So I said while writing about the Omnibus that the JLI in my head is the good bits version. So I thought I'd write a bit about what that version is? Only, not meaning the 'edited highlights' version that was the source of it, just meaning, the bits that interest me about these characters, if I'm going to write about them now.
And writing about them now I'd be drawing on their whole history since then, but filtering it for stories as still need told.
The basic Justice League setup where they work within a formal framework of checks and balances, and draw steady pay and benefits for it, I like and would like to keep. No secret government offices engaged in coverups, just places any random walk in all over the world can visit if they're having the kind of problems only a superhero can help with.
The team in my head is
Beetle & Booster
Fire & Ice
Guy Gardner
Big Barda & Scott Free
J'onn J'onnz
And in all cases it's the personalities and relationships I find interesting, not the power sets.
( Read more... )So I just spent many, many words and about an hour writing only about Beetle and Booster. And there's so much more good stuff in having the whole team.
I mean if I was writing them now they'd end up Beetle/Booster, Fire/Ice with a whole Guy complication, Scott/Barda with Scott being a notably slight man and Barda being a very tall muscular woman. I'm not saying she's trans, but there are certain models of women we don't see so many of on TV. So it would be fun if they're trans, like, both of them, rewriting their own definitions, but it would also be fun if they're cis and just Like That.
But if they're trans, and the shapeshifter is genderfluid, then pretty much the whole team is LGBT?
Except Guy, but there's stories we can use for that.
( Read more... )Wow that's an hour and a half of typing, I've covered five characters, and there's still more to go.
Scott and Barda are easy though, what I like about their relationship is summed up in a single image, where Barda is carrying Scott upstairs to bed, carrying him slung over her shoulder up the stairs in their little house in the suburbs.
( Read more... )So that leaves J'onn, and I like the Supergirl version of him, but he's very different in the League.
( Read more... )So that's pretty much two hours I've been typing and my fingers hurt.
And the League in my head are not as detailed as I thought. I pretty much can go on about Beetle and Booster and then... their friends, the Justice League. Eh, I could talk about Guy too. ... people with their own titles are easier to know than people in a team book? who knew?
But I like how I can tell a lot of stories with how they fit together, even if the only story I can think of for Fire and Ice is that they really like and support each other. I mean, how often do you even see that? Let alone with two women?
So this is what I like about the team in my head, a bunch of sets of partners that can fit together to be a team.
... the actual comics kind of didn't do that.
... the actual comics spent a lot of time on pranks and people being annoyed at each other.
Like, some of that, but mixed in with saving the world, and actually liking each other.
And I can't be having with comics time no more, it tells like two or three episodes a year, it's so sloooooow. They'd get through so much more story at TV speeds. I want to do that.
And also engage with the different attitudes to superheroics and authority that you definitely have in that team. Like, this incarnation work for the UN and within a legal framework, but you've got Guy who wants to ignore it, Booster who leaves it for more money, Fire who kind of infiltrates it? And Scott and Barda who came from a dictatorship and don't want to go back to one. That should all be interesting.
I want to think up meaty stories and then play with these people.
That would be interesting.
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