News: Teen Titans Season Finale Based on 'Terror of Trigon' June 05, 2005 08:58 pm

 From WIZARD #164 (Jun 2005)

05 SUMMER PREVIEW: TEEN TITANS
written by BM
printed in WIZARD #165 (Jul 2005)
www.wizarduniverse.com

THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON TP (4 June 2003) TEEN TITANS ANIMATED SERIES: SEASON THREE (2005)

The animated team supreme face Trigon and Slade in a final showdown for Raven's soul

Can one teenager escape her own dark destiny? It's a question Raven and the Teen Titans will seek to answer in the conclusion to the fourth season of the hit animated series in June.

Loosely adapted from "The Terror of Trigon" (New Teen Titans [vol. 2] #1-5), the three-part Season Finale sees the going up against Raven's demonic father, Trigon.

"This is a different kind of threat," producer Glen Murakami explains. "The Titans aren't trying to stop a bomb from going off, they're trying to save their friend."

Raven's mysterious background will be explored, as will her bond with Robin. And the Titans once again face off with Slade, resurrected as Trigon's emissary.

"The one question I heard all of Season 3 was, 'Where is Slade?'" says Murakami. "For the first time he's dealing with somebody more powerful than himself."

Trigon made a brief appearance during the show's first season and now he has a new look, a new attitude, and a new voice courtesy of Kevin Michael Richardson (The Joker on "The Batman").

Some copies of THE NEW TEEN TITANS: TERROR OF TRIGON TPB have printing errors. I was told that only the first twenty pages were printed correctly, before being reversed on the back cover.

Here is an example of the misprinted pages:

Diamond and DC Comics have been notified the error, and the book have gone back to the printers.

Special thanks to Outpost 2000.

Shipping Next Week: June 4

The following products are expected to ship to comic book specialty stores next week. Note that this list is tentative and subject to change. Please check with your retailer for availability.

MAR030229 NEW TEEN TITANS THE TERROR OF TRIGON TP $17.95

(Vu: NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON TP has been delayed one week. WIZARD BIG COVERS BOOK #1 is going to ship on Thursday, May 29th because of Memorial Day.)

DC CORRECTIONS
Tuesday March 18, 2003
Pipeline, Issue #301
written by Augie De Blieck Jr.

Mercy! I surrender. I got the wrong TEEN TITANS books in Friday's column. And you let me have it. I didn't know there was that large a fanbase for the classic TEEN TITANS books. The upcoming trade paperback does NOT reprint material already available in the ARCHIVE edition. The trade is from the second volume of the book. I got confused because it's the same creative team and features the same villain. So, please, pre-order it if you were looking for something new.

Looking at the signatures on the cover to NEW TEEN TITANS: TERROR OF TRIGON, it looks like Phil Jimenez signed the artwork as "PEREZ & JIMENEZ". This might confuse some reader into thinking that George Pérez did the artwork for the cover, but that is not entirely true. George (with Dick Giordano) did the original cover to NEW TEEN TITANS #1, and this new cover is merely an homage or tribute to the original cover design. See homages: NEW TEEN TITANS #1 for additional homage covers.

PIPELINE PREVIEWS FOR MAY 2003
Friday March 14, 2003
written by Augie De Blieck Jr.

Pipeline Previews #2

Welcome to the second "Pipeline Previews," the alliterative title for a new monthly Pipeline column. In place of the Pipeline2 column, this column is designed to do the same thing Pipeline2 did every month for the past year and a half. This column, updated every month the week after the new PREVIEWS is released, is the place to look at the latest PREVIEWS catalog for items scheduled to ship in just a couple of months. Unlike those Pipeline2 columns, I'll be covering the entire catalog in one fell swoop here.

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THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON is a new trade paperback collecting the first five issues of Marv Wolfman and George Perez's famed run on the series. This same material can be found -- along with much more -- in the ARCHIVE EDITION of THE NEW TEEN TITANS, Volume 1. However, this one only carries a $17.95 price tag. This is all in support of the forthcoming new series that's initiated by May's THE TITANS/YOUNG JUSTICE 3-part series in anticipation of the upcoming animated series. (The tail wags the dog.) On the bright side of things, there's new Mike McKone artwork to be had on the other side of this one.

TEEN TITANS: TERROR OF TRIGON TPB

Attached is the cover for "Terror of Trigon" by Phil Jimenez. Here's the whole link: www.herorealm.com

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THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON TP
Written by Marv Wolfman; art by George Pérez & Romeo Tanghal; cover by Phil Jimenez

In stores May 28. Collecting the first five issues of THE NEW TEEN TITANS, as well as redesigned Titans profile entries from the first volume of WHO’S WHO: THE DEFINITIVE DIRECTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE! The mysterious Titans member, Raven, has been battling her inner demons for some time now, but she can no longer hold the evil that is her father Trigon in check. Now the otherworldly demon has breached his dimensional prison, conquering the Earth — and Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, Changeling, and the rest of the Titans are mankind's only hope of defeating him! For more information, see the feature article. FC, 144 pg. Trade Paperback $17.95

Topic: Questions for Bob Greenberger
posted February 03, 2003 09:06 AM
posted by Bob Greenberger

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The TRIGON collection is a trade and the next Perez Titans material you see is will be the second volume of the Archives, probably in 2004. Yes, we'll be recoloring his JLA and Wonder Woman books when we get to them. No, George won't be doing new covers, as mentioned earlier.

DC COMICS ADDS FIVE NEW TITLES TO 2003 COLLECTED EDITIONS SCHEDULE
news update 12/02/02

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DC Comics adds five new titles to its already jam-packed roster of collected editions for 2003, including the first collected edition from THE NEW TEEN TITANS Volume 2 (1984)!

The other new collections are:
JSA: FAIR PLAY BATMAN ADVENTURES: DANGEROUS DAMES & DEMONS AMERICAN CENTURY: THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY HELLBLAZER: FREEZES OVER

The hit super-hero series of the early 1980s is collected in THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON, starting with THE NEW TEEN TITANS Volume 2 #1–5. These classic tales, written by Marv Wolfman with art by George Pérez and Romeo Tanghal and a cover by Pérez, tell of Trigon’s coming to Earth, intent on becoming master of this realm — with only the New Teen Titans and Trigon’s own daughter, Raven, standing against him! THE NEW TEEN TITANS: THE TERROR OF TRIGON is a 144-page collected edition scheduled to arrive in stores in May.

Re: Thanks for the great stories, Marv!
Date: 12/5/02 08:50:42 AM

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Thanks, Mike. I'd love to see DC print all George's an my Titans, and with a second Archives edition coming out soon, as well as the Titans Baxter reprinting, they are on the way to doing just that. I'd also love for them to finally finish and print the Titans graphic novel George and I started so many years ago. He completed about 80 pages of incredible art and we can always get someone else to finish it up and then have me write it as planned.

Vu: Check out Marv's Bravenet Forum, Marv Wolfman and DC Indexes

The Terror of Trigon TPB
posted 11-27-02 16:39 by ES

Marv,
DC just announced that The New Teen Titans Volume 2(1984) issues 1-5 will be collected into a Trade Parerback. Did you write a intro for the new TPB? I always like the introductions that provide a little behind the scenes info on the project. Just wondering.

posted 12-04-02 04:31 by Marv Wolfman No, I was not asked to write an intro to the Trigon storyline. On the other hand, I did write the intro to the second Titans Archives edition. It is possible they asked George, which would make sense as it was, in many ways, his swan song on the Titans. He did do approximately 80 pages of a 120 page Titans graphic novel - that I think is still the best Titans work he ever did - but that has never seen print and to date there seems to be no interest in having me finish writing it and him - or someone else - finish drawing it. Even with another artist it would still be 80 pages of Perez/Wolfman Titans. As for the Trigon collection - I don't know too much about it. But I, too, hope it's printed as least as well as the original which was beautiful.

DC COMICS ANNOUNCES NEW TRADE PAPERBACKS

DC Comics has announced five new titles to its roster of collected editions for 2003, including the first collected edition from The New Teen Titans Volume 2 (1984).

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One of the most popular series of the early 1980s is collected in The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon, starting with The New Teen Titans Volume 2 #1-5. The classic tales, written by Marv Wolfman with art by George Pérez and Romeo Tanghal and a cover by Pérez, tell of Trigon's coming to Earth, intent on becoming master of this realm - with only the New Teen Titans and Trigon's own daughter, Raven, standing against him! The New Teen Titans: The Terror of Trigon is a 144-page collected edition scheduled to arrive in stores in May.