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Post by wildfire2099 on May 23, 2017 9:53:22 GMT -5
DC: Metamorpho and return him to the fun/silly walking periodic time table that he was. Being creative and humorous with outrageous alien and scientific adventures. Hawkman and Hawkwoman returned to being alien scientific police studying and learning from their work with Earth lawmen and traveling through time in historical adventures meeting famous figures of the past . All from their Nth metal wings abilities. Doom Patrol: with Cliff, Rita, Larry, The Chief, Beast Boy and Mento. Again keeping the flavor of the best of the original with aliens, underground cultures, prehistoric and futuristic adventures emphasizing the unique and bizarre in thrilling and fun stories. Marvel: A Kyle Richmond Nighthawk series as he was originally intended to be: Batman lite yet exciting fun filled flying acrobatics amidst the towers of the big city. Nova: Richard Rider on earth being the fun dork hero and strutting his stuff showing his skills and being a true hero. Deathlok the Demolisher: stop trying to tie him into current MU. Go full on futuristic killing machine that is fighting his controllers trying to maintain his dwindling humanity and reclaim his "self". Stop with the whole apocalyptic future and bring in aliens, mutants, other worlds, fantastic science fiction ideas and concepts which speak to our own truths and failures and accomplishments. Ohhh..yes. A New Warriors book! If they take Speedball with the development he got in Avengers: Initiative, Justice and Firestar (hopefully married, with Firestar the correct age and mostly retired from superheroing), Nova, and a couple of the Initiative kids (maybe Kimodo? Clould 9) or some of the more interesting X-castoffs (the Gen Hope kids, maybe?).... I'd be all over that. |
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Post by Mormel on May 23, 2017 10:05:06 GMT -5
Nice of you to bring back Century, wildfire. I always enjoyed him, from when I saw him in the Iron Man cartoon. I was disappointed when it turned out he had only appeared in Force Works, and not much else.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2017 10:19:37 GMT -5
For DC, I would select Wonder Woman and set the book in Washington DC--full of political intrigue, bizarre villains, romance with Steve, the Diana Prince secret ID, Donna Troy (Wondergirl) as her adopted sister and a recurring character, and most of all add some fun to the book.
Marvel: I would bring back the Champions consisting of Hercules, Black Widow, Ghost Rider, Angel, and Iceman. I would focus on west coast adventures, team dynamic/conflicts, maybe a romance between Black Widow and Angel, and have them be an underappreciated team--(Avengers, X-Men, etc would always get recognized the world over, but the Champions would be most appreciated by west coast folks).
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Post by Icctrombone on May 23, 2017 10:26:54 GMT -5
I would write the original 6 Avengers. Recently Mark Waid did a few retro issues and they were great. It wasn't the originals but still...
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 23, 2017 10:33:09 GMT -5
On the other hand, I'd also love to do Slam Bradley set in the 50s in a Mike Hammer vein. Would be a nice contrast to the spy work of King Faraday. And allows for appearances of the likes of Captain Compass (Travis McGee), Pow-Wow Smith and Roy Raymond. I want my own little mystery corner of the universe.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 23, 2017 10:53:14 GMT -5
Doom Patrol: with Cliff, Rita, Larry, The Chief, Beast Boy and Mento. Again keeping the flavor of the best of the original with aliens, underground cultures, prehistoric and futuristic adventures emphasizing the unique and bizarre in thrilling and fun stories. As much as I like the "Young Animal" Doom Patrol series, I've also gotten interested in the Silver Age Doom Patrol lately ... and I love Rita Farr! I was thinking of starting a Doom Patrol Appreciation Thread (I haven't come up with a title yet) but I'm not sure that enough people would be interested. I've been working on a "Rita Farr filmography" just for fun. In her first appearance, it says she was an Olympic swimmer, so I gave her a few movies that sound like Esther Williams could be in them. Later I heard that the Martian Manhunter said he liked some of her movies but I can't remember what genre he mentioned. Was it film noir? I should have taken some notes. (Note: I looked it up. It was "chiller pictures.") If anybody is interested, I could start that thread and expand my Rita Farr filmography and make up a synopsis for the titles I came up with. My favorite is Four Girls in a Tank. With Rita Farr, Audrey Meadows, Jeff Donnell, Mara Corday, Virginia Gregg and Tab Hunter. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 23, 2017 10:59:26 GMT -5
Caleb Hammer: I like the possibilities of an old-west Pinkerton. And given the frequent skeevyness of the Pinkerton Agency at the time there is plenty of opportunity for soul-searching. I'd love to see that... I'd also love the book to return to one of its founding moments: the death of Caleb's brother during a strike at a harvesting machine factory in Chicago. The conflict between an early organized labour and industrialists is something I never read about in comics (and I read Jack London's The iron heel recently, so... ) |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 23, 2017 11:21:00 GMT -5
Caleb Hammer: I like the possibilities of an old-west Pinkerton. And given the frequent skeevyness of the Pinkerton Agency at the time there is plenty of opportunity for soul-searching. I'd love to see that... I'd also love the book to return to one of its founding moments: the death of Caleb's brother during a strike at a harvesting machine factory in Chicago. The conflict between an early organized labour and industrialists is something I never read about in comics (and I read Jack London's The iron heel recently, so... ) Yep. Lot to work with there. I'm of two minds about the Marvel Premiere issue with Hammer. The art by Day and DeZuniga was outstanding. There were the bare bones of a very good story there, but I don't think Gillis gave it too us. Part of it may have been that the Code still had some sway and prevented a grittier story. But there's a lot there to work with. I'd happily play around with all of Marvel's western heroes ala Ostrander and Manco in Blaze of Glory and Apache Skies. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 23, 2017 11:51:02 GMT -5
My other would be a maxi series, DC: The Greatest Generation. It would take the war comic characters from the start of WW2 to the end. No superheroes, no sci-fi/supernatural (sorry Creature Commandos and Viking Commando). We'd see the German's invade France and Mademoiselle Marie join the Resistance and grow in authority, as well as lose more and more innocence. Frank Rock would be a young sergeant in the Operation Torch Landings, in North Africa, take part in the Sicily invasion, Normandy, then the Battle of the Bulge (think Sam Fuller's The Big Red One). Gravedigger enlists and faces the prejudice of the segregated Army, as he struggles to prove he can be a combat soldier. The Losers would be individually fighting in the South Pacific and be brought together as a special reconnaissance force. The Haunted Tank would start in North Africa and then Italy, eventually joining in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of Southern France. The Blackhawks would be a special squadron in the RAF, made up of displaced flyers from the occupied lands. They would take part in the Battle of Britain, then escort and special missions, flying de Havilland Mosquitos. They would take part in the Oslo raid, Operation Jericho (precision attack on a prison holding Resistance fighters and political prisoners) the attack on Berlin, in 1943, that blew out the main berlin broadcasting station, in the middle of a speech by Goering.
The Unknown Soldier would be an OSS/SOE agent, operating in enemy territory. The scarred face and mask aspect would by metaphorical, rather than physical. He would use various cover identities to get close to vital intel. Enemy Ace would not be an active fighter, like in the Garth Ennis mini. I can't see Von Hammer ever taking up flying for the Nazis and would probably be too scarred from WW1. I might use him to show the rise of the Nazis and put him with the anti-Hitler resistance.
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Post by berkley on May 23, 2017 13:27:10 GMT -5
I'd also like to do something mythology-based since I don't think either Marvel or DC ever does a good job with that kind of thing, for the simple reason that, consciously or unconsciously, they're usually too intent on tearing down the traditional mythological characters in order to build up the modern mythology of superheroes. I already mentioned Thor, but I'd particularly like to see a more intelligent treatment of Marvel's version of the Olympian pantheon; actually DC's too, now I think of it - I don't think the WW version works very well, for the most part.
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Post by brutalis on May 23, 2017 13:39:02 GMT -5
I'd also like to do something mythology-based since I don't think either Marvel or DC ever does a good job with that kind of thing, for the simple reason that, consciously or unconsciously, they're usually too intent on tearing down the traditional mythological characters in order to build up the modern mythology of superheroes. I already mentioned Thor, but I'd particularly like to see a more intelligent treatment of Marvel's version of the Olympian pantheon; actually DC's too, now I think of it - I don't think the WW version works very well, for the most part. It is so rotten that the Greek mythology has been so overlooked by Marvel. Hercules for the most part hasn't fared overly well and every time they attempt to modernize him it never lasts very long and the "joke" version surfaces. Gimme some god solid mythological interaction of ALL the pantheon's and have them show the MU what it really means to be "mythical" and heroic! |
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Post by wildfire2099 on May 23, 2017 14:04:23 GMT -5
I'd also like to do something mythology-based since I don't think either Marvel or DC ever does a good job with that kind of thing, for the simple reason that, consciously or unconsciously, they're usually too intent on tearing down the traditional mythological characters in order to build up the modern mythology of superheroes. I already mentioned Thor, but I'd particularly like to see a more intelligent treatment of Marvel's version of the Olympian pantheon; actually DC's too, now I think of it - I don't think the WW version works very well, for the most part. It is so rotten that the Greek mythology has been so overlooked by Marvel. Hercules for the most part hasn't fared overly well and every time they attempt to modernize him it never lasts very long and the "joke" version surfaces. Gimme some god solid mythological interaction of ALL the pantheon's and have them show the MU what it really means to be "mythical" and heroic! They actually did alot better job in the last Hercules series by Dan Abnett... I think it lasted 6 or 7 issues, then there was a 4 issue mini called 'War of the Gods' that wrapped it up (which says it was part of Civil War II, but really wasn't at all). I'd definitely recommend it. |
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Post by Cei-U! on May 23, 2017 14:07:45 GMT -5
How do you reconcile "nothing supernatural" and "Haunted Tank"?
Cei-U!
I summon the fly in the ointment!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 23, 2017 14:12:52 GMT -5
How do you reconcile "nothing supernatural" and "Haunted Tank"? Cei-U! I summon the fly in the ointment! Battle fatigue. |
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Post by The Captain on May 23, 2017 14:37:56 GMT -5
I actually have a few things I would like to write for Marvel, none of which involve major characters.
First off, I would love to revive two of their attempts at "horror" comics from the '90s, those being Nightstalkers and Darkhold. For the former, the dynamic of Frank Drake, Blade, and Hannibal King as partners, friends, and occasional enemies (particularly for Blade and King) is interesting, and I would love to do something that allowed them to operate like an anti-supernatural wetworks team, maybe working at the direction of Doctor Strange to deal with lower-level mystical and supernatural threats like vampires, werewolves, etc., while he took on the dimension-spanning, world-threatening baddies. In the instance of the latter, I loved the anthology nature of the original series and the idea of a group trying to collect the pages of the Darkhold for evil and a group trying to stop them, but it got bogged down in too many crossovers and with too many appearances of mainstream characters like Sabretooth, Ghost Rider, and Punisher. Something like that should be more Lovecraftian (even though I'm not a big fan of his actual work), with the groups lurking around the corners of the MU, not running into major characters unless there was some really good reason to do so.
The other thing that I would love to try to make work, particularly in this day and age, is a revival of the Silver Sable title. She's a strong, independent female character who has her own crew of specialists to handle any job. I could see it as sort of a Mission Impossible-style title, with her taking on jobs for various entities that no one else will touch because of their complexity. She's responsible for the economic success of Symkaria, her homeland, so the higher the risk of a job, the higher the reward and the better it would be for her countrymen. It could have a real international flair, putting her anywhere on the globe with a handpicked team for each job, letting there be a rotating cast of supporting characters as well as the opportunity to bring in freelancers, such as Luke Cage or Paladin, for specific jobs.
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