Garfield “Gar” Logan has always been the skinny class clown type. During his Senior year of high school, he has yet to complete a single item on his bucket list. What he does know is that every day,he’s the same weight and height, and that he has to take supplements from his parents. During his attempts to fit in, he ditches the supplements and soon finds he can do seemingly impossible things. There’s also that weird thing where he shape shifts into different animals and leaves his clothes behind. When a stranger named Slade Wilson comes to town, Gar has to figure out just how much his scientist parents have been keeping from him.
Kami Garcia returns from her triumph on the Teen Titan: Raven and moves right into Beast Boy. Gabriel Picolo’s art is clean, polished, and feels personal. From the short segment at the front of the book from Garvia and Picolo, it’s because this is a personal story. Beast Boy is Picolo’s favorite of the Teen Titans, making it quite easy for him to understand Gar’s style. Gar is also dealing with the uncomfortable changes of being a teenager into an adult, and that comes across very well in Garcia’s writing.
Teen Titans: Beast Boy is a quick read, and a great way to dive a little deeper into one of the cast that tends to get pushed off to the side for characters like Robin.
Look for Teen Titans: Beast Boy today from DC Publishing.
