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As far as Teams go I always thought the Global Guardians could have been huge if given the right creative team!
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: It's interesting--we've just been talking about how the really high quality of Dynamite's Green Hornet: Year One and Zorro has been helped by Dynamite focusing on the facets of what made the characters so great in the first place (and they do the same with Jon Carter of Mars and the Lone Ranger). Meanwhile, DC has spent decades being embarrassed by or ignoring the histories of Captain Marvel, Plastic Man and numerous other properties and forcing those characters to change to fit the 'modern DCU' (both in continuity and tone in all of the last 3 decades).
I'd love if another comic book company got control of those franchises (even permanently) and had a shot to do them right.
And there you see the problem with trying to fit everything into one single "shared" universe...
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quote:Originally posted by Lone Wolf Legionnaire: As far as Teams go I always thought the Global Guardians could have been huge if given the right creative team!
Oh heck yeah.
Tuatara, able to glimpse into the future and the past, could be a Ravager level hand to hand fighter (or Threeboot Dreamy), *and* view into the past of a crime scene to be a ridiculously good detective.
Bushmaster is 'Batman with a different animal theme.'
Olympian is ridiculously powerful and versatile, since a dozen of the Argonauts had 'super-powers,' and the other couple dozen were legendary warriors and kings.
Jack O'Lantern is pretty much an even more supernatural / mystical version of Alan Scott.
Dr. Mist *oozes* potential, since he's actually created super-people in the past, empowered by his mystic gems.
It's kind of a crime that Icemaiden (as Ice) and Green Fire (as Fire) are the only members of this group to break out of the 'foreign heroes' ghetto.
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I've been thinking about Air Wave recently, and came up with the idea that it might be cool if he were actually the Hal Jordan of Earth-2.
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I actually really like it. Would he still be a district attorney (with same Hal attitude?). Maybe assistant DA, and Carol is his boss?
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Air Wave was cool (the one who turned to energy and flew around, before Monica Rambeau made it cool. The roller skating on electrical wires? Not so much!). Was Crisis on Infinite Earths the last time anyone saw him?
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I've always felt Crystal (of the Inhumans and, briefly but memorably, the Avengers) would make a great solo star, especially if Marvel could get a creator like Phil Jimenez behind the project.
She's a princess AND she commands all four elements in an ass-kicking way (when she's written right, which she hasn't been since 1994.) Potential wide-ranging crossover demographics there, Marvel.
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quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: I actually really like it. Would he still be a district attorney (with same Hal attitude?). Maybe assistant DA, and Carol is his boss?
Love this idea!
The original Air Wave was basically a master of the advanced technology of radio! He had all sort of gadgets that let him do fancy stuff with radio waves, like project his voice into any metal object and stuff.
I'm thinking the reimagined Air Wave would combine elements of the two characters, with an array of powers linked to wireless communications, but not reliant on gadgets. I'm thinking he could access the internet in his head, for instance.
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lady: I've always felt Crystal (of the Inhumans and, briefly but memorably, the Avengers) would make a great solo star, especially if Marvel could get a creator like Phil Jimenez behind the project.
Agreed. Crystal's got a great powerset, and doesn't annoy me nearly as much as Harmonia Li.
I like that she's got a strong power, and yet, unlike the Scarlet Witch or Sersi or Jean Grey, it's a pretty well-defined powerset, and is less likely to get written as out of control or a deus ex machina (that ends up having to be written completely out of the comic, because the writers are having trouble using her).
Similarly, a Gorgon/Karnak 'buddy comedy' sort of mini-series could be awesome (they've got a bickery vibe very reminiscent of the antics of Power Man & Iron Fist or Hercules & Amadeus Cho).
IMO, far, far too much of Inhuman appearances seem to revolve around the Black Bolt & Medusa show, guest-starring 'those other people.'
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quote:Originally posted by Set: Agreed. Crystal's got a great powerset, and doesn't annoy me nearly as much as Harmonia Li.
Ha. Based on this and other comments here at Legion World, I'm so glad I dropped the Levitz Mark III version of LSH before Harmonia took center stage.
quote:Originally posted by Set: I like that she's got a strong power, and yet, unlike the Scarlet Witch or Sersi or Jean Grey, it's a pretty well-defined powerset, and is less likely to get written as out of control or a deus ex machina (that ends up having to be written completely out of the comic, because the writers are having trouble using her).
Exactly. For example, Crystal would be at least fairly vulnerable in synthetic environments. Could provide milage for the nature vs. technology debate.
quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: I agree about Dr. Mid-Nite. I sometimes wonder if fans and editors being so focused on the JSA as a franchise is a hinderance in getting solo adventures of many of the members off the ground again.
Dr. Mid-Nite and Wildcat (with heavy boxing element as in the 40's) are two examples of that. They are certainly unique.
Another one I think should be highly successful, even today, is Tomahawk. There is no other comic book franchise like it--it's Davey Crockett taken to the next level. The mythos of Dan Hunter, Miss Liberty, King Gorilla (that's not the right name, I'm forgetting it) also just makes it so much more than a period piece.
I really wished they'd followed up on the over-the-top but brilliant Wagner Dr. Mid-Night mini. Johns certainly picked up the character in JSA, but he completely changed the characterisation. I really dug the aloof, hard-nosed, aristocratic Wagner version of Pieter Cross to the more vanilla nice guy that Johns gave us.
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That was a fantastic story by Wagner. The Doc that followed in JSA was pretty good but never reached the potential Wagner set up with the mini.
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