That strange pool that the Titans are in ends up devolving them - Starfire starts looking like a cat. I wonder if it's ever canonically addressed that Tamaranians are feline-descended? I really don't know a lot about the Teen Titans, especially this new version. I know that they were really big just as I was getting into comics, but I ended up going the Marvel route in the early days of my collecting. I never really found my way into DC until I started reading Animal Man, and that was much later on. It's kind of cool to be experiencing them now. George Perez's art is a revelation. His layouts are amazing, as is his attention to detail. I've no idea how he managed to do this on a monthly basis.
Rouge and Zahl get their comeuppance, and we get a nice wander into the sunset moment of the Doom Patrol survivors at the end of the issue that probably would have worked as a nice coda to the Doom Patrol series proper. In much the same way that characters come back from the dead, superheroes very often get "endings" that just turn out to be latest adventure in an unending serial. That's probably why Rita Farr has been such an interesting character as it took decades for her to return to life. There was an actual ending to her story for a while that seemed pretty solid. I'm not sure I'm articulating this properly. Every creative team wants to put a proper ending on their run, so we get moments peppered throughout a superheroic narrative that could serve as terminal moments for the narrative. But what happens to the emotional impact of such a moment when we know that there will be another comic the following month? I can understand writing an ending if a series has been cancelled or is finishing - but if you're writing an ongoing serial, an ending is just going to feel clunky.
Damn. That thought did not translate onto the screen as well as I'd hoped. I'll have to think on it a bit more.
"Quit makin' like some philosopher while they sneak right up on ya!"
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