Doomed To Repeat It, Or: Lobdell On Teen Titans

Teen Titans writer Scott Lobdell, who made a splash in the DC New 52 last week by portraying pre-reboot Titan Starfire as an amoral, cock-hungry nymphomanic, gave an exclusive interview with USA Today yesterday where he described what other… brilliant… plans he had for the rest of the new Teen Titans… wait – old Teen Titans? old New Teen Titans? New new old New… I’ve had a lot of cold medicine, I’d better lie down and let Scott take this:

“It’s designed specifically so that as you’re sitting down to read this book, you’re learning about Kid Flash, Red Robin and Wonder Girl,” [Lobdell] says. “Pretty much what you see on the paper is what we know about them and what they know about each other.”

But… but… wait… so there’s never been a Teen Titans? Right, Scott? Um…

From Red Hood and The Outlaws. Written by Scott Lobdell. LAST. FUCKING. WEEK.

Okay, whatever. Maybe I’m misreading this. That Sudafed’s a mean drug. Ask Walter White. What else you got in the pipeline, Scott?

Red Robin is instead still the world’s greatest detective, as trained by Batman.

Sounds okay so far…

Kid Flash is still an impulsive and excitable young guy, both in words and in actions.

Feeling better about this…

Wonder Girl is still a powerful, confident female thief who’s headstrong in her determination…

Okay, I’m – wait, what?

Wonder Girl is still a powerful, confident female ***thief*** who’s headstrong in her determination…

That’s okay, I guess. I mean, what’s the worst that can possibly happen when Scott Lobdell rethinks a female Titan to make her edgier?

Um… Robin, thoughts?

Teen Titans #1 drops tomorrow, September 28th.