Books like Teen Titans: Year One

3.5 starsI gotta explain my rating on this one, because I was sort of torn on how good Year One actually was. The Good (or how I ended up giving it 4 stars):The art is unusual and very cute. I just wanted to pick up those Titans an give 'em a great big squishy hug! Except for Aqualad...he's just creepy-looking in this. Also, the story is extremely kid-friendly, except for one reference that Green Arrow makes to Speedy about not knocking up Wonder Girl (of course, that may bother other parents more than it bothers me). So my \ Mom-Rating\ would probably be about 4.5 stars.The Bad (or why I wanted to give it 2 stars):The villain was LAME, and the plot was kind of lacking any real tension or excitement. And I know I mentioned this earlier, but Aqualad looked like a creepy greyish beast-boy. Plus, he was scared of everything! His whole character just felt...wrong.I guess they needed something to bring the Titans together (get it:Titans Together! *snort*), but having their mentors hypnotized and turned evil by Antithesis was not the best way to go. Why? 'Cause I think it was a little unbelievable that these five kids took down Flash, Aquaman, Green Arrow, Wonder Woman...and for God's sake, Batman! Antithesis (giant bug-looking villain, for those of you who don't know) is just plain dorky. One of the problems may have been that this volume was too short, so you really didn't have time to connect with the story. It looks like it was probably written with tweenagers (who don't like to read) as it's target audience, though. With that in mind, I can kind of see where Wolfram was going with the story. I mean, what kid doesn't want to prove they are better than the grown-ups in their lives?So the mom in me wanted to rate it higher, and the adultish fan in me wanted to rate it lower. *shrugs* What can I say?