12-12-12

I am a geek for numbers, so today's date does intrigue me.  To "celebrate", here are 12* comics I own....that are #12 in their series!

*I know there are WAY more than 12 covers here....I started this post last weekend.  I had planned to narrow this down before publishing it and time got away from me!  As it is, I am writing this footnote a full day late!!

Blogging From A To Z: T is for

Terra

Who?  Last post was Superman and now....Terra?

She's the first girl to break my heart.

Terra first appeared in New Teen Titans 26.

She eventually joins the Titans in issue 30.

For two years she was a Titan.  I always thought she would be the Kitty Pryde of the team....that despite the hints, foreshadowing and mini-reveals, the story would end differently.

It is tough to post much without spoiling.  And the title of the story arc pretty much tells you all.

But these four issues turned my comic world upside down.  This was pre-internet...pre-Wizard...there was no community of comic fans spoiling stories....I was lucky to find new issues in one of the two or three stores that carried comics on their spinner racks in town...

It turns out that Terra's joining the Titans and acting like a hero was all a ruse.  The whole time she was working with the Titans' enemy, Deathstroke the Terminator, in order to betray and kill them.  

The eventual reveal

And the inevitable...tragic ending...

(Too small to read, but you get the gist)

A detailed, better synopsis can be found HERE and Terra's history is HERE.