If These Walls Could Talk — Reviewing ‘Knight Terrors: Titans’ #2

Plot twists. A storytelling element that is hit or miss with little in between, depending on choices a creator makes. Employ the twist at the right time and you recontextualize or change a narrative in a bold way that will get folks talking. Push the button a little too soon or out of nowhere and people are just going to shrug or groan.

Unfortunately, Knight Terrors: Titans #2 is far more of the second choice than the first.

I see what Andrew Constant, Scott Godlewski, Mike Norton, Ryan Cody, Hi-Fi, and Wes Abbott were collectively attempting but, in my opinion, it falls a bit flat sadly.

Artistically things are generally fine. There isn’t a lot that really plays into the nightmare scenario of things, as it’s just very superhero-esque. Things are bright and colorful, have great kinetic energy, and have a bit of a fun whimsical bright shiny appeal to them. Which is not at all the setting for these nightmare stories. To be fair though, the overall event has been handling nightmares in such a wild, varying, nonsensical way.

Most of the stuff is just a big fight scene, with the characters taking on warped versions of themselves. Yeah, the generic nightmare versions are back, without any real connection to what they mean for these characters history-wise.

We find out here that the mystery woman unnamed in the first issue who rescued them all is the spirit of Titans Tower who is having a nightmare. You read that right, the building is having a nightmare. Long story short, the new Titans Tower was a prison in Blüdhaven and now its dark and light sides are duking it out, basically. They need this personified “good” hopeful side to bring sense to her other self to get the building out of a nightmare.

It’s bizarre, which does fit the dream theme, but just in a random way. Not in a shocking twist way that makes you gasp. One of those horror-type twists that gets one “Oh…umm, sure, I guess” out of many. Nothing bad or off-putting, but nothing that is really that exciting.

Overall, this story is just fine. It’s not one that will resonate a ton with the Titans fandom or the regular series when it returns. I would be utterly shocked if this new Titans Tower personality is ever referenced again.

I think one of the most glaring issues facing the Titans currently is the hype behind their new situation in the DC Universe isn’t matching what’s happening in the pages. Not to say that the stories are bad or such, but I’m just not feeling the ‘premiere DC Universe hero team’ from things lately. Both the main series, which is quite good, and this story feels more like standard previous Titan-level stories. Very inside baseball sort of things, not the types of stories that would come with a team of the Justice League’s level which this team is supposed to be now.

Knight Terrors: Titans #2 is now available from DC Comics.