if given the job of EIC, what would YOU do?

[Rollo Tomassi]

Thing married Alicia and they had a child.

I'll bet when he cums its gravel.

Wouldn't it be mortar?

[Diabolical]

I may have mentioned this idea before...

Instead of "The New 52":

Only 2 Batman titles - Batman and Detective Comics.

Batman stars Bruce Wayne as Batman resuming his typical Batman adventures with new Robin in tow.

Detective Comics stars Dick Grayson as Batman continuing his own Batman adventures.

Dick has essentially trained to become Batman for years and when Bruce "died" he got his first real shot at stepping into those shoes and he did a hell of a job. When Bruce came back and this whole 52 thing happened Dick just went back to Nightwing with no climax or resolution to his time as Batman. I would assume that, despite having Bruce back, he would feel a bit cheated and not want to give up the cowl. And he shouldn't have to. Having 2 Batmen would make him more of a mystery in the DCU, especially to criminals.
Say a random criminal sees that Batman is busy chasing Joker, so he makes a move to do his own dirty business, and boom! Batman shows up, kicks his ass and the guy starts telling people Batman can be in 2 places at once. The legend grows.

[anarky]

I sort of agree. Once Dick is Batman for more than a 4-part story, he needs to remain Batman. Or have some conclusion.

Of course, I still disagree with Dick becoming Batman the second time. The entire point of "Prodigal" was to sort of answer the nagging question folks had about Jean-Paul replacing Bruce instead of Dick--he's his own man, and simply doesn't want to be Batman.

Tim was always intended to be Bruce's successor.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Jason Todd should have been the new Batman.

[Rollo Tomassi]

How messed up would it be if, at the very end, the Joker turned out to be Thomas Wayne, Jr?
I don't what convoluted backstory you'd have to concoct to get there, but if THAT was the reveal in the very last Batman story ever, that would be awesome.

[anarky]

Was Thomas Wayne Jr the crazy (dead?) older brother mentioned in one issue from like fifty years ago, which I'm sure Morrison dredged up?

That could be pretty damned cool.

Even cooler would be if it were somehow a huge mindfuck and Batman was Thomas Wayne Jr, but thought he was Bruce, who was really the Joker.

Or maybe not. That hurts my head.

[Diabolical]

But isn't Poppa Wayne back? Or was that an imposter?

[Rollo Tomassi]

They've been kinda spotty on his place in continuity. Sometimes he's older, sometimes younger. He may or may not have been erased after Crisis, or Zero Hour, or any of the other dozen soft reboots/retcons DC has done.

He's also Owlman from the Crime Syndicate of Amerika from Earth3.

At any rate, the idea of a Wayne sibling has been completely underutilized. Making him a shitty D-List villain and then killing him off immediately after does the concept no justice whatsoever. But making him the arch villain retroactively? That's Shakespearean bitch. But really it only works if Batman and Joker are going over a waterfall together, metaphorically speaking.

[Rollo Tomassi]

But isn't Poppa Wayne back? Or was that an imposter?

I can't speak for DCnU continuity, but in the REAL continuity that Black Glove guy was some dude just trying to fuck with Batman and not really his father. At least, as far as I can tell trying to decipher Grant Morrison's drug induced fever dream scripts.
EDIT. I googled Dr. Simon Hurt, and it turns out he's an ancestor of Bruce Wayne kept alive by dark magic for centuries. So he's like Bruce's great great great great great great great uncle. Or something. What is going through Mike Mart's head when Morrison is turning these scripts in?

[Rollo Tomassi]

In light of Rob smearing his shit on Slade Wilson going forward, it reminded me of an idea I had for the JLA. Basically, at a different forum, they asked 'Who would be your perfect JLA team?' Without constraints, if I was only going to do one JLA story, I'd stack it with my favorite DC characters, regardless of whether they were actually JLA material. So my team was Hawk & Dove, Prince Gavyn, Artemis, Phantasm, a mysterious female Archer, and led by Deathstroke.
The idea was that the "big three" were in their secret room poring over photos of candidates, deciding who to "allow" into the JLA. Meanwhile, some huge threat attacks Washington DC. Slade is there for an assassination, and sees H&D, Artemis, and the others trying to fight it. He realizes if the threat wins, it's all over for Earth, so he reluctantly 'leads' the other heroes and saves the day. When Bats and them come out of their cave, all very proud of their new list, Slade's there in front of a bunch of news cameras saying "Meet youre new JLA!" and Superman is like "b..but, we made a list.." and Slade is all "Losers sit in caves making lists. Justice Leaguers save Capitols. Bitch."

So, the mysterious Archer chick would turn out to be Lian Harper, who either didn't really die, or is like an alternate future's version of her. Or both.
Artemis would be like the bitchy take no shit version of WW, just because it would get on Diana's nerves.
Phantasm, just because that's a cool look, except I'd give him (it? Them?) a deep dark red cloak and gold facemask. Update it a bit.
Hawk & Dove because their based in DC.
Gavyn to have a powerhouse on the team.
And Slade leading would piss off just about every sanctimonious hypocrite Super Hero out there.
And my JLA wouldn't be a bunch of emo mopey bitches like it seems the team has been for the last decade. They'd be saving the world every other issue, making everyone else look like ineffective asshole chumps. And Slade would be kinda an unapologetic, arrogant douche about it.
I'd also make Jack Knight a super villain and have him steal his power staff back from Stargirl and shiv her through the chest with it, killing her. Nobody's "fave characters" get deferential treatment on my watch. Least of all mediocre writers like Robinson.

[anarky]

Every so often, I just love to read through this thread. It would be the greatest thread ever made by mortals...

...if not for that fucktard Snigtad jumping in every page or so and saying the same thing about Batman buttfucking Spider-Man. Seriously, what is that moron's hang-up with anal sex?

[Rollo Tomassi]

Sonuva bitch. Jason Aaron just referenced Nth Man, the Ultimate Ninja over in CBRs 'Axel-in-Charge' column. Now I KNOW that guy is trolling here.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Cloak & Dagger. Considering the etymology of the name of this series is shorthand for Cold War spy stuff, I'm rougly thinking of how to make these two kids agents of SHIELD or something. that way the title would have two meanings. But i'm trying to radically alter their powers enough to make them interesting again. because lets face it, Tandy and Tyrone are pretty stale. I thought about switching their powers so that she's got a white teleporting cloak (ala Raven from Teen Titans) and he's firing off shadow daggers, or something. But the stagnation of these two is working against me. Its almost enough to scrap those two entirely and come up with two brand new characters.

Eh, how many is that so far?

Is it funny or sad that this is the new status quo at the end of their 'Spider-Island' mini series? Well, sorta, she's got the 'dark' power and he's got the 'light' now. But, honestly, I'm getting a complex.

[Rollo Tomassi]

This isn't a story idea, just a scene I thought would be cool.
So, right now, in the MU, the Kingpin is the head of the Hand Ninja Clan and runs it out of the Shadowland building in Hell's Kitchen. The scene I'm thinking of is that some Japanese guy comes in and tells Kingpin he is no longer the head and power will be returning to Japan. Kingpin of course gets all blustery or whatever, talking about how he 'won' control from Murdock, the previous head. The Japanese guy just shakes his head and says "you know nothing of control. Your control is an illusion. You never had it. Observe." Then he gives a single command and ALL the Hand ninjas in Shadowland draw their swords and kill themselves without question. Then the guy walks out leaving a completely stunned Kingpin in a room full of disintegrating corpses.

[RoIIo Tomassi]

I had an idea that's not strictly speaking a story idea.

Basically do a mock up of the Daily Bugle that covers every Event in the Marvel U since the FFs rocket crashed. Big events would get the main headline, while smaller events happening concurrently would get smaller sidebars. For example(and this is not timeline accurate, it's just an example) the main headline would be GALACTUS! and cover the FFs battle. A smaller headline would read Daredevil stops StiltMan robbery. Another would read Harlem Heroes open firm. Family murdered in Central Park Mob Hit. Radioactive Material is stolen. Etc etc.
The stolen material headline would end up being a Hulk/Leader fight several issues later. Or an article that says Doc Ock escapes prison. And then there'd be a front page headline a month later about Spidey and Ock fighting. You could even cover small stuff like Iron Man stops Hostess theft!

It'd be pretty labor intensive cross checking all the books that were released at the same time and 'guestimating' the order of certain events. Plus, if you were reading a story and something happened in flashback ( like the radioactive theft or Doc Ock escape above) youd have to work backwards and insert the story accordingly. And being vague about events that wouldn't be covered by the news(like some X-Men battle in Antarctica), but referencing them all the same. And most likely, like a real paper, you'd have follow up articles about Major Events even though they wouldn't be the headline article (Like Galactus or the Onslaught or Inferno etc).
I don't know if it'd work on insaneprattle (what with Daily Bugle being TM and all) but it'd be kinda cool I think.