Long lost New Teen Titans graphic novel – “Games” by Pérez and Wolfman escapes from DC Limbo!
The Baltimore Comic Con George Pérez panel began with some exciting news for longtime New Teen Titans aficionados. New Teen Titans co-creator Marv Wolfman apparently found the long lost plot to the Titans graphic novel entitled “Games” and it is in production to be released just in time to catch the end of the 30th Anniversary of the New Teen Titans. Originally planned for a 1990 release, the book will be a flashback to that classic era and is now scheduled for October of 2010 and will run the originally planned 120 pages.
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As much as I LOVED their work back then, there are a few flaws with this… I’m not looking forward to seeing Donna Troy in that god-awful Troia get up again, and Danny Chase has always been the Titans very own Scrappy Doo (or Dawn Summers) to me. It still will end up an eagerly anticipated part of my buy pile though.
Here are some of the original pages. The first 2 pages were first seen in Sketch Magazine (#10) and are part of the EXCELLENT repository of all things Titanic… TitansTower.
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The roughs were originally published at Vu’s George Pérez Website and are part of the detailed history of the development and shelving of the project that can be found at TitansTower.
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The first five pages had already been drawn and inked by Pérez, while the next 25 were inked years ago by Al Vey. Pérez also related that DC would be resurrecting the comic book dimensions from when the book was initially drawn and plotted to print "Games." As Pérez begins to draw the final 90 pages over the next year, Mike Perkins ("Captain America") will ink his pages. Perkins is now Marvel-exclusive but had a waiver in his contract that would allow him to help Pérez finish this Titans graphic novel.
This is not the first time that Games has been slated for publication. DC has threatened to publish it before… first it was due in 1990, than in 2005 and now in 2010. Lets hope the 3rd time is the charm!
via CBR and TitansTower
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10/13/2009 at 3:57 pm
No way! I totally wrote about this on your Blackest Night Titans post yesterday! This has been a long time coming. It looks like it’s going to be great.
10/13/2009 at 4:04 pm
After you mentioned it I had planned to share these images. Then I saw the official news!
10/13/2009 at 6:37 pm
Ugg i despise Donna’s short hair cut and outfit…worst era for Donna.
I also cant stand Danny – worst most annoying Titan ever.
Too bad Lilith doesnt pop in – I love when Perez drew her.
Hope the story lives up to the hype.
10/13/2009 at 8:33 pm
After being teased with it for 15 years it had better be good. I’d personally rather see an untold story from before Terra betrayed the Titans, but while she was on the team. They really didn’t stretch that out long enough. But I’d be happy to get some classic Titans either way.
10/14/2009 at 7:26 am
I enjoyed this post , nice graphics.
10/14/2009 at 8:09 am
Cool. Thanks for posting. This looks good, but hey anything George Perez does is good. I hope they publish it. Sweet! I agree I was never a fan of Danny and Donna’s outfit, but hey, the art looks fantastic!
10/14/2009 at 1:44 pm
I can’t wait for this! I remember when it was announced in 89/90.
At the time, I liked Donna’s costume at the time on some levels, but looking at it now makes my eyes sad.
10/15/2009 at 8:53 am
I have to say that I LOVED Troia in that outfit. It was the only time that DC really tried to give us a separate identity for Donna that wasn’t just mini-WW.
Tempest was allow to grow and change.
Nightwing grew and developed a new persona
Red Arrow further developed his powers to surpase Green Arrow (IMO)
But Donna has been transformed again into a slightly less powerful version of WW yet again.
Troia gave her something different and unique.
10/15/2009 at 10:54 am
I liked the IDEA of Troia… but not the costume. LOVED the other changes that grew out of this era… Nightwing, Tempest, and although Arsenal didn’t happen until later – that change is in keeping with these others. I actually MUCH prefer Roy as Arsenal to Red Arrow.