Teen Titans #27 - Come On...

...You Know You Want To Vomit!

It's taken me a while to finally be able to get through this. It's hard to follow a story which relies on visual clues for things like which direction to read and who is speaking. But with this issue, the art affects your gag reflexes...so it's really hard.
And even if you aren't totally repulsed by Rob Liefeld's art, you absolutely cannot deny he's has no clue when it comes to sequential storytelling. Here are 3 examples (and I wasn't even looking for them, they just lept out. After looking, I found many, many more.):
On page 6, how exactly does Robin's batarang get through the chick's gun and into her hand? If it had knocked the gun out of her hand, wouldn't it have bounced off in some other direction? How did it maintain it's forward momentum?
On page 10, panel 4, a close-up of Robin shows Cyborg putting his hand on Robin's shoulder (it's even mentioned in the writing). It's quite obvious that Cy is standing to Robin's right. But in the next panel...Cy is on Robin's left...and he's not touching him!
On page 12, panel 2, we see Robin picking up a bowling ball. In panel 3, we see him holding the ball as if he's getting ready to throw it. In panel 4, he's sitting down...no ball in site. WTF!?
And I'm not picking on Rob's idea of what passes for human anatomy. I'm not saying a word about his obvious unawareness of what perspective is. I won't even start on how all his faces look exactly the same.
But can't he at least try doing some continuity from panel to panel!?

Okay, but as for the story...well, it was written by the incredible Gail Simone, so it probably is very good. But I'll never know for sure. It was hard to follow. I don't buy comics drawn by Rob Liefeld for a reason, they are unreadable. I really wanted to like this. And tried hard to give Rob a chance. But it's just bad. The art work is so distracting and all over the place, I kept being drawn away from the writing.
I know generally what's going on in the story...and it seems well written, but the art just took so much away from it. And I have absolutely no idea what happened at the end. On minute Kestrel is holding Raven, the next she seems to have disappeared, altho the written word indicates that he somehow has control over her...I don't know.

It was basically unreadable. Maybe Gail was on her game or maybe she was off, luckily no one's ever gonna know, she had the "get out of jail free" card -- art by Rob Liefeld.