Nov. '86 - The New Teen Titans # 25

Writer: Marv Wolfman
Penciller: Eduardo Barreto

Mento had assembled The Hybrid, his version of the Doom Patrol. He had taken three people and changed them into hideous creatures based on mythology. Mento had really gone off the deep end since Crisis. He had been used by John Constantine in the battle in Swamp Thing that had been a magic version of the Crisis. The fight left him insane. He was using The Hybrid to battle the Titans and kill his step-son, Changeling.

The Titans had just recently got back together after breaking up some issues before. It was a tough time to like the comic. The characters were not friendly to each other and they were all doing their own thing. It was beyond personality conflicts which can make for interesting reading (like Alpha Flight did - a team that wasn't totally a team). This group just wasn't talking! Not they were back together and had much to resolve. Mento was chasing them and Nightwing was missing.

The comic had lost its way for a while. I don't know if it was because George Perez had left or because Marv Wolfman was busy writing Crisis on Infinite Earths. With this storyline it seemed to be getting back on track.