Design a Black Label ongoing

[superduperman]

You are given complete freedom to design a Black Label ongoing title for DC. The catch is it has to be with a DC character. What would you do?

Some of my ideas:

Daily Planet. Lois, Clark, and the rest of the staff investigate crime in Metropolis. Including murders and other violent crimes. A "down to Earth" Superman title. Think Gotham Central for Metropolis.

Zatanna. She's investigating the disappearance of her father. This requires her to delve deep into the darkest recesses of the magical underworld.

Jonah Hex: A dark western along the same lines as Deadwood.

A Hellblazer reboot. The same type of hard series as the nineties version.

A Batman series that's basically the Nolan version. He's just starting out. Instead of a Batmobile he rides a motorcycle. Limited gadgets. Makes mistakes.

[Ra-El]

Action Comics 1938 - Basically what Marvel did with Spiderman Life story, but with Superman. It would be close to Morrison run, but set in 1938.

[Pohzee]

I think an ongoing goes against the point of the Black Label. Which was created to produce evergreen stories.

That Rucka was originally working on a Gotham Central style Daily Planet series that eventually became the Lois book. I would have been interested to see that too.

[the illustrious mr. kenway]

An Anarky solo set in Hub City.

[Thor-Ul]

Action Comics 1938 - Basically what Marvel did with Spiderman Life story, but with Superman. It would be close to Morrison run, but set in 1938.

Generations already did that. But I guess it is time for a new iteration of that idea.

My Proposal:

Secret Society: a city like other but where their main outcome comes from (super) crime: henchmen, technologies, commerce, everything here is oriented to the bussiness of crime and normal people living here does the same things than everybody does: has homes, families, schools, entertaiment. But where everybody knows than it lives from breaking the laws of society. But even here, there are rules and somebody needs to enforce them.

[Adekis]

Generations already did that. But I guess it is time for a new iteration of that idea.

It's true, but I do think it's been a long enough time. I also think there's a much greater sense of interest in Golden Age Superman, as well as a greater awareness of what made him different from some of the later permutations.

Personally, I'd like a Black Label Superman & Batman series styled vaguely after Sandman Mystery Theater, with a pseudo-Golden Age Superman, similar to the one from the early New 52, teaming up with a pseudo-Golden Age Batman, similar to the one from First Wave (does anyone else remember First Wave? haha!) I'd ideally want it drawn by Rags Morales, who drew both early New 52 Action and First Wave, and as far as I know Morales was never really into the scaling up to Silver Age thing that Morrison did during their Action Comics run, so I think getting him for a pseudo-Golden Age type story would be really cool.

[cgh]

Action Comics 1938 - Basically what Marvel did with Spiderman Life story, but with Superman. It would be close to Morrison run, but set in 1938.

This is a great idea. That old Action Comics Superman was a lot different than today's, kind of a gritty, hard-punching hero of the working class.

I'd like to see a Killer Croc mini, using the Croc we saw in Azzarello and Bermejo's Joker story from ten years back. He's a tragic figure and I think it should hook directly into the Conway run on Batman from the early '80s, when he was introduced.

[Jackalope89]

The Violent Misadventures of Lobo. Some bastich has kidnapped the space dolphins! Time for the Main Man to get to the bottom of this dastardly crime... BY BLOWING EVERYTHING UP!

[9th.]

A Neo-Noir detective style story starring Black Lighting, someone is frying the cops and political leaders of Freeland and the burns on their bodies make it look like they've been electrocuted. It's a whodunit story that puts BL's back against the wall and turns his community against him and his family while trying to prove his innocence in the process.

[Raijin]

I don't know what I'd call it. But Elongated Man, The Question, Detective Chimp, Tim Drake and Traci 13 investigate weird crimes in Gotham City during the 1800's. So it'll be gothic horror mixed with Lovecraft.

[batnbreakfast]

A reverse Gotham Central titled Gotham Underworld showcasing the colorful villains and their impact on average citizens, thugs and cops. Heists, backstabbing and outmaneuvering Law and Order included.

[dswynne]

A Black Adam series, who has to go on a quest to redeem himself for what did to his nephew Anon (the one who had inherited the magic of SHAZAM!, but was murdered by Adam in order to claim it).

[boltmonster]

Post Infinite Crisis Superboy Prime. Mysteriously has an alternate reality viewer that shows him how the New 52 was created and what he does to solve it.