Every once in a while, a writer takes on a new series particularly close to a DC Comics event, and they have to write whatever’s required of them going into and coming out of the event before their own run can actually pick up. We saw this to an extent with Tom Taylor’s Nightwing and Dark Crisis, and also I think with John Ridley’s I Am Batman and Fear State.

I can only hope that’s what’s happening with John Layman’s DC All In-era Titans, and that after DC KO, Layman has a grand plan he can begin to enact. Because Titan Vol. 4: Terminated is really subpar, an astoundingly lackluster Titans tale. I’ll keep reading into the DC KO crossover (and beyond, of course, who am I kidding), but the most recent solicitations promise “something new” and that really seems like the best for all involved. (Layman off the title after DC KO, we now know.)