I Am Donna Troy
Adam Beechen Story
Darryl Banks Pencils
Sean Parsons Inks
Sno Cone Colors
Nick J Napolitano Letterer
Cover art by Tony S. Daniel and Marlo Alquiza, color by Chris Blythe. Now that Donna Troy is back (mostly) it's time for another Secret Files & Origins issue to update everybody on the new status quo. This is the second Secret Files issue for the Teen Titans and Outsiders, but instead of calling it issue #2, DC chose to just use the year 2005 to distinguish it. The cover features Donna, front and center, with everybody else standing around somberly behind her. I'm not sure why everyone is so serious. These Secret Files covers also usually included a few text blurbs teasing the various contents inside, but this time, DC merely listed almost every single person who worked on this issue. And in this case, it is true that the creators themselves are more interesting than the actual content here.
Our opening story picks up where we left Donna Troy — the sole inhabitant of the tiny world New Cronus and possessor of the Harbinger Orb, which can basically show her anything and everything. The orb has given Donna a startling vision of the upcoming crisis, so she is slowly steering New Cronus back to Earth to warn the others. This is a very slow and long trip, even thought the Teen Titans, Outsiders and Wonder Woman were all able to travel there very quickly. Anyway, as distressed as Donna is, she chooses to spend her time reviewing the key moments from her oh-so-confusing life. (I'd imagine she needs to do this on a regular basis to keep everything straight.)
After briefly looking at her time spent with the original Teen Titans, Donna spends some time on her death at the hands of a Superman robot, and the subsequent formation of the new Outsiders and Teen Titans.
Donna feels guilty about dragging her friends back into another crisis, but she presses forward anyway. Slowly, but surely. (Seriously, though! Is there no faster way for Donna to warn everyone about Infinite Crisis!)
The main story is a sprawling adventure that apparently happened two months ago involving half the Teen Titans and half the Outsiders. But Kid Flash was not included, nor did he receive a profile page in this issue. But he did make a very brief appearance in one of the other side stories.
Secrets
Nunzio Defilippis & Christina Weir – Writers
Todd Nauck – Penciller
Ray Snyder – Inker
SnoCone – Colorist
Nick J. Napolitano – Letterer
This story takes place in San Francisco two weeks ago. Cassie has invited her old friend Cissie over to discuss the recent revelation that her father is Zeus. Cassie says she told Conner about this, and to her dismay, Conner believes Cassie's mom and Wonder Woman made the right call in concealing the truth from her. Now Cassie worries that if she tells the rest of the Titans, they'll treat her differently. Cissie sagely points out that Cassie is crazy to think this, saying that this new doesn't change anything.
As they argue in a park across the bay from Titans Tower, the girls stumble upon the super villains Multiplex and Hyena, plotting an ill-conceived attack on the tower to prove to the Society that they're more than C-listers. Cissie offers to help Cassie take down the ambitious villains, but Wonder Girl reminds her that Arrowette is retired, so she vows to handle this alone.
Wonder Girl quickly knocks out Hyena with a single punch, but Multiplex, and his ability to create duplicates of himself, is a different story. Cissie rushes in to help, but Wonder Girl flies her away. Cassie then manages to wrap her lasso around all the Multiplex clones and electrocutes them until only the original is left unconscious.
As the police head over to pick up the villains, Cassie asks Cissie if she wants to come with her to tell the Titans about her dad, but Cissie declines. She says the Titans are Cassie's family. Cissie says she's already provided all the emotional support Cassie needed, and she offers to get something to eat with her after her big talk. So Cassie flies over to the tower and tells them all they need to talk. But Robin says Conner has something he needs to tell them first. And coming down the stairs behind all our heroes is the bald, brainwashed Superboy.
Todd Nauck is back! Well, sort of. But I'll gladly take what I can get from him. Unfortunately, this story does not fit in at all with what happened in Teen Titans. Geoff Johns clearly didn't know Zeus was Wonder Girl's father. Otherwise things would have played out very differently. And as great as it was to see Cissie again, I don't like how she kept trying to break her solemn vow of no longer being a superhero, or how she refused to see the other Titans. Cissie doesn't want to say hi to Bart, Tim and Conner?
Between Nauck and Daniel, this Secret Files issue had better art than usual. Unfortunately, the stories were more forgettable than usual. Of course, I'm mainly saying that because Bart Allen only stood around silently in the background of two panels. But I really didn't like Donna's complete lack of urgency with the impending crisis, and the revisionist history with Cassie and Cissie. Well, guess I should stop whining and check out some advertisements, since I do happen to have the physical copy of this comic.
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