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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 20, 2021 9:56:28 GMT -5
I thought of this while I was reading the most recent Supersons book...so often I read stuff and think of all the things I'd like them to do next, but never occur... most often due to marketing implausibility, but sometimes just because I'd like a different focus or direction than the publisher does.
So here's the game... take a current book/story/team and create a spin off you'd love to see, but that would never actually happen... be it because of current continuity constraints, marketing, etc. Feel free to add a creative team, or not, as you wish... the ideas are the thing.
Here's the idea that made me think of this thread....
Tween Justice - After stopping Vandal Savage and Felix Faust, The Supersons and Rora head to Gotham to investigate the destruction of the Academy. This would be the opening story that would lead to them becoming a permanent team also with Mia 'Maps' Mizoguchi and Miss Martian (the version from the Young Justice cartoon, mostly).
Clearly, with Jon aged up, not going to happen.. not to mention I can't really see anyone else using 'his' character Rora, nor has anyone used Maps other then Becky Cloonan. Not to mention if they were going to make Miss Martian a part of the main DCU, it'd have happened by now (though they did use her in future state so, maybe that part isn't totally out of the question)
Written by Peter Tomasi.. Art by Humberto Ramos.
anyone else?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 21, 2021 9:08:38 GMT -5
I loved him as a supporting character in Catwoman and ever since then I think it's been Criminal ( pardon the pun Slam_Bradley ) that there hasn't been so much as even a Slam Bradley one shot never mind a mini series or a featured ongoing with him in the years since then. I'd love a hard nosed detective comic and since we're talking pure fantasy here my dream author would be Walter Mosley making his comic writing debut as he just nails that working class PI character in his novels and on art I'd want either Francesco Francavilla or Mike Mignola. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 21, 2021 9:22:55 GMT -5
I loved him as a supporting character in Catwoman and ever since then I think it's been Criminal ( pardon the pun Slam_Bradley ) that there hasn't been so much as even a Slam Bradley one shot never mind a mini series or a featured ongoing with him in the years since then. I'd love a hard nosed detective comic and since we're talking pure fantasy here my dream author would be Walter Mosley making his comic writing debut as he just nails that working class PI character in his novels and on art I'd want either Francesco Francavilla or Mike Mignola. It shocked me that Cooke never did even a one-shot. I would be interested in Mark Russell's take. I think he could capture the world-weariness. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 21, 2021 9:48:33 GMT -5
I loved him as a supporting character in Catwoman and ever since then I think it's been Criminal ( pardon the pun Slam_Bradley ) that there hasn't been so much as even a Slam Bradley one shot never mind a mini series or a featured ongoing with him in the years since then. I'd love a hard nosed detective comic and since we're talking pure fantasy here my dream author would be Walter Mosley making his comic writing debut as he just nails that working class PI character in his novels and on art I'd want either Francesco Francavilla or Mike Mignola. It shocked me that Cooke never did even a one-shot. I would be interested in Mark Russell's take. I think he could capture the world-weariness. Russell could definitely pull off a great Slam comic, I wish I had thought of that! And probably more likely than Mosley. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 21, 2021 17:55:59 GMT -5
Another I'd publish if I were king of DC would be a Space Ghost book written by Jeff Parker with a back and forth art team of Doc Shaner and Chris Samnee. I'd really love a bright, breezy, light hearted space opera and I know these guys would deliver in spades.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 22, 2021 4:34:04 GMT -5
Another I'd publish if I were king of DC would be a Space Ghost book written by Jeff Parker with a back and forth art team of Doc Shaner and Chris Samnee. I'd really love a bright, breezy, light hearted space opera and I know these guys would deliver in spades. Jeff Parker sort of already did a little work with Space Ghost in Future Quest, didn't he? But yeah, a full-blown Space Ghost epic by Parker would be awesome. And Parker seems like the ideal modern writer for speculation like this; when I was reading Agents of Atlas, I was thinking how cool it would have be if he and Leonard Kirk teamed up to do a Sterankoesque Nick Fury spy epic set in the 1960s. Other things I'd like to see Parker write: Challengers of the Unknown, set in the 1950s Buck Rogers A retro (also set in the 60s) team-up of the Charlton heroes, Capt. Atom, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Nightshade, the Question, Peacemaker, Judomaster and maybe Sarge Steel, as a sort of upside-down Watchmen - i.e., light-hearted and fun rather than dark and gritty. I could see Tom Grummett or David Hahn doing a real good job on the art.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Sept 22, 2021 8:23:08 GMT -5
Another I'd publish if I were king of DC would be a Space Ghost book written by Jeff Parker with a back and forth art team of Doc Shaner and Chris Samnee. I'd really love a bright, breezy, light hearted space opera and I know these guys would deliver in spades. Jeff Parker sort of already did a little work with Space Ghost in Future Quest, didn't he? But yeah, a full-blown Space Ghost epic by Parker would be awesome. And Parker seems like the ideal modern writer for speculation like this; when I was reading Agents of Atlas, I was thinking how cool it would have be if he and Leonard Kirk teamed up to do a Sterankoesque Nick Fury spy epic set in the 1960s. Other things I'd like to see Parker write: Challengers of the Unknown, set in the 1950s Buck Rogers A retro (also set in the 60s) team-up of the Charlton heroes, Capt. Atom, Blue Beetle (Ted Kord), Nightshade, the Question, Peacemaker, Judomaster and maybe Sarge Steel, as a sort of upside-down Watchmen - i.e., light-hearted and fun rather than dark and gritty. I could see Tom Grummett or David Hahn doing a real good job on the art.
Future Quest was amazing, but I definitely want a long form run from him. |
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Post by mikelmidnight on Sept 22, 2021 11:20:58 GMT -5
Since folks are talking about Darwyn Cooke and Jeff Parker, one book that I thought either of them would be perfect for:
THE FORGOTTEN HEROES
All the leading men of DC's 1950's family foursome adventure quartets!
I'd be perfectly happy with a different team name though.
Alternately: a team of all the women from the quartets, or all the teenage boys.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 22, 2021 12:32:18 GMT -5
I was thinking: back in 2014, one of these sort of unlikely projects actually came to life, when the Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew was published. They did an absolutely wonderful story featuring an obscure Golden Age hero, the Green Turtle. (I think somebody here wrote a brief review of it, but I can't find the thread it's in, and I wrote about it elsewhere.) I would love to see that same creative team, Yang and Liew, tackle a Shang Chi story (preferably a team-up with Iron Fist, with part of it taking place in K'un Lun). |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2021 14:02:42 GMT -5
I was thinking: back in 2014, one of these sort of unlikely projects actually came to life, when the Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew was published. They did an absolutely wonderful story featuring an obscure Golden Age hero, the Green Turtle. (I think somebody here wrote a brief review of it, but I can't find the thread it's in, and I wrote about it elsewhere.) I would love to see that same creative team, Yang and Liew, tackle a Shang Chi story (preferably a team-up with Iron Fist, with part of it taking place in K'un Lun). I've mentioned reading it and adoring it a few times, but I cannot recall if I did a full-fledged review or not. -M |
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Post by brutalis on Sept 22, 2021 17:31:59 GMT -5
Don't both Companies already do books that would never happen? Oops. My bad. They both publish books that never last. My mistake.
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Post by Duragizer on Sept 22, 2021 20:41:04 GMT -5
Ambush Bug & She-Hulk vs. Deadpool & Lobo
Don't have much of a plot. Just a whole lotta absurdity, fourth wall-breaking, and Deadpool & Lobo getting fired into the sun.
Written by Keith Giffen, illustrated by John Byrne before he became so hit-&-miss.
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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 23, 2021 4:36:09 GMT -5
I was thinking: back in 2014, one of these sort of unlikely projects actually came to life, when the Shadow Hero by Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew was published. They did an absolutely wonderful story featuring an obscure Golden Age hero, the Green Turtle. (I think somebody here wrote a brief review of it, but I can't find the thread it's in, and I wrote about it elsewhere.) I would love to see that same creative team, Yang and Liew, tackle a Shang Chi story (preferably a team-up with Iron Fist, with part of it taking place in K'un Lun). I've mentioned reading it and adoring it a few times, but I cannot recall if I did a full-fledged review or not. -M
Might've been me. I remember quoting the section of my book dealing with the Turtle.
Cei-U! I summon comics' first Chinese super-hero!
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 23, 2021 5:16:54 GMT -5
Might've been me. I remember quoting the section of my book dealing with the Turtle.
Cei-U! I summon comics' first Chinese super-hero!
Hm, maybe, but I don't think I saw that on this forum. I do remember that part of your book, though - it's what reminded me that I had a battered copy of the Shadow Hero that I'd bought on the cheap from an online bookseller together with a few other ex-library books. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Sept 24, 2021 8:28:21 GMT -5
Don't both Companies already do books that would never happen? Oops. My bad. They both publish books that never last. My mistake. Heh.. you're not wrong... I mean, who the heck was demanding a Reptil mini series for Marvel. (it's good, I'm reading it, but is anyone else? Not sure). Got another one for you... Set in the mid 80s, a look behind the curtain at the company that backs Iron Man... call it 'Stark International'... starrring Mrs. Abrogast, Pepper Potts, and Happy Hogan. |
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