Titans West
George Perez discussed another Titan story idea in Comics Feature #19, 1982. The Titans as a Western? George had a thought about that: "I wanted to do a story with the Titans out west. The Titans wouldn't work out west; I just wanted to do a western thing. They just did it with the JLA anyway.) But I just wanted to do something in the west. When I think about it, the story would not work with Raven there. In fact, we'd have one person with a half-metal face, one guy with green skin, one person who looks totally lost because she never wears anything except that long slit dress, and, of course, a girl with hair like a giant lion's mane and green eyes-you couldn't ever make them conspicuous enough that they can look in wonder at the wild west characters, when it's going to be the wild west characters looking at them. I wanted them to be inconspicuous until it was time for them to get into action, but it's impossible to do that with those characters. So it's just one of those dreams that didn't work."
The Deathstroke Face-Off
From the same interview, George had an intriguing idea for a Deathstroke tale: "There were some times where I just had an idea for a cover and hoped that somebody would think of a story where I could get to use that cover. (Laughs) I thought of one cover idea where the scene is a cemetery-you know, gnarled trees and twisted decay-and, on the tombstones scattered about, are the names of all the Titans save Robin. And Robin is standing totally in tatters at this point, and standing in the distance-like the opening scenes in GUNSMOKE - you can see the arm and the leg of the Terminator, saying, 'Okay, Robin, I've terminated the others, You're the last one." And I said, 'I wish I could do a story based on this! The idea of just being able to draw the cover. The story be damned - I just want to draw the cover!" Marv is thinking on how we're going to handle a story like that now. (Laughter) Because we're thinking; 'The next time we introduce the Terminator, let's actually defeat the guy. He's managed to make a fool of the Titans both times he's shown up. He's appeared twice, also, and never once has he been shown fully on the cover. (Laughs) One of the better villains and he's never appeared on the covers."
Well, that fact was rectified soon enough. As the Judas Contract heated up, Deathstroke was featured on several covers - including the memorable NEW TEEN TITANS #34.
