Futile Face Off - Teen Titans #10
Rogue Targets, Part 2
With the Elite and the Titans staring each other down the Elite, or Cassie at least tries something unusual - she tries to solve everything peacefully! Bart, Kid Flash, still has major beef with the Titans so he goes off half-cocked and our expected fight breaks out. Or at least it tries before Gar turns into a hippo and literally sits on Kid Flash whilst he calms down.
Again Cassie tries to talk things out, but when she touches Conner she's flung backward by a Kryptonians who isn't keen right now on the whole touching thing! Then he fights some of the other Elite, the ones we don't know anything about, well I know Clarion (who does almost nothing) and The Guardian, but that's mostly from other media that's had versions of the characters. Trinity is some sort of violet lantern that creates copies of herself, but beyond that, I've got nothing here!
After soundly beating them all, and in the fight wrecking the apartment Conner leaps out of the building to fly away. Tanya isn't having any of it and leaps after Superboy grabs him in a chokehold. We actually get a whole page of her and Conner talking, with him saying how impressed he is with what she's been doing so far. She's less impressed it seems and tries and put him in a choke hold, so he literally throws her down into the ground. We even get her to make a funny having hit the ground right beside a pool, with Cassie checking up on her before flying off after Superboy.
Meanwhile whilst this has all been going on Red Robin and Raven have returned to New York to have a word with Manchester Black!
We cut back to Chicago where Cassie and Conner finally fight with him flying her into the river where he holds her down there until she passes out from lack of oxygen, leaning her in the safe arms of the rest of the Elite.
Red Robins distracts Manchester Black so Raven can do her empathy whammy on the man, finding out that he has a plan involving the Supermax prison, bringing our issue to the end.
As I might have mentioned many, many times before I'm not really a fan of pure fight issues, and whilst it breaks things up this issue is just one big fight. Really all that matters is the information Raven gets at the end, meaning the comic can move on to the next issue. It doesn't help that the Elite are a big pile of nothing, apart from the two we know about not of the others really have anything to do or any real personality. You never get a feeling of why they're fighting, apart from Cassie, Tanya, and Bart, apart from that Manchester tells them to do it. And they're no real threat to the Titans, we know that they're really outclassed and our heroes are going to win.
Still all the pieces are, I think, in place so maybe the plot will finally start to go somewhere?
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