Teen Titans: Year One #1

I'll take notes as I read it.

First of all, the cover is fantastic. I love the silhouettes of the mentors up above, and he logo is very retro, and the modeling of the characters is great. Subtle lighting. Wow. Great cover.

Page 1

Oh. I didn't know this was an Ultimate-style story. Robin's chatting. Nice.

Page 2

is that a docked iPhone?

End.

Huh?

Well, that was okay, I guess. That art was grrrreat, but the story was very brief. Why was Batman acting so crazy? More than a bit out of character. He hit Robin?!

So, Aqualad's afraid of fish. That's funny. And Wonder-Girl came to the big city and is a fish out of water herself. Cute.

Cute. But it sure didn't live up to that great cover.

Also note: My wife, who's a huge Robin/Nightwing/Titans fan, really loved this issue.

UPDATE
Check-out this great paragraph from J. Caleb Mozzocco's Every Day Is Like Wednesday. (The emphasis is mine.)

Anyway, like I said, I personally don’t really care. And the reason why is because Karl Kerschl is illustrating this story, and he is illustrating the hell out of it. Amy Wolfram’s script could have consisted of 22 pages of the Titans viciously slandering me personally and I would have still enjoyed the hell out of this—that’s how good Kerschl is. (He shares are credits with Serge LaPointe and Steph Peru; I’m assuming at least one of them is responsible for the colors, which are lush, textured and reminiscent of a cell from a high production value 2D animated film).