Rebuild the non-Bat DC line

[Aahz]

I think the base line up of non Batman books that DC should be able to keep up going permanently are the following (I counting BoP and RHatO as Batbooks):

Team Books
- Justice League (most of the Big 6, with 2-3 other established Heroes)
- Justice League Dark
- Justice Society
- Suicide Squad
- Titans (based around Fab 5 and NTT characters)
- Young Justice (based around the YJ4)
- Teen Titans/Super Sons (Damian, Jon, Emiko and other younger charcters)

Solo Books
- Superman (staring Clark)
- Action Comics (also staring Clark)
- Wonder Woman
- Green Lantern (probably staring Hal)
- Flash
- Aquaman
- Green Arrow
- Deathstroke
- Harley Quinn


If those are covered I think for the rest of the line up you just have to go for the most interesting pitches.

[Kirk Brent]

I'd revitalize the line by revitalizing the DC Multiverse. Monthlies, minis, one-shots, and OGNs would be set on various Earths.

Earth-Zero: "Ultimate DC" or "DC2." This would be a full reboot Earth or an Earth where the focus is on the descendants of old heroes and others who have taken up mantles or begun their own legacies.

Titles: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (potential for a brand new character or even approach to GL here), Flash (same as GL), Aquaman, other titles for new characters as necessary. No teams here for at least one year.

Earth-One: the classic DCU of the Silver, Bronze, and post-COIE era with continuity adjustments as necessary.

Titles: Action Comics, Superman Family (or Super Family), Detective Comics, Batman Family (or Gotham Knights), Sensation Comics starring Wonder Woman, Wally West: Flash, Hal Jordan and The Green Lantern Corps, JLA, Titans, The Flash of Multiple Earths (starring Barry Allen and various multiverse characters)

Earth-Two: JSA, alternating between GA and modern day stories and characters, and World's Finest, set in the GA.

Earth-Three: CSA, featuring the Crime Syndicate of America and The Adventures of Alexander Luthor.

Earth-Four: Blue and Gold, starring Blue Beetle and Booster Gold as they find adventure in both time and the Multiverse, Peacemaker, a dark comedy and action book, and The Question, the darkest and most serious book set on Earth-Four.

Earth-Five: Shazam, now renamed to his original name, Captain Thunder, headlines Captain Thunder Comics; also featuring the Thunder Family. NOTE: The Marvel Family of the New 52 and the movie would not exist here, just Freddie and Mary.

Earth-Six: Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, a superhero-less Spectre book, The Sandman, Doom Patrol, a new Kid Eternity book.

Earth-Seven: Superhero-less versions of Adam Strange, Hawkworld, Challengers of The Unknown (a blend of FF and Star Trek), Metal Men, and OMAC.

Earth-Ten: Freedom Fighters; possible minis for The Ray and Miss America.

[SuperX]

Good thinking with the codenames there, Tim and Conner wouldn't even need to lose their R and S logos. And Fury makes sense as Cassie's new name - it was originally used by Earth-2 Wonder Woman's daughter, and after a post-Crisis origin retcon, she died at some point before Flashpoint. The name has been vacant on Earth-0 since, so it's up for grabs, and Cassie even has the same hair colour as Lyta, so much like Jesse Quick as Liberty Belle, would end up looking pretty much identical to the original. And Cassie is Diana's niece, the closest thing she has to a daughter.

Drive actually sounds decent for Ace West too. We know the kid's into motor mechanics.

Thanks, I love coming up with new identities, because usually I’m not happy with DC’s choices (like calling Ace “Burst”).

My first pick for Tim was Sonar, as a reference to bats’ “radar” ability, but Sonar is already taken and Radar works just as well, though it’s not so commonly associated with bats.
I chose Fury for its legacy aspects and also for her connection with the Olympians (“Fury of the gods”).

SCION for Conner, Supernova is cool for when he is young or still going full on media punk vibe, and he isn't staying that way forever, no matter how it looks now.

[Dreaded Porcupine]

Team books period!

JLA
JSA
All-Star Squadron
LOSH
Doom Patrol
Freedom Fighters
Metal Men
Teen Titans
Suicide Squad

Make some of them ongoing and the rest mini’s. How does DC have no team books and Marvel has a ton?

[Digifiend]

Because all of DC's team books ended in the run up to Dark Crisis - they'll probably all relaunch in December or January. They do currently have two, but they're both minis - the Dark Crisis tie-in Young Justice, and the belated Multiversity book Teen Justice.

Incidentally, most of Marvel's team books are in the X-Men line. The Avengers side of things is underserved, and there's no active teen team book in print right now either.

[Darkgreed]

Superman Family:
Action Comics: Jon Kent
Man of Steel: Steel, Superboy
Superman: Clark Kent
Supergirl

Wonder Woman Family:
Wonder Woman: Diana
Wonder Girls: Donna, Yora, Cass
Sensational Comics: Artemis
Nubia and the Amazon: Nubia

Green Lantern Family:
Green Lantern: Hal
Green Lantern Corp: Kyle, Simon, Jessica,
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights: Guy, John, Jo

Flash Family:
Flash: Barry
Flash: Fastest Family: Wally and his family

Aquaman Family:
Aquaman : Arthur
Aquamen: Aquaman and aquagirl

[LAWtoyoto 432]

"DC comics. A line-up barely alive (except for the titles with Batman).

We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make DC better than it was. Better, stronger, faster."

I doubt it will happen, unlike Marvel where this method could work. (Look at Daredevil. MK, Punisher, Thor and Hulk run, even though many of them are consider strong seller despite not a spidey or X-books).

[warzon]

My DC Universe would consist of

Team Books.

Justice League
Extreme Justice

Justice Society
The New Infinity

The Outsiders
The Power Co.

The Doom Patrol
Young Justice

The Titans
Titans L.A.

The Legion
Legion Strikeforce

The Worlds Finest
The Amazons

Solo's

Wonder Woman
Nubia
Mera
Vixen
Black Canary and Green Arrow
The Huntress and Power Woman
Zatanna
Bumblebee and the Herald
Dr Light
Fire and Ice

Batman
Superman
Green Lantern
The Flash
Dr Fate
Aquaman
Brownze Tiger
Black Lightning
Hawkman
Omac
Cpt Comet
Icon
Martain Manhunter
Firestorm
Cpt Atom

Misc Titles

Action Comic=will be a Super Family Anthology
Detective Comic=Bat Family
Senstational Comic=Wonder Family

Brave and Bold=Batman team up
Adventure Comic=Wonder Woman Team up
DCPresent=Superman team up

Secret Origins=Who's Who of DC's Heroes and Villians
House of Magic=Feat Mystical Heroes
Mystery in Space=Feat=Adam Strange.The Omega Men.Lobo.Lady Quark ect.

[EmeraldGladiator]

Green Lantern Titles
Green Lantern: Emerald Gladiator (Hal Centric) Johns and Reis
Green Lantern: (Hal) Hickman and Darryl Banks
Green Lantern Corps (John, Guy and the Corps) DnA and Rafa Sandovol
Green Lantern Quarterly (rotating)

JSA Titles (Roy Thomas and Editor on line)
Justice Society Johns and Nicola Scott
Freedom Fighters Venditti and Barrows
Infinity Inc/ JSA All-Stars
All Star Squadron (JSA the early years)'
Green Lantern/Dr Fate title (sort of like an Earth 2's World's Finest with lots of Magic)

Wolfman's Teen Titans Wolfman and Jimenez

DC Cosmic
Legion of Super Heroes (Retroboot version) Hickman and Fabok
L.E.G.I.O.N. Mark Waid
Omega Men

Flash
2ndary Flash title
Aquamen
Wonder Woman
Marvel family book (Shazam/Black Adam)

Superman
Action Comics

Justice League of America

The Last God (love the Black Label series)
Demon Knights type period Fantasy like title

Azrael drawn by either Kitson or Quesada

Secret Six Simone and Eaglesham

[D.Z]

New writers and good sales.

Stil can't force changing tastes or make top writers want to do lower listed characters these days.

[Swamp Thing 2099]

Titans (Dick, Kory, Roy, Raven, Gar, Vic, Natasha, Wally, Lilith)
Teen Titans (Roundhouse, Wallace, Emiko, Jakeem, Crush, Bunker)
Young Justice (the Core Four, Secret, Jinny Hex, Red Canary)

Action Comics (Clark)
Superman: Son of Kal-El (Jon)
Superman: The Man of Steel (Clark)
Supergirl
Superboy
Superman Family
Steel
Lois Lane
Jimmy Olsen

Green Lantern: Jessica Cruz
Green Lantern: Jo Mullein
Omega Lantern (Kyle)
Green Lantern Corps (everyone else)

Justice Society of America (everyone)
Hawkman/Hawkgirl
Stargirl
Spectre
Green Lantern: Alan Scott
Flash: Jay Garrick

Flash (Avery)
Flash: The Speed Force (basically a Flash Family book with a main feature about Wallace and Wally)
Impulse
The Rogues

Green Arrow
Black Canary

Wonder Woman
Wonder Girls (Yara, Donna, Cassie)
Artemis
Nubia

Aquamen
Legion of Super-Heroes
Martian Manhunter
Atom
Shazam!
Hellblazer
Jonah Hex
Deadman
The Brave and the Bold
Blue Beetle and Booster Gold

Orion
The Fourth World
Big Barda and the Female Furies
Forever People
Mister Miracle

Justice League
Justice League Dark
Justice League International

[Restingvoice]

So by now I think everyone has noticed how reliant DC has been on Batman. Out of the 19 ongoings solicited for October, 13 star the Batfamily.
The rest of the DCU is in desperate need of a shot in the arm, so what would be YOUR ideas for the rest of DC’s line?

Thread rules:
1) This isn’t the thread to discuss Batman. Bat-characters can be part of team-books in your line, though. Otherwise, just assume DC will keep publishing at least 10 Bat ongoings while you’re in charge of the rest of the line.
2) You can have a maximum of 35 additional books. That’s already more than 3 times the amount of DCU ongoings.

if the solicit is 19 ongoings, then the rule shouldn't be 35 additional books making up 45 total, but limit the total including Bat fam books to 19.

1. Justice League - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Green Arrow
2. Titans - Nightwing, Donna, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg, Garth
3. Young Justice - Tim, Kon, Cassie, Bart
4. Suicide Squad - Deadshot, King Shark, Peacemaker
5. Birds of Prey - Black Canary, Oracle, Huntress, Lady Blackhawk
6. Outlaws - Red Hood, Artemis, Bizarro, Roy
7. Action Comics - Jon, Supergirl, Superboy, Steel
8. Detective Comics - Batwoman, Batwing, Azrael
9. Green Lantern Corps - Jon, Kyle, Simon, Jessica
10. Aquamen - Jackson, Manta, Mera, Tula
11. Arrows - Emiko
12. Flash Family - Jay, Wally
13. Justice League International - Booster, Kord, Fire, Ice, Guy
14. Justice League Dark - Zatanna, Constantine, Swamp Thing
15. Legion of Superheroes
16. JSA
17. Sensation Comics - Nubia, Hippolyta
18. Shazam Family
19. Doom Patrol

Of course that's not realistic, DC would include Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Harley and Nightwing
My guess is DC will discard Doom Patrol, Outlaws, JLI, Legion, and JSA to fill in for those five

[TheRay]

1. The Manhattan Guardian
2. The Seven Soldiers of Victory
3. The Vigilante
4. The Chinatown Kid
5. Forever Evil: The Dummy
6. The All Star Squadron
7. Earth 2
8. Hawkboy
9. Doctor Occult
10. More Fun Comics (Essentially a Brave and The Bold style with significant focus on The Spectre, Doctor Fate, and The Phantom Stranger)
11. The Presence
12. The Endless
13. Death
14. Captain Atom
15. Nightshade
16. Judomaster
17. Thunderbolt
18. Vulcan, Jr.
19. Captain Marvel
20. The Wizard Shazam
21. The Marvel Family (led by Junior)
22. (The) Invincible
23. Forever Evil: Captain Nazi
24. Bulletman
25. Bulletgirl
26. The Squadron of Justice (The Lieutenant Marvels)
27. Forever Evil: The Wicked Doctor
28. Forever Evil: Shimmer
29. The Metal Men
30. Crisis (crossover book using however many number of Earths still exist at the time)
31. JLA/JSA
32. Harbinger
33. The Monitor
34. Forever Evil: Krona
35. Forever Evil: The Anti-Monitor

[Stanlos]

"DC comics. A line-up barely alive (except for the titles with Batman).

We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make DC better than it was. Better, stronger, faster."

No matter how many times I encounter it, reference to that cheese 70S intro never fails to surprise and make me laugh hysterically. Even if it is done with a Ginger Bread cookie

[KC]

Justice League- Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman (Jackson Hyde), Green Lantern (Jessica Cruiz) and Martian Manhunter
Justice Society- The Golden Age JSA with more modern additions like Stargirl, Doctor Fate (Khalid Nassour) and Power Girl.

Superman-Starring Clark. More grounded and Metropolis based
Action Comics- Starring Clark. More fantastical with space adventures and Clarks' more "out-there" villains.
Adventures of Superman- starring Jon
Supergirl- Starring Kara

Wonder Woman- Starring Diana and Cassie Sandsmark (As Wonder Girl)
Sensation Comics- Starring Nubia and the rest of the Amazons.

Green Lanterns- Starring Jessica and Guy set on Earth.
Green Lantern Corps-Starring Hal, John, and Kyle. Each arc would be self-contained and focus on 1 or more of these Green Lanterns or other Lanterns from the GL Corps.

The Flash: Barry Allen- Starring Barry, Wallace (Ace) as Kid Flash and Iris West. Set in Central City.
The Flash Wally West- Starring Wally, Irey, Jai, and Linda Park. Set in Keystone City.

Aquaman- Staring Arthur, Jackson, Mera and Andy

The Power of SHAZAM!-Starring the Shazam family.

Green Arrow- Starring Oliver and the whole Arrow Family

Titans- A team open to every former Teen Titan/Young Justice member led by Donna Troy and Garth.

Legion of Superheroes


And 12-issue mini-series for characters who don't have an ongoing book.