I'm going to start the blog w/a failed idea. Alex Ross was going to do a series of giant sized one-shots w/Paul Dini for DC Comics years ago. This series was going to be about the villians of the DCU instead of the heroes. Alex did preview covers for the entire series and Dini did plot outlines. DC decided not to move forward with it. (All the villians were from the SUPERFRIENDS cartoons). I enjoyed the Heroes line and we got a JLA story too. Give me the flipside. I want to enjoy OVERSIZED comics from Paul and Alex. DC quit have a CRISIS and give me what I want. Hey! I'll even sell it for them.

 

I have several of these, but here's one I've always wanted to write:

1) Air Wave II (Harold "Hal" Jordan, son of the Golden Age Air Wave and cousin to Green Lantern II)

2) Air Wave was presumably "killed" in Infinite Crisis when his energy form was dissipated and spread out over a solar system. However, for those physics geeks out there, the Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only changed from one form to another. Therefore, with Air Wave in his energy form, there's no way he should be dead, so I'd run with the premise that it took him a while, but he was eventually able to bring his body back together.

3) Returning to Earth, Air Wave has to slowly rebuild his life after being presumed dead for over a year. Settling down in the city of Columbus, Ohio (Where else?), he lands a job as a DJ for an alternative music station and starts using his middle name Alex to avoid confusion with his cousin. And, of course, it isn't long before assorted villains start coming out of the woodwork...

4) Naturally, I'd want to write this myself, but realizing that big-name artists probably wouldn't be given a book featuring such a low-tier character, I think someone like Chris Batista, Patrick Olliffe or Leonard Kirk would be a good fit.
 

Wow....I really can't think of anybody, hero OR team, currently "defunct" that I'd like to see BACK in their own series.

Best I can come up with: How about giving the assassin Shiva her own book?

She'd make a great character, and I don't know that anybody has ever really worked up a backstory for her (if there IS one, someone let me know where to look...I probably should check Wikipedia before I say such foolish things.) But I don't think she has a definite history, which gives you a lot of latitude to make up one. I kind of imagine her backstory being similar to the Cassandra Kain childhood of Batgirl 2.

You could do the whole thing where she is a contract killer but still has her own code of ethics, and build her up as an anti-hero.

That would allow for plenty of great fight scenes, plus since she spends most of her free time killing people, the stories would go from contract to contract, maybe an issue for one job, two or three for a more involved one. Work up two or three over-arching plots to take ten or twenty issues at a whack...there's someone she's supposed to kill that is challenging enough that she doesn't want to kill them until they've reached the height of their powers/abilities, so you can develop a couple of recurring foils for her to spar with without always killing them by the end of the issue.

Plus, you can always build up the "easy-on-the-eyes" angle by drawing her a'la Jim Balent's er..."buxom" Catwoman.

Bringing her back wouldn't be difficult, because she's not GONE anywhere, and the set-up is we see one of her kills from third-person, and we never see anything but her shadow. Later we'll introduce her employer(s), Sensei, and she HAS to have at least one or two close friends, doesn't she? (Maybe Deadstrike? Is that the guys name?? Half-orange, half blue scales...uses a sword and has a daughter who is similar...shows up in Nightwing alot?) Pick a place for her to live, with the pre-requisite multiple safe-houses someone like her would need, and commence with the killing and fighting.

Fit into current continuity?? How about we send her after the lamers who wrote the final issue of Catwoman? which I thought was a complete let-down. Or to smack some of the DC staff around to point out that nobody can afford to buy 85 Final Crisis books per month. Ah, but I digress...

I'll write it, which is easy enough to say since I know absolutely nothing about writing and plotting a comic, and fill the book with mostly well-drawn action/fight sequences (which a book like this is primed to deliver) and since it's my dream and I can do whatever the hell I want, either Tim Sale or Jim Lee to draw, like they have NOTHING else on their plates but to do my little 'first timer running before I can crawl' book.

Like Bob Ross used to say, Cause it's my world and I can do whatever the hell I want. :)