#marvel should also make their comics gud

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My cape-comics wishlist

I, somehow, turned thirty today. I don’t know how that happened, but I’m very glad I’m still here for it.

Anyway, since it’s my birthday I get to make wishes, and there’s lot of big important stuff to wish for, but none of that is fun to read about so here’s my wishes for shit I want Marvel and DC to do.

Marvel

1. Bring back Echo and give her a solo comic written by a native writer - I couldn’t tell you exactly what it is about Echo I love so much, although I’m always drawn to characters who’s communication is limited in some way, but I just think she’s such a cool character, and we need way more disabled characters generally, and especially way more disabled characters whose power doesn’t magically cure their disability.

2. An MI:13 ongoing written by Si Spurrier - Pete Wisdom is what you’d get if James Bond and John Constantine had a baby, and he’s always fun to read. Plus Marvel could do with some more robust magic stuff in their books, and Marvel UK was always where that happened. Give Spurrier free reign over the supporting cast, put Spitfire in it, have cameos from Meggan and Brian, a crossover with the next book on my list, it would be great.

3. Black Knight & Excalibur - the world could really do with more possitive representation of muslim women, especially women in hijab, and Marvel just has Excalibur sitting there unused! She’s got an amazing power set, Dane makes a great foil for her quiet optimism, and there’s even room for a will they-won’t they romance if you want that from them. Give it to a british muslim writer, give them free reign to get as weird and magical and existential and political as they want, and tell stories the world actually needs, instead of just writing the 845th iron man villain heal-turn.

4. A 20XX comic written by Al Ewing - the canon 20XX stuff is great, and we’ve seen glimpses of unnumbered futures that could be incorporated here as well, and the great thing with a branching timeline future comic is you’ve got Exiles levels of freedom to do what you want with the world. I hope we can all agree why a comic about Captain America being a bullet-proof black woman could be an important story to tell.

5. Make Quentin Quire canonically a transman - there’s a lot of characters who are well past needing to come out but this is one that feels possible. We’re not going to get Wolvie coming out any time soon, or Storm, or Cap, but Quentin is still small scale enough that editorial might actually agree to it. Plus they keep trying to put him in books but no one knows what to do with him, at least this storyline would give him something to do that isn’t just start fights with his teammates. We desperately need more trans rep in comics, and while I’m all for creating new diverse characters, queering existing characters is a much better way to ensure they actually stick around.

DC

1. Give Batman to Gail Simone - or Detective, I don’t really care which. I don’t know what she’d do with it, but there’s no one in the business better at writing found family bonding moments, and we need someone to bring the Gothamites into a cohesive whole, becase they’ve never really fuctioned as one since Nu52 (or before it all that much, lets be honest). It’s something that would make the characters and their solo books stronger, and it’s even something that usually goes down well with fans, there’s really no downside here.

2. JLA vs The Authority - I know putting an event comics on this sounds completely bonkers, no one actually likes event comics as a concept even if some indivual ones are really good, but a lot of the Authority are knocking around the place in DC not really doing anything, and I think we can all agree that no matter now dumb the concept is, watching Apollo and Supes duke it out would just be really damn cool. Plus The Wildstorm was one of the best comics of the decade, and if I want it to get the sequel it deserves, raising the profile of ex-Wild Storm characters can’t do any harm.

3. Bring back Connor Hawke - of all of the characters to quietly disappear with Nu52, Connor is the one I can’t get over. He was so interesting, and so high profile, and I really can’t see how Arrow comics benefitted from him not being around. (Oh, and just make him canon-Ace while you’re at it).

4. Let Dick Grayson come out - I ummed and ahhhed about which batkid I most wanted to out, since they’re all pretty heavily queer coded, but if the last few years have been anything to go by, no one knows what to do with Nightwing. We seem to have run out of Nightwing story ideas, and it’s not like Nightwing is bi is going to be less popular as a story than the whole Rick thing. Plus he’s the exact right level of famous to get that good-good controversy marketing companies are all about at the moment without terrifying the shareholders, so it even makes sense in a capitalist hellscape.

5. Suicide Squad written by Christopher Yost - Yost writes some of my all time favourite anti-heroes, he writes great reluctant friendships, and he can do both wacky and heartbreaking in the same issue when called for, and a good run of Suicide Squad absolutely always does. (Admittedly prying him back from Hollywood might be a challenge. I don’t know what he got paid for the Thor: Ragnarok script, but it’s probably more than he got paid for his run on New Warriors). People who actually read the Kaine Scarlet Spider solo tell me you don’t want to see what he’d do with Boomerang?

#marvel comics #dc comics #pete wisdom #excalibur #black knight #quentin quire #20xx #the authority #dick grayson #connor hawke #suicide squad #i don't know why all my marvel ones are 'increase diversity and tell important stories' #and my dc ones are 'make the comics gud plz' #actually i do the answer is that chris clairmont casts a long shadow #marvel should also make their comics gud #and dc should also get more representation #you remember when silver surfer couldn't leave earth #can we do that to constantine and the uk #i love john but we're reaching saturation point #also bring back the only good creeper origin story #actually just bring back the creeper