![]() As wedding plans progress, nothing seems to go right. Kory suggests that this may not be a good time to tell the team the news, but-in what will be a theme for the book-Dick forges ahead, hoping it will cheer everyone up. Dick and Kory try to tell the other Titans about their engagement, but are stymied when Aqualad brings in Changeling, who says he saw visions of his dead mother while nearly drowning during a mission. I try not to be too hard on comics that aren’t new-reader friendly, but even if I didn’t have to look up who 75% of the cast was in this issue (“So Wildebeest is actually a half-toddler/half-wildebeest known as ‘Baby Wildebeest’ who turns into an adult version of himself? And he treats Pantha as his mother? And who is Pantha, again?”), the comic’s plots tend to conflict with rather than complement each other. Their relationship was very believable as that kind of passionate first love that’s so genuine that you’re still a bit heartbroken when they grow apart and remain friends. Kayleigh: I’ve missed huge chunks of their relationship, but Kory and Dick were cute together in the early days of the beloved Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans run, especially compared to Gar’s ill-fated crush on Terra and the “why isn’t this a Lifetime movie?” nightmare that was Donna and Terry. At her worst, she’s basically a riff off the “sexy alien from a culture of free love” trope that was a staple of 1970s science fiction, but writers and animators have also emphasized that she’s primarily motivated by compassion for others. But I have found a lot to like about Kory. I think my one major exposure to this pairing was a flashback about Dick and Barbara Gordon’s romantic history that posited Koriand’r as the gorgeous sexpot against whom the nerdy Babs felt she could never compete. Rebecca: I know Dick Grayson in the Bat-Family better than I know him as a Titans member. Kayleigh: Hey Cornholio, better feed your Tamagotchi and buy a ticket to Titanic, because it’s the ’90s! Lenticular covers! Mullets! Demon babes in bikinis! Jean-Claude Van Damme! SURRRRRRRGE! ![]() Although this comic is such a headache that I can’t say fans missed out on much. There are plenty of superhero marriages that were written to be unconsummated ( just check out our April Fool’s Day special), but what fascinated me about this comic was the marriage was set to actually happen until behind-the-scenes issues killed it. However, it was Marvel and DC both putting out wedding issues this summer where the central couple fails to get married that made us want to take a look back at the deferred nuptials of Starfire and Nightwing. Rebecca: Between the warmly received animated film Teen Titans GO! To the Movies and the not-so-warmly received trailer for the Titans TV show, DC’s popular super-team has been on comic fans’ minds lately. Multiverses are weird.) Post New-52 they’ve both been seeing other people. (Although the pre-Crisis Koriand’r and Dick apparently did marry while the New Earth Dick proposed to Barbara Gordon. Today: The couple had their moments after their interrupted wedding, but eventually Dick moved on. ![]() In this mini-feature, former Bride Rebecca Henely-Weiss and Bride-to-Be Kayleigh Hearn take a trip down memory lane to the most significant times comic companies took the plunge and got their characters hitched! Did we like the couple? Did we like the dress? And more importantly: why did (or didn’t) the marriage last? Today we look at the wedding of Starfire and Nightwing. Aside from “Who would win in a fight?” no debate gets comic fans more heated than the question of whether or not superheroes should marry. ![]()
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