# Comic Book Ideas you had and why you didn't follow through **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-ideas-you-had-and-why-you-didnt-follow-through/760638 "2016-07-23T00:18:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-ideas-you-had-and-why-you-didnt-follow-through/760638/21 "2016-08-01T01:11:23Z")
I’ve posted a treatment of a character named “Foresight”, who was [lying about his powers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=718573), that would be fun to develop. However, my utter ineptitude at drawing means I’d need an artist to pursue it. > [@furryman](#): > > Vague idea of addressing some of the things some people don’t like about superhero comics. Why wear costumes? Why fight crime. What if Batman made $30,000 a year? The main hero would be a comic book nerd who’s totally into it. He’d start out with some weak sauce power and using ingenuity become the most powerful superhero of all. Have you read any of [Grrl Power](http://grrlpowercomic.com/)? Sydney’s “power” isn’t weak-sauce, but she’s a comic-book nerd (and comic shop owner, if fact) and zanily thrilled about being a superhero. She’s also been commended for using her comic-book savvy in a fight. ---
**Author:** ![TYphoonSignal8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@TYphoonSignal8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TYphoonSignal8)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-ideas-you-had-and-why-you-didnt-follow-through/760638/22 "2016-08-01T01:33:43Z")
> [@infinitii](#): > > I had this idea of a “Master of Death” character, who had been locked up by some secret government organization that would release him every now and then (but hampered by some poison that would force him to come back after 24 hours or so to get a cure a la “Escape from New York”) to do missions for them. The missions would involve killing some major super hero or super villain for them. > > Maybe some of the heroes/villains would be original, but the main draw would be that he would have to go after thinly disguised copies of famous characters from other comics, like Superman, Batman, etc. He would have to figure out a weakness and then kill them in the span of time allotted to him or he would die. I thought it would be interesting to use actual weaknesses or figure out new ones consistent with each character’s lore and actually kill them (doing what DC or Marvel can’t do). > > Philosophically (and I have heard this elsewhere), the heads of the organization are trying to get rid of these super powered beings because super villains are evil and superheroes seem to attract the super villains as some sort of cosmic balancing act. So this character’s purpose is to wipe the slate clean for the world, in a way. > > His handlers would all hate him and would be trying at every opportunity to keep him from completing his missions so they wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore, and he would of course be using his limited time on the outside to try to figure out his poison and do other types of destruction. > > I thought it was pretty cool… That is pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ecks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ecks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ecks)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-ideas-you-had-and-why-you-didnt-follow-through/760638/23 "2016-08-02T19:33:16Z")
I’ve been writing a nearly wordless Batman story in my head- It starts in an alley, where a group of young street toughs are mugging a woman. Batman appears, and dispatches the group effortlessly. Cut to one of the punks, now in juvenile hall, working out. Cut to him being released, now large and muscular. Now we see him robbing a convenience store- Batman appears and when the punk tries to attack him, catches his punch and breaks his arm. He flees; Cut to him in a dirty and disreputable looking gym doing martial arts training, arm in cast. The pattern continues- he gets knocked out by a batarang and trains with a pistol, builds himself a protective suit, gets a gasmask and goggles after being teargassed, until the street punk has transformed himself into a full fledged villain, complete with gang. Again he faces Batman, but this time he manages to hold his own. Batman defeats him, rips off his opponent’s mask, and says something like “You’re new. I’m going to remember you” Batman means it as a threat, but we cut to the villain’s battered and bloody face- smiling. He’s finally gotten what he wanted. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-ideas-you-had-and-why-you-didnt-follow-through/760638/24 "2016-08-04T16:01:45Z")
That is a _very_ interesting idea, Johnny. Almost as if the “evolutionary pressure” of Batman being around _creates_ “better” criminals. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-ideas-you-had-and-why-you-didnt-follow-through/760638.md?page=1)