Red Hood and the Outlaws #18 Requiem

Red Hood and the Outlaws #18 Requiem actually has nothing to do with the Death of Robin.  Robin is not mentioned or his passing is not noticeably mentioned.    This is Jason Todd recovering from the acid attack left by the Joker for after the Joker was “defeated”.   Basically this is a post Death of the Family story and not actually a Requiem story.  The Red Hood has a bad dream telling a version of a re-birth story or possibly an introduction for those people whom had avoided this comic book until feeling forced to buy copies because of the Death of the Family mega story.  It feels as if the creative team is hoping that with a cool re-birth story readers will forgive them for the terribly sexists treatment of Starfire.  Unfortunately the only time we see Starfire she is dead and still nearly naked so no I’m not really interested in buying more of these comics.  Frankly this fake Requiem tie in makes it even less likely that I would ever buy a comic book in this series ever again (so lucky for the DC comics I might have bought the next issue because I am still a few weeks behind reading comic books as they come out). 

Teen titans & Red Hood and the Outlaws!

The Teen Titans #15: Another Death of the Family Story.  While entertaining and interesting to see the mess from a new point of view I do not think this story was really necessary.  It just seems like a new story in a new comic in order to sell more comics.

Then there is more Death of the Family in Red Hood and the Outlaws number 15: The story ends at the same place as the Teen Titans 15 which was kind of amusing.  I do not know much about this comic as I have avoided it on principle because of what the writers did to Starfire (so sad).  Anyway, this issue was good and entertaining.  The story flowed well from one section to the next.  The Joker had some good lines and when put together with the Teen Titans issue makes for some interesting story building on the Joker’s part.  Though at this point I’m starting to wonder how the Joker can spend so much time with each Hero / Villain in all these books.  I ask because he sure is talking a lot and while traps could have been set up over the last year it seems like more work and planning than is the norm for the Joker.