Perhaps unfairly, I grant, Tom Taylor’s Dawn of DC Titans feels like a failed experiment to me. Despite success with Titans: Beast World, a really good event comic, a lot of Taylor’s Titans felt like just bucking up his Nightwing run. To wit, the Titans were just there in Bludhaven one day, with no story points as to what lives they were leaving to rejoin the group; I defy the reader to tell me much about Donna Troy or Starfire based on this series alone.

That culminates in Titans Vol. 2: The Dark-Winged Queen, which does find its way to some good heart in the end, but is also a Raven/Trigon tale. That is, for what’s only Taylor’s second main Titans storyline and what turns out to be his final one before he unceremoniously departs, Taylor writes the story that in broad strokes is the same story just about every other Titans writer has done.