Teen Titans Go! is a comic book series that was published by DC Comics. It is based on the animated television series Teen Titans, which is itself loosely based on the team that starred in the popular 1980s comic The New Teen Titans. The series was written by J. Torres with Todd Nauck and Larry Stucker as the regular illustrators. The series focuses on Robin, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg who are the main cast members of the TV series. Also, the show is circled around other characters from other DC comics.
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Style
Most issues are largely self-contained stories, and include a number of characters outside the core group of Robin, Raven, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. Given that character licensing restrictions in DC Comics are different from those on the show, Teen Titans Go! was able to include characters such as Wonder Girl who were not licensed for the series. Each issue contains riddles, sight gags, and jokes played out by super deformed characters outside the page margins.
The series is written to appeal to an all-ages audience that included children, the primary audience of the series. Regarding the target audience for the comic, J. Torres notes that:
As with the show, [we] started out skewed a lot younger... but along the way, I think the producers discovered it was reaching a wider audience. ... [the show] got into some darker storyline, and they introduced a lot more characters, so they expanded on it, and they let the show evolve with the audience, which is what we tried to do with the comic book, as well.
While the comic's stories stand independently, its issues are written so as not to contradict events established in the animated series' episodes. Often, Teen Titans Go! also references episodes of the show, as well as expanding on parts of the series.
Collected editions
The series has been collected in trade paperbacks: