The Teen Titans take on the genre of role playing games, more precisely, skewering the most popular game of them all: Dungeons & Dragons.
After endless rounds of nagging, the Titans finally agreed to play a round of 'Basements and Basilisks' with Robin as the game master. Their quest is to locate an enchanted piece of jewelry and then discover a way to destroy it. In the real world, the relic is an anklet that Robin symbolically wears around his leg. But what the Titans are unaware of is that the anklet is really cursed by one of the team's most dangerous foes in a plot to take over the world.
From 2020, this is of a rough series of graphic novels in which the Teen Titans tackle a subject and parody the heck out of it. I call it rough not because of the art or the story itself. Mostly it's because DC has been releasing these theme heavy books without labeling them with volume numbers or organizing them as a set. However, I did feel that the story ran about 50 pages too long. Maybe a bit more.
About halfway into the story, everyone finds out who the mystery villain really is in the real world. Then back into the game world, which has been bewitched by the anklet, they all forget. This happens over and over. And it just started to get boring. It was like being stuck in a time loop only this story had nothing to do with quantum mechanics.
I also thought that the artist behind the design of the villain didn't do such a great job disguising them. In their secret identity form, they look like a normal human being. However if you examine the outline of their body, and if you have a pretty good knowledge of Teen Titans Go!, then you've figured out who this baddie is. Considering that the mystery villain appears on the very first page, I was not anywhere near surprised during the big surprise reveal of the antagonist.
I would say that my biggest complaint with TTG is how they'll beat something to death. It's like that song of theirs, The Night Begins to Shine. The first time they used it was great. Then they did a 5-night miniseries about the song and then another special episode and another. The folks behind Teen Titans Go! just can't let a brilliant idea stay fresh. They have to keep milking it and milking it until they kill the poor cow. I thought it was only with the TV show that this kind of overuse occurred. Turns out that the folks behind the comics are forced to reuse material until the point of annoyance as well.
A great start to a story that should have ended needed at least 2 chapters sooner than it did.
Rating: 6 out of 10 stars.
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