A serious competition for Terry Long?!

[sun_soraya.insanejournal.com]

As requested I continue posting random 80's Teen Titans stuff.

So... not happy with Terry Long being Donna's lover? Too old? Too annoying? Too creepy? And on top of that a silly haircut? Well, in New Teen Titans #11-12 (1981) he's getting a rival:



See for yourself if the new guy in town can keep up with Terry!

The context: in an intense battle with Deathstroke Gar got shot and is now on the brink of death. To save their friend the Titans fly off to Paradise Island where Gar hopefully can be healed by the Amazon's Purple Ray. While the girls take Gar down to the island the boys leave for a different mission in Africa. And somewhere else...





Meet Hyperion from the Titans of Myth! And before the obvious encounter with Donna, let's take a quick look and compare him with Terry:

Hair: ... well, give Terry a shave and put some flowers in his hair and they could be brothers.
Age: with more than 30.000 years Hyperion wins here - to be fair, Terry might look old but he's actually only 29.
Factor of annoyance: most of us were a bit angry at Terry because he ruined Dick's speech at the campfire scene, but at least you can get a word out in his presence... not so sure here.
Factor of creepiness: ... I always found the Titans of Myth pretty creepy, too.





Hera help me, too, for I cannot bear his enormous ego...





You heard Kory, Dick is the only real man on earth!



And off they fly... to Tartarus once again. After battling a few cyclopses they manage to free the other Titans of Myth:



Together they decide that it's about time to throw Zeus and the other younger gods from the throne. Also: Kory, Raven and the Amazons are on their way to rescue Donna (bringing even Athena herself along), but Donna being Hyperion's new first lady doesn't really care.
Instead in the next issue they head off to Mount Olympus...






Epic battles are fought there and in the end the Titans of Myth win, turning the younger gods into stone.



Momma's here and she doesn't approve of Donna's new boyfriend.
They try to talk things out. Athena being the awesome mod explains that the new peaceful world the Titans of Myth were talking about unfortunately comes without freedom and free will.



And war they get! Kory frees Zeus and before the situation gets even worse, Athena can finally talk sense into everyone. Everyone? Not quite! Hyperion still has something to bitch about.





I know this single page was already included in the Donna&Terry love story post, but it's the epilogue, I can't leave it out...



I'm so bold to say that with Kyle Donna's taste in men changed for the better.

Comments

Re: Nyah ha ha

[ladymirth.insanejournal.com]

I love your icon. I love Jubilee and I MISS THAT CARTOON SO DAMN MUCH!

Re: Nyah ha ha

[timemonkey.insanejournal.com]

Thanks, I miss it too. Fortunately I've got most of it on tape and they're releasing DVDS.

[01d55.insanejournal.com]

(Marston may have presented it like there was nothing supernatural about it, but if you can lose it just because a man puts his foot on a lump of sand, it's magical).

Or legal!

Golden Age Athena held a patent on Amazonian training, and licensed it to Aphrodite under stringent terms. No men on Paradise Island is part of the terms. If they let a man step foot on the island, their license is revoked!

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Is Ted Grant really a positive? I mean . . . really. Sure, he's better than Rapistules, but I was always really disappointed with Hippolyta and Ted's thing. It felt, I don't know, unseemly somehow.

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Isn't he the God of Inspiration?

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

. . . so she'd date Ronald McDonald?

uuuuuuuuu--BLAURHG

::HEADSPLODE::

Dear GOD Donna

[lang_ea.insanejournal.com]

"You promised all peace, how can you begin by causing death?"

Donna, you're asking a dude that EATS BABIES. And has sex with his sister. Did I mention he also eats babies?

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

Terry + Hyperion = OTP?

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

Didn't Rhea side with the Olympians against the Titans?

Phillippus and Hippolyta?

[cardinalx.insanejournal.com]

It´s been ages since I read the Jiménez run, but when and where was it implied that Phillippus is in love with Hippolyta? I´m a Hippolyta/Phillippus (Phippolyta?) shipper, so I´d like to know.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Our Worlds at War. Phillipus is explaining Diana's history to a couple of the Bana, including talking about Diana's death and Polly's stint as Wonder Woman, and one of them gets up in her face about Polly being a fucktard during WML's run, and Phil gets all defensive, and the other Bana is like "... you love her!"

Phil gets all flustered and openmouthed and then the news arrives that Polly is dead.

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Wait, I thought that the whole "Hippolyta being attacked by Hercules" thing was referenced in the Wonder Woman storyline based on a potential movie about Diana that she was over seeing?

Where they showed it as conscentual which ticked Diana off because it wasn't.

Also, Cassie DOES have a rejected suitor: back in her mini series Hercules made a pass at her (her being his half-sister is referenced*) because he wanted to make a new pantheon due to the Female Furies imprisoning the old ones.

*If I remember correctly he said that Zeus and Hera are brother and sister, so it should be ok or something.

[tacobob.insanejournal.com]

Let's see:

1. Is he really old? CHECK!
2. POOFY Hair CHECK!
3. CREEPY? CHECK!

Yep, she'd date him, and have creepy children with him.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Herc, per Perez, raped Polly. Polly, per Perez, forgave Herc and made sexytimes with him on a Themysciran beach three thousand years later. Polly, per Gail as of a year ago, may or may not have forgiven Herc, but apparently at the very least never made consensual sexytimes with him. Diana's complaint about the movie is the first we've ever heard of Polly not having a romance with Herc.

Fair point about Herc hitting on Cassie, though I didn't really get the impression he was actually serious about that the way his romance with Polly was serious or Mike Schorr's crush on Diana was serious. He kind of just bugs her about it a couple times then moves on with a shrug and a "whatever."

[earthelemental.insanejournal.com]

Face it. If Donna Troy could let the likes of, say, John Constantine see her secret birthmark (re: Swamp Thing #66), then she'll sleep with anyone!

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

"Batman (just no)"

Maybe it's because I've recently watched JLU again (they do do a lot of things better then the comics), but I never really saw what was so bad about them as a couple.

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

Well, I must say I'm even more impressed about Hermes--you'd think one couldn't run with a cock that big because you'd keep tripping over it.

[darkknightjrk.insanejournal.com]

Seriously? Whew--forget about Kyle then. If anyone has a penis of death, it's John Constantine.

Philly and Polly sitting in a tree...

[cardinalx.insanejournal.com]

I certainly remember Pollys death (one of the few times a deathscene gripped me), but not the Phillippus scene you describe.

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Re: No, I mean ZEUS pretending to be an animal.

[janegray.insanejournal.com]

"Might"? He invented the golden shower!

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Its like a compass needle pointing true north. You just keep following it.

Actually..maybe more like Perez and Micheline?

[steverodgers5.insanejournal.com]

It reminded me more of the whole Ms Marvel mind control/love inducement with that Marcus guy.

You know the one from Avengers 200 which, (Irony upon Ironies,) Claremont later on exposed the horror of it in his Avengers Annual 10..

A lot of Claremont's mind control seems to be from characters who are more straight forwardly evil in that regard..

Whist this Hyperion doesn't seem to be entirly potrayed as the nasty piece of work that he so obviously is..(Much like the initial marcus potrayal in Avengers..)

(PS I adore David Micheline's work on Iron man, and much of his run on Spidey, but I don't know what the heck he was thinking when he wrote that avengers arc...)

Re: No, I mean ZEUS pretending to be an animal.

[timemonkey.insanejournal.com]

A brilliant man.

[jlbarnett.insanejournal.com]

no, these were the original Titans, minus their father Cronus. The group was another group fathered by Cronus while he was imprisoned I believe.

Re: Dear GOD Donna

[galateus.insanejournal.com]

Hey, that baby-eating was self-defense! LEAVE CRONUS ALONE.