hippie_hunter said:
Lets say you had the power to do whatever you wanted to Marvel's books, what would you do? What books would you cancel? What characters would get their own ongoing?
Spider-Man:
1) The number of Spider-Man titles would be reduced to one, Amazing Spider-Man. Dan Slott and John Romita Jr. would be the creative team.
X-Men:
1) The X-Men titles that directly concern the X-Men team would be reduced to one, Uncanny X-Men. The creative team would be Joss Whedon and Alan Davis.
2) Wolverine would only apear in two titles regularly: Uncanny X-Men and his solo series. I'd hand the reigns of his solo series over to Garth Ennis.
3) I would have the Xaivier school move to Boston at the request of Reed Richards, who on behalf of the government has gone to great lengs to make sure that major superhuman events no longer center around New York by removing such elements that atract these events as the X-Men, who's nature as superhuman political activists draws much danger to the city.
4) I would also have the X-Men become a U.S. government sponsored anti-terrorism unit. Essentially, doing what they always did, but legally. Membership on the X-Men would be limited to those faculty members with the proper training. The students would be limited to community service in the area.
5) I would actually have the various members of the X-Men be given specific teaching duties in the school:
Cyclops: Head of the civics/community service programs at the school.
Wolverine: Gym (E/I Danger Room sessions)
Beast: Biology
Storm: History
Nightcrawler: Philosophy/religion
Kitty Pryde: Computer sciences
Professor X: Physics
Other teaching duties would go to non team members.
Avengers:
1) I would have it be revealed that the reason everyone is acting so out of character in Civil War is because the Mad Thinker and the Puppet Master took advantage of the Superhero Registration Act and manipulated key individuals into taking their reactions to illogical extremes, turning it from a simple political debate to mass chaos.
2) There would only be one Avengers title, and the roster would be as thus:
Captain America
Captain Britain
Thor
Iron Man
Sabra
Red Gaurdian II
Black Panther
Namor
Scarlet Witch (she'll be on prozac)
Sasquatch
She Hulk
The team would be made into an international group responding directly to the U.S. and S.H.E.I.L.D. The creative team would be Grant Morrison and Doug Mahnke.
Urban Legends:
It would be a rather loose affiliation of New York's street level vigilantes. It would include Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Cloak, Dagger, Moon Knight, Echo, and White Tiger. By this point, due to Reed Richard's program, the Urban Legends would be the only vigilante heroes still active in New York besides Spider-Man.
The Force:
A special task force set up by the NYPD for the purpose of dealing with superhuman related crimes. The members of this task force are:
Hank Pym
Janet Van Dyne
Bishop
Genis-Vell
Felicia Hardy
The Two-Gun Kid
Johnny Blaze
The series would be written by Peter David
Invaders:
A new team is formed, and serves as the more violent, black ops counter part to The Avengers. The team inlcudes:
Black Widow
Union Jack
Spitfire
USAgent
Deadpool
Thin-Man
Blazing Skull
Jim Hammond (after being rebuilt)
Citizen V
Also, I'd try to get alot more comedy books made. I mean, drama's great, but people still need laughs too. I'd probably comission a new Howard The Duck series as a start.
