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Joe Casey's pitch...
Alternatively, I'd give him Teen Titans.
About two years ago, at San Diego, I pitched an idea to the editor of the "Justice League" books...something called "Justice League Academy." Maybe the most fan-friendly idea I'd ever had for either of the Big Two. The kids of the Justice League in a top secret "superhero training school" that not even their parents knew about (which solved all the inter-book continuity problems in one stroke). It had kind of a Starman-meets-X-Men vibe to it. Superhero legacy meets four-color melodrama. It was Wally West's kids, it was Metamorpho's son (who I gave powers to and renamed Megamorpho, the Energy Kid), it was Adam Strange's daughter, it was Animal Man's kids (the daughter also given powers and assuming the great, unused name, Changeling...while Cliff was the surly, Guy Gardner-type of the cast). Great characters that no one -- outside of Geoff's Flash stuff -- was doing jack-**** with. There was also Offspring, Plastic Man's kid...as well as a new character who was the son of DC's Hercules. Originally, it was a Batman-initiated program, but Damian Wayne (who I knew ahead of time was going to be the new Robin) was to quickly take it over and run it like Batman used to run the Justice League in the early Giffen issues (in other words, through insults and intimidation).
It was a book about superhero kids that would've been dark and dramatic. That pitch sat around at DC for months and months. I certainly told enough people about it...James Robinson thought it worked so well, he actually cursed me for coming up with it (just something that writers do to each other when they hear a cool idea). Hell, everybody liked it...including the JLA editor. But, it never got pitched to the higher ups. Y'know, it's DC...what's the rush?
It was a book about superhero kids that would've been dark and dramatic. That pitch sat around at DC for months and months. I certainly told enough people about it...James Robinson thought it worked so well, he actually cursed me for coming up with it (just something that writers do to each other when they hear a cool idea). Hell, everybody liked it...including the JLA editor. But, it never got pitched to the higher ups. Y'know, it's DC...what's the rush?
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