tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post449945824276756929..comments2024-03-09T05:53:59.542-05:00Comments on Oz and Ends: Robin’s RegularUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-39021989767935460082010-03-14T16:13:23.227-05:002010-03-14T16:13:23.227-05:00Yes, I see Bob Haney’s late 1960s Teen Titans scri...Yes, I see Bob Haney’s late 1960s <i>Teen Titans</i> scripts as reflecting the values of the early 1960s, with the torch being passed to a new generation and all that. I dislike his stories’ loose ends, flapping plots, and powers pulled out of thin air, but temperamentally he was a fine match for the Teen Titans (and the Super-Sons). <br /><br />Haney’s posthumously published <i>Teen Titans Swingin’ Elseworlds Special</i>, in which Robin visits JFK in the Oval Office, is a nice, appropriate reprise of that era of tales. Haney’s late 1960s <i>Teen Titans</i> would have fit perfectly in America of just six or seven years earlier.<br /><br />As I understand it, Robin’s merchandising value kept him away from the influence of Mr. Jupiter’s “no costumes” rule. DC couldn’t afford to give up the colorfully costumed Robin. So in the comics, he left the group for college, and got spared the worst.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28103455.post-32853207667125400512010-03-14T15:14:52.799-05:002010-03-14T15:14:52.799-05:00Love the multiple choice quiz. :-)
If I may just...Love the multiple choice quiz. :-)<br /><br />If I may just add one comment on behalf of Bob Haney…one thing readers of today should bear in mind about the Teen Titans of forty-five years ago is that while they may seem decidedly square, unhip, and pro-establishment compared with the actual youth culture of the era, Haney's message in his stories is still resolutely pro-teenager. Right from the very first Titans story, the message is "teens aren't lazy or uninvolved, they're idealistic and want the best possible world, if adults treat them with respect as citizens and try to understand their concerns the world will be a better place." There were a great many comics writers then -- guys in or approaching their forties -- whose depiction of teens was far less positive. Haney was vastly more progressive and enlightened than, say, Bob Kanigher, whose idea of the Titans seems to have been as clueless blunderers who needed a stern talking-to from Mr. Jupiter. From just a few years later, <a href="http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2006/2006_Individual/2006_02/001050.php" rel="nofollow">my favorite TT story</a> is unabashedly and overtly pro-hippie and anti-establishment.Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714171897239398438noreply@blogger.com