If you were entirely in charge of DC, what changes would you make?

[RoughNTumble]

tbqh

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[jonathancrane]

-Install Andrea Beaumont into the continuity.
-Bring back Gilda Dent.

Those are a few of many; however, I am fallibg asleep and will post more later.

 

[RoughNTumble]

maybe they could make andrea one of dick's villains

 

[MadVillainy]

-Change the logo
-Bring Wally West back and give Barry "The Flash" and then have a second book starring Wally, Bart, and appearances from Jay.
-Fix Wonder Woman. Get a better writer maybe even give her a new Secret Origin/Year One story
-Limit the number of events
-Cut down the number of comics produced for 1 character. For example for Batman alone there is: Batman: The Dark Knight, Batman, Batman and Robin, Detective Comics and those are all starring Batman if I remember correctly.

ALl I can think of right now
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[Union Jack]

I'd get rid of the new 52 and put it back as it was with all original costumes,personalities etc.
i dont like this new one theyve put out..superman (my fave DC hero) has been ruined.
only good thing thats come out of it is cyborg being more prominent..he's kinda dc's Luke cage!!
Possibly make the new 52 DC's version of Marvel's ultimate line.

 

[Phatman]

If I were running DC
TOTAL HOUSECLEANING. Everyone in editorial get **** Canned.
Hire new editorial staff and maybe a few veterans. Extensive training for everyone regardless of age or experience. Trying to build a team that runs like a publishing house.

Establish a new house style as the standard. And expect everyone to follow it. Characters would have to be on model. No more diva artists and writers. If you can't work on a team, then you can't be a part of my DC.

Establish standards for content. No more gore, graphic violence, or graphic sexual content.

Target tween/teen readers with PG PG-13 based content. Also focus on marketing comics to girls and women.

Make an effort to phase out the 32-page books and replace them with full-color quarterly 240 page digests to compete with manga or 500 page monthly magazine anthologies to compete with Shonen Jump. with a retail price of $5.99- 7.99. These volumes would be cheaper to print than four comics but has a higher entertainment value per dollar for the consumer. Plus, it'd have plenty of adspace in between.

Trade paperbacks would also continue for those who would like to buy comics in one volume without ads. All stories would be self-contained in one volume. No continuity applies. writers can tell whatever story they want.

Get rid of continuity altogether. Writers can write any story they want in any era, or use any characters they want in the DCU. Artists can draw in any style as long as they stay on model. All stories would end in one volume. Like the Simpsons, Family Guy and Looney Tunes, Dead doesn't mean dead.

Cut down the titles to a core list of 16 quarterly and 10 semi-annual books
Quarterlies would be:
Action Comics
Superman
Batman
Batgirl
Detective Comics
Flash
Green Lantern
Wonder Woman
Wonder Girl
Static
Teen Titans/Young Justice
DC Super Heroes
Nightwing
New Gods
Justice Society of America
Justice League of America

Semi-Annuals would be
DC Comics Presents (anthology)
Green Arrow
Aquaman
Legion of Doom
Suicide Squad
Secret Six
Batwoman
World's Finest
Batman Beyond
Hawkman

Stop distributing with Diamond. They're obsolete. Go to The Hudson Group or some other distributor who can get product on newsstand or in drugstores and supermarkets.

Work with Wal-mart, Target and any other retailer to get comics on the shelves of stores next to the magazines.

Hire Chuck Dixon and let him write whatever the Hell he wants.
Hire Marv Wolfman and let him show us how Teen Titans are supposed to be written.
Hire Paul Dini and let him write whatever Batman story he wants.
Hire Gail Simone and let her write whatever the hell she wants.
Hire Josh Howard and put him on Wonder Woman. Nuff said.
Go to Texas and offer R.K. Milholand a million dollars to do whatever the hell he wants. He's THAT GOOD.
Go to art schools and look for rookie talent to train in the house style.

 

[storyteller]

Flash-Barry is back to being dead. Wally's kids don't have powers yet. Kinda want Jay being the primary flash with Bart being KF.
Hal Jordan- Dead or depowered, basically out of play.
Alan Scott DEAD
John Stewart- Earths active green lantern. The others doing the GLC thing.
Superman- ONLY KRYPTONIAN SURVIVOR.
Supergirl - Removed alltogether.
Superboy- Actual Costume
Mon El- Like the guy honestly but maybe because he was more Superman then Superman at the time. I think I kinda like the younger Superman in the new 52 because he's less the man who has his act together.
Batman- Dick Grayson
Robin - Damien Wayne
Red Hood- Jason but less of a crazy *******- basically the new 52 is better.
Red Robin - Honestly make Tim Nightwing and cut the Dr Midnight bs.
Wonder Woman- Get her some pants but keep the skirt.

Teen Titans- Have a more concrete roster.

Overall rude the meta human population. We should have a handful of people and not enough to start a civil war.


I think I would have definitive crisis or some final story. The DC universe is just not capable of sustaining a long continuous story. We get rid of resurrections by ending the story and doing a reboot. The point is not to reboot but continue the previous story and play "whats still in continuity" like GL and Batman. There is issue one and a final issue.

 

[bored]

All Detective Chimp, all the time.

 

[WolfCypher]

Undo the New 52
Change "Teen Titans" into "Young Justice" (name and roster)
Fire Liefield
Fire Liefield
Fire Liefield

Get a promotion/sleep with enough people, work my way up to control of Warner Brothers, work on Justice League projects.

 

[Mystirious]

All Detective Chimp, all the time.

Everything needs more Detective Chimp

 

[Motown Marvel]

undo all this new 52 b.s. and put morrison in charge of the trinity.

 

[Mystirious]

I'd keep pretty much everything about the new 52 personally. I'm really digging the new DCU

The only changes I'd make would be to fire Rob Liefield, put better writers on Detective Comics and Catwoman and bring back Secret Six and put Gail Simone in charge of writing that

Oh and I'd get down on my knees and beg Greg Rucka to come back and let him do whatever he wants with Wonder Woman

 

[Kitsune]

I'd bring back the Starfire Nightwing relationship.

 

[Mystirious]

They were pretty cute together

 

[uniqueweasel]

To begin with, like Blackman said, change that logo!

 

[Kitsune]

To begin with, like Blackman said, change that logo!

The new logo is pretty crappy

 

[CConn]

only good thing thats come out of it is cyborg being more prominent..he's kinda dc's Luke cage!!

Did anyone else laugh when they read this?

 

[WolfCypher]

Yeah, no. I don't really get walking Black Guy stereotype ghetto thugaboo out of Cyborg.

 

[czarblood]

I would remove any influence Jim Lee has on editorial or creative , let him draw pretty pictures but we don't need demonites in superman (how long before they are the ones that instigated the destruction of Krypton)....any pet Wildstorm idea cant work in Mainstream.

 

[Czar Colossus]

i'd get rid of the new 52 and put it back as it was with all original costumes,personalities etc.
I dont like this new one theyve put out..superman (my fave dc hero) has been ruined.
Only good thing thats come out of it is cyborg being more prominent..he's kinda dc's luke cage!!
Possibly make the new 52 dc's version of marvel's ultimate line.

yes

 

[Czar Colossus]

undo the new 52
change "teen titans" into "young justice" (name and roster)
fire liefield
fire liefield
fire liefield

get a promotion/sleep with enough people, work my way up to control of warner brothers, work on justice league projects.

yes

 

[Czar Colossus]

undo all this new 52 b.s. And put morrison in charge of the trinity.

yes

 

[Czar Colossus]

i would remove any influence jim lee has on editorial or creative , let him draw pretty pictures but we don't need demonites in superman (how long before they are the ones that instigated the destruction of krypton)....any pet wildstorm idea cant work in mainstream.

abso-*******-lutely yes!!!!!

 

[CConn]

God, morons have ruined a thread that could've been pretty cool.

 

[HighFivingMF]

I'd let Dini finish his Zatanna run. I don't care if it's a bad business decision or whatever. I liked it and wanna see how it turns out.

Bring Wally back, give him a new hero identity. Give Bart his wacky hair back.