Titans East Special #1 - DC

I've been waiting for this one ever since I saw it announced in the DC schedule. I'm a huge fan of the Teen Titans. And I couldn't believe that I'd get to read one of their books, written by Judd Winick and drawn by Ian Churchill. Talk about a dream come true. We also get to see Ian do his take on the classic Titans also. The first 15 pages of the book, are about an adventure with the Titans of the 80's. You remember, Wonder Girl, Robin, Flash, Cyborg, Changeling, Starfire and Raven. Man they were a good team. This is an adventure where they had to fight Bizarro and the Joker. I'm not sure what the signifigance of that adventure was, but it leads right in to the next 22 pages where Vic is trying to put together a Titan's East. That's right. There's 37 pages in this book. That's incredible. Of course it did cost $1 more, but that's ok. Anyways he starts out with the usual suspects, but most of them are either to busy or just not interested. He end up with Power Boy, Son of Vulcan, Hawk & Dove, Little Barda, Anima and Lagoon Boy. Yeah they aren't all A teamers. But hey, neither were the Teen Titans when they first got started. Anyways Vic decides to put them through a training exercise. He tells Power Boy, "For the first mission the rest of the group will try to nail your butt to a wall." He tells everyone else, "War games! Go catch Power Boy and shut him down." Hawk gives Power Boy a real wallop, but when they go to find him, he's eviscerated on a tree. Shortly after the rest of the team is shot down with what looks like laser fire. And when Vic comes running up to investigate . . . what looks like a huge power surge is dropped straight on top of him. So the issue ends with Power Boy strung up on a tree, the rest of the team shot down in the grass, and the torso of Vic's body laying in the bottom of a smoldering crater. This story is to be continued in the new title . . . Titans #1. But I'm not sure when it's coming out, because I don't see it on the DC schedule yet. Well when I know something, I'll let you know something.