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Oh yeah after reading the first issue of FS TT last month I was disappointed (like many fans considering the majority of tweets about it on socials always joking on writers always finding a way to make the titans suffer or worse) and considering that academy is going to be written by the same guy completely overturned my expectations and hopes for it. Is there really no one out there that can offer better? I'm no writer (my passion is drawing) and I know writing is an art in itself but really?

Unfortunately...Yeah.

I had really low hopes going in because the guy came with experience from like. Writing TTG for an episode and on DCAMU (LOL). 

I also almost always get nervous when they make Raven a forefront of the story, because 9/10 it’s never good. 

It’s yet another story about dead Titans, or sad Titans, or evil Titans, and like...do they ever get bored of this shit? It’s almost always the same formula time after time. 

Another “epic” battle with some “epic” boss that wipes out a bunch of them/turns a bunch evil (except never the HUMAN heroes, like batbrats because...lol because of course not). And Raven doing some magic-y shit that requires her to faint/go evil again. A giant cast of characters, most of which have no real relevance to the story other than being a cameo. 

Oh, and summoning the ghosts of their dead friends, I guess. 

Honestly, the book is ruining Red X for me a bit, too. He’s fun because he’s chaos, this book is trying to make him be a hero and...that’s not really fun. Nor is it really him. He’s not really a hero at all. And I don’t mean to gloat or anything, but the fic I’m writing him in, it’s more about the concept of Red X, what he stands for - a rogue character, a mask to hide a truth everyone is too ashamed to confront. 

A persona utilized for nefarious purposes that doesn’t necessarily mean the individual is misguided, but that for the current time, that yes, he/she is lost.

Removing that significance and making him some...misunderstood hero feels...I don’t know, kind of cheap to me. When Robin donned the Red X persona, he was working for Slade, against the Titans. When Red X shows up again, he uses the identity and powers of the suit to steal and gain for personal reasons. I honestly don’t think it works so well with Red X being a “pupil” of the Titans, but I get this might just be me because I’ve created an idea in my story and it’s hard for me to look beyond it right now. 

I don’t know why every writer that tries to write Titans is always so cursed, though. Like, sometimes it doesn’t even matter if they DO have good credentials, they come onto write the Titans and just fail miserably. But like, this is why the GNs are outperforming their main continuity. Hello, DC? That’s NOT a good thing!! 

I mean, it is, but also, it speaks a lot to how disengaged they are from their fanbase. 

I still feel like it’s DC’s lack of care for these characters and this title that is the main contributor to having such weak writing, with so many repeated formulas. 

We’re tired of seeing Dick and Kory as “jilted exes” who can’t be together because batfam.

We’re tired of seeing Dick/various batboys always hogging the spotlight in some way. 

We’re tired of the evil/dead Titans nonsense. 

This Academy idea is honestly so fresh, and yet, somehow and some way, DC has made it...just another rehash of what most Titans fans don’t want.

I guess that does take some level of skill, lol.

Lowkey kinda glad most people are trashing it online. DC is acting like this book is some great thing and really, it’s probably the weakest/worst FS title out there.

Tragic.

Frog boy 🐸