What would have been your "Wish List" New 52?

[Sterling]

What I mean is what titles and creative teams would have made the New 52 perfect or close to perfect for you.

Forget if the writers and artists you want can't keep a monthly schedule or don't work for DC this is your Ideal New 52 so do whatever you want just for the fun of it.

I'm really interested in what you guys can come up with.

Anyway this is mine:

Superman
• Action Comics – written by Grant Morrison and drawn by John Cassaday
• Superman – written by Mark Waid/Jonathan Hickman and drawn by Jim Lee
• Supergirl – written by Michael Green/Mike Johnson and drawn by Mahmud Asrar
• Superboy – written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by Rebekah Isaacs

Batman
• Batman – written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Greg Capullo
• Detective Comics – written by Ed Brubaker and drawn by Steve Epting
• Batman and Robin – written by Peter Tomasi and drawn by Pat Gleason
• Batgirl – written by Gail Simone and drawn by Ardian Syaf
• Batwing – written by Judd Winick and drawn by Leinil Francis Yu
• Batwoman – written by J. H. Williams III/W. Haden Blackman and drawn by J. H. Williams III/Amy Reeder
• Nightrunner – written by Kyle Higgins and drawn by Trevor McCarthy
• Birds of Prey – written by Duane Swierczynski and drawn by Jesus Saiz
• Catwoman – written by Marjorie Liu and drawn by Emanuela Lupacchino
• Nightwing – written by Mark Waid and drawn by Nicola Scott
• Red Hood and the Outlaws – written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by Kenneth Rocafort

Green Lantern
• Green Lantern – written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Eddy Barrows
• Green Lantern Corps – written by Peter Tomasi and drawn by Billy Tan
• Green Lantern - New Guardians – written by Tony Bedard and drawn by Tyler Kirkham

Justice League
• Justice League – written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Ivan Reis
• Justice League International – written by Christos Gage and drawn by Terry Dodson
• Aquaman – written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Olivier Coipel
• The Flash – written by Brian Q. Miller/Francis Manapul and drawn by Francis Manapul
• The Fury of Firestorm – written by Joe Harris/Ethan Van Sciver and drawn Ethan Van Sciver
• Mister Terrific – written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Allan Davis
• Green Arrow – written by Ann Nocenti and drawn by Stefano Caselli
• Wonder Woman – written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Cliff Chiang
• Vixen – written by Kathryn Immonen and drawn by Cafu
• DC Universe Presents – written by [Varies] and drawn by [Varies]

The Dark
• Animal Man – written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Travel Foreman
• Demon Knights – written by Paul Cornell and drawn by Frank Cho
• Justice League Dark – written by Peter Milligan and drawn by Mikel Janin
• Frankenstein - Agent of S.H.A.D.E – written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Doug Mahnke
• I, Vampire – written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and drawn by Andrea Sorrentino
• Resurrection Man – written by Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning and drawn by Fernando Dagnino
• Swamp Thing – written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Yanick Paquette

The Edge
• All-Star Western – written by Jimmy Palmiotti/Justin Gray and drawn by Moritat
• Blackhawks – written by Mike Costa and drawn by Mike Choi
• Deathstroke – written by Kyle Higgins and drawn by David Finch
• Grifter – written by Rick Remender and drawn by Marc Silvestri
• Men of War – written by Ivan Brandon and drawn by Andy Kubert
• Stormwatch – written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Brian Hitch
• Suicide Squad – written by Adam Glass and drawn by Dale Keown
• Voodoo – written by Ron Marz and drawn by Sami Basri
• O.M.A.C. – written by Dan Didio/Keith Giffen and drawn by Joe Maduriera

Young Justice
• Blue Beetle – written by Tony Bedard and drawn by Ryan Stegman
• Hawk & Dove – written by Barbara Kesel/Sterling Gates and drawn by Ed McGuinness
• Legion Lost – written by Fabian Nicieza and drawn by Pete Woods
• Legion of Super-Heroes – written by Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning and drawn by Francis Portela
• Static Shock – written by John Rozum and drawn by Khary Randolph
• Traci Thirteen – written by Joss Whedon and drawn by Michael Ryan
• Teen Titans – written by Scott Lobdell and drawn by Mark Brooks
• The Ray – written by Jimmy Palmiotti/Justin Gray and drawn by Jamal Igle

[Raye]

I like the way you think, I like most of your picks, kept the creative teams the same on the ones I feel are working the best, changed the ones i think need it. I hadn't considered Remender for Grifter, but he actually would be a GREAT fit. He's exclusive to Marvel though, isn't he? so sad. And the Traci 13 book with Whedon, love that.

What I'd change is remove Blackhawks from the Edge line, and repalce it with Wildcats. Dream team would be to have Joe Casey come back, with Sean Phillips. (I liked 3.0 :p)

[Kikaider]

Some of mine would be..

Demon Knights by Walter & Louise Simonson and art by Joe Madureira
Doom Patrol by Keith Giffen and Paul Pelletier
Captain Comet by Jim Starlin
Flash by Grant Morrison and art by Jim Lee
Captain Atom by Karl Kesel and Tom Grummett
Legion of Superheroes (based off the animated series) by Kurt Busiek and Freddie Williams II

Ooops, there should be a Shade the Changing Man by Alan Davis

[NinjaMic]

A Question (Renee) ongoing written by Greg Rucka and drawn by JHW3

[vampiric_cannibal]

There are a ton of these threads. But I love everyone and post in most in them, so I'll give this a whirl, as usual.

Batman
Batman: current team
Batman & Robin: Kyle Higgins and Finch
The Robins: Lemire and Cameron Stewart
Blackbat & Spoiler:
Nightwing:
Red Hood: Current team (of creators. Ditch the Outlaws)
Batwoman: Current team
Robin: Sterling Gates and Lee Garbett

Superman
Action Comics: Morrisson and Quitely
Superman
Superboy
Supergirl

Justice League / DCU
JLA
JLI
Green Arrow
Speedy
Flash
Speed Force
Wonder Woman
Troia
Deathstroke
Legion of Superheroes
BOP
Power Girl

Green Lantern
GL
GLC
GL: NG

Dark
Animal Man
Swamp Thing
JLD
Dial H
I, Vampire

Young Justice
Teen Titans: Current team
Ravager solo:
Blue Beetle: any new creative team
Legion Lost
Kid Flash
Traci 13
A YJ for the many unused teen girl heroes (Miss Martian, Terra, Traci 13, Spoiler, Speedy. I know I wish for the later 3 to have books, but still)

Can't think up too many creators, and I don't care for the Edge line.

[vicvega]

Batman:
keep the line up on Batman and Batwoman and Batgirl
Detective Comics: Written by Ed Brubaker drawn by Francesco Francavilla
Nightwing: Written by Kyle Higgins and drawn by Leinil Yu
Red Hood and the Outlaws: Written by Jeff Lemire drawn by Ivan Reis

The Dark
keep the Resurrection, animal, swamp thing and frankenstein line ups
Justice League Dark: Written by Peter Milligan and drawn by Guy Davis
Shade the Changing Man: Written by Peter Milligan drawn by Jock
Sandman (Golden Age): Written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Francesco Francavilla

only changes i'd make so far

[MrHashasheen]

I'm a relatively new fan (brought in by DCn52) and unaware of most writers & artists, but I know of most DC characters for a long time. Can I just give my thoughts to a new 52 lineup without writer/artist requests?

[vampiric_cannibal]

I'm a relatively new fan (brought in by DCn52) and unaware of most writers & artists, but I know of most DC characters for a long time. Can I just give my thoughts to a new 52 lineup without writer/artist requests?

Please do. Any (well, most) contribution is welcomed, and you'll probably find out more about your personal preferences of creators soon enough.

[MrHashasheen]

Please do. Any (well, most) contribution is welcomed, and you'll probably find out more about your personal preferences of creators soon enough.

All righty...

Well to be honest, I kind of formulated a different response to the idea of a new 52 when I first heard about it, and had written it down as I started buying into the new 52. Even though I wasn't a comics fan, I was knowledgeable about the Multiverse and thought it was a great concept. My opinion was that DC should have gone back and separated the characters into different earths instead of this unification of DC/Wildstorm/Vertigo titles. I sort of fleshed out 5 different earths, each with a unique and seperate identity than the others.

Earth-1: Basically the one with the most well known titles and characters. Green Lantern, the Batman family, the Justice League, etc... basically all the post-Silver Age DC originals. It'd start off like DCnU did, having only been active for five years.

Aquaman
Batman
Batwing
Batgirl
Birds of Prey
Black Bat
Global Guardians (Guy Rayner)
Green Arrow
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan)
Green Lantern Corps (Kyle Raynor & John Stewart)
Justice League
Jonah Hex
Legion of Superheroes
Nightwing
Red Hood
Secret Six
Superman
Supergirl
The Flash
Teen Titans
Wonder Woman

Earth-2: For this, I decided on mixing together Golden Age DC (Earth-2) + Charlton Comics and Milestone Media characters. This was naturally different than Earth-1, in that there was the Golden Age from the 40s to 50s, then a decently long dryspell (excepting Captain Atom and a few others like Doctor Fate and Spectre, who I figured to holdover from the 60s till modern day due to their unique statuses), then super-heroes started building back up in numbers from the seventies till now, with the 00s/10s being home to a new generation of super-heroes. Power Girl, Blue Beetle, some of the legacies, Static Shock....

Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
Captain Atom
Doctor Fate
Hawkman & Hawkgirl
Icon
Justice Society
Manhunter
Nightshade
Power Girl
Stargirl
Static Shock
The Question

Earth-3: Containing the characters of Fawcett and Quality Comics (plus in time characters never in those companies like the Guardian and such who would fit in with the themes) Earth-3 was going to be kind of controversial in hindsight. Basically taking the concept Earth-10/X where the Nazis won the war, and then taking it in a slightly different direction where they won thanks to Black Adam ... who pretty much turned on them and became supreme ruler of Earth, with contending powers like Mister Mind and the like in the sector. The idea was this was a world where villains were in charge and super-heroism and the like was illegal and were basically rebels (inspired by Jim Shooter's vision for Defiant Comics).

Blackhawks
Shazam! (Captain Marvel)
Freedom Fighters
Plastic Man
Squadron of Justice
The Guardian

Earth-4: Basically the Vertigo/Dark Earth, I had in mind, where most of the supernatural and weird teams and characters of the DCU would be.

Animal Man
Doom Patrol
I, Vampire
Resurrection Man
Sentinels of Magic (Justice League Dark)
S.H.A.D.E
Swamp Thing
Xombi

Earth-5: And then finally Wildstorm's Earth. I really don't know much about Wildstorm and I wasn't too interested in their characters, so I sort of slotted them to their own universe and didn't change it much from what they did IRL.

Gen-13
Grifter
Stormwatch
Voodoo

All in all, 52 titles. My idea was separating them into multiple worlds would make them more connected with the fewer titles they had to connect with, allow less-seen titles and character fresh new runs, create somewhat unique worlds for the characters to play in once rebooted and allowing DC to run multiple crossover events directed to the fans of specific Earths (or if they follow multiple earths).

Stupid?

[Batman and Charles]

I won't do 52 titles as I couldn't think of that many, but here's a few I would have liked to see:

Action Comics written by Mark Waid and Grant Morrison, drawn by Dave Bullock, based on the Superman 2000 pitch
Superman by Walt Simonson and Chris Samnee
Lex Luthor by Paul Cornell and Pete Woods
Klarion the Witch-Boy by Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving
House of Mystery (starring Frankenstein) by John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke
Wonder Woman by Darwyn Cooke
Captain Marvel by Jeff Smith and Olivier Coipel
Aquaman by Mark Waid and Marcos Martin
Darkseid Adventures by Walt Simonson
Detective Comics Rotating characters (Batman, Batwoman, Question, Detective Chimp, Martian Manhunter, GA Sandman, Nightrunner etc.), and writers, mainly Greg Rucka, John Ostrander and Doug Moench, art rotating between Jock and Francesco Francavilla. Short arcs, two or three issues.
Batman by Alan Moore and Sam Keith
Batwoman by Greg Rucka and JHWIII
Justice League by Mark Waid and Grant Morrison and Paolo Rivera (roster: Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, Green Arrow, The Question)
Justice League Dark by Neil Gaiman and Dean Ormston (roster: Shade, Constantine, Zatanna, Klarion, Etrigan, Deadman, Batwoman)
Etrigan the Demon by Mike Mignola
The Question by Peter Milligan and Mike Allred, paranoid Question like the one in JLU.
Plastic Man by China Miéville and Jim Woodring
Green Lantern by Alan Moore and Patrick Gleason
Red Lanterns by Dash Shaw
Shade the Changing Man by Paul Hornschemeier
Blue and Gold by Keith Giffen and Dan Hipp
The Spectre by Peter Milligan and Tom Mandrake

[FanboyStranger]

Phantom Stranger by Matt Wagner and Tim Sale.

[DaveEB]

My IDEAL 52 would be so radically different from what we're seeing...I need time that I don't have right now to compile the list...I started to...but then I realised that I'd probably wash half of the titles clean and give them entirely different focus...this will take time to think on...

[TheVampire]

I'd love:

Stormwatch by Warren Ellis and Brian Hitch (ah, the classic old tastes..)
Grifter by Ed Brubaker and Travis Charest (still not sure about the writer, but i'd buy it just for the art)
Deathstroke by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven (could be coooool) :D
Frankenstein by Jeff Lemire and Mike Mignola (i like the way it is but.... well, Mignola is just Mignola) :P
Batman and Robin by Frank Miller (i'd love to read Miller's version of the Batman\Damian relationship)

and leave like they are: I,Vampire, Animal Man, Batman, Swamp Thing, Justice League, Wonder Woman (but without any fill-in artist)

[SpideyCzar]

Detective Comics-Bendis & Alex Maleev
Batman-Scott Snyder & Greg Capullo
Batgirl-Gail Simone & Frank Cho
Robin-Geoff Johns & Cully Hammer
Catwoman-Fred Van lente & J. Scott Campbell

Action Comics-Jonathan Hickman & Gary Frank
Superman-Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch
Supergirl-Peter David & Francis Manupal
Superboy-Chuck Dixon & Pete Woods

Wonder Woman-Brian K. Vaughan & Mike Deodato Jr.
Aquaman-Geoff Johns & Ethan Van Sciver
Flash-Mark Waid & Howard Porter
Hawkman-Matt Fraction & Tony Daniel
Green Arrow-Cullen Bunn & Mark Bagley
Blue Bettle & Booster Gold-Dan Jurgens
Power of Shazam-JMS & Oliver Copiel
Spectre-Jeff Lemiere & Kelly Jones
The Question-Greg Rucka & Mike Perkins
Green Lantern-DnA & Ivan Reis
Green Lantern Corps-Keiron Gillen & Carlos Pacheco
Swamp Thing-Scott Snyder & Yanick Paquette


Justice League-Jason Aaron & Jim Lee
Justice Society-Ed Brubaker & Steve Epting
Teen Titans-Brian K Vaughan & Mike McKone
Batman & The Outsiders-Jonathan Hickaman & Brad Walker
Justice League International-Dan Slott & Stuart Immonen
Suicide Squad-Robert Kirkman & Khoi Pham
Legion of Super Heroes-Grant Morrison & Chris Bachalo

Elseworlds-Grant Morrison & various
Earth 2-Geoff Johns & various
DC Comics Presents-Various

Al I could think of. Very cool topic like a lot of the ideas in this thread.

[Batman and Charles]

Supergirl-Peter David & Francis Manapul
Power of Shazam-JMS & Oliver Copiel
Batman & The Outsiders-Jonathan Hickaman & Brad Walker
Justice League International-Dan Slott & Stuart Immonen
Suicide Squad-Robert Kirkman & Khoi Pham
Legion of Super Heroes-Grant Morrison & Chris Bachalo

I like your thinkin'!