WFTT is already proving to be a worthy spin-off to BSWF. Now if only DC sees the full potential in making this an ongoing series Read Full Review

Waid and ELup continue with this fun little romp with the original teen team, bringing a story that delves into their past, building this teams foundation with a modern spin. Emanuelas artwork just enhances every scene, making the book as close to a masterpiece as you can get. Read Full Review

Once again, World's Finest remains the gold standard for DC Comics and I'm crossing my fingers that the trend continues. Read Full Review

This continues to be a blast, just like the parent series. Read Full Review

Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino take what they established in the first issue and improve on it in every way with World's Finest: Teen Titans #2. The focus is given to Donna Troy, Garth, Roy Harper, and Karen Beecher. In the process we see how Waid and Lupacchino continued to modernize the original Teen Titans adventures while maintaining what makes this team so beloved. Read Full Review

World's Finest: Teen Titans #2 improves on the first issue by bringing the team together to find a missing girl in a spooky house. Instead of crafting the Titans version of a Scooby Doo adventure, Waid delivers a mature, emotionally resonant plot. Waid is doing something unique with this title, don't sleep on it. Read Full Review

Regardless of the reason, Waid and Lupacchino are delivering a book that feels relevant to today and also revelatory about the characters in it, which is not typically something you get from a series set in the past. Whether its Donna Troy's naivet, Garth's reluctance to let loose, or Robin's struggles with leadership, this book is giving a really insightful peek into the past of the Titans, whenever that is. Read Full Review

ComicsOnline recommends this issue to fans of the Teen Titans, but especially to those fans who have young teens in their lives. Stories like this, relating normal teenagers and their issues to these larger-than-life heroes, are a great way of sparking important conversations that may be awkward and difficult but are altogether important ones to be able to have. Read Full Review

I can't wait for more of this book. The ending is super fun, and leaves a lot to look out for! Read Full Review

World's Finest: Teen Titans #2 feels different from any teenage superhero story currently on the market. Often adolescent superhero tales are full of angst and drama, setting a moody tone. Waid and Lupacchino take a different approach; while there's still relationship drama, the series lacks all the normal teen angst. Read Full Review

‘World's Finest: Teen Titans' #2′ is a rather uninspiring issue after it's zippy debut. Wonder Girl and Aqualad are the characters who are the main focus for this issue, along withe mystery of a strange and haunted house. Certainly an issue that seems to favour character development over story. And even that's minimal. Read Full Review

I’m not sure if this standalone issue represents the format this series is going to take, but if so I don’t mind at all! I like the idea of giving each or a couple of the Teen Titans time to shine in stories that can be enjoyed in a single sitting. Waid manages to give each character depth, and it seems that he can do no wrong as of late. Bellaire’s colors really pop in this issue as well.

After a strong debut issue, Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino deliver another rousing adventure in WORLD’S FINEST TEEN TITANS #2. The creative duo’s knack for modernizing classic characters in modern storylines has been truly impressive so far and in this second issue they also reintroduced more classic characters and added new layers of depth to our main heroes.

For this issue, the focus shifts to Wonder Girl’s POV for the opening act and we get to see her sheer exuberance for all the human world has to offer that Paradise Island didn’t offer. Aqualad and Bumblebee met up her and Mal Duncan, her “new friend” as she calls him, for a day of fun around Washington, D.C. and we get to see them partaking in some fun festivities. Throughout the scene, Waid writes some great dialogue between these characters as we get to see how a few superhero teens would spend a day if the only thing they had to do was have fun. He writes each character with a sense of innocence and humanity that we don’t often get to see from those who don a hero costume and it’s immensely refreshing to read.

Titans business breaks up the fun and the three members of the team are forced to call it a day. They meet up with Robin and Speedy at a house in North Carolina that appears to be haunted and is the last place a missing girl, Dalisay, was seen. Two more Bronze Age Titans appear in supporting roles to help solve the case, Lilith and Gnarrk. I’m loving the small cameos that Waid is including and I’m excited to see how he continues to use them in the future.

The team splits up with half the members going to interview Dalisay’s friend and the other half exploring the house to see if they can find her. Waid flexes his writing muscles as we follow the team through the possessed housed. Wonder Girl and Aqualad are forced to confront their inner demons as Dalisay’s own fears are projected on them. Wonder Girl must deal with the idea that she’s no longer welcome on Themyscira due to her embrace of man’s world, while Aqualad has to confront his own feelings of being inferior to his fellow Atlanteans due to the physical differences he possesses. While Aqualad is able to overcome his demons and help convince Dalisay to embrace her own fears by accepting herself for who she is, Wonder Girl is left shaken.

Making the Waid’s writing even better are Lupacchino’s artwork, Jordie Bellaire’s colors, and Steve Wands lettering. Lupacchino nails the homage to the art style you’d expect to see these characters in while also adding modern flair to keep things current. Bellaire’s color palette shines throughout the book but stands out most during Speedy and Aqualad’s nightmare scenes. Fluorescent colors saturate pages giving the illusion that they’ve been viewed under a blacklight.

It’s ironic that Waid managed to write a better Titans story about nightmares than the current Titans Knight Terrors tie-in while the event is still happening. That may speak more to the underwhelming first half of Knight Terrors Titans but it shouldn’t take away from the near-perfect issue that Waid wrote in WORLD’S FINEST TEEN TITANS #2.

Rating: 9/10 more

An episodic issue, with a simple, functional and fun plot. Waid again uses a "script engine" to develop characters, with Lupacchino's narrative flowing slowly and nicely around pages.

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