Teen Titans #39 DC comics

Well, the titans are on the hunt for the traitor in their midst. Of course speaking for the writers, this whole titan hunt is simply a way for us to be introduced to the titans that quite over the missing year. Here the first new titan we get introduced to is Zatara. Zatanna’s male cousin Zachary Zatara who received his powers after magic went crazy during infinite crisis. His powers and abilities are pretty much the same as Zatanna’s, and he has a similar stage act to hers. Speaking things backwards and having them happen, and he’s quite the prim Donna. The titans show up in his dressing room to ask him if he knows what Raven was looking for, and what she said when they talked. He tells them that she wanted to know the answer to questions about herself. Then we go through a recap of Ravens origin, and rebirth at the hands of the church of blood. Zatara’s information doesn’t seem to lead anywhere, so they leave, but ask Zatara to come with them. He tells them no, and that joining the titans was a mistake and he was embarrassed that he ever joined. After they leave he turns his picture around and sees a picture of Raven, and has an emotional moment. He tries to run after the Titans but they have already gone. “The show must go on!”

Back in the air the titans are wondering where to go next, the twins Marvin, and Wendy are going through the tower looking for what the traitor stole and the only missing thing is an encyclopedia I through K.

The next stop on Ravens list is Brisbane Australia and the home of Miss Martian (M’gann M’orzz), who is very busily dealing with the second tier villain Gunshot. She throws him off the roof, melts his gun with her heat vision, and starts talking to him as he falls. She is very flighty, and giggly, and makes him promise that he will stop being a bad guy before she will stop him from falling. If he breaks his promise she will know, and she knows where he lives because she’s a telepath…. Despite the giggling, “tee hees”, and cutesy act, the actual stuff she is saying and doing are quite menacing. Her “origin” is that when the White Martians started to slaughter the Green Martians her parents sent her in a rocket to the Vega system. When she heard that there was a Martian on earth, the Martian Manhunter, she came to earth and stayed. She decided to setup shop in the Australian Desert because it reminded her of home.

Raven wanted her to user her telepathy on the Titans and find out what one was the traitor, but that was against her personal code, she doesn’t user her telepathy on anyone good people. Ravager was her roommate for a few days until they got in a scuffle because Miss Martian threw a pie in her face after watching three stooges. Ravager made her cry and she quit the Titans. She refuses to telpahically scan the titans, but she does tell them that she was going to the China sea to meet her next contact, the loud titan who makes all the noise…

Next on the menu is Bombshell. A young woman covered in the same alien metal that gave Captain Atom. The fact that she is wearing dog tags, and is fighting Nazis with the USS Ranger leads me to believe she has some military ties like the original Captain Atom. Apparently Raven and Bombshell were working together to find out who the traitor was, Ravager! Deathstoke’s daughter. After this though we have a scene with Miss Martian, she is floating in a meditation pose telepathically sifting through different thoughts about the Titans, most of them from what appears to be Titans themselves, going against her “code” Zeroing in she finds someone saying that the titans greatest weapon is theirs, and the world traitor. The scene, a zero in on her eyes shows grayish skin and red eyes. She says “Oh my” Then the next page…. She has fully transformed Miss Martian is a white Martian!!! She flies off saying “I think I’ve found the bad guy.”

Well, oh my god. Miss Martian is a white Martian! No wonder Martian Manhunter hasn’t talked to her yet, I imagine she would want to give him as wide a berth as possible. I really like the character design, and think that she is an interesting concept. I hope she isn’t a one trick pony and simply an “evil” white Martian sent as a spy on the superheroes. I hope she is something else entirely.