As for the Titans/YA comparison:

Here is agains, just one instance that this is said to be true. Again, not the definitive source on such things, but I think he might be highly offended if you called him a liar:

If this is true, then this is an admission that YA is Marvel's version/answer to Teen Titans.

Why answer something that's 40+ years old? I don't get it, why would Marvel need to mimic something NOW? It just doesn't make any sense to me. I think the original X-men are technically Marvel's answer to the Teen Titans, in my opinion.

Tha latest issue of Robin showed Penguin conferring via video screen with a number of unidentified people about weapons from Darksied, Atlantis and other sources they have accrued.

A few months ago, Kord Industries (aka WayneTech R & D) was bought by a mysterious conglomerate from Germany that no one has ever heard of..

Ares has been talking to Wonder Girl, in Teen Titans, about an upcoming war..

Green Arrow now has 3 "sidekicks". Connor, Arsenal and Speedy. I would not be surprised to see Arsenal go.

Batman is beginning to figure out that something was done to him. When he does figure it out it will be trouble for the JLA & may cause permanent rifts in the group.

All of this is building to Countdown & Villans United. It looks to me to be very interesting. As much as I read both Marvel and DC, I look forward to the results of the long term planning going on at DC.

Why cant we all get along like Marvel and DC did back in the day with the Titans X-men crossover?

They did...Amalgam anyone?

Well Rob Lifeild ripped off everyone

In JSA, some group of villains (Deathstroke appeared to be one of them) was talking with Black Adam.

And Teen Titans is DC's answer to New X-Men/New Mutants, which was Marvels answer to the orginal Titans etc... Marvel makes Young Avengers cause DC has Teen Titans, DC makes All-Star cause Marvel has Ultimate - its never going to stop.

Hopefully it will be better then the result of the build up they created around IDC

Now that I think of it, one of the people in the group talking to Black Adam was sitting in a chair, looked small, but had a pretty big head...

Looks like Hammond is in on this...

I like how you went from "this is a fact" to "please take my word on this".

I'm still betting that it's Blue Beetle.


It sure looks to me like you can see his yellow lenses in the cover art.

Wouldn't that be just be the best follow to IDC where they kill a couple Z-list characters and #### a character for shock value, kill a hero no one cares about. DC keeps saying these huge, universe changing events are happening/coming, but so far nothing has lived up to the hype they are creating.

Actually Blue Beetle is still a pretty popular character.

Just because YOU don't like him doesn't mean otherwise.

Beetle's the MAN!

Him and Booster, and what the hey, the rest of the Super Buddies, should have an ongoing series.

Wait, the sheer amount of low-brow (but still awesome) humor from that would kill the human race...darn...

Please, killing off Blue Beetle is like Marvel killing off North Star (another red-hairing that pissed me off), really, who cares?