Superboy Lives! Well, almost...
Geoff Johns on Superboy plans, had he lived: " We fought pretty hard. [Editor] Eddie [Berganza] and I didn’t want him to die, Tony didn’t either. We went back and forth on the story and ultimately decided it was a good death. I got to write it and we got to build to it; I would have been more upset if I hadn’t gotten to do it, if somebody else had just offed him. [...] We were going to have the Titans from “Titans Tomorrow” come back and he’d fight himself and rejoin the team, but plans always change. I had plans for Flash that never happened, I had plans for Hawkman that never happened."
There's Always Tomorrow: More Plans For Future Titans
Geoff Johns on Titans Tomorrow plans: "And you know, what sucks is that Tony and I were going to do the next arc about the Titans of Tomorrow coming to this time period. I really wanted to do that. I wanted to see Kid Devil become Red Devil and Miss Martian be Miss Martian Manhunter, and I wanted to see what that future team would look like, maybe bringing in a few new characters, and have them face off against our team again. Adam [Beechen] might do that story. I’ve passed the idea to him."
Bart Still a Kid Flash
Geoff Johns on plans for Bart Allen: "Bart Allen was the one who really represented the transition from junior high to high school and I really liked him growing up a little bit but still being the fun-loving speedster that Conner, Tim and Cassie loved. He definitely was a symbol of taking the next step. Again, a character that was missed [following “One Year Later”]; we would have loved to have kept telling the adventures of Kid Flash. If it were up to us, he’d still be a Teen Titan."
Rejected Members: Supergirl, Static and Aquagirl
Geoff Johns on plans for new members: "Originally we wanted Supergirl on the team at one point and that’s actually where Miss Martian came from. With Supergirl [following “One Year Later”] they were going a more gritty route and she was in Legion of Super-Heroes, but we wanted a more naïve, fun alien chick like Starfire originally was, so we created Miss Martian. I really wanted Static on the team, but there’s so much red tape there that every time I requested it [DC] said “not yet” and so I never got to have him. I really wanted Static to be one of the main characters. That would have been awesome. Aquagirl was going to come on the team, but then they revamped Aquaman so we didn’t really know where Aquagirl was going to end up and opted not to do that."
Geoff Johns on Miss Martian and Supergirl: "Originally we wanted Supergirl on the team, but she was in Legion and they didn't want to confuse people. And she was also going through some kind of “rebellion” phase or something, so we thought -- oh, we'll just make up our own alien character. And if we would have made Supergirl up, maybe we would have made her more like this. And we just came up with the idea [of Miss Martian] -- a hero with a mysterious background as a White Martian, but making her a very delicate character who got her feelings hurt really bad."
Sources: Geoff Johns: Graduation Day By Ben Morse - Posted February 1, 2007 - at www.wizarduniverse.com, A Titan Looks Back: Geoff Johns on Leaving Teen Titans by Vaneta Rogers - courtesy of http://www.newsarama.com - 02-01-2007
