Nicely over a 12 months in the past, when Damian Wayne lastly broke ranks with the Teen Titans it was portrayed as a nasty factor. The massive concern was that he would flip right into a villain. Nonetheless, Teen Titans Academy #14 (by Tim Sheridan, Tom DErenick, Peter Pantazis, Rob Leigh) appeared to indicate that the younger Robin was proper to go away his teammates behind.
As of proper now, the Teen Titans aren’t in a great place. The workforce’s headquarters was destroyed, their college students maintain going off on harmful missions behind their lecturers’ backs, and one among their members was not too long ago killed. Damian might have left the Titans as a result of he may now not align with them, however perhaps he additionally noticed the place they had been headed.
Since he is left, Damian has gone on a journey of self-discovery. He has participated in a demise event that helped him reconnect to his maternal household, even convincing Talia and Ra’s Al Ghul to vary their methods. Extra importantly, Damian has begun the method of letting go of his survivor’s guilt over Alfred Pennyworth’s homicide. All in all, he is extra in contact with himself than he is ever been earlier than, lastly on a path to let go of his anger on the world and himself.
In distinction, the Teen Titans are in a nasty scenario. The thought they needed to open an academy to coach the following technology of heroes was a great one, however with it got here unexpected challenges. College students going off on their very own adventures in secret was to be anticipated, however because of the large amount of youngsters below their care, the Titans don’t have any actual approach to watch over all of them. As such, their college students maintain getting themselves into extremely harmful conditions with out the assistance of their instructors.
Th reappearance of Red X solely sophisticated issues, who proceeded to control after which kill one of many academy’s college students. Even in spite of everything that, it appears the instructors nonetheless haven’t discovered how one can safeguard their college students, permitting the Suicide Squad to sneak into their backup base and nonetheless neglecting to forestall their college students from endangering themselves. This is not even mentioning the surgical procedure that merged Cyborg and Changeling into one physique to save lots of their lives, including a distinct degree of existential discomfort to their lives.
All in all, the Titans have seen higher days, whereas Damian appears to have turned a nook along with his private growth. Granted, his grandfather is useless, however he has reconnected along with his mom and is even making an attempt to patch issues up with Batman. He is in a greater place than he is been in a very long time. In distinction, Nightwing and his workforce can not seem to get their act collectively lengthy sufficient to forestall one other disaster from occurring each different day.
Now in all equity, it was Damian who requested that Nightwing mentor the Titans in his stead. Nonetheless, it was by no means Damian’s concept to usher in an entire class of youngsters to show to develop into heroes. No matter has gone incorrect and in all chance will go incorrect, is squarely on the Titans and their present mission assertion. It’s possible that Damian didn’t simply go away as a result of he wanted to determine himself out, he might have additionally seen the writing on the wall.