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Between 2.5 and 3 stars. There's really not much going on for this offering. The art is good, the story, characters, and plot are all just kind of "meh". This has none of the charm and excitement that "The Culling" had. If it's not already canceled, I won't be continuing with the series.
This had potential to be okay, but they're all so damn whiny. Maybe Vol 2 with a new writer will be better. Mackie did not do good work here at all.
How can a first volume of a series be directionless? Somehow, Howard Mackie and Scott Lobdell have managed it. Spinning out of the abysmal "the Culling" crossover in the Teen Titans books, Caitlin Fairchild leads a team of what had been Teen Titans pre-Flashpoint. They stumble along into dumb revamps of Teen Titans villains like Brother Blood and Rose Wilson. Brother Blood's power now is to control you once he touches your blood. How exactly does that work? First he has to stab someone and then
This is a follow-up from the Culling - a group of ravager wannabes under the tutelage of Caitlin Fairchild, is escaping. Can she get them to work together without self-destructing? The answer seems to be no, although not without a lot of hand-wringing and whining. The 'team' Caitlin leads is fairly unremarkable - only two are characters I was previously aware of (Beast Boy and Terra), and even they are pretty boring. There is a lot of action, fairly well-portrayed, but the rest of it gets really...
This is very much in the style of the Teen Titans or Legion of Superheroes. A group of minor DC and ex-Wildstorm characters, its all pretty standard fare. Fairchild and Lightning make it interesting as strong female leads but, alas, are undone by the usual heaving chests and combat bikini's. It's competently scripted and crisply drawn but its all been done before and there's nothing to set it apart. All very Vanilla!
The Ravagers have escaped from the Ravagers. They need to make their own identities within this new freedom. They are on the run from those who would take them back there or kill them.It is a good introductory story and you do get a feeling of who all the characters are. I was only aware of a few of them pre 52, and its interesting seeing the differences.A good read.
Is it a great read? Not really, but it's a fun "building a team out of broken kids" book. And it gives me a lot more context for the disappearance of Superboy from the Teen Titans run (and I'm willing to bet his return as well).Will I develop a long-lasting love affair with any of these characters? Not likely. I mean, we know the New 52 ends and I much prefer Rebirth as a narrative overall, but I'd say they are mostly solid characters with some interesting designs.Really, this was an opportunity...
Good art, decent but somewhat flawed story.It has been a number of years since I read the original storyline "The Culling" in Teen Titans, from which "The Ravagers" sprang. This is a non-team of teens with superpowers -- Beast Boy and Tara will be familiar from previous incarnations of the DC Universe -- who were the victims of the villain Harvest and his attempts to harness their powers for death and destruction.As with most of DC's recent publications, the book suffers from the usual comic far...
Urgh. This series has so much potential, yet fails at every turn to meet it. The characters spend far too much time whining to be interesting, and no one has any kind of character arc at all. Even Fairchild is stuck in the same place for seven issues.The art generally saves the book from being a complete write-off, but the fact that no one artist can pencil 3 issues in a row, leading to masses of fill-ins and multiple artists per issue, drags it all down. Plus there are obvious mistakes, with ch...
Loved the action, it really kept me on the edge of seat.
Spilling out from the action of the abysmal "The Culling" event, I have to admit, I did not have much interest in these characters. I didn't want to give them a chance, but I did, and I wasn't won over.Some okay art, some really boring storylines that plateau in the second issue. There really isn't much to grasp at here. In fact, whenever there is a glimmer of hope that something unusual or interesting might happen, the action hits a wall and ends up being typical and cliche. Nothing new or chal...
I just finished reading The Culling: Rise of the Ravagers not long ago and found a copy of this book on Amazon for really cheap right after completing that other book. I wanted to dive right into this series while the Culling story was still fresh on my mind. One of the things I was most looking forward to about this series was the inclusion of Caitlin Fairchild. I was a fanatic about all things from Wildstorm comics back in the 1990's and the group she was a part of back then, Gen 13, was a per...
This stories comes after The Culling crossover event. These are the kids that aren't accounted for by any of the other super hero groups involved in that story. Caitlin Fairchild saved this team from Harvest, but she didn't plan very well as she spends he first page of every issue wondering what she is going to do or if these kids can even be saved. I was sad to see a gratuitous display of nudity as a section is added where the kids just blow off some steam by swimming and are suddenly attacked....
My only complaint: Red Beast Boy
Just hanging on to a five star i might change it to a four star later
(B-) 71% | SatisfactoryNotes: Oozing objectivelessness, it operates on obstinacy; okay at outset, it's often obnoxious, outright odd and out-of-order.
Quite a decent read, definitely better than the whole "Culling" arc.
A bunch of escapee superheroes from a gladiatorial arena find out there's a LOT more of them and try to form a coherent team. Pretty art, popcorn story.
