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[Butho]

(making this thread to be a base for fan support, as well as any updates on the situation; newest updates will be on top)

"Teen Titans Go!" is in danger of being cancelled!

Update (Feb 15, 2008): Once again, picking up remaining issues and collected books for TTG, and writing letters of support for TTG to DC Comics are our best shots. There is a chance of a follow-up for "Teen Titans Go!" if there is enough demand.

Update (Feb 9, 2008): "Teen Titans Go!" is slated to end with issue #55 (May 2008).

Update (Oct 1, 2007): "Teen Titans Go!" is safe for now! It will continue up to issue #54 (April 2008), then it has a chance of continuing under a different format and release schedule.

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We've all heard the terrible news by now: "Teen Titans Go!" is in danger of being cancelled.

We learned from a source close to DC Comics that "Teen Titans Go!" may actually go under, and J. Torres has confirmed it. This comes as a huge surprise since the series is actually the DC Comics' best selling all-ages series. It has done a great job of carrying on the cancelled show's adventures, as well as introducing many new fans and kids alike to comics and the Titans. According to our source, the cut-off issue for "Teen Titans Go!" hasn't been confirmed yet, but we're at least guaranteed up to the last solicitation (TTG #44 out in June, featuring Red Raven). Sadly, the end may come sooner after that than you'd think. TTG writer J. Torres has hinted about his big plans for TTG's big 50th issue mark, so having the series cut short before that would be a huge loss for everyone. All the more reason to rally for support and help save TTG.

The best ways to help save "Teen Titans Go!" are:

1. Pick up "Teen Titans Go!" issues and collected books. Also, tell your friends!

2. Contact DC Comics directly. Best way is to write letters to both Dan DiDio (Sr. VP/Executive Editor of DC Comics) and Tom Palmer Jr (TTG's editor). Comic publishers tend to be fairly open to fan opinions, so sending letters to DC will be a major help.

Send your letters to:
Dan DiDio (and/or Tom Palmer Jr.)
c/o DC COMICS
1700 Broadway NYC, NY 10019

E-mail: askdcdirect@dccomics.com

Emails are good, but written letters really get attention (please keep them civil). In the past, comic series have been saved or granted extensions, due to letters and support from fans directed to the publishers of those comics. We urge everyone to write in their support for "Teen Titans Go!" and to spread the word.

Let the message be heard: we all want "Teen Titans Go!" to stay around for a long time to come!

[Jak]

But isn't the situation a "maybe" and not official? I thought Didio liked this series.

[Sunami_Driver]

I send an email three times a day....

[Butho]

[Jak]

[sakucele16]

and you dont know why the series could be cancelled???

[The Wakka Man]

Just curious:
Does anyone here have a link to information on the TTG show's ratings and the TTG comics' sales figures? People say "highest" and "among the highest" but I need some facts.

[Benderfan]

I think that personally I already gave up. Sorry to say these comics are...just not as good as the show if anything because as petty as my reason may be, the art can sometimes be really ugly and...nothing beats an animated episode.

[Sunami_Driver]

... *crickets*... *crickets* ... sadness. this is not the fan uproar needed to keep a book alive. I hate to sound like a pessimist... but I just don't see it happenin' ... =(

[peachykeen]

I sent in four letters today.

... Hopefully DC Comics will be more open-minded than Cartoon Network. :/

[coldqueen]

I sent in a very mean email.

[J. Torres]

Yes, the end is near. How near we don't know yet. It could be a few issues, it could be more. Sadly, we may not get around to some of the stories we've planned including the Wildfire appearance, the Robin origin, the Kilowatt story, etc. But it's not too late to let DC know how you feel! Fan letters have saved books from cancellation, or at least allowed them to continue for a little bit longer...

[Stormcat]

[coldqueen]

You know a great way to end a series?

Teen pregnancy. Let's give DC a REASON to cancel you.

[Evil Bob]

GAH. I come back after a month to THIS NEWS?

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD?

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I suppose they hope that the TTG fanbase will transition over to the main TT fanbase... but to tell you the truth, untill Control Freak, Professer Chang, and Mumbo show up in the comics I'm not sold.

[J. Torres]

[Buzzard]

[Jak]

You must be joking, the current as in the REAL Teen Titans comics suck from what I heard. The current arc with Slade and his Titans East has been made of horrible writing. If they want to include a villain created in the show in the comics, only Red X would be nice and then again the comics would ruin that most likely. Red X is a guy of mystery not some guy with a canon background and identity, so it's a lose/lose situation.

*sigh* From what I heard things are looking bad, I mean TTG wasn't as good as the show, but it was something, and if DC thinks that people after losing TTG will start reading the real comics, then they're wrong as it's WAY too hard to get into the real comics with all those backgrounds and all other plots, etc.

[Buzzard]

[stringcheese]

Honestly, I am enjoying the DCU comic more than I ever have the show.

I was in the same boat as you guys thinking that the comic wouldn't be the same as the show and it would stink...But luckily, I started with the trades and caught myself up to speed with the monthly comic. And I must say, the story's in the DCU comic captivated me more than the show ever did. Heck, DCU's Teen Titans got me back into collecting into comics.

I can understand if some people don't like how the comic is formatted or if the story's seem bland to them...But trust me, you really need to start at the beginning if you want to get into the DCU Titans...

While I will miss the show (and the JohnnyDC Titans) like many others, I can't help but feel sorry for the people who are unwilling to give DCU Titans a try. (And for those of you who have tried it, where did you start at?)

Johnny DC Titans are a good read because they where a fun read and where most of the time a 1 issue story and could fill in a lot of the stuff that the show didn't cover...DCU Titans however, always make me keep wanting more and always keep me excited for the next month's issue...

Just my feelings on the issue...

[NevermoreRaven]

No one's saying the 80's Titans aren't good. I greatly prefer the show, but if if those hadn't been written, there wouldn't BE a show. I've bought every eighties comic I could get my hands on.

But the current series? I have read every single one of them, and while I LOVED Beast Boys and Girls and The Future is Now, it was never as good as the show, and lately the series has taken a downturn. If you've ever read Young Justice, you'd know they absolutely have DESTROYED Wonder Girl, who used to be a funny, take no crap girl who was a good leader and could always take Tim down a peg if she felt it was needed, to a simpering emo-girl over Superboy. It's not TT's fault that Tim has lost everyone he loves and is condemned to emoness now too, but well, he is. Slade is boring and psychotic, he has none of the intrigue of animated Slade, or the gray area of 80's Slade. Kid Devil and Miss Martian are cool, but Ravager bores me a little, they haven't DONE anything with Jericho since they freakin' bought him back to life, Cyborg is busy either getting beat on or listening to someone cry, and Raven's just caught in the crossfire.

It's the last issue that dissapointed me, really. Batgirl is one of my favorite characters, so I'm grateful to them for giving an explanation for her evil, but where the heck has her mad fighting ability gone? RISK kicked her in the head. RISK. This is the girl who defeated Lady Freakin' Shiva, and she got taken out by a onearmed guy who announced it to her before he did it! That entire issue was a long boring fight really, the only good thing being that moment with Raven and the Jokers Daughter. Now we have the Nightwing, Donna Troy, BB (yay), and Bart (complete with his personality that made him so adorable as Impulse SUCKED OUT!) coming to save them, because they're so incompetent.

I DO like the Titans DCU series, unlike most. But you know what? TTG is better. The problem with DCU Titans is it is an ENDLESS and I mean ENDLESS barage of angst. Bad things happen to the Titans. Angst. Redux. And they kind of destroyed some really great characters from Young Justice along the way. Complete with gore!

TTG is FUN. It isn't wrapped with endless continuity and crossovers and backstory. We don't have to worry about Raven getting tortured with a power drill and dying, or Cyborg going emo. It's funny and it's not trying to pump up the violence or please the fanboys with sexual posing. If I line up the last issue of TTG and the last issue of Teen Titans, you'll clearly see that TTG leaves it in the dust. I mean, when I read #41, I actually felt real joy. It made my day. It even had angst in it, with Raven and Robin discussing father figures, punctuated with jokes and warm and fuzzy. It was FUNNY. It was REAL. It had my favorite characters interacting and telling a story and being themselves, not going through death after death complete with endless fight scenes. And when I read it, I realized that if they let this series die, then DC has lost me forever. (And I buy A LOT of comics)

/rant over.

[night wire]

(Echoing everything Nev just said, basically...)

It's clever, and quirky, and different. It has a unique charm to it.

An unapologetic happiness, an unabashed immediacy.

Yes, an innocence. (And when did that become a bad thing, anyway?)

Why cancel it? Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Must everything be misanthropic and vomitous?

[Sunami_Driver]

these last couple posts have all been dead on .... I absolutely completely agree.

I've been trying to get into the DCU stuff... and honestly, I mean, it's better than nothing... but there's so many HEADACHES that come along with it. just trying to understand the RIDICULOUSLY CONVOLUTED backstory? my god... as a PhD student I do research for a living... but just to get what's going on in DCU? I have to do ALMOST as much research as for school!! and that's just WROOOOOOOOONG.

...sigh...

it's a shame that the battle is over though.... we already lost. just pisses me off.

[NevermoreRaven]

It's NOT over. Not yet.

(That gratuitous "Spellbound" quotage was actually not intentional at first)

Seriously, if you think negatively and give up like that, you're helping the enemy. I don't care how bleak it looks, when something I love to enjoy is cancelled or threatened, I give it my all to make sure I do EVERYTHING in my power to save it. Comics are a lot easier to save/bring back than TV shows. And it isn't officially canceled yet, even. So write letters. Spread the word.

Look, guys, we're all addicted to superheroes, right? That means we believe in overcoming odds and being true to the good in the world. Well, it's corny, but if we sit around reading about them, we might as well try to encompass the good things these stories stand for in themselves. And theTitans don't give up. If we buy these comics, we respect that in some way. So the least we can do is not give up on them.

Another thought on TTG: Not only is it a much more fun read without a constant cycle of beatdowns and depression, it's actually more real when it tackles serious issues- like the characters pain.

DCU TT is supposed to be all serious and adult and "deeper", but when Cassie was crying over Superboy in #45, I felt nothing for her, except for a slight nostalgia for Young Justice Cassie, who would have reacted to Match by beating him three miles into the ground and maybe yelling "THAT WAS FOR SUPERBOY, YOU TEN CENT KNOCKOFF!" It didn't feel real. It felt melodramatic and stupid.

But the last page of TTG 41, with Raven and Robin discussing parentage? That felt real to me. From the sad look on Raven's face when she stammered she sometimes missed the idea of a father and a normal family, to Robin's swift and immediate "of course I do," when Raven asked him if he missed his own father, and how when he was like "You'll always have the Titans!" I could feel the classic Robin shining optimism in his voice, like a hyperactive sunbeam or something, well, I felt like Raven and Robin had ripped out my heart and stomped on it with cloth shoes and steel toed combat boots. It was like "...awwwwwww..." So, TTG, supposedly "light" and "childish" elicited a more emotional reaction from me than the uber-serious DCU Titans.

Much more, Robin and Raven were written IN CHARACTER and their conversation was not over dramatized. It was THEM. And I felt for them, fictional construct though they are, they seemed like real, flesh and blood people there, whereas a lot of times the DCU Titans seem to be going OOC and flat with a broken record playing "my life sucks" over and over again...and trying too hard.

That's my two cents, there.

[night wire]

(Hmm, infectious idealism, okay then...)

So, like the "spread the word" thing, we all post on lots of different forums, right? And, we know people who post at even more forums than that. So, we could just sort of mention something like "gee, I hope they don't cancel TTG" to the people we talk to ordinarily every day anyway. It couldn't hurt, and it might just help. It would only take a few seconds, and maybe other people would start talking about it, like a ripple effect.

And, we could talk to people who know about saving things, I remember these people for one example:

http://www.watchfarscape.com/forums/

The series Farscape was as dead as a doornail, but these people generated so much fan interest and publicity that eventually a four-hour miniseries was made, to complete the story. Maybe some of them even read TTG and would want to help, who knows?

(edited to add)

Apparently some of them like TTG:

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