Rating:  -
Now I know Donna Troy is a very important person to the Titan's and to the rest of the DCU, and I might be harsh by saying this, but her death was about 10 times more entertaining then her return. The first half has action and great art, good story telling. The second half is nothing more then a history of Donna and an odd telling of a story loosely based on Greek mythology.
An interesting thought was presented to me about this book, my friend complains that no one in comics stays dead. To a degree he is right and it can be a problem (I'm not a supporter of the return of Hal Jordan), but some characters people just miss. He is relatively new to comics and I've started him on Young Justice and worked him through all the new Titan's books out. I'm curious as to whether or not he'll change his mind on the subject, considering he's become really attached to Superboy. He's going to have an interesting book to read when September rolls around and it could be interesting to see if he still holds true to his thoughts. I on the topic of Donna Troy, probably couldn't care less, and I'm a fan of the old Titans like Arsenal and Nightwing, and a big fan of the new Titans, and a huge fan of Kyle Rayner who she dated. So it makes me wonder why anyone from the outside would care at all.
Rating:  -
I liked Wonder Girl/Donna Troy in the silver age. She had as much personality as Aqualad or Speedy. Not saying a lot there, but she was a solid teen sidekick and member of the Teen Titans.
I liked her a lot more in The New Teen Titans. Marv Wolfman and George Perez did much to turn her into a human character with concerns that readers could get behind.
Then, somewhere along the way, she became DC's soap opera character.
She went through some image and name changes, returned to her roots, then died.
And now...
comes back...
...for some reason.
I just don't see it as all that big a deal.
The first half of this TPB is so hard to follow, so easy to fall into a stupor over, that I felt cheated.
The second half got better, since more heroes from the DCU entered the scene, and the last quarter or so, (as reflected on the TPB's cover) heavily involved members of the DCU and the Teen Titans.
That's the payoff of this book.
And it tells me that this story could have been told in a better fashion if it was done in a shorter fashion.
One issue of about 40 pages could have been enough.
Instead we get a lot of wasted pages, a lot of confusing and boring build up for the return of a B list hero.
Look, I give one solid star for the art alone. I'd give MORE stars for the art if more pages of this book actually mattered.
As it stands, I can only really get behind the last 30 or so pages of the TPB fully, less so for the 10 to 20 pages that lead up to them. And I can, in no way, support the first half of this TPB. You pretty much have to read them to get to the end.
But Jimenez should have written a more compact, concise story, not some drawn-out personal vision.
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