Terra Miniseries

[TCJohnson]

Just FYI, Amanda Connor announced at her panel that one of her upcoming projects is a Terra miniseries written by Justing Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti. Unfortunately all the news sites were covering the Vertigo panel going on at the same time so nobody covered it.

[kcaJ drawkcaB]

This is both great news and terrible news. Great because I will absolutely KILL to read a Terra book, but terrible because I've been working on a pitch for one that will now, probably, never see print.
Oh, well, any book with Terra in it gets my money.

[Nick Kal]

Oh cool!

Question.. I never read the Judas Contract (I'm excited for the Animated DTV!)... isn't Terra supposed to be dead? How is she back?

(... or is it not known and will likely be explained... eitehr in Titans or the Mini, I'm guessing.)

Thanks.

[TCJohnson]

It was kinda explained but never completely or in a way that made any sense. It was a subplot that was never fully explored.

I guess they will be exploring it in the miniseries.

Tara Markov, half-sister of Geo-Force, was the illegitimate daughter of the King of Markovia. While in Markovia she came under the care of a Dr. Helga Jace, through her experiments Terra obtained terrakinetic powers: specifically, the ability to control all forms of earthen matter. After obtaining these powers she left Markovia for the United States.


Terra is confronted by the Titans. Art by George Perez.Terra became a mercenary, doing dirty work for others such as Deathstroke the Terminator (who she shared a romance with, despite being barely sixteen years old while he was a grown man). She joined the Teen Titans, fooling them by staging a battle versus Deathstroke. She then operated as a spy for Deathstroke, eventually giving him the information he needed to kidnap the Titans.

Eventually, the captured Titans were held in a stronghold of Deathstroke's contractors, The H.I.V.E.. Nightwing and Deathstroke's son raided the complex to rescue them, but were captured. When presented to Deathstroke and the organization in general, Jericho possessed his father and freed the Titans who then attacked H.I.V.E.. Not knowing of Jericho's powers, Terra believed Deathstroke to have turned against her. In retaliation, she went berserk and fatally pulled the whole H.I.V.E. complex down upon herself. Despite her betrayal, a statue of her was placed in the Memorial in Titans Tower.

Revival
In 1991, Terra reappeared as part of Team Titans from a possible 2001. She developed an attraction to Beast Boy, but he rejected her.

Though this new Terra initially believed she was a different girl who had been surgically altered to resemble the original Terra, she was told by the Time Trapper that she was not from the future at all, although she destroyed Time Trapper's messenger orb out of panic before he could elaborate further. Subsequently, she discovered Tara Markov's coffin to be empty.


Further genetic evidence suggested she was the original Terra, but due to her horror at what she did, Geo-Force decided to spare her this knowledge, thinking she would rather have no past at all. Terra has appeared occasionally afterwards, usually in scenes involving Teen Titans reserve members.

In the "Titans Tomorrow" storyline, wherein the Titans glimpsed a grim possible future, Terra (in a costume modeled closely after her original) is a member of the Titans East, a more benign rival group that opposes fascist future versions of the current Teen Titans. (This future's version of Beast Boy still bears a grudge against Terra and wants nothing to do with her.)

Terra showed up in Infinite Crisis #4 and Teen Titans #32 to help Conner Kent defeat the Earth-Prime Superboy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_%28comics%29

[The Rusty Lantern]

During the "new" Terra's stint with the Titans (the group under Arsenal's leadership), Terra had a close friendship with Mirage and flirted back and forth with Damage quite a bit.

[Big Red Spider]

Is this going to happen?

[AdamYJ]

This was announced ages ago and has been in the works forever. It's actually a brand-new Terra. One with black hair. She appeared in an issue of Supergirl a while back.

Edit: Whoops. Looks like I might be responding to old news.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

Is this going to happen?

It was just solicited.

[TROUBLEZ]

I hope for two things.

One, that this series comes out soon and comes out monthly. No more BS delays between issues.

Two, that this Terra has little to no relation to the other Terra's. I don't want this convoluted origin how she was grabbed by The Spectre from an alternate Earth to replace the dead Terra from New Earth to keep from reality tearing itself apart because the original wasn't supposed to die and she's really the illegitimate child of the original Hourman...

[Superboy-Prime]

that'll be pretty damn cool.

[Superboy-Prime]

that'll be pretty damn cool.

[Santanico]

Question: if this Terra has absolutely nothing to do with Tara Markov, then why on earth should anyone care? She's just some random new superhero who happens to have a recognizable name.