• I read the comic book that is shown above. Its difficult, even after reading Supergirl: Adventures in 7th Grade. I have no desire in seeing a show that involves her half brothers, the deadly sins. If Raven isnt with the TEEN TITANS, it might as well be a spinoff of BUFFY. Raven is one of my favorite characters, even sticking her in a 16 year old body. With me being 40, does that make me creepy? Of course, they cant be true to the comic. The comic isnt always true to the comic. What does 'goth' or 'emo' mean today anyway? I was goth during the '80s with Bauhaus and the Cure. Nothing I see or hear these days compare. Thats all. Didnt really have anything to say. That didnt stop any of the other posts.

• I read the comic book that is shown above. Its difficult, even after reading Supergirl: Adventures in 7th Grade. I have no desire in seeing a show that involves her half brothers, the deadly sins. If Raven isnt with the TEEN TITANS, it might as well be a spinoff of BUFFY. Raven is one of my favorite characters, even sticking her in a 16 year old body. With me being 40, does that make me creepy? Of course, they cant be true to the comic. The comic isnt always true to the comic.

• For that to mean anything, they'd have to show Raven having sex with Beast Boy in the form of a horse, or Raven fucking Starfire with black magic sex toys. ... *is now waiting for news of a "This ain't Teen Titans" video*

• ...CSI Metropolis? ...that could actually be interesting... On the demon rape and how it will be handled... it's obvious: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RapeAsDrama

• Hell, I'm not even that big of a Titans fan and only know general info. (Somehow never got into it despite being a huge Nightwing fan.) Yet I know there are die hard fans out there. I hate to see any fandom have their characters watered down beyond recognition.

• No. I don't want to see the Titans Smallvilled up. Either play the characters straight or don't even bother with them. Don't water down their powers to some half assed bullcrap. I always think of when a friend joked years ago about if Smallville had Mister Mxyzptlk, he's be a high schooler with really toned down powers. And then a year or so later that's exactly what the bastards did. And it's not just about powers. I also want Gar's full story, not just his powers shoveled onto some generic teen drama stereotype character.

• Wow... this is gonna suck. It's gonna suck so bad... So, when, during this meeting did they explain that Raven was created through an unholy demonic ritual to bring the end of the world and, oh ya, HER MOTHER WAS BASICLY RAPED BY HER DEMON FATHER!? Oh, they don't care? Makes sense. i know the TT cartoon tip toed around this, because it just didn't go into Ravens past and the whole show wasn't about her. But this IS a whole show about her. How the slag are they gonna deal with this without turning into Supernatural? ...Actually, it would be awesome if it turned into Supernatural

• I could care less about the TV news. What I want to know is ... did DC REALLY market that series as being "EMO"?!!

• the way the show is being described is Raven will have no involement with the teen titans the show will just focus on her supernatural adventures like proably traveling to earth and Azareth. though hope at least Trigon shows up. even though Warner's really should have just spun off green arrow or the justice Leaque to replace small ville.

• Yeah, fifty Quatloos says she's in high school, too. And I think that Beast Boy was pretty popular as a love interest, according to the comic and cartoon fans, so...say another twenty Quatloos that he won't be in this show at all, and they'll just make some asshole up out of whole cloth for the lead to fawn over for three seasons.

• Maybe, but I don't remember that showing up in any news articles.

• Thanks a lot, Rob. Your title and this news just brought back horrible high school memories of being subjected to countless shitty jokes, all because I share the same name as both a cool comic character and an annoying Disney psychic. ARGH.

• >> I mean, I know that word has lost all meaning now but still. << Just like "goth."

• Didn't Geoff Johns mention that the Blue Beetle show was already killed before he revealed that terrible CGI footage of Jamie's Morphin' Time.

• What happened after you corrected them? And when I mean "corrected" I mean punch them in the neck?

• I think what's really going to happen is all laid out quite nicely in this FARK thread: http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5801208

• Supernatural is pretty awesome.

• How long ago was that? There's a statute of limitations on spoilers.

• I was laughing when I read the comic cover. Then I stopped laughing at "CW". Seriously, it's not impossible for a good Raven series to happen. But it is impossible for CW to be the ones to do it.

• I would watch this series if Raven ended up rooming with a ditzy and cheerful Kory based on the 'toon version. Mainly because the comic costume seems kinda impractical, but I feel that way about most "barely there" costumes.

• Unfortunately, it's not just the Internet. I had the particular misfortune to hear someone categorize the Dillinger Escape Plan as screamo(screaming + emo for those who don't know). People are fucking retarded.

• Raven's going to be 30 before she learns any magic.

• The Flash, by a country mile. It's happened before

• Thank you for knowing more about music than 98% of the internet.

• The Flash, by a country mile. It's happened before

• Well, all the fanfic writers from the Teen Titans days are now in WB's target demo, so it makes sense....

• Hello, SPOILER ALERT, jeez. I was just about to watch that.

• Jesus Shit, enough with the "emo". So, she's gonna be rocking out to Promise Ring or Sunny Day Real Estate all the time? I mean, I know that word has lost all meaning now but still.

• Actually thus far there's no proof that the word "emo" is used in the official announcement for the show. That word just happened to be on the comic that Rob chose to use as the picture to post with this news, and then he used it in his imaginary scenario of a TV exec picturing the show's appeal.

• I think we need an orange amazon in a revealing purple monokini

• lul I was totally just thinking last night that I wonder who would win in a footrace between The Flash and Quicksilver.

• Well played sir... well played.

• They will probably cast Selena Gomez or some shit like that.

• You know, Magneto's son.

• Just make sure you'll be like me and watch the new Green Lantern movie a bunch of times. The Flash is on the same level of fandom that I already had for Batman and the notion of them having a Flash movie in waits (to see what the returns of Green Lantern movie will be like) makes me very, very excited for the Scarlet Speedster's future. Have faith, Flash will get to run. Oh yes he will.

• Shit, a show about Stephanie Brown as spoiler makes for a better TV show...

• What happened to that show about The Graysons that was supposed to replace Smallville? Anyway. This is dumb. WB should forget about DC and work on overexposing one of their other licenses. I think Harry Potter. A tv series about a recently graduated, teenage James Potter fighting against Voldemort with Sirius, Lupin and Lily? Think about it. It would be awesome. Or at least profitable.

• They're doing a Flash movie.

• Oh I remember it, but It was only for a year and I would be ok with more Flash on the TV

• Ratty, you beat me to it. In this day an age you just know they'll go full Emo with this, and it will likely suck ass. Poor Raven...

• Speaking as a fan of the character, I really don't know how this will work. I don't know how they'll be able to please her fans and bring in new fans while staying true to the character. Maybe they'll surprise me. Probably not.

• Id like to see a show based on Stephanie Brown, Spoiler-- I mean it has all the teen angst they like, teen pregnancy, jailed father- but her boy friend is Robin, trains with Batman to be a Robin, is the cause of a mob war that destroys a city, gets killed, becomes Batgirl Whats not to like...

• This is shameless self-promotion, but I've started an animated series called The Masked Raven... think I'll get in trouble for copyright? It's a Batman parody, of sorts... Anyway, please check it out. The Masked Raven Episode 1: The Masked Raven Returns www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI0psZ9vJEQ

• I like Raven, at least the Wolfman/Perez Raven, haven't kept up with her more recent appearances. She was possibly the most interesting and original of the New Teen Titans though, a different kind of magic user than we'd seen at DC. And it would be great if she was getting more attention in a decent and respectful production. But the prominent use of the word "EMO" in the announcement gives us a good indication of the kind of schlock we're going to have flown in our faces. So basically what I'm saying is to all the people who are upset that it won't be one of their favorite heroes being butchered in some awful CW series well, -don't.

• They've tried it already. About 20 years ago. I thought it was good, though there were some boring episodes. Mark Hamil as the Trickers was a hoot, though.

• Yeah, I thought they were considering Blue Beetle also. Hopefully there's still a chance for BB to happen, but I'm starting to think that the best we'll get is his appearance on Smallville and maybe a guest spot/recurring role on this.

• I'd like to see a show about Tim Drake growing to take the Robin role. A show about a kid detective who is actively trying to prove the existence of Batman and then, attempting to figure out his true identity as the overall arc of the season (or series) and then little episodic mysteries that he gets himself into. Plus there are a lot of non fantastic villains in Gotham that they could use as without overblowing the budget, like Scarface, Maxie Zeus, the General, Lock-Up, King Snake and Lynx, Killer Moth and the like. Kinda like Veronica Mars only with a super-hero bend.

• I can see the First Season Finale now...Trigon trying to destroy everyone during Homecoming/Prom

• Yeah but "witch" girl means easy to make a cross over

• Isn't the Vampire Diaries capturing the Twilight demographic for the CW?

• I am 100% behind a flash TV show. Barry Allen make it a little bit CSI mixed in with some super heroics and we are good to go. Hell the crime scene parts don't even have to go with the superhero parts of the story, lets just show that not only is he a superhero but one hell on a Forensic scientist

• Dead?

• And here I was looking forward to a possible Blue Beetle series. I wonder if the premise of having a Hispanic male lead in what would be their flagship Friday night show didn't win the CW over. I thought it had promise. Especailly if they could reference the Dan Garret and Ted Kord versions somehow. Oh well.

• In my opinion, I would've gone with a series about Starfire. Granted, it's still like Smallville with the alien teen thing going on. But it might be a bit hilarious if Starfire was like what she was in the animated series.

• Wanna go talk about it?

• you know, it could work. The writer should watch every single episode of Buffy and Angel and use it as template. Better yet: just skip that step and hire Joss Whedon for the job. Someone has to break his self destructive beaten-wife-esque relationship with Fox, anyway. Raven should be like what Cordelia became at the end of Angel

• no she is still in high school, after being resurrected.

• Oh wow that was a combo Teenagers dumb/and bigots *clap* I would like to point out they are just going Witches we can sell witch shows because they can and have to tons of people for like 50 years or so.

• Of course she'll be in high school. Teenagers can hardly empathize enough with one another to stop bullying gay kids to death, how are they supposed to identify with non-teen characters?

• Is that a real cover?

• Touche, sir.

• The Flash?

• Really, Raven? Who's leg do i have to hump to get The Flash some love?

• All shows on the CW are pointless. :)

• She was in the Teen Titans relaunch a few years back after Brother Blood resurrected her, but I don't know if it got changed in Titans or not.

• This show will be pointless.

• ^This

• wasn't smallville twilight enough?

• Isn't Raven in high school as it is at this point anyways? ALl I can hope is she starts dating the class clown Garfield Logan who has a strage connections to animals and always looks a little green

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