Review of "The New Teen Titans, Number 33," comic written by Marv Wolfman

 Review of

The New Teen Titans, Number 33, comic written by Marv Wolfman

Three out of five stars

Starts out with the death of a villain and goes downhill

 This story leads with the classic opening of a whodunit, the first caption has the corpus delicti of a super villain called Trident being fished out of the ocean. By a squid and Aqualad no less. The Teen Titans then reconvene at a swimming pool where all who can are clad in skimpy pool attire.

 After a foolish skirmish, the topic then turns to different pairs of Titans recalling their encounter with Trident. In each case, Trident manages to get the best of the Titans and escape. It is only when all of them are joined in the fight that they emerge victorious. Yet, there is no resolution of the initial question in the first caption, “Who killed Trident?”

 There is also an unresolved subplot involving Robin and an officer named Chase, where they are on the trail of a criminal that was recently released through a legal technicality. The actions of these two provide the last caption cliffhanger.

 This story is disjointed and uncertain, with no satisfactory resolution of the primary question. It is a murder mystery that ends without a real ending in the classic whodunit sense.