#i hated 90% of ttv3 as well

[radioactive-earthshine]

I’ve been WAITING for this question okay so

Just to clarify I’m fairly new to comics and also not up to date on what’s happening with most of the characters rn so if this doesn’t fit anywhere in any current timeline or has already been done uhhhh sorry I don’t give a fuck

Anyway I’d give Starfire a solo series.

The first major arc would be kind of a space road trip type thing and for this arc I’d partner Kory up with Donna Troy and it would be so fruity. Like so so fruity. Those women kiss. I’m not sure what exactly I’d have Kory doing in space or why Donna joins her but the arc should end in a way that consolidates the best parts of her lore and scraps everything else (this is how I’m retconning Red Hood and the Outlaws). So some kind of soul searching magic quest idk.

At the end of her space quest, Kory gets established with a job and apartment in a new city and her villains are all super high tech, sci-fi. The artist needs to have some fuckin whimsy in designing characters and backgrounds, none of that dark grey everything is gritty shit. Bright colors all around. Obviously there would probably be at least one arc with the Titans but I’d really want her to work with characters she hasn’t previously interacted with or to bring back characters she hasn’t worked with recently like Animal Man. Maybe for one arc she teams up with the (RENEE MONTOYA) Question to blend Kory’s whole alien thing with a street level noir story (making Dick the detective for this would be so lame and im not about that. Im giving Kory more female friendships thanks). I don’t know if she’s ever worked with Kon but if she hasn’t THIS IS THE TIME. It would be soon after she gets back from space and would kick off a storyline for him to change in some important way like idk maybe growing out of the Superboy mantle and actually being an adult.

Maybe none of that makes sense and if this is stupid feel free to tell me so. So yeah that’s my idea. Korydonna space road trip, set up a new status quo for the remainder of the series and have her work with new characters to fight super powered sci-fi villains in mundane settings, emphasis on Kory working with other women. If I have fundamentally misunderstood this character then just ignore all of this. But anyway the thing about this that I think would piss off DC is that Kory has no male love interests in this series, at all, period. She either kisses Donna or no one at all.

Unrelated to that I would also fix the whole Batgirl thing and have Babs be Oracle again, retcon Cass’s villain arc out of existence, and put her back as Batgirl for a solo series so we can have her pass the mantle to Steph at the end in a way that’s satisfying and does not include the character assassination. I don’t know how I would accomplish this in-universe without fucking up the timeline but I’d find a way.

I'm interested and am listening to you very closely. I'm not the most well versed person in Kory or Donna lore (I've read thousands of comics but not a lot with them meaningfully) so I can't say if this is compliant with anything, and even if it was an impossibility, this is about self indulgent stories YOU would write with no one at DC to tell you NO. I definitely feel strongly that DC needs more women with their own solos featuring other women and having relationships that are platonic so this 100% good in that regards and I feel a lot of people would be interested.

Kory and Kon interacted in TTv3 but I can't justifiably say it was the best of situations so having better interactions would be 100% a delight to see.

But yes, Kory deserves her own solo and we always need more queer content. And SPACE! We need more comics that take you away from Earth.

But here's an important question; WHAT CITY is she working out of??

Babs being Oracle again is a mantra even the most staunch of batfans cry daily and I feel most would welcome her back.

Tell me what you would do if you had full creative control to write for DC with NO push back from editors and who would you piss off the most with your unhinged creative wiles?

Also, I shouldn't have to say this but don't be a DICK to anyone whose self indulgent fantasies might make you mad. Keep scrolling, block, move on. Thanks.

[radioactive-earthshine]

Feelings about Geoff Johns?

I'm in a love/hate relationship with him because I do legitimately love and adore his writing. He CAN write, and he can write well. Structurally his stories are sound, and he has a way of detecting the depth between characters and pulling you in to CARE about them and feel emotions about them.

I have read Dex Starr's origin comic in complete only once because it hits that hard.

I find his pacing pleasant to read and he has a good balance of action and soft moments. I find it comforting that he is a fan of comics first and you can even find many of his letters to the editor published where he talks excitedly about his desires and heacanons; some of these he made canon himself (Kon's genetic parent being Lex, Kon being besties with Tim, 'retconning' Parallax). It's fun to read these but they are also cringey because he is an annoying cishet white guy in the 90s and it shows. But he did love tiny Krypto a whole lot.

What he did on TTV3 is unforgivable. I know I have bitched enough about this here so I am not going to parrot myself again. Everyone on this site knows TTV3 is wretched.

I also feel he truly was a member of H.E.A.T. (Hal's Emerald Advance Team) I can't remember if this was confirmed or not, but I feel with as much of a fan presence he had, he was likely a member during their most aggressive moments of history throughout the 90s.

Final thoughts on him can be summarized that he is not as good as dudebros say he is, but I genuinely enjoy reading his work. But I hold my breath while reading it. It's either going to be great and painful in the good way or in the way I want to throw a brick through his car window. He's not the worst comic writer out there.

We do NOT criticize his Stargirl. Ever.