COLISEUM OF COMICS: The description of the story arc mentions “An evil like none she’s known before.” How much worse can evil get than Trigon?
MARV WOLFMAN: Raven knew Trigon; she is his daughter. She doesn’t know what this menace is.She has no idea what is happening. But she knows it is taking over all of San Francisco and she is helpless to even approach it.
COLISEUM: With Raven’s offshoot into high school, will we see her tie into the rest of the DCU either during or after the series?
MARV: There are mentions of the rest of the DCU, including the Titans, so this series is firmly set in it. But they don’t make any appearances.
COLISEUM: There are many new fans of Raven due to the cartoons Teen Titans & Teen Titans Go! Will this story translate well to this new audience the character has attracted without alienating the existing comic readers?
MARV: I certainly hope so. I really love some of the snarky dialog that she spouted in the original TV series and some of that has found its way here. Although timeline wise she is obviously a member of the current iteration of the Titans, I like to think behind the scenes that my original Raven was on Earth for at least a year before she contacted the Titans in order to learn about our world and figure out what to do and what this world is about. She spent that year trying to figure out exactly the team she wanted to bring together. Although there’s none of that here that was my unstated background philosophy.
COLISEUM: Since you first created Raven back in 1980, have you enjoyed seeing the character evolve in the hands of other writers?
MARV: I make it a practice never to read what other people do with my creations. And when I have to for continuity purposes, I only read exactly what’s needed for me to tell my story. When I create characters I have their speech patterns firmly in mind. Nobody can replicate that so characters I created always sound different, whether better or not. I know when I wrote Spider-Man I certainly could only approximate Stan Lee’s dialog for him and I wouldn’t have wanted Stan to say I got it wrong. Stan never did and I don’t want to be in a position to say to someone else that they got it wrong, either. They’re the writers and they have to do what they feel is right, as I did on the series I took over.
COLISEUM: Does returning to write a character you created many years later pose any unexpected challenges?
MARV: People ask that all the time, but I wrote a Titans graphic novel with George Pérez only a few years back. I wrote the Titans Convergence issues. I wrote a Raven mini a number of years ago, too. I’ve never actually ever stopped writing Titans material. But just not on their book.
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