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*** ...If you want to cheat, Geoff Johns's version of the matured BB/Raven are probably still a couple in one of the multitudes of Earths left behind by [[Infinite Crisis]] (since it's obvious that a lot of the Titans have somehow regressed in maturity).
*** Let's not forget that many who aren't BB/Raven shippers considered them becoming a couple a wallbanger in the first place and probably breathed a sigh of relief at their break-up.
** Things have gotten worse again with the new writer Felicia Henderson. In the latest{{when}} issue (#82), Bart and Connor finally rejoin the team, but it appears that the villain Holocaust has killed the rest of the team. Bart and Connor whale on him and knock him out. What do they do next? They say a few words about their supposedly dead friends, do a fist bump, and say "Titans Forever." They seemed to take the deaths of their best friends a bit too well, and the fans hated it.
*** Henderson has effectively ignored and derailed the developments made by other writers to Cassie and Connor's relationship. Instead of Cassie being pleased that Connor has returned and the two reconciling, she's back to being the embittered shrew that she's become infamous for being. And Connor is coming off as a [[Jerk Jock]].
** Raven coming back from the dead? Fans are happy. Raven coming back with Trigon's corruption? Well, less happy, but it was a part of her character, so it's at least plausible. Raven coming back as a younger teen than when she first appeared? Fans slightly confused. Raven, [[The Stoic]], coming back and getting a TRAMP STAMP?!...
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*** The most telling thing was Winick's initial reason for the series, which was to make Captain Marvel/Shazam a superhero who fought only mystic threats. He said in an interview, "Why is a guy with the powers of the gods stopping bankrobbers?" He's a HERO, you moron! Heroes do things like stopping criminals and villains and saving people. It's like saying Superman shouldn't waste his time stopping powerless criminals because it's beneath him. MADE. OF. FAIL!
** There's also Winick's Titans series where there were eleven issues of poor characterization, plot holes, and recycled plot lines ([[Heel Face Revolving Door|Titans turned Traitor again!?]]) were rampant.
* The new{{when}} writer of "Green Arrow/Black Canary" doesn't like Dinah, either. Her humiliations continue apace in the next issue, #15, where she's taken hostage by a lone muscleman with a knife. She needs both the intervention of Green Arrow ''and'' her Canary Cry to drop this [[Mook]], and she still takes severe injuries. Then she uses her Cry so carelessly that it ''deafens an innocent bystander'', and she ''doesn't even notice''. Is the writer aware that Dinah Lance is the chairman of the JLA, is supposed to be one of the greatest martial artists in the world, and has spent over half her life as a superheroine? Or that her control over her powers was precise enough that she could shatter a pool ball held in someone's hand without mussing their nail polish?
* ''[[Justice Society of America]]'' has been a consistently good series, but it's had its low points. Probably the worst was issue #11, which introduced Judomaster to the team. She was introduced in ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' a few months earlier; there, she spoke perfect English and had a snarky sense of humor. In ''JSA,'' she was [[Retcon]]ned into speaking solely [[Gratuitous Japanese]] and being a stereotypical [[The Stoic|stoic]] [[Samurai]] type obsessed with honor. Furthermore, she went up against a bunch of supervillains who are all horribly [[Yellow Peril|racist Japanese stereotypes]], including a gigantic, literally yellow-skinned sumo wrestler called Kamikaze whose superpower is ''blowing himself up'' when he says "Banzai". Judomaster herself is now a full-time member of the team but exists solely for the male characters to make goo-goo eyes at. It's a terrible waste of what could have been an interesting character. Oh, and just to seal the deal: ''[[Did Not Do the Research|She never does judo]]'', just [[Fan Service|a lot of high-kicks]]!
* ''[[Birds of Prey]]'' and Misfit: something went wrong with issue #113. Misfit (a sympathetic character) decides to push a blinking red button that is under a plexiglass safety cover (traditionally used for self-destruct buttons) inside an evil giant city-destroying robot despite being told not to. Unsurprisingly, it explodes, taking possibly hundreds or thousands of lives with it. But nobody blames her for it. She doesn't blame herself, either. The idea that she might be at fault is never even discussed in the text. Neither is any reason given for her doing this in the first place, since the giant city-destroying robot had been defeated!
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