Say you took the reins at DC...

[GoldenAgeHero]

your opinion is the basis of bad ideas.

 

[Aristotle]

My Special Run would be the JLA deciding to get involved in international affairs. I'm sure it's been done. With a focus on the resulting problems. Policing the Middle East, getting Osama bin Laden (not really sure how you would handle that I admit), GL blasting North Korea's test missiles. Start out with JLA "solving" some world problems, then issuing edicts about what they will "allow", people's response, turmoil between league members as to how to proceed, etc.

Been done. JLA-Superpower, two consecutive arcs of JLA Classified.

Yeah, you would need to be in charge of Warner Bros. Or rich enough to buy DC comics from them. Which is neigh impossible.

Or you'd just need to have the ear of Michael Uslan.

 

[antonydelfini]

Just for starters, I'd reboot - I mean, actually reboot - the DCU.

None of this half-reboot in-medias-res horse****, and no intelligence-insulting "EVENT COMICS!!!!!" crap, just send out a press release "As of [date] we will be completely restarting the DCU." Let the writers wrap up whatever plot lines they like, do a bunch of marriages / resurrections / whatever other sentimental claptrap will make people happy, then slap THE END on all the books and restart the whole thing over from Superman / Wonder Woman / Batman Number One.

Because the DC universe right now feels so confusing and inaccessible especially to new readers, this might actually be a good solution.

 

[Joker]

In a completely hypothetical and probably impossible scenario, imagine for a moment that Warner Bros. makes you the head of DC. All the titles, all the characters, all the writers...it's all in your hands. And every writer in the world is dying to work for you on whatever title you please. What would you do? Which titles would you cancel? Which would you start (back) up? Which writers would you assign to which characters? Would you reboot any - or all - the franchises? Would you eliminate all the annoying little "pocket" and "alternate" universes?

Have a go.

1. Total reboot, they f**ked up bad with Infinite Crisis: Back to the Silver Age! All that s**t should have been left back then, so lets get rid of it for good.

2. Only 3 books per character, not counting minis or alternate universe series (ala All Star), max, and only Batman and Superman should ever have that many unless something else somehow gets that popular. But for now, only 2 for them, cause we're starting over fresh with no continuity. So Batman and 'Tec, and Superman and Action are all that's left for them, respectively.

3. A list of other characters who will have there own ongoing titles from the very beginning: Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, The New Gods, Captain Marvel, and Aquaman. Other main stream, big titles, such as JLA, Green Lantern Corps, etc. will eventually spin off of the regular titles after they've had a chance to set up this new universe. Also, alternate universe titles such as The Spirit and Jonah Hex will not be affected by the reboot, as they dont really effect DC continuity at all.

4. This is a very specific thing. Batman= NO ROBIN. I don't care what others think, it's a stupid premise and was only even created so Batman would be more "kid friendly" when he got his own book back in the day.

There's other crap I would do, of course, but that's the jist of it.

 

[donk70]

your opinion is the basis of bad ideas.

Right.

Explain yourself, just don't say I have bad ideas

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

why the **** would you kill off the B chracters you do that who the hell are the A list heroes are going to interact with besides other A list heroes? thats probably the most dimwitted move to even do,plus it'll alot more boring.

 

[Darthphere]

1. Total reboot, they f**ked up bad with Infinite Crisis: Back to the Silver Age! All that s**t should have been left back then, so lets get rid of it for good.

2. Only 3 books per character, not counting minis or alternate universe series (ala All Star), max, and only Batman and Superman should ever have that many unless something else somehow gets that popular. But for now, only 2 for them, cause we're starting over fresh with no continuity. So Batman and 'Tec, and Superman and Action are all that's left for them, respectively.

3. A list of other characters who will have there own ongoing titles from the very beginning: Wonder Woman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Martian Manhunter, The New Gods, Captain Marvel, and Aquaman. Other main stream, big titles, such as JLA, Green Lantern Corps, etc. will eventually spin off of the regular titles after they've had a chance to set up this new universe. Also, alternate universe titles such as The Spirit and Jonah Hex will not be affected by the reboot, as they dont really effect DC continuity at all.

4. This is a very specific thing. Batman= NO ROBIN. I don't care what others think, it's a stupid premise and was only even created so Batman would be more "kid friendly" when he got his own book back in the day.

There's other crap I would do, of course, but that's the jist of it.

I will thank God for Dan Didio, just for today.

 

[donk70]

why the **** would you kill off the B chracters you do that who the hell are the A list heroes are going to interact with besides other A list heroes? thats probably the most dimwitted move to even do,plus it'll alot more boring.

Not all of the B list, just the ones that I find to be terrible characters

Harley Quinn
Red Arrow
Teen Titans
Mytsylpikt
Bat Myte
Steel
Karate Kid
Azreal
Metal Men
Metamorpho
Man-Bat
The Creeper


There are many others that I would kill off, but my list could go on and on

 

[SouLeSS]

My changes wouldn't be too big.

I'd cancel a good portion of the books that are out, Catwoman, all the Confidentials and Classified's and such. The low sellers like Shadowpact and even Robin (though I still to this day have every issue of all Robin named books, and I don't think it's that bad, but the sales show it is).

I'd keep Detective Comics how it is, and get a design team on Action to be just like it. Where it's just short one and dones, or a short two parter. None of this LOL KRYPTONITE MONKEY VS KRYPTO AND JIMMY OLSEN HAS AMAZING SUPERPOWERS! bull**** that's going on in both Action and Superman.

Superman and Batman's named titles would be the ones that would go with everything else thats effecting the DC world. Action and Detective would be more like 'elseworlds' than anyting else. Or just tellings of stories around the time period they're written.

The rest of DC, eh. I wouldn't change much. Probably dump the weekly format once Countdown is over. Hopefully they won't release some new weekly thing, but I'm prety sure they will, based on sales. I mean hell, Countdown doesn't sell as well as 52, but it's still in the top 30 every week. All 4/5 issues.

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

Not all of the B list, just the ones that I find to be terrible characters

Harley Quinn
Red Arrow
Teen Titans
Mytsylpikt
Bat Myte
Steel
Karate Kid
Azreal
Metal Men
Metamorpho
Man-Bat
The Creeper


There are many others that I would kill off, but my list could go on and on

how are these characters horrible? explain yourself?

 

[Spike_x1]

GAH's being intelligent?

 

[Omega Red]

DC does not control the film rights!!!!!

Well being a Warner Bros company I think they would has some say over it.

 

[Anubis]

No, they don't.

 

[Joker]

I will thank God for Dan Didio, just for today.

yeah cause super powered jimmy olsen, jason todd turning good again for no reason, the f**king club of heroes coming back in Batman, and all the other silver age BS is so great ...

 

[GoldenAgeHero]

here is what i would do.

kill nightwing(lets face it his character aint going anywhere anytime soon).

cancel detective comics. and come out with a batman and robin comic.(written by anderson gabrych)

batman will be his solo title, make him dark and gritty again, make him head of the league of assains except doing good.(then after a coupe of years have Ras come back and challenge bats for leadershipof the league.)

cancel birds of prey.(kill off everyone thats in it)

bring back cassandra cain and give her, her own title again.(written by paul dini)

Flash(written by dini)

Mark waid on wonder woman.

cancel action comics. superman will be his only solo title. kill off every other krypotonian,thus making supes the last son of krypton.(kurt will continue writing).make him a bit closer to kingdom come superman or earth 2 supes.

Shazam ongoing written by busiek.

cancel outsiders. replace it with suicide squad written by morrison staring batgirl(cain).

bring back the teen titans before OYL.(conner is still dead thanks to the shusters)

marc gunningheim on a doom patrol mini, if it does well an ongoing will be launched.

i can't believe its the justice league, written by giffen and waid.
brave and the bold canceled.(i like it, but i rather put waid on where he'sneeded the most)

oh and give supes and lois lane a kid only to have him kidnapped by darkseid, raising him as his own son(remember this scenario?) t:

 

[Omega Red]

No, they don't.

Well that might explain why its gonna take forever to get a movie out.

 

[donk70]

yeah cause super powered jimmy olsen, jason todd turning good again for no reason, the f**king club of heroes coming back in Batman, and all the other silver age BS is so great ...

+1. WTF has DC done the past 2 years?

 

[Darthphere]

yeah cause super powered jimmy olsen, jason todd turning good again for no reason, the f**king club of heroes coming back in Batman, and all the other silver age BS is so great ...

It's not, but it's a whole lot better than your other crap.

Also, this rebuttal only covers your first point, which I agree with. The rest of your ideas are garbage.

It can also be argued Jason Todd turned bad for no reason, making everything moot, but who has the time.

 

[Anubis]

Technically he was never bad in the first place. He's basically DC's Punisher. He probably will continue to be DC's Punisher.

 

[fifthfiend]

Technically he was never bad in the first place. He's basically DC's Punisher.

It's arguable as to whether Punisher / Punisher-esque characters aren't villains.

 

[Anubis]

I guess,...... if you're one of those bleeding heart liberals!!

 

[Joker]

It's not, but it's a whole lot better than your other crap.

Also, this rebuttal only covers your first point, which I agree with. The rest of your ideas are garbage.

It can also be argued Jason Todd turned bad for no reason, making everything moot, but who has the time.

I dont see how they're bad...the continuity in DC is so incredibly complicated it this point that unless you've been reading the books since the 70's you have no clue what the hell is happening most of the time, even I have to wiki s**t sometimes...so just get rid of it, start fresh...I also dont see how having a set number of books each chracter has is wrong, as flooding the market always ends badly, and most characters already only have 1-2 books, so why is setting a 3 book limit bad? Do you really want to go back to having Batman, Detective Comics, Gotham Knights, and Legends of the Dark Knight all running at the same time? Cause that's when the continuity gets f**ked with again, and everything goes to hell. So keeping it tighter keeps continuity tighter. And all the other chracters who have books now, ala the rest of the JSA would eventually get there own books again, but seeing as this would be a restart of the universe, I dont want every single character to already be around, so lets give it some time to grow before introducing them in a more natural way...in 5 years, it would be back to the number of overall books there are today, but I would rather start slow as the DC universe did in the first place

 

[Anubis]

I've been reading the books since, I don't know, 2001? And I'm good. Maybe it's just you?

 

[Varient]

here is what i would do.

kill nightwing(lets face it his character aint going anywhere anytime soon).
cancel detective comics. and come out with a batman and robin comic.(written by anderson gabrych)
batman will be his solo title, make him dark and gritty again, make him head of the league of assains except doing good.(then after a coupe of years have Ras come back and challenge bats for leadershipof the league.)
cancel birds of prey.(kill off everyone thats in it)
bring back cassandra cain and give her, her own title again.(written by paul dini)
Flash(written by dini)
Mark waid on wonder woman.
cancel action comics. superman will be his only solo title. kill off every other krypotonian,thus making supes the last son of krypton.(kurt will continue writing).make him a bit closer to kingdom come superman or earth 2 supes.
Shazam ongoing written by busiek.
cancel outsiders. replace it with suicide squad written by morrison staring batgirl(cain).
bring back the teen titans before OYL.(conner is still dead thanks to the shusters)
marc gunningheim on a doom patrol mini, if it does well an ongoing will be launched.
i can't believe its the justice league, written by giffen and waid.
brave and the bold canceled.(i like it, but i rather put waid on where he'sneeded the most)
oh and give supes and lois lane a kid only to have him kidnapped by darkseid, raising him as his own son(remember this scenario?) t:

And I was run - over for MY ideas?????

OUCH - HOW ARE you improving stuff with more "Killing"?????

 

[Doc Destruction]

I've been reading the books since, I don't know, 2001? And I'm good. Maybe it's just you?

I'm with you. Not having any problems yet, and I'm still kind of new to DC, technically.