Stormwatch #12

[lordultimus]

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[q99]

That might've helped integrate the two, though having Vic in that position was important too- he was pretty heavily underused but he was the only non-white member of the team.

I'm thinking like, put 2~ Gen 13 members with the Titans. Have a WildCat or Stormwatch person either there from the start or join the JLA fast (Fuji, maybe? Winter? Battalion? There's a couple options. Also, not expanding the JLA was a mistake in general, they announced an expanded lineup and then for some reason didn't go through with it).

Oh yea, and they could try reinventing the characters some. Have a white character be non-white or such... for all that they changed people's personalities, they were overall pretty darn non-adventurous. They did make a woman Atom (who they made a villain...) and a new non-evil Doctor Light, but that was about it for experimenting.

[lordultimus]

In all honesty, part of me wonders if they shouldn't have patterned Stormwatch on its original, pre-Authority incarnation, replacing the JLI. Maybe incorporate JLI members along with guys like Fuji and Fahrenheit while keeping Midnighter, Apollo, Jenny, Jack and Angie; with Henry Bendix as the Weatherman answering to the UN Security Council. Maybe even tie into the New52 Blackhawks, who I think worked for the UN secretly.

[q99]

Yes, that'd be a good angle, especially incorporating a DC organization into it.


Also it is kinda annoying that everyone seems to have forgotten that Henry Bendix wasn't always a villain. Though using Jackson King or Christie in that role would help alleviate the 'of course he's going to turn on them!' pull of narrative inertia.