Five DC Comics We Hope to See After Convergence

DC Comics is set for a massive shift in the status quo this summer, as Convergence changes [...]

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DC Comics is set for a massive shift in the status quo this summer, as Convergence changes the face of the universe in ways we don't even know yet -- but we can bet involve alternate-worled counterparts of the existing characters.

As with any such big event, we're being promised that the DC Universe will never be the same when it's all said and done...but we can be reasonably sure that they'll still be publishing comics. 

What comics, you ask? Well, it's customary for this kind of thing to usher in a new wave of #1 issues. And we fully expect that this time will be no different.

So...which properties do we think have huge upside for a post-Convergence relaunch?

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Mosaic

One of the more underrated books of the '90s was Green Lantern: Mosaic, a 18-issue series with art by Cully Hamner that saw Green Lantern John Stewart responsible for a chunk of Oa that had been dubbed the Mosaic. Made up of cities from around the universe, they'd all been assembled as a community by the mad Guardian Appa Ali Apsa, who stole them from their homeworlds.

Appa seems to have that hobby in common with Brainiac/Telos, the central antagonist behind Convergence. When all is said and done, could we see the Convergence world be one that needs to be protected and/or contained? It certainly seems plausible, and with the end of most of the Green Lantern titles, maybe this would give some Corps members something to focus on.

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Vixen

It certainly seems like a solo title for the African delegate to the Justice League International is merited, considering they just announced that she'll have an animated series coming up on CW Seed next fall from Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim.

Considering her profile and popularity, plus the major publishers' desire to appeal to an audience that isn't exclusively white and male, it's somewhat surprising she hasn't had one already. The TV show is pretty much what you need to make it happen.

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The Atom

With talk of a TV spinoff for Brandon Routh's Ray Palmer and no real attempts at marketing the veteran Justice Leaguer as his own solo title in years, The Atom seems like an obvious choice.

The downside, of course, is that he has a Marvel Comics corollary in Ant-Man, who not only just got his own comic, but will soon be in a major motion picture.

But that's fine; just differentiate yourself from that! The fact that it's Lang and not Pym in Ant-Man serves you well there, in that you can build up super-scientist Palmer as more Reed Richards than Scott Lang, and perhaps deal with the bizarre, otherworldly nature of the world at micro scale, as they've done with Ray in the past.

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Multiversity

In a conversation with a friend recently, I was reminded that DC's strength is the multiverse.

After all, both Marvel and DC have a multiverse but typically it's DC who uses theirs, while Marvel's is kind of more abstract.

In any event, following a multiverse-hopping epic by Grant Morrison and then a multiverse-centric line-wide continuity-altering event like Convergence, it seems like a no-brainer that as long as they both do reasonably well that there would be demand for something that explores that space, and what's different about it following the events of Convergence. Taking a popular miniseries like Multiversity -- especially one with that much baggage attached, as people talked about Multversity for years before it came to pass -- seems like a sensible starting point, even if you doni't necessarily focus particularly on that same group of heroes.

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Legion of Super-Heroes

I am not a Legion fan. I have never really been able to get into their mythology, which I find to be impenetrable no matter how many times they reboot to try and simplify it (and then go back and unreboot because they failed).

So I'm not a Legion of Super-Heroes fan...but you know what? The DC Universe feels wrong without them.

I think the problem for the Legion is one that's worth looking at in some depth, so I won't try to do it here...but I'll say this: DC can do better by the team, which was once one of their best-selling properties. And I'm hoping that's what they plan to do...when they have yet another clean slate to work with.

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