Crime Syndicate Mini Series

[Vordan]

Just gonna copy and paste my response from another thread:


I was hoping for something a bit different and an Earth 3 mini series is definitely that. This could be really fun. If that bald guy is White Lightning, that’s pretty damn funny! And they’re using Atomica so that great too. Is Starro a hero on this Earth?

He should be a hero, but he still might be morally darker like Alexander Luthor was.

[SecretWarrior]

Just gonna copy and paste my response from another thread:


I was hoping for something a bit different and an Earth 3 mini series is definitely that. This could be really fun. If that bald guy is White Lightning, that’s pretty damn funny! And they’re using Atomica so that great too. Is Starro a hero on this Earth? Starro the Liberator?!?

I think the bald guy is Johnny Quick (the previously-mentioned sociopath).

Would be funny if Starro were trying to keep the Daily Planet up rather than trying to tear it down.

[SecretWarrior]

Who should be a seventh member?

Characters tend to get neglected once you include more than six. I try to push quality more than quantity. I think you break trust with your audience when you promise so and so will be in the book and that so and so has no interesting interactions, doesn't drive the plot forward, or is treated as secondary.

The Justice League or Crime Syndicate can be as massive as you want, just break them up into cells of 6 or fewer when there's not a massive event. Each cell could carry its own book, and characters could rotate between cells.

[Johnny]

It means that everything will be whatever the next writer feels it should be.

Perhaps it should indeed be like that, but this neither answers my question not is it always accurate when it comes to working with corporate characters. Writers don't usually get to write whatever stories they want or use any characters they like, whether it's Elseworlds stories or not. Mark Waid for instance wanted to use Hal as the representative GL in Kingdom Come but DC didn't allow it despite that it was an Elseworlds tale so he decided to use Alan instead. So I think it makes sense to ask about "how" different the multiversal landscape will be after yet another "Nothing will ever be the same" type of event.

[Mutant God]

Who should be a seventh member?

Mr. Roboto (Cyborg)
Grey Crossbow (Green Arrow)
Professor Chaos (Dr. Fate)

[SecretWarrior]

That cover is iconic-- Would be cool to see a Justice League version.

[SecretWarrior]

It sounds like the backup story for each issue will be the origin of a different member.

[Johnny]

Atomica kind of looks like a female counterpart of Ryan Choi, but maybe it's just a short-haired Rhonda Pineda.

[Phoenixx9]

I think the bald guy is Johnny Quick (the previously-mentioned sociopath).

Would be funny if Starro were trying to keep the Daily Planet up rather than trying to tear it down.

On Earth-3, maybe that would be Sunno, a good Sun person.

[SecretWarrior]

On Earth-3, maybe that would be Sunno, a good Sun person.

He posses people to make the world a freer, happier, safer place

[Alpha]

Can someone explain Power Ring's symbol to me? Is it an X? Is it a Butterfly?

[Mutant God]

On Earth-3, maybe that would be Sunno, a good Sun person.

He posses people to make the world a freer, happier, safer place

Hes Starru he doesn't possess creatures, hes connecting people under one telepathic bond so the CS(A?) doesn't figure the plan to get rid of them

[Phoenixx9]

He posses people to make the world a freer, happier, safer place

Haha, I like that!

[JLH]

I'm totally in. Sounds like it could be a lot of fun. It's also a pleasant surprise. It seems like we were due for another Bat-related announcement...sigh...

[scary harpy]

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Some surprises.

Why can't TPTB give Johnny Quick a good costume?!?