You have a time machine which sends you back to the year your favorite book was introduced. It has accessories that grant you the skill to write/draw comics at professional level and mind control abilities to get an editor to hire you.
In short you have the power to make your favorite book the way you think it should have been done. No missteps or things you want to forget happened.
What book would you design?
Me:
Killian's Legion (LSH revamp)
It is 2959 and a badly war torn Earth is the scene. A reasonably dashing officer type walks through the wreckage of Metropolis to a military base. Exposition to explain the war, Earth's being on it's last leg. He's almost killed by a 13 year old in a badly fitting uniform too scared to realize Brigadier Killian was approaching.
Inside, Killian gets to an installation deep underground where the power woorks and very little seems to be wanting.
The facility is a time portal, Earth is reduced to rising it's history to save it's present. The portal is being used to grab the heroes of an earlier age and recruit them to save Earth.
The enemy attacks at this point and it's a race to get the portal to work now before their defenses are overwhelmed.
Fruitless searches eat up valuable time. Finally they lock onto a red and blue streak flying across the sky too fast for them to make out the details. With no time to spare, they grab Superman and discover they took a 14 year old Superboy.
Still, he's a lot better than some of the other choices they had. Superboy manages to evacuate the facility before it blows and drive off the invaders.
Proper introductions are made and Superboy is drafted to lead the last of Earth's superbeings against the enemy.
He's older than most of them. Situation is THAT bad.
In place of Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad there is the electromagnetic boy Dynamo (Age 13). In place of Saturn Girl is the Teep/Teek Psihawk, a tactical fighting amazon from Paradise Island. (15 years old) Her Mental abilities include limited telepathy, TK not quite up to her Amazonian muscles but useful none the less and she flies by creating 'imaginary wings' are virtually indestructible when she forms them. She can make them thick or thin at will, at their thinnest they are remarkable cutting weapons, particularly when flying at top speed. Brainiac 5 is replaced with Interface, a black 12 year old from Jamaica who has three doctorates already. Machines he touches do what he tells them to do, even do things they normally can't! Wears power armor adding Super Strength and something akin to invulnerability to his arsenal. Other powers vary with configuration but flight will be a commonly used one.
Prior to Superboy's arrival he led the team.
Chuck Taine isn't Bouncing Boy, he's Slam! (exclamation point is NOT optional) A stretching brick, super strong able to richochet etc. No beach ball looks allowed.
Haunt: the non science character in the group. The ghost of an Earth soldier. Invisibility, intangibility a terror power. He needs to stay focused or risks fading off to the next realm forever.
Repli-Kate. Triplicate Girl meets Multi-man of the Impossibles. If the original of her dies, she's had it. But Computo could fry thousands of her copies and just waste electricity.
Brigadier Killian takes a Batman role. He's that damned good. And in command, of them and the supporting troops and transports, not merely a team leader.
Remote: an invention of Interface, a small computer brain able to duplicate to a lesser extent, Interface's abillity to interact with machines.
With Superboy's help, Earth is abile to break the blockade the enemy has had around the Sol system, long enough for a couple of convoys to get in, resupplying Earth with things it needs.
The enemy counter attacks however. They've identified Superboy and begin detonating quantum bombs around Earth. These will trap Superboy in the future, preventing him from becoming Superman in his own era. Time disruption. This will affect them too (Supes has saved their worlds a couple times at minimum) but affects Earth more. They're leaving a window they can close off whenever they choose to.
No choice Killlian sends Superboy out of his era. "Between their ship losses and the resupply, you've given us a chance, one better than we could hope for. You've done more than we dared ask. Now it's up to us!"
Superboy exits the 30th century and the last Q-bomb seals that timeline off from him.
A Superboyless Legion series begins. I see the first 50 issues dealing with the war, with issue 50 marking victory. The post war Legion becomes a crime fighting unit.
In short you have the power to make your favorite book the way you think it should have been done. No missteps or things you want to forget happened.
What book would you design?
Me:
Killian's Legion (LSH revamp)
It is 2959 and a badly war torn Earth is the scene. A reasonably dashing officer type walks through the wreckage of Metropolis to a military base. Exposition to explain the war, Earth's being on it's last leg. He's almost killed by a 13 year old in a badly fitting uniform too scared to realize Brigadier Killian was approaching.
Inside, Killian gets to an installation deep underground where the power woorks and very little seems to be wanting.
The facility is a time portal, Earth is reduced to rising it's history to save it's present. The portal is being used to grab the heroes of an earlier age and recruit them to save Earth.
The enemy attacks at this point and it's a race to get the portal to work now before their defenses are overwhelmed.
Fruitless searches eat up valuable time. Finally they lock onto a red and blue streak flying across the sky too fast for them to make out the details. With no time to spare, they grab Superman and discover they took a 14 year old Superboy.
Still, he's a lot better than some of the other choices they had. Superboy manages to evacuate the facility before it blows and drive off the invaders.
Proper introductions are made and Superboy is drafted to lead the last of Earth's superbeings against the enemy.
He's older than most of them. Situation is THAT bad.
In place of Cosmic Boy and Lightning Lad there is the electromagnetic boy Dynamo (Age 13). In place of Saturn Girl is the Teep/Teek Psihawk, a tactical fighting amazon from Paradise Island. (15 years old) Her Mental abilities include limited telepathy, TK not quite up to her Amazonian muscles but useful none the less and she flies by creating 'imaginary wings' are virtually indestructible when she forms them. She can make them thick or thin at will, at their thinnest they are remarkable cutting weapons, particularly when flying at top speed. Brainiac 5 is replaced with Interface, a black 12 year old from Jamaica who has three doctorates already. Machines he touches do what he tells them to do, even do things they normally can't! Wears power armor adding Super Strength and something akin to invulnerability to his arsenal. Other powers vary with configuration but flight will be a commonly used one.
Prior to Superboy's arrival he led the team.
Chuck Taine isn't Bouncing Boy, he's Slam! (exclamation point is NOT optional) A stretching brick, super strong able to richochet etc. No beach ball looks allowed.
Haunt: the non science character in the group. The ghost of an Earth soldier. Invisibility, intangibility a terror power. He needs to stay focused or risks fading off to the next realm forever.
Repli-Kate. Triplicate Girl meets Multi-man of the Impossibles. If the original of her dies, she's had it. But Computo could fry thousands of her copies and just waste electricity.
Brigadier Killian takes a Batman role. He's that damned good. And in command, of them and the supporting troops and transports, not merely a team leader.
Remote: an invention of Interface, a small computer brain able to duplicate to a lesser extent, Interface's abillity to interact with machines.
With Superboy's help, Earth is abile to break the blockade the enemy has had around the Sol system, long enough for a couple of convoys to get in, resupplying Earth with things it needs.
The enemy counter attacks however. They've identified Superboy and begin detonating quantum bombs around Earth. These will trap Superboy in the future, preventing him from becoming Superman in his own era. Time disruption. This will affect them too (Supes has saved their worlds a couple times at minimum) but affects Earth more. They're leaving a window they can close off whenever they choose to.
No choice Killlian sends Superboy out of his era. "Between their ship losses and the resupply, you've given us a chance, one better than we could hope for. You've done more than we dared ask. Now it's up to us!"
Superboy exits the 30th century and the last Q-bomb seals that timeline off from him.
A Superboyless Legion series begins. I see the first 50 issues dealing with the war, with issue 50 marking victory. The post war Legion becomes a crime fighting unit.
