One of the accusations often leveled at "Crazy" Bob Haney is that he didn't have any respect for continuity. If his story demands that Black Canary be a fashion designer, then by George, she was never a florist. For that one story. Did you happen to see that Earth blow up in the Crisis? Must've been off-panel. Case in point, B&B #60, the Teen Titans' second appearance, and Wonder Girl's first. So who is this Wonder Girl? Before this time, any appearance of "Wonder Girl" had been Wonder Woman back when she was a teen. Here is the whole explanation/origin :
Yep, all of a sudden, Wonder Woman's got a little sister. Made of clay too? Or is there a daddy? And how come she can fly when Diana has to use an invisible plane? These questions would hound Teen Titan writers for decades to come. Don't ask me how Wonder Girl currently fits into continuity, I don't think I have the bandwidth. Check out Wikipedia, I'm sure they have the whole convoluted history.As for the villain of the piece, he apparently "returns" to threaten the small town of Midville, but of course, it's the first and only actual appearance of the Separated Man. If you're into giant hot pink gruel monsters that can detach their limbs and send them off to stomp on buildings, you're gonna wonder why he never got a Who's Who entry. I said "if".
So Midville has just elected a Teen Mayor for a day, and it just so happens that the boy's father is in the big house for having dabbled with forces man was not meant to dabble in which turned him into the Separated Man. As the State of Arizona vs. Bruce Banner case has shown, you are liable for acts of destruction performed while turned into a rampaging monster. But the guy's escaped prison AND the Separated Man is on the loose again. Teen Mayor doesn't believe it's his father this time and calls in the Teen Titans. And he's right. His father was apparently using the prison lab (!) to refine his formula to remove the criminal tendencies associated with the transformation, when his cell mate stole the vial on his day of parole. As if the prison didn't already get a failing grade for letting mad scientists fool around with mutagenic compounds within its walls, scientist dad escapes to stop the new Separated Man.
So now it's a race to find the monster's torso to plunge a giant syringe into its heart! But the Separated Man is always one step ahead thanks to its eavesdropping with A MASSIVE EAR THAT NO ONE SEEMS TO NOTICE UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE!
It's a patented Haney fever dream. Don't try to make sense of it, just enjoy the shots of disembodied eyes crying tears of flame, or of a dozen kids riding out of town on scooters with a giant floating hand tied kite-like behind them, or of those same kids, stabbing the Separated Man with surfboards in the climax to our story.
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