Please Reboot your reboot-No More Titans

Writing is hard.  Managing a universe of hundreds of characters is hard.  Selling a product is hard.  Doing all of this for decades is hard.  I’m not going to argue any of that.

What I will say is that logic and basic common sense aren’t all that hard.  Forgetting those is like forgetting pants—it’s disturbing to everyone around you and you accomplish more if you bother with them in the first place.  While DC can make a lack of pants look normal—Starfire’s confusion about clothing grows with every decade—it has yet to make a lack of common sense and logic work…though it seems to be trying way to hard on that, too.

Sure, there have been numerous science screw ups, faceplamingly bad plots and outfits, and dumb decisions characters have made.  DC’s is responsible for movies like Steel, Batman and Robin, and Catwoman.  But those as least had reasons for why things were the way they were and why people did what they did—maybe not good reasons, but at least they had something to blame.  DC somehow forgot that in all their work to make a reboot.

The Titans used to be an essential and important part of the DC universe.  They had a long history, many members, and just as many crisis to handle as the Justice League and other more ‘adult’ teams.  But now they never happened at all and neither did anything that happened to members while they were in the group

Or that’s how it should be, right?  Even if you didn’t learn to drive in High School, but learned years later, things would be very different if that changed.  You’d know different people. You would have made different decisions as a driver than a pedestrian.

So why did Nightwing become Nightwing without the Titans to influence him to separate himself from Batman? How did he meet Starfire without the Titans recuing her?  How did Cyborg gain the confidence to join the Justice League without the mental and emotional support from the Titans?  He doesn’t get that from his new team.

DC changes its history almost as often as a normal person changes underwear.  I get that.  I got that ten years ago.  Heck, I got that twenty years ago when I barely knew comics.  But when those changes happened, they were explained.  Donna Troy wasn’t rescued by the amazons, but by the titans, and wasn’t rescued by them, but was a magical duplicate of Wonder Woman as a kid, and wasn’t created ever and does not exist.  Those were all different causes and the effect was Donna Troy, Wonder Girl, Troia and nothing.

But we got the cause, not just the effects.  We need the cause to understand the new effects.  We read comics, we can take anything. 

Except nothing at all.