by Micah McCrary Jon Tyson “Only the gentle are ever really strong. ”— James Dean In my childhood home, in a room next to the stairs leading into the basement, I once found a cardboard box underneath a coffee table filled with comics all belonging to my oldest sister, Melissa. I got on both knees on the tiled floor and then flipped through them. The box contained Excalibur , X-Force , X-Men , and The Teen Titans . I remember that with one Teen Titans comic I picked up I saw