To have the power to decide how she wants to feel and what she wants to do.New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller & Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller I'm not going to live a life where I can't be in love, I can't be angry or sad.

“To me that was her way of saying I'm going to define myself. She ultimately decides to own what she feels, both the good and bad, in order to access her abilities that help protect the people around her. Raven’s powers are tied to her emotions, which plays into the age-old policing of young people’s feelings. Which made for a lot of fun for Gabriel, who’s a self-described “sneakerhead.”īeyond all the chic looks, including an eventual dress that Raven wears to the school dance accompanied with a jacket emblazoned with a little easter egg for lots of Raven cosplayers, Teen Titans: Raven also thematically tackles the power of teenage angst and adolescent anger. And they also decided that she’d be much more inspired by streetwear. The duo spent lots of time picking out the perfect hairstyle, one that didn’t look too similar to other DC entities. That meant they started from scratch and could take a lot more liberties with development. Written by Beautiful Creatures author Kami Garcia and illustrator Gabriel Picolo, the collaboration brings new life to a beloved DC character.Īnd while both Kami and Gabriel had a blast being able to translate Raven into the modern day, the character of Max was completely original.

Thankfully, she has people like her foster sister Max by her side. There’s a dark voice inside her head, and she’s somehow able to feel what others are feeling, just to get things started.

As she attempts to balance finishing her senior year of high school and grieving over her loss, strange things start to happen around Raven. Set in New Orleans, the new graphic novel follows 17-year-old Raven Roth after a car accident that kills her foster mom and causes the teen to lose her memory. So while dealing with the malevolent forces that threaten her, she’s also dealing with mean girls at school and budding feelings for a crush. In DC’s young adult graphic novel Teen Titans: Raven, longtime fans of the young woman with psychic abilities and a fondness for the bird she shares a name with get to see Raven less as a superhero that happens to be a teenager and more so as a teen who happens to have powers.

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