Teen Titans Academy #5 takes a step out of the series' normal storytelling to focus on the Bat Pack, and it works beyond words. This origin story not only took its time to flesh out some of the most interesting characters, but it also pushes the story forward in big strides. Read Full Review

Lieber uses a traditional drawing style that is complimented by a muted color palette. The detailed artwork and perfectly delivered tone make for a captivating issue that is exciting and interesting. Read Full Review

Teen Titans Academy continues to move full-speed ahead in its sprawling and infinitely enjoyable narrative, and this issue is no exception. Read Full Review

Teen Titans Academy #5 is a great end to a two-part story that features a peculiar and intriguing superhero mini team known as the Bat Pack. It's an origin story with Scooby vibes and a continued tangling mystery of Red X's identity. Teen Titans Academy does well to blend kid-fantasy and smartly veers into seriousness. Read Full Review

Theres a turf war brewing within the academy and Sheridan and Lieber set the stage nicely for the second semester. Read Full Review

Teen Titans Academy #5is an overall good issue that continues the exciting journey of the inaugural student body of the academy but suffers from stifling the exciting narrative we've had so far. While flashback series can be good and getting to know more about the Bat-Pack is great, this, unfortunately, felt somewhat disconnected from the main beats of the story we're invested in. But the Bat-Pack may simply need more time to grow. The art and lettering complement Sheridan's great writing, and it still remains a generally fun issue nonetheless. Read Full Review

Teen Titans Academy #5 still has some cringe dialogue and relies on a flashback instead of focusing on the kids within the context of the school, which is " I assume " what everyone is here for. That said, with improved art/colors from Lieber and Stewart and some desperately needed characterization from Sheridan, overall this is definitely a step up from most of the previous issues of Teen Titans Academy. Read Full Review

If you want to learn about how Diego Perez became Chupacabra and pretty much nothing else, then maybe this issue is for you but it really felt like we did a disservice to the Bat-Pack by not actually showing how they all became who they became or how they even became a family...... Not to mention the Red X bits in this aren't keeping me nearly as intrigued as I think this book wants me to be. The art is decent but ultimately this Bat-Pack pseudo origin story fell really flat. Read Full Review

Overall, Teen Titans Academy #5 does a good job giving us at least a tiny bit more information on three of the students at the academy, and what brought them there. However, I did find the pacing of the story to be a bit rocky, with a lot being crammed into twenty-four pages, and truthfully what, exactly, prompted Red X to unmask and share his identity to just the three teenagers from Gotham eludes me. Read Full Review

Not great, but I didn't hate it.

As per the record of this book so far, The writer is sorting the characters like the audience already knows and is connected to the characters. we never got the set up and we are still not getting any set up, we are just following random characters in a "teen Titans" book. This is seriously disappointing to see what the the Red X has become, they are trying to show his/her significance but it failing terribly. Still think this book needs a new writer to bring a proper and better direction for the book.

This issue is a solid 0 if I could like the previous issues, lot of same problems like not proper set up for new character under utilizing old well known character, to many subplots with none of them executed properly.