Teen Titans: Fast Forward (OOC)

[The Jeffinator]

And here are the original Titans, before they even created a name. The first time several sidekicks came together: http://superherohalloffame.com/images/firstedition/first_teen_titans_L.jpg
Wow, 1965: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Showcase-59-1965-TeenTitans.jpg

 

[The Jeffinator]

From Wiki:

The Teen Titans, also known as The New Teen Titans, New Titans, or The Titans, is a DC Comics superhero team. As the group's name suggests, its membership is usually composed of teenaged superheroes.

The first incarnation of the team unofficially debuted in The Brave and the Bold #54 (1964) as a "junior Justice League" featuring Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash (Wally West), and Aqualad, the sidekicks of Leaguers Batman, the Flash, and Aquaman, respectively. The group then made its first appearance under the name "Teen Titans" in The Brave and the Bold #60, joined by Wonder Girl (Donna Troy), the younger sister of Wonder Woman. Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (Roy Harper) later took Aqualad's place in the lineup.

While only a modest success with its original incarnation, the series became a huge hit with its 1980s revival, under the stewardship of writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez. In 1980, the two relaunched the team as The New Teen Titans, aging the characters to young adulthood and featuring a level of complex storytelling and character exploration unheard of from DC Comics at the time. Original members Robin, Wonder Girl, and Kid Flash were joined by new characters Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven, as well as the former Doom Patrol member Beast Boy, now using the name Changeling. The New Titans had several encounters with the original Titans of Greek mythology, particularly Hyperion. The series was retitled Tales of the Teen Titans with issue #41 (April 1984), and Pérez left in 1985 to headline the DC Comics 50th Anniversary miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths. It was again renamed to simply The New Titans in December 1988 (issue #50), and was ultimately canceled in February 1996 after 130 issues.

The series was relaunched as Teen Titans in October 1996, with a roster of all-new members under the mentorship of the Atom (Ray Palmer), who had been de-aged to his teenage years; the series ended in September 1998 after 24 issues. A three-issue limited series called JLA/The Titans: The Technis Imperative (December 1998-February 1999) led to the March 1999 debut of The Titans, a series featuring select Titans from all of the group's incarnations that ran for 50 issues until April 2003. A new regular series titled Teen Titans began in September 2003, featuring Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Raven of the 1980s group joined by new teenaged versions of Robin (Tim Drake), Wonder Girl (Cassie Sandsmark), and Kid Flash (Bart Allen), as well as the Superman clone Superboy (Kon-El). By 2006 the team consisted of only the younger members and some new additions; a concurrent series called Titans debuted in April 2008 featuring some of the "classic" Titans from the original and 1980s rosters, with Dick Grayson, Donna Troy, Wally West, Garth, and Roy Harper using their "adult" codenames Nightwing, Troia, Flash, Tempest, and Red Arrow, respectively.

A Teen Titans animated television series ran on Cartoon Network from July 2003 to January 2006. Based on the 1980s version of the team, but diverging from that continuity in some ways, the series spawned two related comic book titles, Teen Titans Go! and Tiny Titans.

 

[knight713]

HAHA . I think this version of Raven is hot. I'd either use that or this comic version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ravenoyl.png

agreed

 

[knight713]

so is young justice like the teen titans or is it different

 

[Sean Renaud]

I never read the Teen Titans comics but Young Justice is NOTHING like Teen Titans the show. It's much much closer in tone to Justice League Unlimited. Just told with smaller people who have lives outside of being super heroes.

Aqualad. . .the first side kick who's undeniably cooler and infinitely more useful than the guy he sidekicks for. Sure you can make a case that some Robins might be on par with or even cooler than Bats (I'd call you stupid go fuck Catwoman's brains out and hope that Starfire's first orgasm shattered your spine) but but you could try that. You could make the argument that all Flashes are created equal and I'd. . .probably buy that.

Seriously Starfire buy cloths. I'm a guy and I know most artists are guys so any excuse we can get to have a woman nude 90% of the time is acceptable but much like Ivy in Soul Caliber you're beginning to make me embarassed for my gender.

 

[The Jeffinator]

Considering bringing in Kyle Rayner as a Green Lantern once the Titans return to the past. And if I end up taking over Raven, we can also look forward to Trigon's dark army, haha.

 

[DeathsKnight]

Oe Green Latern! Me want! Me want!

 

[The Jeffinator]

Oe Green Latern! Me want! Me want!

I was reading up on Green Lantern, and thinking about forming my own idea for the various colors. Like, maybe the intergalactic police force is known as the United Lantern Corps, and each member has a power ring and power lantern connected to whichever color of the Emotional Spectrum best suits them. The Central Power Battery holds the powers of all emotions, but negative ones are sealed off.

Green Lanterns: Courage
Blue Lanterns: Hope
Orange Lanterns: Compassion

When a Lantern has gained enough experience and has proven to be pure of heart and soul, absolutely incorruptible, they can become the more senior and elite White Lanterns.

The Forbidden Powers:

Red Lanterns: Rage
Yellow Lanterns: Fear
Purple Lanterns: Lust

If one were to wear a power ring and become the epitome of hate and darkness, they would become a Black Lantern.

So, we could both be Lanterns, hehe. In fact, that would be cool if everyone made an extra Lantern character and we had like this huge Lantern war later on, haha. Sinestro manages to unseal the negative powers of the Battery and thus rings are sent out to people matching those colors as well. Lex Luthor would TOTALLY get one, haha.

 

[The Jeffinator]

Also, wanted to share with you guys my Dark Horse submission synopsis. Wanted to see what you guys think:

Dragonfangs

The first issue starts off with a teenage boy named Grant Warren standing in a grassy field amidst a gang of gremlin-like creatures, fighting for his life. He is shown to be incredibly strong and agile, sending the monsters flying into trees and each other, the grass soaked in blood, with a large airship in the background. During the fight scenes, there are various captions at the top of each panel with Grant commenting that he was thrown into a world not his own, forced to survive amidst strange creatures and exotic people.

After defeating the gremlins, a dark elf jumps from the airship and glides over to land down in front of the teenager. Grant smiles and his canines grow long and sharp, his pupils and irises become black with silvery-blue swirls like a nebula, his hair and clothes start to move as if a wind is passing by, and a bright blue mist/steam begins to rise off his skin. A caption reads, "A lot has changed... It all started the day I got my Dragonfangs..."

The next page says "Three weeks earlier," and shows Grant getting bullied at school. He stops at home to talk to his parents (John and Miranda) before heading over to Unk's house (Unk is Miranda's uncle, Keldus Ragna, and Grant's great uncle). Although John doesn't approve of Unk because of his unhealthy obsession with science, Miranda thinks her uncle is just a harmless dork. Grant often spends his afternoons at Unk's because he too adores science.

After arriving, Unk shows Grant some new inventions he's been working on, and then unveils his latest brilliant design -- teleportation pods. He is able to send small items and fruit back and forth between the two pods, but when one of the pods malfunctions, the baseball he was trying to send through vanishes, and instead, a humanoid dragon-like monster appears from the other one. It attacks them and savagely bites down on Grant's neck, but Unk manages to get Grant free and shoves the monster back into the pod. He slams down the button to send the beast back, but just as it is teleporting out, it reaches out and grabs Grant's foot, and they both vanish in a flash of light. Unk begins panicking, wondering where this creature is from, and where his great nephew is. He grabs some equipment and tries to go after them, but now the pods are working again and he just keeps sending himself back and forth in his lab. He dismantles them and desperately tries to pinpoint what created the malfuction so he can recreate it.

The first issue ends with a flash of light in a large field, and Grant panicking as he looks around and notices other dragon-monsters as well. They all descend upon the poor boy. The baseball can also be seen off to the side.

In the second issue, a group of hunter warriors save Grant from the monsters, but they comment that he has been bitten by the "Drakuul," demonic monsters created from dragon blood. They explain to Grant that the venom of a Drakuul is lethal, and there is little they can do for him. But to everyone's surprise, he recovers, and the venom somehow gives him some draconic abilities, even allowing him to grow his canines into sharp fangs and enhance his physical attributes.

The warriors find Grant's appearance odd, as they have never seen a human before -- every member of their team is either an elf, a dwarf, a gnome, or a golem (tall grey-skinned troll-like people with large muscles). They deduce he resisted the Drakuul venom because he is something different.

Most of the second issue deals with Grant recovering and gaining some of his initial abilities, and the warriors taking him to their nearby home in Zira Village. He is amazed to see more of the races mentioned above, but also faeries flying around the village, brownies and goblins running through the streets, centuars and other mystical beings going about their daily business, etc. Everyone they greet as they pass through the village square, in turn, seems shocked to see Round Ears (The nickname they give Grant, as everyone here has pointed ears or ears of some other shape).

Grant acknowledges this world seems right out of a fairy tale, except that they have modern electronics such as televisions and computers, and the village has asphalt roads with futuristic looking cars and houses. Everyone here speaks English, and Grant comes to the conclusion that the teleporter must have sent him to an alternate version of Earth where magic and technology flourished together. He finds out the name of the planet is Amaroth, but figures the people here just named this version of Earth something different.

Issue two ends with Grant pondering these thoughts, and in the third issue, Grant is learning about his powers more and discussing the happenings of the world from the locals. He discovers that in this world, there are two major continents and millions of smaller islands inbetween. The continent they are on, Emarika, is covered with many different kingdoms and states, but most of them joined together long ago to form the Emarikan Alliance. The other continent, Rapusia, is mostly a wasteland, but the isolated communities that do exist there are all controlled by the Holy Krystarian Empire. The Empire strictly enforces their religion, the Church of Krystaria, upon all their citizens. The belief system is named after the supposed Queen of the Heavens, and the Empire is planning to invade Emarika and all the islands on the way to unite the entire world once more under Lady Krystaria.

The Church goes back many centuries, but what the Krystarians fail to realize is that their beloved goddess is just a very powerful witch who started a cult a thousand years ago. Ultimately, the witch is brought back to life as a demon and pretends to be said goddess after realizing her cult has grown so much since her death. This "Second Coming" has been foretold by the seer Raala-kul, and events unfold, leading to an invasion of Emarika.

At the end of the third issue, it still has Grant learning about the world, and then it switches to a desert wasteland, with the caption, "Meanwhile, far away and across the sea..." A few short panels before the end of the issue show two dark elves pouring over various books in a sandstone cave system in the desert, and then one jumps up excitedly and proclaims, "Aha! I've found it! The first step to bringing our goddess back... Then the whole world will bow before Her or be obliterated!"

Issue Four depicts Grant gaining better control of his powers, and when he and the warriors who saved him go out to the fields to test out the last few days' worth of training, they are attacked by a group of bandits. The fight lasts into the fifth issue, when the bandits are defeated. Meanwhile, it shows the two dark elves walking through an underground tomb, and their names are revealed to be Lombar and Rakdun, but what they are doing in the tomb is left for the readers to ponder.

During Issue Six, Grant and Garlan, a gnome tech whiz he has become good friends with, are in Garlan's lab, trying to see if they can figure out a way to get Grant home. At this point, it's been about a week since he arrived, and still two weeks away from the scene depicted at the beginning of the first issue. The first two-thirds of Issue Six has Grant and Garlan chasing one of Garlan's pet robots around town after it runs amok, and the last third shows Lombar and Rakdun in the tomb again. They walk through a long chamber with bloody bodies all around, monsters they've just killed, and come upon a locked metal chest. They manage to get it open and pull out a scroll. They read it, and then Lombar calls comeone on his cellphone and tells them the have finally found the Prophecy of Raala-kul. It says, "when the Round-Eared Man gives of his flesh to the land, his blood to the sea, and his soul to the sky, the Queen of the Heavens will walk the world once more."

Then it shows the man on the other end of the line -- the same dark elf that jumps off the airship at the beginning of the first issue. Lombar refers to him as Ladarsa, and then Ladarsa turns and looks at a restrained young woman, and calls her Raala-kul. He tells her that her attempt to hide the prophecy from him was in vain, and then in the last shot of Issue Six, he asks her, "Now where the hell do I find a round-eared man?"

Issue Seven has Grant and Garlan travel to the nearby big city of Freeport, and they check out some shops. To prevent people from gauking at his ears, Grant wears a hood, but it falls off when they get into a fight with some street thugs, and everyone makes a big deal out of the "round-eared man." The end of the issue shows Grant and Garlan heading back to Zira Village, and a man watches their car drive by from a diner window and then makes a call on his phone. "Yeah, it's Baines. You remember a few days ago when you said to keep our eyes open for a round-eared man? Well, today is your lucky day..."

The beginning of Issue Eight shows Ladarsa on the phone, and then he turns to Lombar, Rakdun, and Raala. He tells his two henchmen to keep an eye on the bitch, that through his network of contacts he's discovered a round-eared man, and that he is going to retrieve him. He tells Raala that when they return, she IS going to tell them what the rest of her prophecy meant, and then boards an airship with a few squads of gremlin soldiers.

Grant and Garlan are out in the grassy fields beyond the village, where Grant is doing his daily training. They comment on how fast Grant has become in the three weeks since he arrived, as he chases Garlan's speedster robot. He is running through the field, and then stops when he sees something in the distance. Garlan comes over and they watch as an airship approaches. It flies over them and goes to the village, where Ladarsa and his gremlins start interrogating the people. Grant and Garlan arrive and Ladarsa is pleased to finally see the Round-Eared Man.

After refusing Ladarsa's request for Grant to accompany him, he tells the teenager he has no choice in the matter. Ladarsa manages to kidnap Grant, and they speed off from the village. However, after only a few minutes, he breaks free and flings himself from the ship, landing in the grassy field below, using magic to slow his descent. Issue Eight ends gremlins jumping from the ship as well to fight Grant, leading up to the establishing scenes of Issue One.

Issues Nine and Ten deal with Grant's epic fight against Ladarsa, and in the end, the dark elf and his surviving gremlins are forced to retreat. Knowing they will return with reinforcements, the citizens of Zira Village alert the High Council of the Emarikan Alliance, and Issue Ten ends with the military pouring into Zira and the surrounding areas to prepare for the second attack.

From this point on, I have enough story ideas to keep this series alive for many years, and it is impossible to write everything down and still keep it to five pages. Basically, Ladarsa's second attack leads to another retreat, and then he goes to General Vargus and Emporer Sodoron of the Empire, leading to a full scale war. Battles on the ground and in the sky will fill many issues, also leading to many new characters popping up.

Grant will continue to grow in power, while the imperial forces desperately try to capture him long enough to fulfill the prophecy. But it's like trying to catch smoke with your bare hands. Many of the issues will also tell of various missions, such as rescuing captured soldiers, destroying enemy bases of operations, and gathering information.

Several months after having arrived on Amaroth, Grant is pleased to see his great uncle show up, having finally discovered how to teleport there. However, he gets caught up in the battle as well, and his teleported is smashed. He joins forces with Garlan to create a wide array of technologies to aide in the war.

Eventually, the imperials kidnap Grant's uncle Keldus, theorizing that maybe HE is the Round-Eared Man of the prophecy. They slip him a Damitor Seed, a tiny pod that burrows into his brain and begins to give him demonic powers. Then they submerge him in the Springs of Rosarius, and just as Grant and his team come to the rescue, they witness a younger Keldus rising from the waters.

With his youth back and his new powers, Keldus stands by his great nephew and aides them in the fight. He then joins the frontlines of the war against the Empire, explaining that while they thought they could turn him into their greatest asset, he will instead become their greatest threat.

However, over the course of the series, Keldus slowly develops a darker personality, the demonic influence of the Damitor Seed corrupting his pure soul. He ultimately becomes evil, joins the Empire, and helps to resurrect Krystaria in demon form. Though, even they are being manipulated by a secret society of evil dragons known as the Order of the Black Lotus.

Much later in the series, the dragons of the Black Lotus gradually make themselves known, and assert their own dominance over Amaroth, and after opening their own portal, Earth. The shattered remnants of the Alliance and the Empire join forces with Earth's remaining militaries to rise up against the dragons. Many epic battles later, the dragons are finally defeated after the heroes collect several mystical artifacts that augment their abilities.

In the aftermath of the great wars, Earth and Amaroth help each other rebuild, and travel between the two worlds becomes commonplace. Depending on how popular the series is at this point, I would either want to end it there, or go on to introduce a third world with new allies and enemies. Maybe a few spin-off titles or something.

 

[princesssexci]

Seriously Starfire buy cloths. I'm a guy and I know most artists are guys so any excuse we can get to have a woman nude 90% of the time is acceptable but much like Ivy in Soul Caliber you're beginning to make me embarassed for my gender.

As Starfire: Buy clothes??? *looks down at her risque-ish bathing suit type costume* Is this not what clothes are? I am sorry but as a Tamerian this is what is required of us to wear. I am sorry this displeases you!

 

[DeathsKnight]

Wow Jeff, nice one with the Dragonfangs. Got to say that I'd read the novel.

 

[princesssexci]

Yeah Jeff, sounds interesting. I'd buy it!

 

[The Jeffinator]

Wow Jeff, nice one with the Dragonfangs. Got to say that I'd read the novel.

Thanks, dude. I have been considering dual-publishing it as both a comic and a novel series.

And Princess, that's hilarious, lol.

 

[The Jeffinator]

Yeah Jeff, sounds interesting. I'd buy it!

Thanks! *hugs*

 

[princesssexci]

Thanks! *hugs*

Welcome!

*hugs back*

 

[DeathsKnight]

Thanks, dude. I have been considering dual-publishing it as both a comic and a novel series.

...

If you do and it is available to the public let me know and I'll try and get my grubby paws on it. I have said it before and I'll say it again: I love reading just as much as RPing.

 

[princesssexci]

If you do and it is available to the public let me know and I'll try and get my grubby paws on it. I have said it before and I'll say it again: I love reading just as much as RPing.

So do I!! In fact, I'm buying a new book today. *squee*

 

[The Jeffinator]

If you do and it is available to the public let me know and I'll try and get my grubby paws on it. I have said it before and I'll say it again: I love reading just as much as RPing.

Thanks, dude. Also, I didn't know you lived in South Africa. Are you a native, or there for work or something? I hear about a lot of issues down there with like rebels and stuff.

So do I!! In fact, I'm buying a new book today. *squee*

Thankies! And yay!

 

[DeathsKnight]

Hmmmm rebels? Not that I know of. I know that our economy and country is in a lot of trouble and that pretty soon everything will go down the drain, but just clarify where I live, here is a map, you will find Upington on one of the routes marked N10

Born and raised South African, also knew the country in it's better years, but if I am caught saying things like these I'd be branded a racist Oh and I think the trouble with rebels is a bit more North from us.

 

[The Jeffinator]

Holy shit, man. Just read up on South Africa. How the hell can you stand to live in a place where the crime is so bad? Over 50 people murdered every day? DAMN!

 

[DeathsKnight]

Wish I could take credit for that 50

Nah to be honest it's hell living here, all these new rules and regulations that only benefit the few that is in power, it's like a dictatorship with say 50 dictators, but like things are going now I think it will not be too long before even they start to fight under each other. When I think of the current government I get this image in my head, they just gobble up what was built before them and bugger the rest. I mean this is just an example or two about the conditions of our roads. Really I can write an essay about what is wrong in this country, but hey I'm me. I just shut up and go on while I can.

 

[The Jeffinator]

Wish I could take credit for that 50

Nah to be honest it's hell living here, all these new rules and regulations that only benefit the few that is in power, it's like a dictatorship with say 50 dictators, but like things are going now I think it will not be too long before even they start to fight under each other. When I think of the current government I get this image in my head, they just gobble up what was built before them and bugger the rest. I mean this is just an example or two about the conditions of our roads. Really I can write an essay about what is wrong in this country, but hey I'm me. I just shut up and go on while I can.

Wish you could take credit for that 50, eh? Are you a murderer or something, haha. So, were you born there, or did you get stuck there for a job or school or something? And yeah, I was reading about how a lot of people leave the country because of the murders and rapes and carjackings and how the government doesn't do enough to stop it. I guess independent security firms do more than the police? That's crazy. I'd never live there, lol. I have enough issues with the crime here in St. Pete.

 

[DeathsKnight]

Born and raised, although my heart pulls me to Germany. Yup there is a bit of Kraut in my family's blood, but it seems like I'm the only one who wants to go there LOL.

Yeah I read statistics the other day, over the past 5 years there have been increases from 80% to 160% in crime rates. I mean how the hell can you see this sort of stuff and then tell the people that the fight against crime is alive and giving good results? I swear if it wasn't for the fact that I carry a machete around tucked into my belt I would have been a robbery statistic by now. Fun thing is that as a security firm you can't do much either, the police have only been given the right to use deadly force over the past six months and already there have been reports of 7 innocent bystanders getting shot by the police.

 

[knight713]

Dragonfangs souinds like it would be good read, also i find the lantern idea intresting

 

[The Jeffinator]

Damn, dude. If the crime is so bad you gotta carry a machete, it's time to get the fuck out, lol.