Business has been slow and she’s decided to branch out. Perhaps we could thrown in a story about how with Sandman gone she’s part-timing as “Nightmare”.
I also loved his ABC Warriors, and really enjoyed his art in Judgement on Gotham too… in fact, looking again at the cover of the Batman/Dredd cross-over makes me think that Death might not be outside his scope (given a good, tough editor).
Going with the OP, and freely borrowing from an idea suggested by Love Rhombus: have Superman get religion. I mean in the real evangelical, declaiming biblical passages (and not in the cool Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction, Ezekiel sense). That should offend and drive away some of the fans (while pleasing some of the others)… and then… have him decide – given his amazing abilities – that he is God… and that should heartily offend and drive away the previous supporters. Having the writer slang off at any detractors in a letters page would be icing.
ALL Spider-Man continuity since Amazing Spider-Man#100 is GONE. Gwendy’s still alive, it’s still 1971, & Aunt May is about to start dating Doctor Octopus.
On the other hand, all X-Men continuity since 1971 is also gone. The X-editor is directed to introduce the new version of a Claremont X-character every 3-18 months only to kill the character off horribly in the next two issues.
All other Marvel superhero titles are reduced to sporadic publication, with a minimum time between issues of 7 months. Except Rocket Raccoon, which retcons him to a heroin addict.
Also, the graphic gang-rape of Squirrel Girl by 1970’s-style gangsters. That needs to be in there.
:Reads rest of OP:
Oh, OK, I’ll dump the retcons & the reduced schedules. But I’ll still have the graphic gang-rape of Squirrel Girl by 1970’s-style gangsters & junkie Rocket Raccoon. Those really aren’t that hard to imagine.
Oddly, I would love the first, & really hate the second.
I’m a giant Wonder Girl fan.
A license to print money!
Actually, I don’t see what the problem is with this. That’s a positive. (And I like BATO, but it could as easily be BLATO–Black Lightning & the Outsiders. More easily, even.)
Sooooo…I’m gessing you can’t stand Mary Jane then?
OK, my well-thought out editorial fiat:
The JLA decide to use their godlike powers to end hunger, end poverty (using Bruce Wayne’s massive financial resources, as well as Superman selling his Kriptonian artifacts to the government). They give up their costumes becuase it’s “A waste to be fighting crime in spandex”. They then procede to “fix” governments they don’t agree with, spreading democracy across the globe Dubya style. Every issue of every title following shows various brown skinned people thankful that they had democracy gifted to them…whether they asked for it or not.
Hell, if a pack of gods showed up and started making sweeping political change that would be violent if we were capable of opposing them meaningfully (and I knew full well that one of them could hear atoms dancing), I’d make a point of smiling and thanking them a lot, too.
Also done, sort-of, in a recent non-canon miniseries, but by the opposite side: The hyper-intelligent, hyper-powerful villains of the world say, “Look, we’re sick of being the ones everyone hates, while the guys that beat us up get cheered on.” (And looking at it in a highschool sociology way, it makes sense). Luthor leads a team that puts together a veritable utopia in the deserts of Africa, and invites everyone in for free food, health care, etcetera (even to the point of regenerating limbs and eyes).
Of course, it’s all a front for evil mind control, yadda yadda, but I did find the ‘Hey, we want to change the world and not get punched in the face by Superman’ thing sort-of interresting.
Ultimate Origins did pretty much the same thing - all the superhumans on Earth - including the mutants - can be traced back to the Super-Soldier project. (Although, at least they were a different splinter than the one that created the SS Serum.)
Actually, Norvell W. Page’s story “But Without Horns” (published in 1940) is kind of similar. The protagonist is a detective, and the villain has mind-control powers and sets up a communist utopia.
That sounds a little like Ethan Edwards, also known as Virtue and later as The Tiller.
Another idea: Have Firestorm basically butt into every other character’s series and use his powers to make them look like fools. “The Joker has pumped poison gas into an elementary school? I’ll just turn it into oxygen then encase his head in steel. Problem solved!” and he flies away. And Batman should be forced to have someone fly him everywhere piggy-back.
In Marvel, we discover that the Apeverse is the real one. Marvel drops all current continuity to make everyone into monkeys.
