Donna Troy and Terry Long: A Love Story

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In this post I will be showing the classic romance of Donna Troy and Terry Long, by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.

We first meet Terry in The New Teen Titans #8.




Later...




Then in #9...


This scene from #12 takes place after the "Titans of Myth" storyline, where Hyperion entranced Donna and made her fall in love with him.


#13 has Donna taking her anger out on some criminals.




#20 is narrated by Wally West, who's writing a letter to his parents.






In #28...








#29...


#30...




#31...




#34...




#38 is the "Who is Donna Troy?" issue.







Dick helps Donna find out the truth about her past; her mother Dorothy Hinckley gave her up for adoption because she had terminal cancer and was dying. She was adopted by Carl and Fay Stacey. When Carl died in a job-related accident, Fay had little money left and was forced to give Donna up for re-adoption, where she was put into a child-selling operation. The bodies in the fire Donna remembered were of the people who were planning on selling her. Donna is reunited with Elmira Cassiday, the woman who ran the orphanage Dorothy went to, and Fay, who had gotten remarried.

Tales of the Teen Titans #42 takes place during the "Judas Contract" storyline.




In #45, Terry has his bachelor party.










#48...




#49...














In the double-sized #50, Donna and Terry finally get married.




























Later, Diana tells Donna and Terry that they need to come with her.

Comments

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Couldn't he just say good-night to her the way you would say good-night to a normal person?

He could, but she's not a normal person, she's a stunningly beautiful and charming woman who is his girlfriends best friend. If anything he's emphasising his politness so it CAN'T be misconstrued.

Instead of attempting the chivalrous gesture as the flipside to all the boorish talk about sex his friends bring along?

Because they don't bring it along, they keep their comments to themselves.

Reread the ONE scene we saw where they meet Kory, and the only comments they make are internal throughs, and if we went around judging people by what's going inside their heads, the world we would be severely depopulated inside a week.

They only really act in a debuached fashion at the stag do, and that's so much par for the course, it's ridiculous, Candy is professional enough to even make a joke with Dick and Barry (Who are anything but boorish in the scene) about it.

[sistermagpie.insanejournal.com]

He could, but she's not a normal person, she's a stunningly beautiful and charming woman who is his girlfriends best friend. If anything he's emphasising his politness so it CAN'T be misconstrued.

That's not helping the impression for me that he can't say good-bye to her like a normal person because she's hot. It just still reads to me like there's this constant undercurrent of the writer trying to show that Terry's particularly cool and attractive (including giving him a sleazy bachelor party so he can stand apart from it) that doesn't come across that way to me--thus the feeling of creepiness.

[tavella.insanejournal.com]

If you are an elderly European prince, kissing someone's hand can come off as old world and courtly. If you are an American schlub, kissing someone's hand comes off as a creepy way to hit on someone and make them uncomfortable by being way too intimate.