her back, and a speech she gives about what the team means to her. She’s perfect and I adore her.

Danny pretty snidely comments on Tara during the first recap segment and Joey’s visceral reaction which is the equivalent of “We Don’t Talk About Tara” was so well animated. It’s not easy to make an image feel like it’s making you say “stop!” and pay attention to it, but the artist captured Joey in a very quiet, determined way that I thought was excellent. For all the art does well during this part, it also kind of… fails. Every child looks like an adult who’s been miniaturized. It makes me laugh. Dick on page 241 is my favorite. He looks so disgruntled as a kid. Danny is also drawn with horror-movie lighting which makes the Chucky the Killer Doll comparisons even easier to make.

“I wonder where Azrael is now?” Dick says on 286 about Lilith’s winged suitor. I don’t. I hope he’s in Hell. Speaking of, Lilith shows up in the final chapter and it’s always nice to see her. She’s underrated. She mentions needing to go home to “someone waiting” and god. I hope she doesn’t mean you-know-who. (She can’t. Because he’s in Hell)
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989 reviews8 followers
August 1, 2022
A very good read and return to great storytelling. Though sort of peculiar in including Nigtwing’s origin from Secret Origins (an amazing series) and the annual that’s much later than the last issue, it’s good to see a return to form in story and art and character.
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March 30, 2023
hate how everything in this got ruined by danny chase's existence, that should've never happened
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November 4, 2025
Finally finished this volume and overall it was pretty good but I made the choice to read up to issue 56 to catch up with the reference in the secret origins annual so I took quite a while. I included the bulk of my notes on each issue but located below is a summary of the date read plus the rating:

Issue #41 - 7/14 - 4/5
Issue #42 - 7/24 - 3/5
Issue #43 - 7/25 - 4/5
Issue #44 - 7/28 - 2/5
Issue #45 - 8/1 - 4/5
Issue #46 - 8/14 - 2/5
Annual #4 - 8/17 - 4/5
Issue #47 - 3/5
Issue #48 - 3/5
Issue #49 - 3/5
Secret origins #13 - 4/5
Secret origins annual #3 - 11/3 - 4/5
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1,018 reviews7 followers
December 27, 2023
The storytelling is brilliant only in four issues the rest is boring and forgettable.
The best is the Eduardo Barrreto work and the impressive and constant work of Romeo Thanghal.
I admit that I like New Titans characters and the whole concept.
I unlike the sexual jokes that appears here and there, they are not common but rotten the whole thing
46 reviews
September 11, 2025
I actually enjoyed this book a lot more than the previous two ones. It feels like Wolfman was back on track and the art by Barreto is jaw dropping good. Too bad, annuals are rather boring imho. But it remains a strong collection. I wish DC continued beyond that volume. Maybe one day with DC finest.
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December 7, 2025
they should have wrapped this series up several volumes ago
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June 4, 2023
I've said it before-- outside of Vertigo- Marv Wolfman's run on New Teen Titans is the one of the best titles in the DC library. It's funny-- when I first read these issues when I was between 12-14, Danny Chase annoyed the shit out of me. While I don't find him to be a GREAT character, I don't find him 100% obnoxious either. In fact, it is these issues where I start to actually start LIKING the little twerp. (The storyline right before he was written out for a very long while.)

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