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Teen Titans #38 - The Titans attempt to find Raven brins them to Russia, where the former Titan Red Star is now Russia's premiere superhero. They eventually get sent to Beijing where we learn Raven suspects that one of the missing year Titans is a traitor. The guest penciller, Ferreria, seemed to be trying to hard to ape Tony Daniel's style and the end result was not very good. I'll be honest, maybe a third of the missing year Titans looked interesting, the others were just lame.

52 #17 - Another more or less single storyline issue as we follow our intrepid space castaways in their attempt to get home. Animal Man, Starfire and Adam Strange are beginning to crack under the stress of their situation when they are again caught by Devilance. Things actually get worse when Lobo shows up and promptly mounts Devilance's head on his own spear. The scene with Starfire 'negotiating' with Lobo in the vacuum of space was priceless. And Lobo's new look is great; he looks like the long lost member of Pantera. Bennett's art is much improved over his earlier issues.

X-Factor #10 - A traitor...revealed. I won't spoil who is the snake in the bosom, but it's not who you expected. They may be controlled or otherwise coerced, but either way it was a great reveal. Oh yeah, and Madrox, or one of his dupes, slept with both Siryn and Monet, so that means X-Factor investigations HQ is apparently located on Melrose Place.