Teen Titans Go!
| Teen Titans Go! | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| Schedule | Monthly |
| Format | Ongoing series |
| Genre | |
| Publication date |
(Vol. 1): January 2004 – July 2008 (Vol. 2): November 2013 – Present |
| Number of issues | (Vol. 1): 55 |
| Main character(s) |
Robin Starfire Beast Boy Raven Cyborg |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
J. Torres Adam Beechen |
| Artist(s) |
Todd Nauck Larry Stucker Dave Bullock Tim Smith John McCrea James Hodgkins Erik Vedder Rob Ross Mike Norton Sean Galloway Khary Randolph Scott Iwahashi Francisco Herrera Glen Murakami Chynna Clugston Johane Matte Sanford Greene Alex Serra Fabio Laguna Christine Norrie Michael Change Joe Quinones Ethen Beavers |
| Creator(s) |
J. Torres Todd Nauck |
| Collected editions | |
| Truth, Justice, Pizza! | |
Teen Titans Go! is a comic book series that was published by DC Comics. It is based on the 2003 animated TV series Teen Titans, which is itself loosely based on the team that starred in the popular 1980s comic The New Teen Titans. The series was written by J. Torres with Todd Nauck and Larry Stucker as the regular illustrators. The series focuses on Robin, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg who are the main cast members of the TV series.
Most issues were largely self-contained stories, and included a number of characters outside the core group of Robin, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. Given that character licensing restrictions in DC comics are different from those on the show, J. Torres was able to include characters such as Wonder Girl who were not licensed for the TV show. Each issue contained riddles, sight gags, and jokes played out by super deformed characters outside the page margins.
The series was written to appeal to an all-ages audience that included pre-teen children, the primary audience of the TV series. However, regarding the target audience for the comic, J. Torres notes that:
"As with the show, [we] started out skewed a lot younger... but along the way, I think the producers discovered it was reaching a wider audience. ... [the show] got into some darker storyline, and they introduced a lot more characters, so they expanded on it, and they let the show evolve with the audience, which is what we tried to do with the comic book, as well."
While the comic's stories stand independently, its issues were done so as not to contradict events established in the animated series' episodes. Often, Teen Titans Go! also referenced episodes of the show, as well as expanding on parts of the series.
Also, Torres mentioned in the letter pages of #34 that not all stories would be set in the present time. Some were even placed during season 1. An example of this was the first story in #40, which showed Jinx as part of the HIVE.
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