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TT "Tokyo" soundtrack! TT crew at SDCC! (also: Season 5 DVD reviewed & Wonder Girl TPB next week Posted by Butch on July 3, 2008 @ 11:38 pm EST - Link |
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 Big news! It seems a soundtrack will be released for the Teen Titans "Trouble in Tokyo" DVD movie! Thanks to James for the update.
World's Finest reports that La-La-Land Records has tentatively scheduled it to release on July 22nd, 2008 (just three weeks away!). Amazon.com already has it up for pre-orders: - Pre-order the "Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo" Soundtrack What does this mean for Teen Titans? Why no press release, leaving Amazon to apparently break the news? Other than cover art, nothing else about this soundtrack release has been given. Nonetheless, very exciting news!  Several of the Teen Titans animated crew are showing up at the San Diego Comic-Con this month (July 24 - 27)! Cartoon Network released details on their convention panel events, two featuring Titans crew members in full force on their new animated productions:
- "Batman: The Brave & the Bold" panel: guests include directors Ben Jones and Michael Chang, executive producer Sam Register, and voice director Andrea Romano! The panel takes place on Friday, July 25th @ 10:00 - 11:00 AM (location not yet finalized) - "Ben 10: Alien Force" panel: featuring series producer Glen Murakami, and voice-actors Ashley Johnson (Terra), Greg Cipes (Beast Boy), and Dee Bradley Baker (Silkie & many others)! This panel takes place on Saturday, July 26th @ 10:15 - 11:15 AM (in Room 6A) There will also be a "Ben 10: Alien Force" signing on Saturday, July 26th @ 1:00 - 2:30 PM, at the Cartoon Network booth; Teen Titans producer Glen Murakami will likely be there, so stop by and say hi! Click here for more details on the two panels, and CN's other events; press release provided by ToonZone. Stay tuned to the official Comic-Con site for full program schedules as they update. Hope to see you all there!  ToonZone has reviewed next week's release of the "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season" DVD, detailing its features, extras, and more. Click here for the full review.
The extras include short clips of the Teen Titans animated crew talking about the Doom Patrol, Titans East, the Brotherhood of Evil, and others. Haven't ordered your "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season" DVD yet? Amazon's got it at a nice discount and eligible for free shipping, so click the link below to order the final Teen Titans season on DVD. Every purchase made through us helps keep the site going, so thanks for any help!: - Order the "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season" DVD The Teen Titans Season 5 DVD will be available in stores on July 8th, 2008.  Also out next week (the day after Season 5's DVD, in fact) is the collected volume book for TTG writer J. Torres' "Teen Titans Spotlight: Wonder Girl" mini-series. Featuring Wonder Girl II (Cassie Sandsmark) going solo, J packs the series with lots of action, much-needed character development for Cassie, and character appearances that Young Justice fans will love.
That's it for this update. After the fireworks and BBQ, go pick up the Teen Titans Season 5 DVD and J's Wonder Girl volume book. And of course, be sure to eat lots of deliciously cooked animal flesh. Happy July 4th, everyone! |
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DC Comics "playing down" animated Titans and TTG Posted by Butch on June 24, 2008 @ 11:06 pm EST - Link |
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 Two unfortunate updates, concerning animated Titans and DC Comics:
According to Dan DiDio (DC Comics Exec. Editor) at last weekend's Heroes Convention in Charlotte, "Tiny Titans is doing better than expected, and is selling more copies per issue of Teen Titans Go!". While success for the title is a good sign of young fans' Titans interest, DiDio's flat comparison of sales between it and TTG doesn't sound very positive for our beloved, recently cancelled comic series. Perhaps they're not eager to do that follow-up for "Teen Titans Go!" after all, but if later sales (like for TTG's collected books) are good, who knows? Also, when asked if there would be a follow-up to Amy Wolfram (animated Titans story editor) and Karl Kerschl's "Fab Five" Titans mini-series, "Teen Titans: Year One": Dan Didio: "Not really - that was a particular flavor done for that sensibility that played against the animation style, which is something that DC is trying to play down for now." (bolded for emphasis by us) From this, the attitude of DC Comics towards the animated Teen Titans and "Teen Titans Go!" is pretty clear. Whether or not this is DC being against the animated series in general, or finding a more successful TTG replacement in "Tiny Titans", or both, remains unclear at this point. Click here to read Newsarama's full coverage of DC Comics' "DC Nation" panel from Heroes Con. |
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Preview for TTG's final issue! (also: Billy Numerous in mainstream DC title) Posted by Butch on May 27, 2008 @ 11:51 pm EST - Link |
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 Excitingly, yet sadly, the time has come: Tomorrow, the final issue of the "Teen Titans Go!" comic series as we know it will be released.
"Teen Titans Go!" writer J. Torres has posted a five-page preview for TTG's final issue, #55! Taking it full circle with its cover art allusion to the series' first issue, "Teen Titans Go!" #55 will cover an incredibly expanded legion of Titans (as immediately shown in the preview), one last battle with their early foes the HIVE 5, and much more. Click here for the TTG #55 preview pages, as well as J's parting words for the series. It has indeed been a wonderful title run, and we can't imagine it having any better a crew as J. Torres, Todd Nauck, Lary Stucker, and the rest of the "Teen Titans Go!' team. Many thanks to you guys for turning out issue after issue of an incredible and immensely fun comic for all us fans the world over. Extra props to J for being so gracious to us here at TitansGo. Everytime we had even the most minor request, you went and gave that extra mile. Congratulations TTG, but never goodbye!  Has Billy Numerous hit the big time in the mainstream DC Universe? Apparently so, as he appeared in last week's Catwoman #79, with Selina Kyle (Catwoman) returning home from the events of DC's "villain planet, Alcatraz-style" series, Salvation Run. She clashes with a certain thief wearing red and white who can split into many individuals. Thanks to TGN forum member Wakka Man for the notice.
Click here for scans of Billy's appearances in the issue, provided by the scans_daily comics community. With this appearance, Billy has joined the ranks of other animated Teen Titans characters specially made for the show who've popped up in pages of mainstream DC Comics titles. Others include Mas y Menos, and Cinderblock seen in Teen Titans. There've been other strong nods to the animated series: Beast Boy, Bumblebee, and others taking their animated counterparts' costumes and abilities, for example. Billy Numerous' significant appearance in Catwoman is yet another sign of how much the animated Titans have influenced DC's mainstream titles. Good job Billy, and you too Billy; here's to many more! |
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TT Season 5 DVD up for pre-order! (also: TTG & JLU artist Ethen Beavers interviewed) Posted by Butch on May 22, 2008 @ 9:55 pm EST - Link |
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| The wait is over: the "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season" DVD is now available for pre-ordering through Amazon.com! Thanks to TitansGo.net forum member Highlander for the heads up.
Amazon's offering it at a good discount (for $13.99, compared to the $19.98 MSRP) and eligible for free shipping, so click the link below to reserve your copy of what's arguably the most epic season of Teen Titans on DVD. Not to mention, yknow, the final season of the entire series. Every purchase made through us helps keep the site going, so thanks for any support! - Pre-order the "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season" DVD The Season 5 DVD will be released on July 8th, 2008; it includes all 13 episodes of Season 5 on two discs, as well as 20 minutes of "secret files" bonus material. And don't forget, how well the DVDs sell gives Cartoon Network the message that we want to see more animated Titans!  Adding to their "Teen Titans Go!" interviews, World's Finest recently put up an interview with Ethen Beavers (TTG guest artist). Ontop of being the artist for last month's TTG #54 (the Wonder Girl II paradise island story), Ethen has been a storyboarder for Justice League Unlimited, as well as an artist for its comic title.
Ethen: "It takes a little while to become competent with new styles, but after a while, you start to figure things out. for instance on Titans, I learned that Murakami's designs for the original Titans (Cyborg excluded) are actually pretty creepy from the neck down. They are very angular and thin, and they hunch a little bit. Without the heads on, the characters look a lot like zombies. In contrast, their heads are these huge, cute, Anime looking things. I never would have thought to put those heads and body types together, but the fact is they look great together! So I learn a lot with each new style and I have an opportunity to get better, and hopefully smarter, at drawing in the process." Click here to read the full interview with Ethen. |
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J. Torres & Todd Nauck on the end of TTG Posted by Butch on May 13, 2008 @ 11:37 pm EST - Link |
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| Updated 5/17/08: World's Finest recently put up another "Teen Titans Go!" interview, this time with TTG's main artist Todd Nauck. Todd chats about the end of "Teen Titans Go!", what made it a memorable experience for him, his other and upcoming works, and more. Click the link for the full interview.
With the final issue of "Teen Titans Go!" coming in just two weeks, TTG writer J. Torres chimes in on the series ending. He alerts on his blog to a recently posted interview he did for World's Finest. The interview covers the end of TTG, what could have been, and much more:
World's Finest: "Now, there's a lot you started to set up and explored in the GO! title. The next few questions will cover a few of the ideas you presented. So, let's go! Towards the end of Teen Titans Go!'s run, you set up plot strands concerning Wildfire and Ravager. The former gave us the mystery of whether Starfire would be reunited with him, while the latter presented the possibility of Slade's family, including Jericho, being further explored. Where were you planning on taking these two storylines?" J. Torres: I certainly wanted Starfire to find Wildfire. The story I had in mind for that involved the Titans heading off into space again. As for Slade's family, I had rough ideas for more Ravager, possibly meeting Jericho, but nothing concrete for Slade's re-appearance. We were planning to bring him back at some point, maybe #60, but we obviously didn't get that far. Maybe if we ever got to do an annual or special, it would make perfect sense to go big and use someone like Slade or maybe Brother Blood." J also reiterates that, for TTG fans who want to see a series followup, "the best thing they can do I think is to keep buying the trades and collections as they come. They can also write to Johnny DC and let him know what they thought of our last few issues. That sort of thing, to let the powers that be know that there's still interest." Click here to read J's entire interview. And in related news (for those keeping track), World's Finest also has the sale numbers for March 2008's DC animated comic titles. TTG's issue for that month, "Teen Titans Go!" #53, came in at 2nd highest for sales, right behind JLU. |
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TT Season 5 DVD news! (also: TTG #54 preview; Glen Murakami's Ben 10:AF interview; & more) Posted by Butch on April 29, 2008 @ 11:39 pm EST - Link |
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| Good news this week for the Teen Titans Season 5 DVD! Instead of the previously announced July 22nd release date, the "Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season" DVD is now slated to release (much earlier) on July 8th, 2008!
Also, new info on the DVD extras has been revealed. The "Top Secret Files" bonus feature will include villain profiles for: Control Freak, Bob & The Source, Billy Numerous, Mother Mae-Eye, and Trigon, according to a WHV press release provided by World's Finest. An image of the DVD's back cover is also up at TVShowsOnDVD.com. In related news, some early animated Titans adventures can be found in the upcoming DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures DVD, slated to release this August. It will feature Fab Fivers Aqualad, Kid Flash, Speedy, and Wonder Girl (sans Robin, who's busy with Batman) in three animated episodes. Mark your calendars for these two DVDs with animated Titans, new and old, coming in a few months!  "Teen Titans Go!" writer J. Torres provides an awesome 5 page preview for TTG #54, which hits stores tomorrow. Do we also need to mention that TTG #54 is the second-to-last issue of the entire "Teen Titans Go!" series?
"Teen Titans Go!" #54 introduces Cassie Sandsmark (aka. Wonder Girl the 2nd) into the TTG universe. And if that's not enough, it seems we finally get a true "Winner Takes All" tournament for the Titan girls (with Pantha and Bumblebee joining in)! This and more in TTG #54, available tomorrow, so check out the preview and pick it up! (Reviews & feedback? Join the TTG #54 discussion at our forums)  Remember that cool Robin bank Monogram released a long while back? Our buddy Matt, owner of Legions of Gotham, is selling its (one and only) prototype sculpture, as created by Monogram's model artists.
It's literally one of a kind, so click here if you're interested in it or other rare & event-exclusive Batman and DC Animated related items, as Matt's a big collector of official product prototypes and the like.  Newsarama has interviewed Teen Titans producer Glen Murakami about his new series, Ben 10: Alien Force. As a revamp on the original Ben 10, Glen discusses the natural backlash against "Alien Force" from fans of the first show. He likens the reaction to the same ones he'd received for his past animated series, including Teen Titans.
Glen Murakami: "After doing Titans, I just didn’t want to repeat myself; that style or that approach. In a way it was the same situation when I first approached Titans, where it was decided to do the DC style in a way that wasn’t done before, that’s one of the reasons we went a little bit more anime with that. After that, I didn’t want to do the same thing again. It just didn’t seem appropriate. With Ben 10, we are deciding to go a little more like X-Files or Outer Limits. That was the thinking behind that." The interview includes a short history of Glen's work in TV animation, the various early directions for "Ben 10: Alien Force", the reasons for some changes (ie. combining abilities for new alien Swamp Fire, etc.), series continuity, and more. Also, having Ashley Johnson and Greg Cipes (the voices of Terra and Beast Boy) as supporting characters Gwen and Kevin wasn't directly due to their work on Teen Titans. Though, it is nice to see romance sparking between the voice-acting pair's characters, for the third time now. Those crazy kids. Click here for Glen's full interview at Newsarama, who also have a thorough review for the "Ben 10: Alien Force" premiere. Not watching yet? Tune in! |
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7/08 - Season 5 DVD in stores
7/09 - Wonder Girl TPB in stores
7/16 - Tiny Titans #6 in stores.
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