If you could take over one existing title....

[SilverHammerMan]

While looking through my documents recently I found an outline/pitch for a Riddler series that I did it for fun and to make sure I didn't forget the idea. Basically it was Monk but with superheroes and a reformed villain as the main character. It would feature Cluemaster as a jealous C-list wanna-be and Bruce Wayne as the Riddler's "bumbling" occasional sidekick.
I also found a Blade series in there, it has Blade going around and doing his genocidal thing. I have it down as a bit more in the vein of the classic Gene Colan Tomb of Dracula series, with Blade functioning as pretty much the Jason Vorhees of the bloodsucker set.

[zebrazygotes]

(02-08-2012 12:06 PM)SilverHammerMan Wrote:  While looking through my documents recently I found an outline/pitch for a Riddler series that I did it for fun and to make sure I didn't forget the idea. Basically it was Monk but with superheroes and a reformed villain as the main character. It would feature Cluemaster as a jealous C-list wanna-be and Bruce Wayne as the Riddler's "bumbling" occasional sidekick.
I also found a Blade series in there, it has Blade going around and doing his genocidal thing. I have it down as a bit more in the vein of the classic Gene Colan Tomb of Dracula series, with Blade functioning as pretty much the Jason Vorhees of the bloodsucker set.

Those sound super fun.

[Koltreg]

I want to do a series about a guy who steals gadgets from supervillains and goes Megaman on them incorporating them into his own powers until the decide to trap him in this giant death maze that he has to escape from filled with killer robot versions of the villains (who explode keeping him from gaining their powers). Make it a new hero with some more of the obscure rogue gallery characters probably in the DC Universe (more gimmicky villains than Marvel). He's in it for the challenge, sort of a Mr Miracle/Flashpoint Green Arrow deal.

Okay, I want to do this with Green Arrow.

[Rae]

The Defenders, written by Si Spurrier, drawn by Stuart Immonen.

[MoustachePants]

(02-04-2012 12:21 PM)feliciano2040 Wrote:  

(02-02-2012 01:38 PM)MoustachePants Wrote:  I would do a reboot of Green Lantern in a noir style, so instead of an intergalactic police force there would be an intergalactic Private Eye Agency. The logo would have the appearance of and eye emanating from the center of the lantern. Each sector would have two or three Lanterns working together, and instead of Hal being brash and cocky with the outward/in-you-face attitude of a fighter pilot, he would have the reserved/in-your-face attitude of a Sam Spade. Noir with bright glowing constructs that would give the detective away unless you use great care with your constructions, until you are being chased through the streets by galactic Rockefeller types, trying to save the dame who will just end up putting the knife in your back herself.

I don't think a reboot is necessary to implement the idea, it could be developed from the current corps.

Thought a bit more about this, what if it were an Elseworlds, and Hal found out what Sinestro was doing before he enslaved Korugar, and the Guardians made him give up his ring, but didn't banish him. Hal quits because he thinks the Guardians should have helped Sinestro instead of just kicking him out of the Corps. On the way back to their respective home planets, the two are sucked through a 'mysterious' black whole into the Anti-Matter Universe and discover the Yellow power and use it to set up a Private Eye type establishment between the two of them, with Carol Ferris working the interlac phone, taking cases and working around and occasionally with the GL Corps.Sinestro eventually turns to his more controlling side and splits with Hal, who takes on a brash ex-space cop Guy Gardner, until Hal goes crazy and is taken into custody by the Corps. Guy hires Kyle, who helped him out in a bar fight in Detroit where Guy was on a case, and it goes on from there.

[Maxy Barnard]

I once wrote a pitch for a Hardware series, but it was more an ultimate-style retread of his origin in name of establishing him in the new 52. it's... pretty derivative.

http://www.thought-balloons.com/2011/09/...rnard.html

Although I'm weirdly proud that I found a way to work in Marisa Rahm, one of the most interesting characters not only in Milestone (seriously, read Deathwish) but just straight up in comics.

as for an actual comic that exists NOW i'd like to take over, I'd both love and fear a chance to take on X-Men Legacy, just to tap into all my favourite obscure characters (CHAMBER! BLING!!) alongside the main trio of rogue, gambit and frenzy. But then I'd hate to be the dude touching a series Mike Carey did so perfectly.

[SilverHammerMan]

I figured I'd try and see if I could resurrect this thread, given that I am a man who is utterly in love with his own thought process and I had a few ideas floating around my head that I wanted to get out there.
So yeah, incoming insanity:

The Sentry-
Yeah, he's kind of a shit character, but I read The Age of the Sentry miniseries and it earned my undying devotion to the character. So my basic idea for this series is based on how after House of M Carol Danvers remembered how she had been an A-list hero in that world and decided that she liked it and she wound up applying herself to being a really great hero. That, but with the Sentry, given how he used to be the Superman character of the Marvel U (or at least was retconned to have been) before he went crazy and evil and then died. So my Sentry has come back to life and is now mentally stable and just wants to be a hero and help people again, as well as atone for the crazy stuff he did as the Void.
A few things that the series would involve:
The Sentry journeys to the Greek afterlife to bring Ares back to life as apology for freaking tearing him in half.
The Sentry cuts his goddamn ridiculous Fabio hair and gets the mask he had in the miniseries, since with short hair he looked far too much like a blonde Superman.
The Sentry is perfectly sane now but he has regular visits with Doc Samson to talk about his life and so on and his frustrations du jour.
Also, he's actually aware of how colossally messed up the Marvel U is with it's mutant hating, hero mistrusting, supervillain given control of major agencies civilians and the bizarrely soap operatic personal lives of most superheroes.
It's sort of like the recent Daredevil run in that it ignores the excessively dark and occassionally convoluted stuff before it and sets out to be fun and enjoyable.
Also, I'm retconning the Sentry's stupid origin reveal/retcon that he a crackhead who stole some science-juice, mainlined it and developed superpowers. And that he slept with Rogue. That was skeevy and kind of demeaning to Rogue, so now she just had an unrequited crush on the Sentry because he could actually touch her.

Black Panther-
This one is a little less well thought out but basically I'd like to do a super spy series starring the Black Panther. Less in the vein of Ed Brubakers Captain America and Winter Soldier stuff and more like a comic book version of James Bond.

Martian Manhunter-
Given that historically the Martian Manhunter can't support an ongoing I'm thinking more of a miniseries with the option to continue it. My version would be influenced by Darwyn Cooke's version from DC The New Frontier and place more emphasis on J'onn in his identity as John Jones, old timey detective. This would also be a great opportunity to depict the character in isolation from the JLA and explore his existence as the last Green Martian (because that time a few years ago when there turned out to be a bunch on Earth or something was stupid) And he's getting yet another new costume, because I really don't care for his current "shirtless with a cape and suspenders look. I'd also like to place some more emphasis on his shapeshifting, not by turning him into a more dour Plasticman or anything, but by having him to things like grow exoskeletal plates for protection in fights and shit like that. Also, his origin story plays out like "The Road" except on Mars and at the end the main character gets teleported to Earth and accidentally frightens an elderly scientist to death.

Blue Beetle-
This is my crack at incorporating Jaime Reyes into the new DCU. So the series is set in the past of the DCU, maybe a year or so before Batman and Superman became active, and casts Jaime Reyes as pretty much the first costumed vigilante. So Ted is a vigilante, but unlike the usual comic fare he's actually really good at covering his tracks so he never develops a reputation or becomes widely known. My story is miniseries about his last adventure and how he died unknown and forgotten, but saved still saved the day. The plot would have Ted busting up some smugglers and shit, very low key stuff since there are no supervillains or anything yet, and stumbling upon a proper conspiracy. It ends with him getting captured and killed (seemingly, but we've got to leave the door open just a crack in case some hack wants to bring him back) but having sabotaged the villains plans and delayed them by several years. The villain then reappears in the JLA title in the current DCU, them trouncing him and it acting as an epilogue of sorts to Ted's Story.
Think Sandman Mystery Theater and Rorschach's doomed conspiracy unraveling from Watchmen.

Ant-Man & Wasp-
Full disclosure, this is less me "writing the book" and more me abducting the creative team of Thor the Mighty Avenger and forcing them to write a series about Ant-Man & Wasp, the cutest darned super scientific couple in the Marvel U.