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Geek Dad
30-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Dad
Review – Titans 2025 Annual #1: The Story of an Amazon
Titans 2025 Annual #1 cover, via DC Comics. Ray: DC has had to reshuffle the past of a lot of its characters as they refine their continuities – some gett major changes, like Supergirl. But none have had a trickier knot to untie than Donna Troy – who has had a tangled path even before any reboots. Remember, she wasn't even supposed to be her own character, originally starting as a young Diana in flashback stories before being accidentally added to Teen Titans. But she's stood the test of time, and now DC brings in one of Wonder Woman's most iconic creators to tell the definitive Donna Troy story, retelling her origin and bringing her into the modern day – and Phil Jimenez absolutely hits it out of the park. This isn't just the best Donna Troy story, it's the best Titans story in decades. The return. Via DC Comics. This story starts with a framing segment of Donna in the present day as she gets shocking news – her biological father wants to meet her. This book goes with the origin of Donna being a child who was orphaned in a fire, saved by Diana and brought to Themyscira, where she was adopted by Hippolyta. This wasn't a smooth process, and there are some really touching segments dealing with Donna's struggles to adjust. After she becomes Wonder Girl, she meets with the Titans for the first time and forms the bonds that will define her life. There's a fantastic segment where she manages to be one of the only people to make Batman see that he might possibly be wrong, and the annual really delves into the connections she has to each Titan. Terry Long is barely touched on, thankfully, but Donna's late son Robert looms large, and there are some incredible musings on grief that hit hard. Without spoiling anything, the final segment dealing with the identity of Donna's father is one of the most powerful things I've read in comics in a very long time, and comes from the same deeply personal place that Jimenez's stunning Pride story came from a year ago. This one-shot might wind up being an Eisner winner, thanks to both Jimenez's incredibly powerful, personal writing and his stunning art. This is a franchise that hasn't had any real big wins for a long time, still struggling under damage done in events two decades ago, but this book is a masterpiece. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week. GeekDad received this comic for review purposes. Liked it? Take a second to support GeekDad and GeekMom on Patreon!
Irish Times
07-06-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
FD Technologies chairwoman urges investors to back takeover
FD Technologies chair Donna Troy has urged investors to back a £541.6 million (€643.04 million) sale of the Newry-based data and analytics company to US private equity firm TA Associates at a special meeting on June 30th, saying there are risks to it delivering on its full potential as a standalone public company. The company's remaining business, KX, which analyses large data sets in real time to help companies predict and respond to market conditions across the various business areas, may be hampered by 'uncertain public markets' if it needs to accelerate investment to capture opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI). 'Furthermore, FD Technologies is a relatively small player in a large, but fast-moving, fragmented market,' Ms Troy said in a letter to shareholders, contained in documents relating to the planned deal, published on the company's website on Friday. 'Competing with a number of larger, very well capitalised software providers and consequently the FD Technologies, directors are cautiously aware of execution risk to delivering its strategy and the associated value to FD Technologies shareholders.' READ MORE The deal with TA Associates, first announced a month ago, follows a big restructuring at the Dublin-listed company last year. This led to the group selling its former core First Derivatives division to US software group EPAM in a £236.1 million transaction and the spin-off of another business, called MRP , into a merger. It subsequently returned £120 million to shareholders in January through a stock buyback deal. How to manage your pension in these volatile times Listen | 37:00 FD Technologies confirmed that it has secured irrevocable commitments from shareholders behind 56.7 per cent of its stock for the TA Associates deal. It will need approval from holders of 75 per cent of its shares to get the transaction over the line through the mechanism, known as a scheme of arrangement, that TA Associates is using to execute the takeover. Shareholders are being offered the choice of taking cash for their stock or rolling their shares into the bid vehicle. 'The FD Technologies board does not give any recommendation to FD Technologies shareholders as to whether they should elect for the alternative offer [of taking shares in the bid vehicle],' the company said. 'FD Technologies shareholders should determine whether acquiring or holding rollover shares is affected by the laws or regulations of the relevant jurisdiction in which they reside and consider the advantages and disadvantages of electing for the alternative offer, and whether rollover shares are a suitable investment in light of their own personal circumstance.'
