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“Tales of the Titans” Series to Explore Backstories of Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy, and Beast Boy

After the events of DC Comics’ Dark Crisis, the Titans are now the DCU’s premier superhero team. Tales of the Titans is a new series of spotlight issues that will explore the backstories of members Starfire, Raven, Donna Troy, and Beast Boy. 

Tales of the Titans #1, from writers Shannon Hale and Dean Hale and artist Javier Rodríguez, will feature Starfire. “When a spaceship bearing Tamaranean markings crash-lands on Earth, Starfire goes on a solo mission to uncover its origins. But what awaits her on that journey will bring her back to the earliest days of her youth, to memories of two sisters eternally at war...and perhaps the chance to keep history from repeating itself.” (DC Comics)

Tales of the Titans #1 goes on sale on July 18, 2023. All four comics in the series will features a main cover by Nicola Scott. Tales of the Titans #1 also features an open-to-order variant by Stanley “Artgerm” Lau, a 1:25 variant by Javier Rodríguez, a 1:50 variant by Fatima Wajid, and a Titans special foil variant by Chirs Samnee.

Tales  of the Titans #2, from writer Tini Howard and artist Eleonara Carlini, and will feature Raven. The comic, goes on sale on August 15, 2023.

Tales of the Titans #3, from writer Steve Orlando and artist Kath Lobo, features Donna Troy. The comic goes on sale on September 26, 2023.

Tales of the Titans #4, from writer Andrew Constant and artists Brandt & Stein, features Beast Boy. The comic goes on sale on October 24, 2023.

(Images via DC Comics - Nicola Scott’s Covers for Tales of the Titans #1-4)

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The faceless old woman who secretly lives in your home (Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor) "Serious spoiler warnings for this one." (See below cut)

Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High (Shannon & Dean Hale) "Now, Ever After High itself is very Web. The children of famous fairytales being destiny-bound to relive their stories or go 'poof' is the driving force behind all the books' conflicts.

However, Shadow High takes it to another level. The narrators, who were present throughout the series, are more influential within the story. Even the straight-laced narrator parents who believe only in observing stories leave 'plop devices' to coerce characters in or out of making decisions. The titular Shadow High is a school for narrators run by antagonist Ms. Direction after a narrator schism between those who observe stories and those who control them. Ms. Direction uses 'unmaking lava' that turns characters and props into the words that compose them, destroying them so that they can be made again in her vision. She also uses narration to compel characters into doing her bidding. The narrator of the book, Brooke Page, is the daughter of the other books' narrators and has frequent arguments with her parents between chapters about why she can't intervene in the story to help the characters. Brooke ultimately does this in the book's climax by climbing the Fourth Wall and asking the reader for help, turning the book into a choose-your-own-adventure and having the reader write in how Ms. Direction is ultimately defeated.

Also, it's a crossover with Monster High so Frankie Stein and Draculaura are there."

It's framed like a biography that the Faceleed Old Woman is telling Craig, the descendant of the man who killed her. After she dies, as a sort of ghost, she haunts and attempts to kill her murderer, but she fails. She then spends the rest of time manipulating and killing all of his descendants. She is constantly doing things that they don't notice to get them to have kids, etc, and then when they get old enough, causes an accident so the first born son always dies. The villain, and TFOW murderer is also a manipulator. He gets her on a wild goose chase for years to find out who killed her father, and managed to trick her into a situation where he could kill her.

[the-final-sentence]

Oh sister, the possibilities...

Dean Hale and Shannon Hale, from Diana and Nubia: Princesses of the Amazons

[randommultifandomrants]

Being a girl is: wanting to go to bed early but deciding to just get on tumblr/wattpad/Ao3 for a little bit and then end up finding a fic series that you really like and read until well past your usual bedtime then keeping on because it’s already past your bedtime. Then being mad when you wake up in the morning because you overslept your timer.

[readtilyoudie]

AMETHYST

[flow33didontsmoke]

when y/n does something so bad/embarrassing you have to facepalm and close your eyes for a minute

[bethsvrse]

pov: I find a good smut fic but it includes a daddy kink

[chaotic-laila]

The bond between a girl and her favorite fictional man? That shit’s toxic, but in the best way. It’s this messed-up, all-consuming obsession where she’ll go to war for a man who doesn’t even exist—like, literally fight someone for talking shit about him. She knows he’s a red flag with legs, but she’s ready to unpack his trauma and let him ruin her life, because he gets her in ways real guys never could. He’s everything she wants and everything she should probably stay the hell away from, but fuck it. It’s not about logic; it’s about the fantasy of someone who’s so broken, they’d burn the whole world down just to love her.

It’s painful, because she knows he’ll never be real, but that doesn’t stop her from falling harder every damn time she opens the book, watches the show, or reads another fanfic. And yeah, it hurts like hell, but it’s a beautiful kind of hurt. The kind that makes her want to scream and cry and laugh all at once.

Because no real guy could ever compare to that kind of perfectly fucked-up perfection. (And cause he will fuck you till you can't think straight)

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Preview: Tales of the Titans #1 (of 4)

Tales of the Titans #1 preview. An all-new series of spotlight issues in the spirit of the beloved 1980s classic Tales of the New Teen Titans! #comics #comicbooks #teentitans

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Out this week: Tales of the Titans: Starfire #1 (DC, $4.99):

Each issue of this four-issue miniseries will feature a solo story starring one of the Titans who isn’t currently featured in their own title, starting here with Starfire. Shannon Hale and Dean Hale write this first issue, with Javier Rodríguez on art. “When a spaceship bearing Tamaranean markings crash-lands on Earth, Starfire goes on a solo mission to uncover its origins.”

See what else is arriving at your local comic shop this week.

[gynnnicsworld]

Bi Buck is justice for all those characters who ARE bisexual, but who weren't allowed to be openly so.

This is for you Stiles, Derek, Dean Winchester, Arthur Pendragon*, etc.

Congratulations to the 911 fandom, you're halfway there for buddie canon.

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Ever After High: The Legend of Shadow High (Shannon & Dean Hale) "Now, Ever After High itself is very Web. The children of famous fairytales being destiny-bound to relive their stories or go 'poof' is the driving force behind all the books' conflicts.

However, Shadow High takes it to another level. The narrators, who were present throughout the series, are more influential within the story. Even the straight-laced narrator parents who believe only in observing stories leave 'plop devices' to coerce characters in or out of making decisions. The titular Shadow High is a school for narrators run by antagonist Ms. Direction after a narrator schism between those who observe stories and those who control them. Ms. Direction uses 'unmaking lava' that turns characters and props into the words that compose them, destroying them so that they can be made again in her vision. She also uses narration to compel characters into doing her bidding. The narrator of the book, Brooke Page, is the daughter of the other books' narrators and has frequent arguments with her parents between chapters about why she can't intervene in the story to help the characters. Brooke ultimately does this in the book's climax by climbing the Fourth Wall and asking the reader for help, turning the book into a choose-your-own-adventure and having the reader write in how Ms. Direction is ultimately defeated.

Also, it's a crossover with Monster High so Frankie Stein and Draculaura are there."

The Taking of Jake Livingston (Ryan Douglass) "Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t interact often with people. But then Jake meets Sawyer. A troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife–plans that include Jake. Suddenly, everything Jake knows about ghosts and the rules to life itself go out the window as Sawyer begins haunting him and bodies turn up in his neighborhood. High school soon becomes a survival game–one Jake is not sure he’s going to win."

[the-final-sentence]

It's not too bad a home for a kid like me.

Shannon Hale & Dean Hale, from Diana: Princess of the Amazons

[randommultifandomrants]

Being a girl is pt.2: deciding you’ve read enough fics for the moment and swiping out of the app just to re-open tumblr or open wattpad/ao3

[omgaverse]

when men are bloody (the crowd claps)….. when men are sobbing messes with tear stained cheeks and red rimmed eyes (the crowd goes yippee and woohoo)….. when men writhe and squirm on the ground in pain (crowd goes wild and people cry tears of joy)!!

[shifting-worlds]

How are we doing tonight tumblrinas

EDIT: forgot to add that both included universally loathed “finales” and cars that were weirdly significant