RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Comic Books YOU Reboot the DCU

Wow. This is a really good idea. Seriously, doc, you should try and sell this to DC. It's better than any Challengers reboot I've seen in forty years of reading comics.

Yeah, the idea of an redux Planetary / Global Frequency in mainstream continuity is a logical exploitation of Ellis' best concept. I was ever hopeful that a frozen American super soldier would be found in the Arctic by The Four, who decided that they couldn't be bothered defrosting him. Challengers of the Unknown could investigate:

a a corrupt female cop with a strange sorcerous glove which eventually consumes her and itself when it realizes what she is and what it perpetuates;

b the orbiting hulk of ruined space ship from a utopian future, clearly the victim of combat, filled with the corpses of pointy-eared aliens and their cyborg adversaries;

c a Japanese atomic powered robot in the shape of a boy, which during it's test run suffers a systems crash which over-rides it's altruistic programming, sending it on a rampage through Tokyo;

d the ruins of an ancient Gaul village and it's inscribed formula for super-strength.

Lots of fun to be had with this. Great idea.

I was talking to someone the other day about why Wonder Woman hardly ever works anymore.
we basically agreed that she has no reason to be in Man's world. WWII made sense, but the ambassador didn't work, etc. There has to be a reason for WW to leave a place like paradise island. A good reason, and there hasn't been one recently.

World eating monsters like starro and Trigon could help give a reason.

Yeah, fuck the Green Lantern part, I'll just do a space pirate comic.

Space Pirate!

A Chilean cinematographer is minding his own business walking down the streets of some city north of Santiago one day. A flying saucer appears above him and abducts him. Small hot alien chicks give him a hook, an eye patch and a large penis. He has sex with them all and they give him the flying saucer. He becomes Space Pirate!

That's Mxy's true to life story.

But you need to replace "Small hot alien chicks" with Lothar, Wondy, and MEM.

And replace "large penis" with "animatronic sock puppet".

Now we're talking!

cinematographer?

I barely knew her!

It took this long to come up with that. You can't rush comedy, especially ones that are gold.

Champagne comedy.

Hawk and Dove - Writer: Anybody Artist: Rob Leifeld
Dove's almost non-existent ankles break while on a mission leading to her being captured and killed. Holing up in the JLA HQs, a grief driven Hawk builds a time-traveling suit based on Linear Men and Cosmic Treadmill technology. Arriving back in time, he learns his calculations were wildly imprecise as he re-enters the timestream at Dove's funeral. Grief turning into rage, he kills his past self creating a time paradox that fractures the the New DCU forever. How could this get any worse? Well, let's just say that rage draws the attention of a blood vomiting space kitty! Hank Hall of Earth, welcome to the Red Lantern Corps!

I thought about this leading into a Johns/Leifeld mini-series: Flachpouch: Pockets in Time where the Flash battles Hawk in the remaining pockets of the universe that are slowly being destroyed by the paradox. The climax of the series reveals the true villain, Wally West. He pushed Hawk out of the timestream at the wrong time knowing that he wouldn't be able to control his rage. I hate to turn Wally bad like that, but it couldn't be any worse than anything DC has done with him lately. But, I thought the title would just be pushing the Leifeld humor a little too much.

For my favorite title Legion of Superheroes, I would reboot it by combining aspects of all the previous reboots into one. They would have a really huge membership with a primary core cast being focussed on from story to story. They would be aware that their history is all messed up due to the Time Trapper's manipulations but there wouldn't be anything they could do about it other than preserving what they had now. The title would not be held accountable for the ongoing changes for the present day DCU. Superboy would be the one from the silver age. Maybe he would be from an alternate universe or be part of some chronal destabalization by the Time Trapper, whatever. With that in place they could just go on and have adventures using the futuristic backdrop that helps make the Legion unigue.

They would also age in real time as much as possible. That would force change and growth without having to do another reboot IMHO.

I like the Legion having some effectively immortal members in it too: Red Tornado, Dr Fate, and some New Gods. A Green Lantern would be nice too. Never got the exclusion on that.

i always liked the idea of having a super hero character age in real time, go through real seasons, etc. thought that'd be a unique angle. ...though i don't know if i'd waste it on the legion... (buuuuuurn)

The Legion sorta aged but that ended after Giffen's 5 years later. Than it was reboot, reboot and reboot. As for an immortal character being in the Legion, Monel is over a thousand years old. He may actually be (or will be?) DC's longest lived superhero.

I think Vandal Savage is a little older.

He died in a car accident a coupla months ago.

He didn't notice that the lights had changed.

In DC One Million Vandal Savage is one million million years old.

Funny. He doesn't look a day over 900,000 million.

I liked it better when he had wacky powers in the beginning of the Wally West Flash series. I know this because I read Mxy's blogs and stuff...

Vandal Savage is a super-villain. Or has that been retconned?

Is the Phantom Stranger still alive during Legion's time?

JLA #1 comes out next Wednesday right? I'm just gonna dump all this crap on a Mighty Geek post. If someone wants to reboot Shazam now's the time!

Shazam: An ethnic gay guy named Billy Batson spends all his spare time helping the homeless encounters an old dying man near an abandoned subway. It turns out to be an ancient wizzard named Shazzam who attempts to steal Billy's body and becomes the world's mightiest villian. The spell gets botched though and Billy ends up having the evil wizzard's powers when he says his name. The catch is the longer he keeps them the more influence the old wizzard has over Billy.

Grifter: a gunslinging vet becomes involved with a Kherian warlord and learns from her the ultimate secrets of fighting. He becomes the irrepressible Grifter: toting his hi-tech weaponry, he roams the world brawling, cracking jokes, and occasionally taking jobs for money, but hides a deep secret.

His real name: Joe Chill.

intriguing.

I kind of like it but one of the problems I have with DC is that every few years they weight of their own continuity tends to bog them down to the point where they can't tell decent stories.

Making anyone but a random mugger who just happened to kill the wrong people the murderer of Bruce Wayne's parents takes the idea of "it could have happened to any of us" out of the equation and robs the Batman creation myth of more than a bit of its power.

Personally, I think the best concept was the "Zero Hour" version where Bruce (and we) never knew who the mugger was. It added a bit of pathos to the character, the idea that he would always wonder if the guy he beat up that evening might have been "the one."

I'm with G-man here. Dave, you're fired!