If You Could Write 3 Pre-Established Ongoings...?

...which ones for DC would you pick? Remember, pre-established ongoing titles only. Bringing back and starting a new year for an old ongoing is fine.

I'd choose:

Suicide Squad - I may have to kick Ostrander in the shin for it, but I'd love to write for this. Quantity wise, DC's villains are the most fascinating to me. I feel like I have some interesting characters to pull out of the hat and stories to give. (I'm definitely inspired by Gail's and Nicola's Secret Six with my want to do this.)

The Flash - Like my Ghost Rider pick for Marvel, this'd be an honor and heart attack all in one.

Shadowpact - I usually favor the magic and monsters of any universe. I know what I like, and I think this title, out of all the ones I picked, I'd be the most comfortable with this one. Plus, this so deserves another chance out of many cancelled series from any publisher.

I almost chose JSA, and, I love the combo of characters and mantles more so than any other team book, but I mostly just want to enjoy the ride. Feels to restricting to any surface thoughts. It'd be a tough title to write.



Don't forget that there is a Marvel thread in the same vein as this one.

damn so no team 13 then....

suicide squad for the same reasons you mentioned

teen titans: Because that title really needs a kick in the arse at the moment and I am the man for the job

jla: bwah-ha-ha-ha.....

Lobo

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen

Animal Man

JSA Classified, spotlighting different team members each issue/arc.

Blue Beetle

Manhunter

Teen Titans -- I would make the team once again the teenaged version of the more well-known heroes, (Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Speedy, Aquagirl, Miss Martian, Zatara, etc.) and give them their own rogues' gallery that wasn't two cults and a despotic military organization. They would get villains like Kid Amazo and others, who would be more fitting for these kids.

Supergirl -- Why is it that the teen comic stars never get written as teens? Supergirl should be having more than one issue's worth of trouble trying to juggle a superhero persona and a secret identity. Instead, she's always in costume, and rarely on Earth. What was the point if you're not going to use her in the way she works best? I would dump the New Krypton stuff, give Supergirl her super-cat again, and find new ways to introduce characters like Satan Girl and Nasthalia Luthor.

Booster Gold -- I would keep up with the time-travelling, but I would also use it to reinstate the Inferior Five, who would be good as support in that title. Rescued from Limbo, they would be unable to return to the timestream, and instead are conscripted to help Rip and Booster repair timelines, only they're really bad at it. :P Think Exiles meets Keystone Cops.

Aquaman
Atom
Hawkman

[quote="shining knight"]damn so no team 13 then....

suicide squad for the same reasons you mentioned
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Nice!

Spidey_82 wrote:Lobo

Animal Man

Lobo is a fun choice, and I've just been getting into Animal Man since 52.

rwe1138 wrote:JSA Classified, spotlighting different team members each issue/arc.

Blue Beetle

Classified would be fun. I need that series badly.

Also, which Blue Beetle?

superdoug wrote:
Supergirl -- Why is it that the teen comic stars never get written as teens? Supergirl should be having more than one issue's worth of trouble trying to juggle a superhero persona and a secret identity. Instead, she's always in costume, and rarely on Earth. What was the point if you're not going to use her in the way she works best? I would dump the New Krypton stuff, give Supergirl her super-cat again, and find new ways to introduce characters like Satan Girl and Nasthalia Luthor.

Booster Gold

Booster would be fun. On par with Exiles and What If...?, but with an Elseworlds factor. Nice choice.

And I completely agree with you on Supergirl. She is super, but she is also a girl, you know?

No love for Aquaman, Atom, or Hawkman?

Jonah Hex
Secret Six
Batman

Booster Gold -- I would keep up with the time-travelling, but I would also use it to reinstate the Inferior Five, who would be good as support in that title. Rescued from Limbo, they would be unable to return to the timestream, and instead are conscripted to help Rip and Booster repair timelines, only they're really bad at it. :P Think Exiles meets Keystone Cops.

greatest idea ever!

alucardbarnivous wrote:No love for Aquaman, Atom, or Hawkman?

...damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice. I just never really got into those characters. Hawkman has grown on me a little through JSA and Starlin's run with his space adventures. Which most people hated the Hawkman: Holy War Special thing, but I thought it was okay. But...definitely for Atom and Aquaman. They just...I know they have a cult-following, and I respect them, I just don't care for them. Almost as much as I don't care for Superman. I'm weird, I know.

Joshua wrote:Jonah Hex
Secret Six
Batman

Jonah Hex and Secret Six is just filled with guilty pleasure. So that'd be fun.

BlueMaxx wrote:

alucardbarnivous wrote:No love for Aquaman, Atom, or Hawkman?

...damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice. I just never really got into those characters. Hawkman has grown on me a little through JSA and Starlin's run with his space adventures. Which most people hated the Hawkman: Holy War Special thing, but I thought it was okay. But...definitely for Atom and Aquaman. They just...I know they have a cult-following, and I respect them, I just don't care for them. Almost as much as I don't care for Superman. I'm weird, I know.

That says to me you may have not read the good stories told with them.

Hawkman really re-established himself with Geoff Johns' run on his solo title and the Palmiotti/Gray arc with Golden Eagle and some of Carter's rogues united.

The absolute best Atom is Sword of the Atom and Gail Simone's initial arc where the forces of science and magic go to war with the new Atom in the middle.

I heard Peter David's Aquaman is well liked, but my favorite has to be Will Pfeifer's run.

You have to imagine, guys like Flash and Green Lantern didn't really catch on fire until a big name like Geoff Johns got a hold of them. Often, it really comes down to who's writing rather than who the character is.

alucardbarnivous wrote:No love for Aquaman, Atom, or Hawkman?

I like Aquaman. I'd write Aquaman.

Also: Justice League and Green Arrow.

Adventures of Superman (I've always loved the actual title and I have a soft spot for that particular book)

Superboy

Booster Gold

BlueMaxx wrote:

rwe1138 wrote:
Blue Beetle

Also, which Blue Beetle?

Jaime.

Challengers of the Unknown
Plastic Man
Catwoman

Esbat wrote:Challengers of the Unknown
Plastic Man
Catwoman

Catwoman was always one of those characters that were only cool to see as cameos. That's what I think, anyway.
Plastic Man would be fun, and yes, yes, yes for Challengers of the Unknown. Pulp-comic heroes beyond the comics themselves. Very cool.

BlueMaxx wrote:

Esbat wrote:Challengers of the Unknown
Plastic Man
Catwoman

Catwoman was always one of those characters that were only cool to see as cameos. That's what I think, anyway.
Plastic Man would be fun, and yes, yes, yes for Challengers of the Unknown. Pulp-comic heroes beyond the comics themselves. Very cool.

80's Post-Batman Year One Selina was very gritty, hardnosed take on the once super-villainess. 90's Purple, sprayed on costume Catwoman was absolutely gorgeous with her I'm-a-very-bad-good-girl thief turned animal activist, but was outstandingly written portrayed in the volume 3 return to her 80's roots. She can defintely hold her own book. Her previous two ongoings had lengthy, solid runs primarily plagued by DC's events and reboots.

Plastic Man is just plain good times, you can do ANYTHING with him. I especially love Bat's take on him in Dark Knight Strikes Again, "He's practically a god, he could kill us all if he wanted to." Instead he's just a crazed goofball going back to being Plas not really fazed by his decades of imprisonment.

CotU is just trippy, pulpy, sci-fi, borderline philosophical mindfuck of a book. Ya know, like if Jim Steranko's art could be translated into words. And you didn't have to drop or toke or being drunk off your ass to trip out.

Esbat wrote:
80's Post-Batman Year One Selina was very gritty, hardnosed take on the once super-villainess. 90's Purple, sprayed on costume Catwoman was absolutely gorgeous with her I'm-a-very-bad-good-girl thief turned animal activist, but was outstandingly written portrayed in the volume 3 return to her 80's roots. She can defintely hold her own book. Her previous two ongoings had lengthy, solid runs primarily plagued by DC's events and reboots.

CotU is just trippy, pulpy, sci-fi, borderline philosophical mindfuck of a book. Ya know, like if Jim Steranko's art could be translated into words. And you didn't have to drop or toke or being drunk off your ass to trip out.

Ya, I did like her purple outfit the most, and a big, "YES!", towards your CotU!

BlueMaxx wrote:

Esbat wrote:
80's Post-Batman Year One Selina was very gritty, hardnosed take on the once super-villainess. 90's Purple, sprayed on costume Catwoman was absolutely gorgeous with her I'm-a-very-bad-good-girl thief turned animal activist, but was outstandingly written portrayed in the volume 3 return to her 80's roots. She can defintely hold her own book. Her previous two ongoings had lengthy, solid runs primarily plagued by DC's events and reboots.

CotU is just trippy, pulpy, sci-fi, borderline philosophical mindfuck of a book. Ya know, like if Jim Steranko's art could be translated into words. And you didn't have to drop or toke or being drunk off your ass to trip out.

Ya, I did like her purple outfit the most, and a big, "YES!", towards your CotU!

Thanks!

Ok here's mine:

Sandman Mystery Theatre: I wouldn't make it a Vertigo title. It would just be Sandy Trying to stop the things that he is dreaming about before they happen. He would get flashes of situations that were going to happen, and have to decide how to handle them. The flashes would be brief, so he wouldn;t have any idea of the consequences of what happened in his dreams, or his actions in trying to stop them.

Lobo

Secret Society of Supervillains.

^ Ooo, interesting choices. Lobo and any incarnation of Sandman is a big double thumbs-up from me. I forgot S.S.o.S. had a brief series that people still whisper about from time to time. That would be a tough and stressfully fun title to write. All those nemeses...nemesiessie...er...I think I had it right with the first one. Crisis...crises...right? Hrm. Too lazy to look up the definition.

Batman
Green Arrow
The Flash

BlueMaxx wrote:^ Ooo, interesting choices. Lobo and any incarnation of Sandman is a big double thumbs-up from me. I forgot S.S.o.S. had a brief series that people still whisper about from time to time. That would be a tough and stressfully fun title to write. All those nemeses...nemesiessie...er...I think I had it right with the first one. Crisis...crises...right? Hrm. Too lazy to look up the definition.

Jen Van Meter could probably pull off a SSoSV title after reading her JSA Classified arc with the Injustice Society.

I think I would like to take a crack at:

A G'Nort mini series.
Aquaman - I always thought he could be a very cool an interesting character with the right writer.
Nightwing - I remember how he was written back in the Chuck Dixon days and I would bring him back to that.
Flash - Barry Allen could be awesome to write. Part superhero and part CSI. Two great tastes that taste great together.
A Ralph & Sue Dibney series - Somehow, I think this could be awesome to write.