This book, thankfully, is awesome and a fitting capstone to the original series. Read Full Review

While the story does suffer from a bit of inconsistency on all fronts, TITANS ANNUAL #2 does a fantastic job closing the "Mind Over Matter" story arc. With strong characterization and an action-heavy plot, this story does a fantastic job capturing what we love about the Titans. Read Full Review

I just feel cheated because it was the end of the run, and promise of the series was never fulfilled. Read Full Review

Titans Annual #2 takes a setup that feels like it could fit into a 10-page backup story and stretches it out to a 40-page issue, but writer Dan Abnett manages to keep it from being boring by filling those pages with interesting characters and well-written dialogue. Read Full Review

Titans Annual #2 is a great conclusion to the final story arc for this incarnation of the Titans team. Dan Abnett delivered an ending that paid off on all the character development Nightwing, Donna Troy, Flash and Arsenal have gone through up to this point. The resolution leaves these core members of the Titans in a great spot moving forward. Hopefully that momentum is carried over to the new version of the Titans in the post-No Justice DC Universe. Read Full Review

Titans Annual #2 finishes this arc as it should, with the Titans getting back together and Mallah and Brain mending their relationship. Grummett, Derenick, and the rest of the art team do great work on the visuals. Dan Abnett wrote a fun and compelling Annual for the Titans here. This one gets a recommendation. Check it out. Read Full Review

With our big threat of this arc not being defined as well as I would have liked.......... Hell, it seems to be a bit of joke here to keep it as vague as possible, I still really enjoyed myself reading this issue.  For the most part our heroes came off being the best possible versions of themselves that they could be and I loved the art depicting one of the biggest threats that the Titans have ever faced.  Yeah, things were a bit predictable for how they played out, but it didn't ruin any of my enjoyment for this Annual.  Read Full Review

This was an underwhelming conclusion to a storyline that never really clicked. Its recommended only for those who have already been invested in this era of the Titans. Read Full Review

Dan Abnett's Titans run comes to a close in Titans Annual #2 " at least this version does, as the team will be combined with members of the Teen Titans and a few new characters in a few months. But while Abnett's writing has always been competent with what he had to work with, the core dynamic of the original Teen Titans reuniting hasn't worked since launch mini Titans Hunt. Read Full Review

Though its a fully functioning and occasionally emotional ending to the storyline, Titans Annual #2 doesn't quite live up to the build-up and, despite the extra pages, fails to give us any inkling of where the team are headed in the future. Read Full Review

It's not bad but it's just so familiar that it left me feeling kind of ho hum about it all and questioning whether I'll come back when the series returns. Read Full Review

The Titans are great characters and they each deserve (and usually get) better treatment than to just tie off the era with such a snooze-fest. Ultimately this is the group that defines the future of the Justice League, so we can look forward to the opportunity to paint them with a better brush in the post-No Justice landscape. Read Full Review

No idea why this had to be an annual, but whatever. This was ok, it had the same issue the series had for quite some time - the characterisation is great, the story is so-so. This was my last issue of the Titans.

Poor Mallah!

There are several very good things in this and prior issues. Although I've complained about how unsubtly we were battered with foreshadowing of Brain abandoning Mallah emotionally, the relationship was otherwise well portrayed. It's not original, but the apparently submissive partner actually having final control over the relationship was convincing.

The interaction of Arsenal and Nightwing was realistic and in character. I'm hoping that Troy has had a real breakthrough and will not be so angsty in future.

Certainly, the highlight was the Titans saving the world despite the opposition of the Justice League. Of course, the very idea of the Justice League imposing a breakup on the non-teen Titans was ludicrous from the get-go. I wish there had been some exploration of the League's envy of the Titans relationship. The League members are friends. In the way you're friends with people at your job. You chat, maybe gossip, perhaps go out for a drink. The Titans, on the other hand are really friends. Like the friends you rely on, the ones with whom you share good times and bad (whether yours or theirs). They have something special and the League will never be able to match it.

There have been problems with this arc. The League playing stern parent was silly. Worst, in my mind, was the question of lineup. Why this set of Titans and not others? If the intent was to highlight different sets of Titans in different adventures, the arc went too long. Post-No-Justice, we'll see if that's a possibility. In the meantime, though, using this smaller group was not an advantage. (And no, I'm not just saying that because I have the hots for Gnaark.)

All in all, though, seeing the League humbled alonside Brain and Mallah was worth the price of admission.

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In issue 22 Donna and Roy found Brain's and Mallah's hq.

In this annual they're literally fight for their lives. But just when their about to be overwhelmed they get much needed help from the former Boy Wonder and former Kid Flash.

After that all four Titans, together, try to foil Brain's plans to ascend into some form of godhood, at the same time proving Justice League that they are not some B-list super-hero team.

What I like the most about this annual and this series in general is how Abnett writes interactions between characters. In most instances I completely buy that Titans are long time frends that are superheroing for a long time and have sometimtes lesser sometimes bigger grudges against one another or like Arsenal and Troy some loving feelings.
And in this annual I was completely sold on Mallah's fears and worries about Brain becoming something godly. more