Retelling Origins Without Erasing History: Teen Titans: Year One
I tend to read comics backwards. Well, not entirely, but usually I don’t start at the beginning and go on from there. For one, that’s a really intimidating number of comics for a lot of series, and for another, the comics from the silver and golden ages are fun to glance at, but the racism and sexism inherent to media of the time can get a little (or a lot) grating if I try to read too much of it at once. I started reading comics again by trying to read the Iron Man comics from Tales of Suspense, and if I hadn’t switched to reading some more recent miniseries instead of plugging my way through that, I might have given up on comics altogether. Luckily, I picked up Red Hood: Lost Days, and realized that grounding myself in current canon was probably going to be more my style than starting from the beginning. ...