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Earlier this year, the comic publication satellite mislaid 1 of its brightest lights: George Pérez, an creator and writer who worked connected immoderate of the biggest titles astatine DC and Marvel passim the ’80s and ’90s. He passed distant successful May 2022, truthful present that we’ve had a fewer months to process his decease (and present that Hispanic Heritage Month is connected our doorstep), I deliberation it’s a bully clip to look backmost connected immoderate of the enactment that made him truthful beloved.
New Teen Titans was published from 1980 to 1984, astatine which constituent it was renamed Tales of the Teen Titans and continued nether that title. Meanwhile, the rubric New Teen Titans was fixed to a caller bid and started numbering implicit again from Issue One. A small confusing, maybe, but a milestone nonetheless: the bid is inactive regarded arsenic 1 of Pérez’s top accomplishments. In concern with writer Marv Wolfman, helium took a radical of young crime-fighters called the Teen Titans — whose erstwhile series, Teen Titans, had been axed 2 years earlier aft immoderate extremely weird storylines — and rebooted them into the powerhouse they are today. Aside from adding blockbuster caller characters — including heroes similar Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire, and villains similar H.I.V.E., Terra, and Deathstroke the Terminator — Pérez contributed stunning covers.
Picking favourite Pérez covers is similar picking a favourite crystal pick flavor: they’re each truthful bully that it’s hard to pick! After overmuch agonizing, I managed to constrictive this database down to conscionable eight. I besides stuck lone with New Teen Titans covers, and I excluded Tales of the Teen Titans. (Pérez didn’t bash overmuch screen enactment connected those ones anyway…and it shows.) That means I looked done the 40 archetypal issues of New Teen Titans, positive a fistful of covers from the rebooted version, positive qualifying annuals to bring you this list.
New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #7
Just look astatine the item connected this one! Not lone is Doctor Light’s fancy machine afloat of intricate linework, there’s 3 antithetic screens to show what the idiosyncratic Titans are doing. There’s truthful overmuch to look astatine that I astir didn’t announcement the mysterious shadowy fig with his backmost to the readers down successful the foreground. Clearly, a batch of effort went into this cover.
New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #13
I conscionable emotion the ambiance of this one. You’ve got the Titans wandering done an overgrown jungle, lone to stumble upon the brutalized metallic assemblage of Robotman from the Doom Patrol. The lighting and shadows spell a agelong mode here.
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New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #20
This is specified a amusive thought for a cover! It’s a small wordy, admittedly, but I emotion however it allows 1 of the book’s ain characters (in this case, Kid Flash) to connection a small recap done a missive to his parents. And helium besides begs for wealth astatine the end, which is vintage Wally West (at slightest until helium wins the lottery successful a fewer years).
New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #30
How could I not see this classic? This is the contented when, aft waffling a bit, the New Teen Titans admitted their archetypal full-time caller member: Terra, a teen with acheronian secrets and a fiery temper. It looks similar a cheery, blessed screen arsenic the Titans observe this auspicious event. And yet, you tin spot the team’s sanction cracking nether the strain of Terra’s actions. Right from the start, Wolfman and Pérez made it wide that Terra was a villain — but nary 1 successful the comic oregon successful the existent satellite could judge it.
New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #33
This 1 caught my attraction due to the fact that of the perspective: you’ve got a dormant supervillain lying face-down successful the water, and past the reflections of the Titans arsenic they look down connected the scene. There’s thing precise melodramatic — adjacent cinematic — astir this changeable that makes maine privation to reread it immediately.
New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #39
In opposition with immoderate of the different covers that made the list, this 1 is striking successful its simplicity. It marks a large alteration successful the Titans’ line-up: Robin and Kid Flash, 2 of their founding members, person torn disconnected their costumes and are present sadly leaving the team. It’s reminiscent of an representation from Amazing Spider-Man #50, erstwhile Spidey throws his costume successful the trash and walks away. But this one, without a inheritance oregon adjacent a teary connection balloon, is adjacent starker. (No hatred for the archetypal — they’re by antithetic creators moving successful wholly antithetic clip periods!)
New Teen Titans Vol. 2 #2
The Titans forced to contort themselves into a decease disguise resembling Raven’s demonic father, Trigon? That is some clever and incredibly creepy. The lighting adds to the eeriness: it feels similar erstwhile you clasp a flashlight up to your look successful a acheronian wood to scare your friends.
New Teen Titans Vol. 2 #43
One of the things Pérez is astir known for is his quality to gully faces truthful distinctly that you tin easy archer everyone apart, adjacent erstwhile they’re successful a large assemblage (which helium besides excelled astatine drawing). That’s truly connected show present arsenic Raven, clad each successful white, is the lone agleam spot successful a oversea of anguished faces.
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