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Originally posted by Princess Crujectra:
Give me Lilith in go-go boots, using her psychic powers to research the weirdness of the DCU (doesn't Lilith just scream "Vertigo Title?).
You know that sounds like a pretty bloody good idea. She's 'normal' enough to fit into Vertigo nicely (if you see what I mean) has quite simple powers that are also pretty versatile when it comes to storytelling and in the right hands she could blossom.

Although not any more of course. The thing that's annoyed me most about the way she got killed is the fact that she feels like the only reason she was there at all was to die. OK so she had a part to play at the end of the Titans series but was she really a full member? And if not why was she really there? I know in #1 she was there to tell if the corporation guys were lying but doesn't Donna still have the ability to tell that herself just instinctivly? If that's the case then Lillith was there pretty much as a sacrificial lamb. Nothing to do with being narked that DC has killed off another female character (and seems likely to do the same again with either Donna, Argent or Empress likely to get the chop) but that they seem to have killed off a character just for the sake of killing her off. To make the story more shocking or something.

But then again the whole mini so far has left me *very* cold. The art is pretty... well, mediocre, and the writing is just poor at the best. He doesn't seem to have any hold on the YJ characters whatsoever. Robin and Wonder Girl are acting especially oddly and there have been at least two pretty big flubs with regards to them that I noticed. First off when Donna is having the chat with Cassie she says something along the lines of 'we didn't ask for these powers' or something, only... um... well, she did. that was the big point about the character when she first appeared. She wasn't gifted with powers by some accident, she activly sought them out. Sure she's ggrown a lot since then but she still asked for the gig.

And then there's the bit where Argent and Empress are in hospital. The doctor says that they're both stable but that there's only so much she can do because of their altered physiology. OK so that might be true of Argent but Empress is a regular human girl. Her powers are pretty much magic based from what we were told in YJ. She's not a metahuman, she's not an alien. So why can't the doctor work out her physiology?

To me the whole series so far just smacks of an excuse to split up the two teams and then reorganise them completely which seems a little pointless. OK so Titans sucked arse big time but maybe the group is just getting a little tired (and the writing was pretty shitty too. Although anyone see the original proposals after Devin left? They sounded pretty darn cool only for them to be completely mangled by editorial mandate) but Young justice was going along strong. peter David was doing great things with the characters, he'd made both Wonder Girl and Superboy into really interesting characters in my mind (I used to detest Cassie). He'd done some really good stuff with Arrowette and he'd created two fabulous new (female) characters in Empress and Secret (actually credit where it's due Secret was created before PAD started on the series but he's pretty much made her his own). Only then they decide to make a Titans cartoon and obviously decide the Titans comic needs to reflect that. I don't believe it when Geoff Johns says his team line up being the same was just coincidence.

Ugh, rant over. Just a shame that something that could have been quite cool has turned out even more sucky than anyone expected. [no no no]