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).

Most of these have great characters who are hardly ever used to their full potential, but I am kinda scarred they will ruin the characters in the new series. I'm just don't want captain carrot or superboy to win.

Never liked Green arrow but the Black Ops Justice League story actually sounds pretty interesting

I absolutely hate that we have to pick every time. It's so crazy that all of the good ideas from last year are just... unused now. Why do we have to have deathmatches with a bunch of underused characters?!

I really don't get why they couldn't have just used these to instead do an Urban Legends-style book, and then just have the stories start in order of the winning votes. For example, last year would've started with Robins and the 2 runner-ups, and then if the book sold well enough to continue then they'd continue on with the next grouping.

That way at least all of the highest requests make it first, and then all the rest are dependent on something that fans have actual control over. You know, instead of making them eventually vote against themselves and their other desires?

That said. I'm naturally voting for Conner's book as a priority. Given what he's up against, I expect eventually he'll lose to either of the Green Lantern books or Black Canary (my other vote), even if he wins against Cyborg. Who I also wanted to have a book... Life is hard.

I understand your frustrations, Rei. I don’t see why DC couldn’t have chosen to publish other series that had garnered a lot of positive feedback. You’d think that JLQ would end up announced in a future Pride Month or something. Oh well.

I’d have been interested in DC publishing a version of this competition as a plus-sized anthology one-shot where each premise got an eight-page “issue #0”/preview. That way, at least some portions of the premises could’ve been canonized. Alternatively, they could’ve been published in Sneak Peaks like the pre-DC You launch issues were—the Sneak Peaks were published as free digital reads and at the end of other printed comics for that month.

We could’ve then cast votes in a way that actually comes from consumers.

But, that’s more complicated than what they’re actually doing.

Doc Shaner also brought up the idea that we should back Wednesday Comics. I'm not sure how long that'd last in today's comic market, but I love the thought of it. We're really in need of those types of little story sprinklings.