Review of
The New Teen Titans Annual, No. 3
Four out of five stars
An over-the-top diva for a villain
The opposition
in this story is a villainess named Godiva and she is beautiful, ruthless and
deadly. She has everything she does filmed, and she is capable of controlling a
limited number of minds. She will also hire out to the highest bidder and will
not hesitate to double-cross her client(s). She has been hired to destroy a spy
satellite, but she captures it instead and plans on holding an auction to sell
it off.
Her opposition
is the Teen Titans, and it takes all of them to take her and her group of
henchpeople down. Although Godiva can take over minds, she is limited in capability
and can control only a couple at a time. Therefore, her primary tactic is to
control two of the Titans and have them fight the other titans.
There is
another main character called Danny, he is an adolescent, and his parents are
major spies. He also has major telekinetic powers, able to withstand the power
of the American Space Shuttle when it is being launched. When his parents are
captured by Godiva’s forces, Danny forces an alliance with the Teen Titans in
order to defeat Godiva and free his parents.
The ending is
ambiguous, while Godiva is thwarted in her immediate nefarious plans, she is
not completely defeated. She is a ruthless adversary, in a significant departure
from earlier comics, she is a villainess that will not hesitate to kill, even
her employees that fit into her definition of misbehaving. Yet, she is powerful
and a worthy adversary for a group of superheroes.
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