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News: Wolfman on Donna Troy
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WOLFMAN: JUST WHO IS DONNA TROY?
posted 06-14-2005 10:11 AM
BY JENNIFER M. CONTINO
She's not the Phoenix, but Donna Troy is rising from her ashes in a story tied to the upcoming DC mega event, Infinite Crisis. Troy, the former Wonder Girl, met with an untimely demise in the Graduation Day limited series. Her end signaled the beginning of two new super teams: the Outsiders and a new group of Teen Titans. Shortly after the denouement of Graduation Day, rumors began to circulate that the death of Donna Troy was not the end and that - even then - plans were in place to reintroduce her to the DCU. Now, two years later, as the first part of The Return of Donna Troy is upon us, DC Comics has also released a "best of" 224 page collection, New Teen Titans: Who is Donna Troy.
NEW TEEN TITANS: WHO IS DONNA TROY? (Jun 2005)
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One of the best New Teen Titans stories in fan opinion was the origin of Donna Troy. Wolfman said it was Perez who thought they should go "further" and "find out who her parents were that I had 'die' in the fire," Wolfman said. "George came up with the idea of presenting it as a mystery. The hardest part of the story was making it work as both a piece of detection and an emotional story."
Judging by fan reaction and DC's decision to include it in the collection, Wolfman and Perez succeeded. Wolfman considers it one of his all time favorite stories in the Titans mythos. Another thing Wolfman enjoyed doing for the character was giving her a soulmate in the form of divorced college professor Terry Long. "I thought someone with WG's background could never be happy with a boy her own age. He had to be a man. Older. Who had gone through life - in his case a marriage and kids - and, to make them more compatible, he was a History professor so he could understand and he awed by what she had seen and done in her short lifetime. After all, she had walked with the Gods that he studied and thought of as myth. He simply had to be older. Boys her age would be like dating the emotional equivalent of a two year old - which is what most 18 year old boys are anyway."
