Would anyone else like to see the CSA get their own title?

[Jason H]

Ever since I was a kid, I've been a fan of the Crime Syndicate. I love the Pre-Crisis crossovers with the JLA. I did like JLA Earth 2 and the current Owlman looks awesome. I don't really like this current arc in ther JLA though. I know it would be hard to do a villians-only title monthly, but I think someone like Geoff Johns could do a cool take on them. If they do bring back the Multiverse, I hope they will get more attention. Yes I do realize they technically have their own Earth right now.

[Jamie]

Ever since I was a kid, I've been a fan of the Crime Syndicate. I love the Pre-Crisis crossovers with the JLA. I did like JLA Earth 2 and the current Owlman looks awesome. I don't really like this current arc in ther JLA though. I know it would be hard to do a villians-only title monthly, but I think someone like Geoff Johns could do a cool take on them. If they do bring back the Multiverse, I hope they will get more attention. Yes I do realize they technically have their own Earth right now.

I think you hit the nail right on the head -- it's hard to do a villains-only monthly title; as someone else has brought up elsewhere, sooner or later, characters thrust into that sort of role wind up becoming 'antiheroes' instead of villains, because it's often hard to sympathise with someone who's outright villainous.

It would also be hard to come up with effective storylines to carry a monthly title, I feel. There are some ideas that are better handled in complete stories rather than in an ongoing serial.

[glennsim]

An ongoing Secret Society of Super-Villains book, on the other hand, might be doable, because you have rotating membership. Some of the villains get caught, but then others take their place.

Of course, they would have to battle a variety of different heroes. Which begs the question of, if they are battling Green Lantern, why not just tell that story in Green Lantern.

Maybe they could use B-list heroes and villains, so that this doesn't upset the continuity of other series.

[titanfan]

I wouldn't want to see an entire series of CSA set for that reason, but a series set on that world might be interesting. Would like to see the other Earth-2 versions of current DCU characters. This CSA story did make me flash back to the JLI story where that team fought their Earth-2 counterparts. (Masquerading as the Conglomerate)

[josh straightedge]

The current Crime Syndicate storyline over in JLA isn't at all doing it for me, but I would check it out if it wasn't an anti-hero type storyline and had a decent premise to it...and a decent team doing it.

[grendel824]

Heck yes, I love the CSA. There'd have to be a good team doing it, of course, but I think there's more than enough readers who have outgrown the need to have "heroes" in every book. Bad people doing bad things can be interesting, though it's a bit more of a challenge, I'm sure. I want to pitch a book to another company about a similar team of evil analogues...

[Paradox]

No thanks. Sure, I love the CSA, but as a regular book? Uh-uh. They work better as occasional villains. I can't see doing much with a book like that. Villain books are VERY hard to pull off without "softening" them and making them "more human". About the only way is to give the focus to someone opposing them, and then it's not really their book, is it?

[hondobrode]

A mini would be fine. An ongoing ? It might as well be a mini because I guarantee it won't last. I don't think I would buy it.

[Shellhead]

CSA already has a monthly title. Marvel calls it Supreme Power. ;)

[Gauss]

How about a CSA title from the point of view of their enemies? It might be damn enjoyable to see Alexander Luthor's doomed efforts to bring down the Crime Syndicate, and we'd get plenty of the CSA acting like the villains they are.

[Jason H]

How about a CSA title from the point of view of their enemies? It might be damn enjoyable to see Alexander Luthor's doomed efforts to bring down the Crime Syndicate, and we'd get plenty of the CSA acting like the villains they are.

Excellent Idea! I'd leave out the Qwardians (SP?) though. I don't find them very interesting.

[SlightlyMad]

How about a CSA title from the point of view of their enemies? It might be damn enjoyable to see Alexander Luthor's doomed efforts to bring down the Crime Syndicate, and we'd get plenty of the CSA acting like the villains they are.

I was going to suggest that a maxi-series, set in the past, showing the fall of the heroes, might be the way to go, but I like your idea more.
It was revealed in the last Secret Files & Origins that heroes are generally imprisoned rather than killed outright, so they can release them & track them down again when they're bored. This means there are allies available for Luthor on Anti-Matter earth, rather than him just having to turn to the JLA etc. for help.

[jonahhex]

CSA already has a monthly title. Marvel calls it Supreme Power. ;)
How about a crossover with Supreme Power Versus Crime Syndicate? I of course will be rooting for CSA :p .

[Joe Grendel]

I disagree that a villains title is hard to do. Leaving aside the "Joker" and "Secret Society of Super-Villains" series from the 1970s, Marvel's managed hundreds of issues of "Punisher" comics over the years. ;)