I was just being racist, because all the shitty lanterns are non-whites, Kyle doesn’t count cause they retconned him. John Stewart is boting and his only impact outside comics is the version that was Dwayne’s (burning in hell) chadsona and stole Hal’s stuff.
I really think they’d be in a better spot if for like four or five years they actually did the “next generation thing” they were planning, have the kids step up with Maverick Hal Jordan to show them the ropes. Cause not doing that, they’ve left those characters to rot and simply created inferior replacements for the replacements, the creature that stole Jon’s life, TYRONE FOX, salsa Wonder Woman and the other abominations from Future State.
I think the key to fixing Steel is restoring the 90s “no kryptonians” rule and restore Supes to his status as the “Last Son”, there’s too many. Depower or kill them cause they’re all lame and he never needed Kara, tits mgee, his gross son, the super twins or the Chinese knockoff. They all suck and I stand by that, the only other Kryptonians should be bastards like Zod.
Supes, Steel, Conner and throw in Eradicator as a hero again, that’s all the “Super Family” you needed. Superman’s bro, his clone-son created from an unholy union with another man and a Terminator knockoff. Suddenly in a world with less Kryptonians, a baseline human doing what’s right and keeping up with Superman is more impressive.
I think that movie destroyed Steel, killed him before he had any chance to become more than a Superman ally.
John's been kind of elevated due to the DCAU more than anything else. He's fine enough, but the guy's defined by being the GL that gets a ton of shitty stuff happen to him (His first wife dies, he gets crippled and I recall his second wife/gf dies, a big defining moment is when his hubris led to the death of a planet, etc.). I think he's a fine character to give a chance to, but we've got way too many Earth Lanterns.
The next gen thing was being set up since the Geoff Johns titans run with the "tomorrow titans" shit.
I'm 100% sure the future state stuff's gonna be shoved into the background eventually. Naomi bombed and Bendis is gone. Jon's bullshit is probably getting set back to a kid, I hope, because the Super Sons stuff was way popular compared to gay superboy. Salsa Wonder Woman may stay around as a lore-building piece because Wonder Woman needs a better supporting cast. Tyrone Fox is probably getting a rebrand sometime and then turned into another sidebar Bat-vigilante. Don't recall the rest of the fuckin' Future State characters. Did we ever get a resolution on Red X?
Superman's extended adopted kids feels like it's going to horribly backfire someday. Conner, Steel? Sure. Jon, Kara, Power Girl? Sure. I feel like the writer's just adding more shit in case they get used in some other media so they get a check.
Bendis had a great premise with superman's identity going public. It's a shame he's a garbage writer. I can think of fifty different arcs that would have been interesting to explore Superman as a symbol to people, to the heroes, Superman as a man, etc. It could have been milked for a lot of content. Hell, it could have seen a lot of potential with a reverse-identity crisis if they'd the whole year of the villain to be a year or two later, so you'd have Superman set up a hopeful vibe of "trust" in the mainstream titles before the Batman Who Laughs or w/e pulls a DCAU and brainwashes+corrupts him for the entry to the big event. The "Infected" was a fine idea, but imagine if it'd been in really good writer hands with the final revelation being a completely corrupted Superman after the proper juxtaposition buildup via "Miracle Monday" and whatnot. Make the other 5 infected be the right characters to counter specific braindead solutions to trying to stop him.
That took me 30 secs to think up DC, hit me up for more ideas.
I just remembered that as part of the New Golden Age, they introduced Steel's great uncle John Henry Jr.. Who I'm assuming that most people are going to forget exists.
Figuring out what to do with the legacy characters and not making them lame and gay is DC's biggest problem right now.
That kinda makes sense. He's some guy from Cooke's new Frontier wasn't he? I'm all for more Irons Family stuff. It'd be pretty cool if Steel winds up finding out that he's not only carrying on a legacy inspired by Superman (and the obscure retrofitted Commander Steel, who's treated as being historically important within the DCU.) but also the legacy of his own family's superheroics. I'm down for this.
Legacy Characters are fine but they need to slow down and focus on the stories. Introducing like 7 new flash "legacies" in the 2010s didn't do jack shit for them. We still only really care about the classics (Jay, Barry, Wally, Bart) and maybe the ones related to the Golden Age stuff (Johnny Quick, Max Mercury, and by association, Jesse Quick). The Black Wally is probably the most tolerable of all the fucking new flash family members. I just feel bad for him now because the fucker's gonna be compared to the OG Wally who kinda became an absurdly powerful Speed Force user, wound up marrying his true love, wound up with kids, and was the first of the sidekicks to ever step into the shoes of his mentor. (I don't count Dan Garrett and Ted Kord. Like, at all. ).
Also, I don't really count the Khalid Dr. Fate as a redundant decision. Kid was introduced as the new "Ibis" after infinite crisis and then got melded into the rebirth era. It's more interesting than the. . . uh. . . You know they had another Kent Nelson become Dr. Fate after Infinite Crisis and before the n52. He had his own story told in one of those magic-based miniseries setups for Final Crisis. Guy was basically in over his head trying to fit into the shoes of that legacy, same as Khalid is right now.
The "Lost Children" introducing more legacy kids to golden age heroes isn't a bad idea, but I think it requires someone who respects the JSA a lot, like Geoff Johns.
Their biggest problem is the 90s relic editor and making the two greatest superheroes lame.
Batman and Superman are the OGs, the kings, the World’s Finest…..DC allowed a gay retard to make Batman all about his Sonichu OCs and they continue to allow no-name HACKS to remove all the gothic edge and testosterone from the Dark Knight and stuff it with fag shit. Grant was the beginning of the end for old Bats.
Batman kinda just kept spiralling down after they took Denny O'Neil off editing the bat books. We've had some good stuff, but it's been very superhero-ey. Which ain't bad, but I'd love to see some more gothic batman.
On the other side, they let a nigger write a story where Superman gets sodomized by communists, made his son gay and even when they do a run that isn’t complete dogshit…….the art is sub-par.
If they simply cut the waste of money books, eased up production on slop and focused on the core heroes they could start making a case for Zaslav not to zero them.
But they can’t change and that’s why the pale horse is riding their way
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I look forward to Superman being DC’s Alpha and Omega, their beginning and the end.
It's funny because in the past 2 decades, they've at least managed to make The Flash into a relevantly big name with the CW show and whatnot. GL became a legit good book. It's a shame that DC can't stop with the event fatigue and hyperfocus on introducing a billion characters instead of slowing down and focusing.
I don't mind Green Arrow becoming more publicly popular with the CW show. I don't mind any of the CW show putting them in the spotlight. I just wish DC didn't fuck up N52 and that they'd just make me feel the magic of the DCU that I felt when I was growing up and reading the Morrison JLA and Robinson/Johns JSA runs. It was a massive universe with substantial history. All-Star Squadron was fun reading. Teen Titans was fun.
At this point, the best thing they could do would be a "return to the basics" approach. Undo the gay-ification of Jon Kent and turn him into a kid again. Clean up the extended families of the heroes and stick to the cores.
Superman Family should legitimately just have Conner, Steel (and co.), Jon, Kara, Power Girl (she's tangential), and Krypto. Shuttle the other characters into the Legion of Superheroes or some shit.
Bat-Fam: Dick, Tim, Barbara, Stephanie, Damien, Alfred, Batwoman. Have Signal get shuttled somewhere else. Have Jason go to jail. Have Batman Inc.'s cast all just join some kinda "Global Guardians" group or something.
Flash Family- The 4 core flashes, Johnny Quick, Max Mercury, Jesse Quick, Wally's Kids. Those are the core. If we really want more, then maybe put the black wally in a team book. The CHinese JL was a fun gimmick (Have them be based in Taiwan, lmao).
GLs- I got nothing. Just make an Anthology book that features individual stories with Guy, John, Kyle, Jessica, and the other two. We've done it before.
Grant really started the trend of over-thinking Batman and trying to make everything edgyer. 50's Batman stories that have some charm, I know lets make them really edgy. Though I did like how he made Simon Hurt a really minor character from one of those stories. He also helped the trend of overthinking the Joker that really hasn't gone away.
Morrison at least made it interesting. Simon Hurt turned into a weird fucking character, but he was genuinely a threat because it wasn't sure what he was.
Black Casebook was a fine way to let future writers keep the '50s weirdness canon in a way, if they'd wanted.
Scott Synder- really overthought Batman. Made Joker a super edgy character and not the Clown Prince of Crime he should be. Joker shouldn't really stray outside of the 89 or the Mark Hamil versions.
wasn't this the retard who kept having joker show up throughout the 2010s.
fuck him if he is.
Tom King- Overthought Batman with the whole can Batman be happy. The BatCat dialoge and Bruce revealed to attempted suicide in his youth. Surpisingly he wrote one of the better Jokers in the core Batman title in terms of feeling like the character. Though in turn, he made the Riddler dark and edgy.
wasn't he the one who cucked the readers out of the BatCat marriage by cockteasing us.
I haven't really read any of the last two big runs on the Batman monthly but they seem like they are home to little inspiration.
Curiously the best Batman solo story in a good while is that Batman: Offworld book but that's not the core topic this post is about.
isn't that the Jason Aaron book? I know Aaron's work is very goysloppy, but I've only read his Marvel stuff.
Batman like Spider-Man really isn't all that hard a character to come up with new stories to put them in. All you really have to do is pick an obscure villain and build them up. Do something with a throwaway character from the 50's to 80's that really makes them a foe to Batman in a way that doesn't feel forced.
DC had a really good oppertunity with the Lego Batman Movie to do something in the comics with the deep cut villains that the film included like the Eraser or Zodiac Master.
Riddler was minor until the '60s tv show had him repeatedly show up.
Fucking Catman got a refreshing revamp in the '00s. I fully believe you could take any Bat-villain and give it a good shot. We've seen DC revamp the bat-villains constantly (Hugo Strange, Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, etc.)
If I had to pick and choose who I'd like to see get revamped into a built-up threat, I'd honestly go with Mad Hatter. The fucker made the mind control helmets in final crisis. Imagine how fucking terrifying they could make him if they really wanted to in the current continuity.
