Friday, May 13, 2005
Donna Troy
So who is Donna Troy and why am I so fussed about her?
(At a future date there will be a picture of her for reference, but until then you'll have to google her)
Donna Troy was the original Wonder Girl in the Teen Titans (although not necessarily the original Wonder Girl as technically that was the young Wonder Woman, but we don't need to go into that). She was the reason why I started reading all-out spandex wearing superhero comics.
Previously, all I read were things in the DC "Mature Reader" range which later became Vertigo, mainly Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, and once it started, Sandman, as well as the big "rebirth of comics projects" like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns. I had no interest in preposterous people in gaudy costumes defying the laws of gravity. Then, one month in the "also available this week" column that DC used to print on the inside front cover, the blurb for New Titans said "Wonder Girl gets a new name and look", and I was curious. In my then naivety I thought this sort of thing never happened (more fool me) so I went to buy it to see what happened, immediately loved the new name Troia, the new look based heavily on Greco-Roman armour, and the fact that she had decided to become a heroine with short hair (very much the exception than the rule). I also loved the story which was the tail-end of some large tale connected to Greek gods. I immediatley went out and bought the rest of the story and was hooked on the Titans and Troia especially.
That story rewrote her origin as an orphaned child rescued from a burning building by a god and brought up to join the gods at adulthood, but returned as a teenager with powers but no memories of her destiny. Since then she's been married, had a child, gave up her powers, divorced and lost custody of the child, briefly joined an interstellar Police force, discovered that she was actually a magically created copy of the young Wonder Woman kidnapped by a demon and forced to live one tragic life after another, rejoined the Titans with full memories in tact, seemingly killed by a renegade Superman robot but actually wakes up in a far away place and joins a battle which will lead us into her return when she's found back with the Gods and fighting alongside them as they conquer worlds. Confused, don't blame you.
Anyway, to paraphrase ben Folds Five, we thought she was gone but now she's come back again. Let's hope they make better use of her this time.
(At a future date there will be a picture of her for reference, but until then you'll have to google her)
Donna Troy was the original Wonder Girl in the Teen Titans (although not necessarily the original Wonder Girl as technically that was the young Wonder Woman, but we don't need to go into that). She was the reason why I started reading all-out spandex wearing superhero comics.
Previously, all I read were things in the DC "Mature Reader" range which later became Vertigo, mainly Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, and once it started, Sandman, as well as the big "rebirth of comics projects" like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns. I had no interest in preposterous people in gaudy costumes defying the laws of gravity. Then, one month in the "also available this week" column that DC used to print on the inside front cover, the blurb for New Titans said "Wonder Girl gets a new name and look", and I was curious. In my then naivety I thought this sort of thing never happened (more fool me) so I went to buy it to see what happened, immediately loved the new name Troia, the new look based heavily on Greco-Roman armour, and the fact that she had decided to become a heroine with short hair (very much the exception than the rule). I also loved the story which was the tail-end of some large tale connected to Greek gods. I immediatley went out and bought the rest of the story and was hooked on the Titans and Troia especially.
That story rewrote her origin as an orphaned child rescued from a burning building by a god and brought up to join the gods at adulthood, but returned as a teenager with powers but no memories of her destiny. Since then she's been married, had a child, gave up her powers, divorced and lost custody of the child, briefly joined an interstellar Police force, discovered that she was actually a magically created copy of the young Wonder Woman kidnapped by a demon and forced to live one tragic life after another, rejoined the Titans with full memories in tact, seemingly killed by a renegade Superman robot but actually wakes up in a far away place and joins a battle which will lead us into her return when she's found back with the Gods and fighting alongside them as they conquer worlds. Confused, don't blame you.
Anyway, to paraphrase ben Folds Five, we thought she was gone but now she's come back again. Let's hope they make better use of her this time.
# posted by hitch @ 11:34 PM 
