The fact they're thinking about an Alan Scott solo series after he didn't have it since the 1940s is amazing, but it's Prime Earth Alan so I'm not that excited.

Furthermore, it will never win. I can bet Suicide Squad Dark or Superboy will be the winners.

The fact they're thinking about 3 series based on Golden Age characters may reveal DC is ready to use them again properly, but most of DC fans are just Batman/Superman fans so there's little to zero hope to get a series about them.

It depends where they are doing this vote, if it's on Twitter, Tick Tock or whatever then it's a terrible idea. And like Tupka217 said, "They'd either waste good pitches or come up with half-assed ones along the way"

Yeah, where is this happening?

Instagram.

Yep... terrible idea then, I bet most people that will vote has never bought and never will buy a comic book on their life

People can vote either on Instagram or on DC Universe Infinite, which is at least full of people who actually read comics. I think DC considers both when counting votes.

I found it such a shame that the 15 pitches from last year that lost all got shelved. Many of them were great pitches for deserving characters. But in the end, this will likely boil down to which character is most well-known / has better branding. Suicide Squad Dark is winning its current bracket right now even though it’s a redundant premise (we already had Suicide Squad Black, a supernatural roster of the team, as well as Task Force Z); meanwhile, Justice League Redacted, a concept that both plays on a legacy (Justice League Task Force / Justice League Elite) and feels fresh at once, is losing. It makes me sigh.

I love many of this year’s premises. It makes me sad that some won’t see the light of day.

I’d love to have a new teenaged hero as would be shown in the Hawks’ new title. Hektor Hol, the son of the precious Hawks’ incarnations, meeting the current heroes would be neat. PE would have both a Hektor and Hector Hall (whom I believe has already been shown to exist in post-Death Metal continuity), much like how PE has both Katar Hol and Carter Hall.

A new Firestorm series would be right up my alley. I’m a huge Firestorm fan, even if the teenaged heroes haven’t been Titans in mainstream continuity before (to those who’ve barely met me on the board, I’m a Titans fan first and foremost). Putting Ronnie and Jason up against Wallace in the Kid Flash series is a hard choice for me. I’d love to see Wallace get a solo title that lets him show how capable he can be as a hero in his own right. He’s been in the game for seven-ish years of publication time, so it’d be nice to see his experience as a partner to Barry and as a Titan take hold and let him stand on his own.

The Superboy vs. Cyborg matchup also is hard for me. On the one hand, Conner Kent has been almost criminally underused for a long time, so seeing a new title for him would be good. On the other hand, I like seeing Cyborg and Beast Boy’s friendship, as the synopsis says we’d see. Gizmo transformed into a major threat is also interesting. That said, I’m against Klarion being used as a villain again. Yes, DC could reasonably do that with Klarion and call it a post-Death Metal retcon, but he’d been on three heroic teams in PE, and I want to see him be a grey-area hero. Sigh, at least we have Klarienne the Witch Girl on Teen Justice. I’m also not into the idea of Cyborg having a “man or machine” moment again. It’s been done. Of course, if Cyborg won, I’d still buy the series.

For those who are curious about the synopses but don’t want to look them up:

Man, a lot of these have potential. As interesting as it is to have a ballot for these things, it’s a massive shame the losing stories are (seemingly) completely abandoned. It’d be better for f some of the losing prompts are recycled for next time.

I feel that DC could’ve easily still released some select runners-up with some success, as long as they didn’t overprint.

The unused pitches will still be nice to include in trivia sections for certain characters/teams. People sometimes like learning what almost was, as I did when learning about the spin-off Titans title that almost happened in the early 1990s that would’ve canonically made Thunder, Lightning and Chris King official Titans instead of just allies, or like when I learned that Titans L.A. almost had its own series under Geoff Johns (even if that had gone on for 12 issues, that would’ve been a great run to have seen fruition).