Everybody loves Terry Long. Women want him. Men want to be him. Even after their divorce, his ex-wife remained obsessed with him. He had it all. The perfect man. Everyone’s fantasy made flesh. That is, at least what writer Marv Wolfman would have had you believe. Marv Wolfman, probably. This is because, most people – myself included – assert that Terry Long was a self-insert character for Marv, someone who was a few years younger, arguably better-looking, and a total babe magnet who had pulled himself the ultimate baddy in the form of Donna Troy AKA Wonder Girl, a gorgeous Amazon ten years his junior. In the real world that is not scripted by Marv, everybody hates Terry. EVERYBODY. Not one person – except maybe Marv – is sad that he’s dead. But what’s long been funny to me is that in one story in which Marv inserted his actual self rather than having Terry as a proxy, we were presented with a very different view of the writer. The panel in question is featured in a backup story in…
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