When the organization known as N.O.W.H.E.R.E. captures Superboy, the Teen Titans, and Legion Lost and pits the young heroes against each other to weed out the weak, it will take everything the most famous teen heroes of the DC Universe have to save themselves from each other. But the ruthless Harvest won't give up easily leading to one of the young heroes making the ultimate sacrifice for the others.
Collecting: Teen Titans 8-14 and Annual 1, and DC Comics: Presents 12. Published June 25, 2013, from DC Comics.
This volume kicks off a cross-over event with other titles in DC's New 52 line up. We see some classic Titans characters like Omen (Lilith Clay), Thunder and Lightning and more, reinvisioned for this relauch period of the DC Comics line. As long as I remind myself that this is the reality that got rebooted after Flashpoint, I'll be able to keep it all straight.
The Culling is something like a battle arena ala The Hunger Games for young heroes. We get a lot of action, a lot of in-fighting among the teams, and only a little bit of clarity of the situations. At this point in the line relaunch, they were looking to get some synergy going with several series and thus this crossover event. It is a way to introduce readers to different titles.
My problem with all that, though, is we are just barely learning details on who the Titans are and where they come from, and then we're thrown tons of more characters who are mostly just names with costumes and powers. The reader is not given time to catch their breath or to get to know who these characters are. That just might have been one of the downfalls as to why the New 52 struggled.
There is a follow-up arc where the Titans end up on an island with dinosaurs (not sure where in the Earth this is) which could be an intriguing plot. But, it is barely over before it even starts. I feel that might have been a missed opportunity.
I'm willing to go one more volume in this run to see if it pulls me back in.
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