Comics Wish List

[detourne_me]

Do you ever lie in bed and think up some dream titls or comic series?

Well I just thought of what I think would be one of my favorite titles ever...if it was real!
I'd like to present to you, my dream, Morrison and Quitely's All-Star Spider-man!
Yeah, pretty much just a 12 issue all-star treatment of webhead just like what they did with big blue:)
I imagine it as a 'classic' spidey tale, where he's in college and living with aunt may.
The major plotline would be saving up money to save aunt may's house from a development plot by the kingpin (maybe turning queens into a casino or something... or possibly an amusement park with quentin beck.) Or possibly a buyout by Oscorp for a chemical plant.
Each issue would be a neatly contained storyline that progressed the main issue (saving money) and there would be two other subplots too that could be broken up into six issues.
well heres my 'can't sleep so i thought up this crazy idea' issue by issue rundown for the first half.

#1 Rhino's in town robbing banks (just imagine a Quitely-drawn Rhino!) Spidey stops him, gets tempted by the extra cash floaing around but does the right thing.  but when he gets home late, Aunt May is troubled, and theres a foreclosure notice or something...  Peter get's a bit dramatic.

#2 Morbius is causing havok in Central Park, Spider-man is doing double duty at the bugle to try and make some money,  when reports start coming in on missing people in the park he goes there late at night to try and figure it out and take pictures. He meets Morbius, they fight,  but somethings wrong, Spidey's sense gives out on him a bit and so does his agility and speed.  He's groggy after morbius attacks him, and is seen by the police... of course they think it's spider-man whose responsible for the disappearances.

#3 The Daily Bugle brings in Kraven to track down sidey, offering him a reward. JJJ also gives parer the unglamourous task of following Kraven around to document his trails. During this time pete realizes he has to lay a sort of trail for Kraven as spider-man to lead him to morbius.. and maybe somehow he can get pictures or even the reward... of course his powers go wonky which leads kraven on a wild goose chase, with parker in tow (a comedic relief issue)

#4 Enter Dr. Curt Connors. Petey goes to see him and ask about his research, maybe as spider-man figure out whats going on with his powers.  As spidey he pretty much leads kraven into a confrontation with he Lizard. so pete has to take out Kraven, and cure the Lizard too (resisting temptaion to clear is name for the lizards instead and snappics of that fight)

#5 Pete does some research finding that some major shake-ups are happening in the science and tech industry... Oscorp is planning a big buyout, so researchers like curt connors were scrambling to get their discoveries made, etc. to stay in business.  umm.. science stuff. This leads to Doctor Octopus attacking Connor's lab, while pete is there. Spider-an combats him and he gets put away (a prelude to the sinister six in the next arc)

#6 Final confrontation with Morbius, Spidey needs to get some vampire blood to form a spider-vaccine or some other science stuff to cure his powers.  In the process he snaps photos of Morbius and clears his name for the time being with the bugle (raises some money too).

I'll probly write up the next six issues tomorow.  Of course this is all rampant fanboyism, as i'd love to see Frank Quitely take on the classic spidey villains.

[murs47]

Interesting and fun idea. Morrison and Quitely on an All-Star Spider-Man would be a fun read indeed. I wonder what kind of bizarre twists Morrison would add to it.

Let me take a stab at this.

Jason Aaron and Steve Epting on a Red Hood mini or maxi-series.

What Jason Aaron is doing in Scalped is amazing. He really throws a reader in this world of an Indian Reservation and keeps you locked there. His ability to get you to sympathize with filthy and nasty characters is uncanny. The plot is at a snail pace in this book but the reader is entrenched with the character's personal lives it doesn't even matter. I'd definitely like to see him apply this same style on Jason Todd. To see what makes him tick, why Todd changes to this "dark" side.

One of the reasons I think Captain America is so incredible besides Brubaker's writing is the art of Epting. His art compliments the writing and sets a darker tone.

[zuludelta]

Great topic!

- I'd love to see an anthology war title... similar in feel to "The 'Nam" from the 1980s but preferably it would be non-conflict specific (writers can cover pretty much any setting they wish), with stints by Jason Aaron (who proved he could write excellent fictionalized military tales in the critically-acclaimed "The Other Side" for Vertigo), Garth Ennis, Howard Chaykin, Larry Hama, Doug Murray... as for artists, I'd love to see them round up some of the talented pencillers and inkers who used to do Warren & Marvel's horror/crime comics from the 1970s and early 1980s (many of whom ended up doing storyboards and character design work for Disney after the market for crime/horror books dwindled).   

- Going a bit more obscure... I'd love to see some new Ang Panday comics based on the original depiction of the character and setting (pre-World War II rural Philippines). Ang Panday ("The Blacksmith") was a popular comics & film character in the Philippines back in the late 1970s/early 1980s combining elements of the horror and fantasy genres.

[BentonGrey]

Interesting topic DM!  I like your spider-man storyline.  I'd read it. :D  What about me?  Well, of course I am up to my eyebrows in my own dream stories.  I started the DCUG so that I could tell stories about my favorite characters that I feel they actually deserve.  There are several JLU inspired JLA storylines, plus several working off of my own concepts, including a JSA crossover, and the gradual introduction of the Satellite Era League; a few Batman storylines inspired by B:TAS; a LONG Aquaman storyline in which I want to capture the full potential of the character, an attempt to do Hawkman free of the morass that is his continuity; an attempt to tell stories about the Atom that don't end with the kind of senseless abuse of his character we've seen in the mainstream; a Green Arrow storyline where he is neither an ultra left wing nutjub, nor undead; plus the Question, Green Lantern, Flash, and a few zillion other ideas.

As far as something that is beyond me reach (yeah, like all of my DCUG story lines are possible :wacko:) how about this?  Me as DC Editor in Chief (and buying the company from WB), Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, and James MacDuffie as my brain trust.  I'd pen the overarching storylines, the animated crew would help me oversee all of the different books, and handle some of the more nuanced issues of interpretation, maybe penning a book themselves.  I'd scrap everything DC has out right now (or at least drastically cut it down) and focus on a complete restart.  I'd basically do the DCUG on a massive scale.  Since the market wouldn't be able to sustain all of the books I'd love to put out, I'd revive the compilation books, like Adventure Comics and Mystery in Space.  I'd rotate characters like Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, The Question, The Atom, Mr. Miracle, etc., in those titles.  Aquaman would go to my very best artist who was interested in the character, and Jim Kreuger from Justice would write it under my very careful direction.  I myself might write the occasional issues of my favorite characters, but I know better than to try and put myself on the kind of schedule professionals must endure.  I would completely change DC's (doomed) strategy, and stop chasing after readers that the books already have.  Instead, I would work on building a new audience while keeping as much of the old as possible.  To that end I would make back issues and background info easily available as the stories began to grow, so that new recruits could catch up cheaply and quickly.  I'd publish books that are mature in the true sense, by which I mean they are clean and accessible to kids, but have a depth and complexity that can engage adults.  Those fans who want their characters brutal, amoral, and not terribly heroic would have the Vertigo imprint, but nothing in the regular continuity.

[Ajax]

I would love to see a Deadpool vs Agent X comic done in the style of Spy vs Spy. It would be written by Joe Kelly with art by UDON (I liked their art when they worked with Simone). Essentially big bad whoever hires Deadpool to kill Agent X and same guy hires Agent X to kill Deadpool. It would be ridiculously self aware and hopefully alot of fun.

[daglob]

Me, I wish comics were fun again.

[Podmark]

Ya know most of the things I'd have put on my list would be bringing stuff I liked back. Like Simone on Deadpool/Agent X, Yost&Kyle on New X-Men, Carey writing an X-team, stuff like that.

However one thing I'd like to see done is something similar to the current 3 times a month brain trust Spidey done with X-Men. I think it could work really well with that franchise.

I'd also like a nice cohesive Bat book. A nice long connected run that uses Batman and his supporting cast with subplots and such. I don't think that's really happened since I started reading comics.

[detourne_me]

However one thing I'd like to see done is something similar to the current 3 times a month brain trust Spidey done with X-Men. I think it could work really well with that franchise. 

i'd like to see this done with all the major books,  X-men, Superman, Batman,  basically anything that has multiple books. and it would be a great way to bring in different creators to work on short 1,2, or 3 issue arcs.  that way some creative teams wont get burnt out.  Then for the second tier characters that have more interesting stories (Cap, IM, Flash, hawkman) You can put a good creative team on to do long runs.

[Zippo]

The only thing I truly want is another run of Young Avengers with Heinberg and Cheung on it again. I've been promised one for too long without it being delivered.

[The Enigma]

Warren Ellis writes everything; kills off all existing Marvel, DC, Image etc. characters in one enormous massive crossover bloodbath. In a single panel, he eliminates everything; in order to get the full effect, 200 individual issues are required, each showing the deaths of that title's relevant characters, to be placed next to each other. Everything is replaced with a My Little Pony knock-off with deep political intrigue and a plot so complicated that Ellis himself can barely follow it. He is fired and ends his run with a disappointing fart joke encompassing an entire 22-page story and nobody ever complains about spider-man making a deal with Mephisto or the clone saga or anything else in the world of comics ever, ever again.

[steamteck]

BentonGray and I share a vision for DC. Sounds just like many of my daydreams after being disappointed time after time. Marvel needs a similar makeover but I have no idea who'd be my brain trusts.

[BentonGrey]

I think we should start a letter writing campaign to get me appointed Editor-in-Chief..... ;)

[daglob]

I think we should start a letter writing campaign to get me appointed Editor-in-Chief..... ;)

Yeah, then we would at least have a good Aquaman comic. I miss Nick Cardy and Jim Aparo...