Teen Titans #69
	Story Title: 'The New Deal' (Finale) Script: Sean McKeever Pencillers: Allan Goldman with Yildiray Cinar Inker: Julio Ferreira Colourist: JD Smith Letterer: Sal Cipriano Editor: Brian Cunningham Published by: DC Comics
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

The “new” Teen Titans finally finalize (give me a break, I am tired after a long day at the office) their team, but before that there is a coming together of all/both Titans, Teen as well as Terror.

Zatara is still obnoxious, Eddie (Kid/Red Devil) as clueless/naïve/stupid/call-him-what-you-will and sparks fly between Aquagirl and Static. The only (major) thing that didn’t sit well with me in this issue is the oh-so-easy casting of The Face as the angry-loser-semi-creep of the group. I mean, come on is it not enough that the guy isn’t going to score all that high in the looks department does his ‘condition’ have to make him, well, not-that-good inside too?

‘nyways, carrying on with the group(s) coming together, it was nice to see Miss Martian return to the fold. Here’s hoping that this stint of hers is longer than the previous one. Ravager also makes a minor, non speaking, guest appearance.

Onto to the art and although the visuals do bear more than a passing resemblance to (previous) Teen Titans artist Eddy Barrows, they are nowhere as close as well defined or finished. Some panels are (much) better than others are and this disparity throws the overall flow of the story for a loop. Still, as a fill-in it does its job. New regular artist Joe Bennett comes on with the next issue.

Conclusion: Even at four issues spent on getting the new team up and running, the latest Teen Titans recruitment was still much dynamic and fluid than the latest JLA train wreck, or for that matter the Brad Meltzer “Lets what the Trinity sit with their thumbs up their behinds” bore-fest.

RATING: 7.5/10