Site Update Log
March 16th, 2025
This was a weird update, because the work that needed to be done for the two characters couldn't have been any different. The next character in the Freedom Fighters was Phantom Lady, which means I had two entire characters to update in both her and Sandra Knight. This meant a complete revision of both timelines and a redesign of our entire take on the character. Meanwhile, the winner of the poll was Alfred, whose timeline was already pretty much fine. There are some minor updates, but basically It took me about two weeks to do Phantom Lady. I did Alfred YESTERDAY.
I apologize for not having a new Podcast ready; I did record one, but I've been trying to actually edit them before putting them up, and I'm still pretty slow at it. I'll try to put it up sometimes this week when it's done!
In the meantime, the next character in the timeline is Manhunter, which means it's another time I'll need to do multiple characters. The poll situation this update is pretty funny; I put Oliver Queen on the poll, and some die-hard fans in the discord tried to make #olliesweep trend? In the end, it absolutely surpassed everyone else despite only being on the poll for two weeks... but there are only four IP addresses among all the votes, and one of them accounts fully for half of them. So I'll go ahead and do Ollie this week, but I want it clear that you didn't fool anyone with your shenanigans!
I apologize for not having a new Podcast ready; I did record one, but I've been trying to actually edit them before putting them up, and I'm still pretty slow at it. I'll try to put it up sometimes this week when it's done!
In the meantime, the next character in the timeline is Manhunter, which means it's another time I'll need to do multiple characters. The poll situation this update is pretty funny; I put Oliver Queen on the poll, and some die-hard fans in the discord tried to make #olliesweep trend? In the end, it absolutely surpassed everyone else despite only being on the poll for two weeks... but there are only four IP addresses among all the votes, and one of them accounts fully for half of them. So I'll go ahead and do Ollie this week, but I want it clear that you didn't fool anyone with your shenanigans!
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March 3rd, 2025
I wish I could say that the reason this update took a little longer is that it was a little more complicated, but really I just needed to unwind for a week or so before I got back into it. This is a HOBBY, remember, so if I start to feel a little burned out it's important to give myself permission to rest, you know what I mean?
That said, I hope you enjoy this new update! Iron Munro was a fun character to rethink and rewrite. Lady Shiva took a good amount of work because she really does touch a TON of the timeline, but we're all very happy with the result.
We got a comment this week that was really too abusive to have earned a response, but I do think that it gives us an opportunity to try to find ways we can improve the site. We do occasionally talk about topics that might be triggering to some people, or else just more appropriate for adults, simply because that is sometimes a part of the stories we're discussing. I don't think it would be too disruptive for us to make an effort to put some trigger warnings on some of those pages. If anyone would like to help at all, I could use some help in identifying the pages that need them. If you want to let me know, I'd very much appreciate it!
In the meantime, the next page update for the Freedom Fighters is Phantom Lady, which will likely wind up incorporating the pages currently titled Phantom Lady and Phantom Woman. The winner of the poll this week is another Batman Supporting Character, and in fact probably the most important one; Alfred Pennyworth. I really appreciate everyone participating in the poll, it's really keeping the page updates moving! I've added a bunch of new character suggestions to the poll, so be sure to look it over!
That said, I hope you enjoy this new update! Iron Munro was a fun character to rethink and rewrite. Lady Shiva took a good amount of work because she really does touch a TON of the timeline, but we're all very happy with the result.
We got a comment this week that was really too abusive to have earned a response, but I do think that it gives us an opportunity to try to find ways we can improve the site. We do occasionally talk about topics that might be triggering to some people, or else just more appropriate for adults, simply because that is sometimes a part of the stories we're discussing. I don't think it would be too disruptive for us to make an effort to put some trigger warnings on some of those pages. If anyone would like to help at all, I could use some help in identifying the pages that need them. If you want to let me know, I'd very much appreciate it!
In the meantime, the next page update for the Freedom Fighters is Phantom Lady, which will likely wind up incorporating the pages currently titled Phantom Lady and Phantom Woman. The winner of the poll this week is another Batman Supporting Character, and in fact probably the most important one; Alfred Pennyworth. I really appreciate everyone participating in the poll, it's really keeping the page updates moving! I've added a bunch of new character suggestions to the poll, so be sure to look it over!
Febuary 8th, 2025
I am always really proud when I'm able to get a whole update out in a week! I'm never TRYING to; my goal is two weeks, but sometimes the stars just seem to align! This week the next character as we begin to work on the Freedom Fighters in Frankenstein, a very topical character as we're all digesting the meal we made of the Creature Commandos animated series, and the winner of the latest poll, Dan Garrett! Fun pages to do and even more fun to talk about over in the latest issue of our podcast.
Moving on down to the next character in the Freedom Fighters we get to do a character I'm really excited to tackle, Iron Munro. This is a character with some fascinating influences that we want to make sure are all very clear. The winner of the poll this week is going to be very interesting... it's Lady Shiva.
Moving on down to the next character in the Freedom Fighters we get to do a character I'm really excited to tackle, Iron Munro. This is a character with some fascinating influences that we want to make sure are all very clear. The winner of the poll this week is going to be very interesting... it's Lady Shiva.
Febuary 1st, 2025
Two fun updates this week: Blue Devil & the Crimson Avenger. This new schedule of doing two characters per update is giving me a lot of room to really dig and do a lot of reading for each update. I'm really enjoying it. Also, while I am not really convinced anyone is listening to them but me, I really like MAKING our new Podcast, just as a way to organize my thoughts for the updates.
I tried and failed to rethink the FAQs about characters that aren't on the site... I'm still convinced there's a better way to do that other than just repeating the same answer over and over? Maybe some sort of rating system I can assign to characters to show their viability or the reason they're not on? I may be over thinking this but... I mean look around. It's what I do.
Blue Devil marks the last character that needed to be updates on the JL Task Force, and their page is all set... so they're done! That was probably the easiest team of characters to complete, since so many of them were already updated while we did Justice League characters... But now we're on to a team where I think we might actually have to redo EVERYONE... the Freedom Fighters. Frankenstein is up first, and frankly this is probably the best time to do him, given the fact that we all just finished watching Creature Commandos. The winner of the Poll this week was Dan Garrett... by such a wide margin that I suspect shenanigans. I'll go ahead and tackled him, but I have my eye on you!
Also, please keep recommending characters to add to the poll, at some point we're going to need to refill it!
I tried and failed to rethink the FAQs about characters that aren't on the site... I'm still convinced there's a better way to do that other than just repeating the same answer over and over? Maybe some sort of rating system I can assign to characters to show their viability or the reason they're not on? I may be over thinking this but... I mean look around. It's what I do.
Blue Devil marks the last character that needed to be updates on the JL Task Force, and their page is all set... so they're done! That was probably the easiest team of characters to complete, since so many of them were already updated while we did Justice League characters... But now we're on to a team where I think we might actually have to redo EVERYONE... the Freedom Fighters. Frankenstein is up first, and frankly this is probably the best time to do him, given the fact that we all just finished watching Creature Commandos. The winner of the Poll this week was Dan Garrett... by such a wide margin that I suspect shenanigans. I'll go ahead and tackled him, but I have my eye on you!
Also, please keep recommending characters to add to the poll, at some point we're going to need to refill it!
January 18th, 2025
Another pretty quick update as we again update some characters... the poll winner was Blackbriar Thorn, which was pretty straightforward (how did he win the poll?), and the regular update was The Atom. You'll find a few quality of life updates on Ray Palmer's page, but the real fun is that we finally, FINALLY have our version of Ryan Choi! I've been talking about wanting him for a really long time, so I hope you guys enjoy him, and please let us know what you think!
The extra bonus poll last week was pretty conclusive, so you'll find that the dropdown menu has been completely reorganized. I know that doesn't look like much to you guys, but to me that constitutes and entirely new organizational paradigm for the entire site, so If you guys like the new menu I would really appreciate you letting me know.
We did another podcast this week to correspond to the update. I don't know if anyone will ever care about these but they're fun to MAKE, so I'm going to try to just keep putting them up, even if it's just for me.
Continuing to do page updates, the next character from the JL Task Force is Blue Devil, a character with a fun series I look forward to rereading. The poll winner this week was the Crimson Avenger, which means I get to go research obscure appearances of a character with history dating back to the 30s!
The extra bonus poll last week was pretty conclusive, so you'll find that the dropdown menu has been completely reorganized. I know that doesn't look like much to you guys, but to me that constitutes and entirely new organizational paradigm for the entire site, so If you guys like the new menu I would really appreciate you letting me know.
We did another podcast this week to correspond to the update. I don't know if anyone will ever care about these but they're fun to MAKE, so I'm going to try to just keep putting them up, even if it's just for me.
Continuing to do page updates, the next character from the JL Task Force is Blue Devil, a character with a fun series I look forward to rereading. The poll winner this week was the Crimson Avenger, which means I get to go research obscure appearances of a character with history dating back to the 30s!
January 11th 2025
The first real update of 2025!
As promised we did two page updates. The next character moving down the site was Firehawk, and I went ahead and grabbed the one character from the poll who was clearly getting the most votes, Catwoman (I'd JUST updated the names of Selina Kyle & Holly Robinson's pages, and it didn't occur to me that it would make the poll confusing, but I just resumed you all meant Selina)
The next character on the site is The Atom. Technically we already did this page back when we were doing Justice League characters, but there is one more update to this character that needs to happen, so he'll be next. The next selection off the Poll is, surprisingly, Blackbriar Thorn? Not what I would have expected, but that's what we have the poll for! Please keep voting so we know who to do next, and keep suggesting characters to add to the poll!
We are also trying our hands at something completely new this year. Please don't judge my lack of technical prowess too harshly, It's entirely new territory for us. If you want to listen in as Crackpot & I chat about our latest update, come check out our Podcast!
As promised we did two page updates. The next character moving down the site was Firehawk, and I went ahead and grabbed the one character from the poll who was clearly getting the most votes, Catwoman (I'd JUST updated the names of Selina Kyle & Holly Robinson's pages, and it didn't occur to me that it would make the poll confusing, but I just resumed you all meant Selina)
The next character on the site is The Atom. Technically we already did this page back when we were doing Justice League characters, but there is one more update to this character that needs to happen, so he'll be next. The next selection off the Poll is, surprisingly, Blackbriar Thorn? Not what I would have expected, but that's what we have the poll for! Please keep voting so we know who to do next, and keep suggesting characters to add to the poll!
We are also trying our hands at something completely new this year. Please don't judge my lack of technical prowess too harshly, It's entirely new territory for us. If you want to listen in as Crackpot & I chat about our latest update, come check out our Podcast!
January 1st, 2025
I told you I'd get the rest of this done soon :)
A very tiny update here, just cleaning up the literal hundreds of tiny errors I found in the New Gods pages last night, as well as doing all the corrections from the discord over the last month, and putting up the latest comments.
Just so that this wasn't a completely empty update, I also, for the first time in a YEAR, put up one of the items off the list of possible updates. This one was fairly easy; I updated the original Black Canary so that her first name is Laurel rather than Cladina... still no idea how that didn't occur to us in the first place.
So what's the plan now? We're going back to doing page updates; each update will feature two characters, one from the poll below, and one from the normal update schedule. We're working our way down the dropdown list, and are now up to the Justice League Task Force, where the next character is Firehawk. She'll be joined by whoever you guys pick from the poll, so I'll give you a little time to vote.
Please feel free to keep suggesting characters for the poll! That's characters, not teams. I'll get to all the teams. Stop suggesting teams.
I do still have a pretty sizeable list of other updates to the site that I will continue to draw from as we go... and just because I've done all the characters from the original Black Book doesn't mean I don't have a huge stack of characters to add. We crossed a huge (HUGE) milestone, but that doesn't mean we're done by a long shot!
Plus, that Marvel Continuity Project is just sitting there, mocking me...
A very tiny update here, just cleaning up the literal hundreds of tiny errors I found in the New Gods pages last night, as well as doing all the corrections from the discord over the last month, and putting up the latest comments.
Just so that this wasn't a completely empty update, I also, for the first time in a YEAR, put up one of the items off the list of possible updates. This one was fairly easy; I updated the original Black Canary so that her first name is Laurel rather than Cladina... still no idea how that didn't occur to us in the first place.
So what's the plan now? We're going back to doing page updates; each update will feature two characters, one from the poll below, and one from the normal update schedule. We're working our way down the dropdown list, and are now up to the Justice League Task Force, where the next character is Firehawk. She'll be joined by whoever you guys pick from the poll, so I'll give you a little time to vote.
Please feel free to keep suggesting characters for the poll! That's characters, not teams. I'll get to all the teams. Stop suggesting teams.
I do still have a pretty sizeable list of other updates to the site that I will continue to draw from as we go... and just because I've done all the characters from the original Black Book doesn't mean I don't have a huge stack of characters to add. We crossed a huge (HUGE) milestone, but that doesn't mean we're done by a long shot!
Plus, that Marvel Continuity Project is just sitting there, mocking me...
December 31st, 2024
Wow.
Coming in JUST under the gun... but... that's it. We finished the entire Black Book inside 2024 :)
The New Gods were... well... I'm sure you can imagine. This was the biggest update ever, with the most characters ever, two whole teams INSIDE the update that could absolutely have been updates all on their own... including the Forever People, who we didn't even have PLANNED. This was a massive, massive chunk of work.
But... it's in the timeline. That's now ALL of the original timelines we created for this project before it became a website, on the website. Thank you guys so much for having fun with me this past year voting for which group of characters to do next, I really, really enjoyed this!
As you navigate, I hope you also notice I've done some housekeeping with how the various teams are organized... I'd love to know what you think. Stay tuned, I'll be doing a new update shortly (I do need to get the last month or so's worth of comments onto the site, as well as process some corrections I've gotten in the discord.) But in the meantime, I hope everyone had a great year, but whether or not you did, we have a whole new one coming right at us, so lets make sure we take care of ourselves and each other so we can all look forward to what comes next together.
Coming in JUST under the gun... but... that's it. We finished the entire Black Book inside 2024 :)
The New Gods were... well... I'm sure you can imagine. This was the biggest update ever, with the most characters ever, two whole teams INSIDE the update that could absolutely have been updates all on their own... including the Forever People, who we didn't even have PLANNED. This was a massive, massive chunk of work.
But... it's in the timeline. That's now ALL of the original timelines we created for this project before it became a website, on the website. Thank you guys so much for having fun with me this past year voting for which group of characters to do next, I really, really enjoyed this!
As you navigate, I hope you also notice I've done some housekeeping with how the various teams are organized... I'd love to know what you think. Stay tuned, I'll be doing a new update shortly (I do need to get the last month or so's worth of comments onto the site, as well as process some corrections I've gotten in the discord.) But in the meantime, I hope everyone had a great year, but whether or not you did, we have a whole new one coming right at us, so lets make sure we take care of ourselves and each other so we can all look forward to what comes next together.
November 13th 2024
And that's it! The last characters from the poll are up! That's Jarvis Kord, Brenda Del Vechio, Paco Testas, Helena Sandsmark & Antiope. Like usual, doing this has illustrated several other characters that probably do need to eventually have pages of their own, but that's not what we're doing now. Right now, we are finally finishing up the Black Book, the book I used to create the original hand-written timelines this project all came from!
Back when I was working that book, I always made it a point... I was going to do EVERYONE else before I did the New Gods. well,... guess where we are kids! It's time! All the people that have asked me why Darkseid isn't on the site... well, they're finally going to be heard. There are a LOT of New Gods for me to do, so this will likely be a good long post.
In the meantime, we're still putting together the new poll for when we finish this current stage. We're looking for people to suggest unfinished pages that need to be updated (Not to vote on the ones we already named. That comes later) The additional suggestions I've gotten this time around have been Brainiac, Frankenstein, and Arrowette. I'd like a good long list of options, so please feel free to send some more suggestions!
Back when I was working that book, I always made it a point... I was going to do EVERYONE else before I did the New Gods. well,... guess where we are kids! It's time! All the people that have asked me why Darkseid isn't on the site... well, they're finally going to be heard. There are a LOT of New Gods for me to do, so this will likely be a good long post.
In the meantime, we're still putting together the new poll for when we finish this current stage. We're looking for people to suggest unfinished pages that need to be updated (Not to vote on the ones we already named. That comes later) The additional suggestions I've gotten this time around have been Brainiac, Frankenstein, and Arrowette. I'd like a good long list of options, so please feel free to send some more suggestions!
November 2nd 2024
This is one of those times where I really had to just focus in on the new characters from the Black Book; Tallulah Black, Bat Lash & El Diablo of the Justice Riders... because the more I read through these old Western comics, the more I realized how usable so many of these other characters actually are. I do want to finish the current task, so I'll just put them on the list of characters to come back and tackle down the road.
So! we only have five characters left from the poll; Jarvis Kord, Brenda Del Vechio, Paco Testas, Helena Sandsmark & Antiope. I think I can try to get them all done with this new update!
We're still building the new list of pages for you guys to vote on. I should probably have been clearer last time, but I'm not looking for TEAMS here. If you name a team I can't really do anything with it. So let me describe this differently; when we finish the Black Book, I'll continue updating pages two at a time... the next character as I work my way down the list is Firehawk, so it will be her, and whoever wins the first poll. The suggestions we've gotten so far are Icon, Rocket, Arrowette, Lady Shiva, Deadman, Blackbriar Thorn, and Catwoman. Those characters will be on the poll, but for now we'll hold off so you guys can make some more suggestions. So... again; I don't need votes yet, just suggestions for pages to redo. Characters pages, not teams!
So! we only have five characters left from the poll; Jarvis Kord, Brenda Del Vechio, Paco Testas, Helena Sandsmark & Antiope. I think I can try to get them all done with this new update!
We're still building the new list of pages for you guys to vote on. I should probably have been clearer last time, but I'm not looking for TEAMS here. If you name a team I can't really do anything with it. So let me describe this differently; when we finish the Black Book, I'll continue updating pages two at a time... the next character as I work my way down the list is Firehawk, so it will be her, and whoever wins the first poll. The suggestions we've gotten so far are Icon, Rocket, Arrowette, Lady Shiva, Deadman, Blackbriar Thorn, and Catwoman. Those characters will be on the poll, but for now we'll hold off so you guys can make some more suggestions. So... again; I don't need votes yet, just suggestions for pages to redo. Characters pages, not teams!
October 16th 2024
That was a much longer update than usual, but when you see what we just put together for you, I think you'll agree it was time well spent.
We just did the big Skartaris update... adding several more characters in addition to the six that were planned. I know a lot of folks care more about the essays we write for the characters, and that the timelines are really more just for us, but in this case the new Skartaris timeline is huge, and I really enjoyed reworking the world of Warlord into our continuity, so I really hope you like it!
The winner of the latest poll is the Justice Riders, so we'll be working on them next... after that, there are a total of 35 remaining timelines... the five characters from the Blue Beetle & Wonder Woman supporting characters, 23 New Gods... and then the seven more. I don't think we need to really worry about the order that they're going to be done in anymore... so I think we can retire that poll, and just settle in to get everything done!
But we of course want to keep hearing from you guys... so I think it's time to start setting up what's next. We're going to want to focus on the Page Updates, so all the pages that have been waiting for a fresh coat of paint can finally be finished! You can usually spot those pages pretty easily... They're the ones without comment fields at the bottom. We're going to settle into an update schedule where each week I'll try to do two pages; one as I just tick down the site list (the last ones we did were the Suicide Squad, so next up will be Justice League Task Force), and one based on your suggestion!
To do that, I need to make a new poll with character pages you guys can all vote on! Here's what I'll do... everyone make a comment with suggestions for character pages to go on the new poll. I can't use ALL of them, obviously, but I'll add any character that gets suggested twice (by different people, you cheaters). That should give us a nice robust list for you all to vote on by the time the Black Book Timelines are done!
We just did the big Skartaris update... adding several more characters in addition to the six that were planned. I know a lot of folks care more about the essays we write for the characters, and that the timelines are really more just for us, but in this case the new Skartaris timeline is huge, and I really enjoyed reworking the world of Warlord into our continuity, so I really hope you like it!
The winner of the latest poll is the Justice Riders, so we'll be working on them next... after that, there are a total of 35 remaining timelines... the five characters from the Blue Beetle & Wonder Woman supporting characters, 23 New Gods... and then the seven more. I don't think we need to really worry about the order that they're going to be done in anymore... so I think we can retire that poll, and just settle in to get everything done!
But we of course want to keep hearing from you guys... so I think it's time to start setting up what's next. We're going to want to focus on the Page Updates, so all the pages that have been waiting for a fresh coat of paint can finally be finished! You can usually spot those pages pretty easily... They're the ones without comment fields at the bottom. We're going to settle into an update schedule where each week I'll try to do two pages; one as I just tick down the site list (the last ones we did were the Suicide Squad, so next up will be Justice League Task Force), and one based on your suggestion!
To do that, I need to make a new poll with character pages you guys can all vote on! Here's what I'll do... everyone make a comment with suggestions for character pages to go on the new poll. I can't use ALL of them, obviously, but I'll add any character that gets suggested twice (by different people, you cheaters). That should give us a nice robust list for you all to vote on by the time the Black Book Timelines are done!
September 14th, 2024
This was a fun update! As promised, I tackled the two remaining Titan Villains; Grant Wilson as the Ravager and the Titans of Myth. They were both very different, but after doing the Wizard Shazam last update they were actually pretty straightforward. Also, I just so happened to have started taking an ADD prescription this week... I don't know if that's WHY I was able to bang out both pages in less than two days, but I can't imagine it HURT.
Since that went so fast, I decided to grab the characters off the bottom of the poll and do them as well. So for those of you that voted for Alanna & Aleea Strange... I'm sorry, I didn't get to counting your votes, I was too busy doing what you wanted :) These two have been on the bottom of the poll for a while, but I've been setting them aside each time because I just had this sense that I'd also need to overhaul Adam Strange's page also to make them work... and I was right. I like this new version of these characters WAY more.
So we're down to only 44 Black Book timelines left! We've also officially crossed what I would consider a small milestone, in that of the remaining timelines, more than half of them are New Gods! Just look at how small the poll looks now compared to when we started at the start of the year! The winner this week was the characters of Skartaris, which means I have a good six characters to do for next time!
Please keep on voting, but also be sure to send me your comments! They sustain me! And let me know if you'd like a discord invite! Also be sure to floss!
Since that went so fast, I decided to grab the characters off the bottom of the poll and do them as well. So for those of you that voted for Alanna & Aleea Strange... I'm sorry, I didn't get to counting your votes, I was too busy doing what you wanted :) These two have been on the bottom of the poll for a while, but I've been setting them aside each time because I just had this sense that I'd also need to overhaul Adam Strange's page also to make them work... and I was right. I like this new version of these characters WAY more.
So we're down to only 44 Black Book timelines left! We've also officially crossed what I would consider a small milestone, in that of the remaining timelines, more than half of them are New Gods! Just look at how small the poll looks now compared to when we started at the start of the year! The winner this week was the characters of Skartaris, which means I have a good six characters to do for next time!
Please keep on voting, but also be sure to send me your comments! They sustain me! And let me know if you'd like a discord invite! Also be sure to floss!
September 4th, 2024
So I know I SAID I was going to add an additional character because I wasn't looking to do a one-character update? But that was before I settled in to redo the timeline for The Wizard Shazam. I think I'll just let that one speak for itself.
So that means we're now down to 48 remaining Black Book Timelines! We're now officially out of single character options, so everything moving forward will be groups of characters. The winner of the most recent Poll was the Titans Villains, so we'll be doing the original Ravager, Grant Wilson, and a page for the Titans of Myth.
Is anyone else getting excited as we get closer and closer to finishing this? It's SEPTEMBER, which means the year is two thirds over. Do you think we can get them all done? Lets see!
So that means we're now down to 48 remaining Black Book Timelines! We're now officially out of single character options, so everything moving forward will be groups of characters. The winner of the most recent Poll was the Titans Villains, so we'll be doing the original Ravager, Grant Wilson, and a page for the Titans of Myth.
Is anyone else getting excited as we get closer and closer to finishing this? It's SEPTEMBER, which means the year is two thirds over. Do you think we can get them all done? Lets see!
August 14th, 2024
For adding as many characters as we did, that was actually a pretty quick update! We completed our version of Easy Company, which has a really fun template idea that I would love to hear everyone's thoughts on, because I had a great time putting it together.
That means we're finally down to less than 50 Black Book Timelines! 49, to be exact. There was a REDICULOUS surge in voting for the Wizard Shazam this week, so he's up next! like before, I am hesitant to do an update with just one character, so I might grab one of the lower-performing selections off the poll and add those as well... Although I have a sneaking suspicion Alanna & Aleea Strange are going to require a TON of reading...
That means we're finally down to less than 50 Black Book Timelines! 49, to be exact. There was a REDICULOUS surge in voting for the Wizard Shazam this week, so he's up next! like before, I am hesitant to do an update with just one character, so I might grab one of the lower-performing selections off the poll and add those as well... Although I have a sneaking suspicion Alanna & Aleea Strange are going to require a TON of reading...
August 8th, 2024
More finished Black Book Timelines! This time we did the White Martians, and like a lot of these characters we are pretty much completely redoing the timelines from the ones we originally made by hand well more than a decade ago. The whole project timeline has just evolved so much over time that we're basically fully redoing these every time. We made a pretty drastic change to the White Martians in our story, and I would love to know what you think!
Also, since we really don't want to do an update with just one character, we also grabbed two characters from the poll that had traditionally been close to the bottom just to flesh out the update... and wound up really having to change a LOT. Check out the Tornado Twins, Don & Dawn Allen!
That leaves us with 54 remaining Black Book Timelines, and the winner this week is Easy Company! This is fun because we actually did Sargent Rock WAY back when we first started the site, so it might actually be worth it for us to redo his page as well, just to get the whole thing caught up. We have a particular idea about how to arrange these characters and I think you guys might enjoy it!
Also, since we really don't want to do an update with just one character, we also grabbed two characters from the poll that had traditionally been close to the bottom just to flesh out the update... and wound up really having to change a LOT. Check out the Tornado Twins, Don & Dawn Allen!
That leaves us with 54 remaining Black Book Timelines, and the winner this week is Easy Company! This is fun because we actually did Sargent Rock WAY back when we first started the site, so it might actually be worth it for us to redo his page as well, just to get the whole thing caught up. We have a particular idea about how to arrange these characters and I think you guys might enjoy it!
July 29th, 2024
As promised, we've finished the page for Vulko, Aquaman's long-time advisor & regent. He wound up being a really hefty timeline to put together just because he's so integral in so much of the history of Atlantis, which is one of the more complex parts of the the project. Just because I don't really like doing updates with just one character, we also popped out and did Speed Saunders, over on the Hawks Supporting Characters.
I didn't do it in this update, but I'm considering updating the FAQ page for character questions. It's just getting a little difficult to come up with new things to say about them, when the answer is so often "we don't see a reason to include that character, but maybe we'll find a reason in some story we're trying to tell." Please don't hesitate to ask, but if you find that you're asking about several characters every update, maybe consider asking for a discord invite?
So that brings us down to 57 remaining Black Book timelines! The winner of the poll this week was the White Martians, and we might wind up having a little to say in that one, so let's see how long it takes. Of course, that would ALSO be a solo update, so maybe if it doesn't take TOO long I might grab someone off the current poll who doesn't have a ton of votes? We'll see!
I didn't do it in this update, but I'm considering updating the FAQ page for character questions. It's just getting a little difficult to come up with new things to say about them, when the answer is so often "we don't see a reason to include that character, but maybe we'll find a reason in some story we're trying to tell." Please don't hesitate to ask, but if you find that you're asking about several characters every update, maybe consider asking for a discord invite?
So that brings us down to 57 remaining Black Book timelines! The winner of the poll this week was the White Martians, and we might wind up having a little to say in that one, so let's see how long it takes. Of course, that would ALSO be a solo update, so maybe if it doesn't take TOO long I might grab someone off the current poll who doesn't have a ton of votes? We'll see!
July 18th, 2024
No matter what happens with this newest update, I had SO much fun putting it together!
Thanks to the art we commissioned from Mike Becker, we are finally able to actually put out our latest international team, Big Science Action! These were WILDLY fun timelines to put together, and I REALLY hope you guys get a chance to let us know what you think!
This is a small but cool detail: take a look up at that address bar in your browser. Do you see how, rather than www.dccontinuityproject.weebly.com, the address is now www.dccontinuityproject.com? That's right! I was finally able to buy the domain! Nobody could possibly care about this but me, but I'm excited enough for all of us :)
Moving back to the Black Book timelines, next up is a supporting characters that really should have been on the site a long time ago; Aquaman's regent, Vulko!
Thanks to the art we commissioned from Mike Becker, we are finally able to actually put out our latest international team, Big Science Action! These were WILDLY fun timelines to put together, and I REALLY hope you guys get a chance to let us know what you think!
This is a small but cool detail: take a look up at that address bar in your browser. Do you see how, rather than www.dccontinuityproject.weebly.com, the address is now www.dccontinuityproject.com? That's right! I was finally able to buy the domain! Nobody could possibly care about this but me, but I'm excited enough for all of us :)
Moving back to the Black Book timelines, next up is a supporting characters that really should have been on the site a long time ago; Aquaman's regent, Vulko!
July 5th, 2024
We had some interesting changes happen while we worked on the last members of the GCPD. Specifically we had some ideas for some changes to make elsewhere in the timeline, which made the last few characters not really work that well, but they were really not all that necessary. In the meantime, we've now added the last few members of the GCPD from the Black Book timelines; Mackenzie Bock & Stanley Kitch. There are a few other characters that might find their way into the project down the line; Gordon's predecessor Commissioner Loeb comes to mind, but for now, we're moving on!
Just to keep track, we are now down to 59 remaining Black Book timelines, but as promised, we're going to take a small diversion for just a bit. We have this incredible new art from Mr Mike Becker for our take on Big Science Action, so we definitely need to settle in and create the pages this art was made for! This will be six new pages for characters that, while not technically original, are going to be heavily built up by us, so I hope you can be a little patient! We've had some good ideas for how to use them in comments, and PLEASE if you have any notions of what we can do to flesh out their stories, we'd love to hear it!
We also had a ton of comments recently, so if you've written in at all recently pop over to the comment log to see our response! Please keep them coming, I love reading your thoughts and questions!
Just to keep track, we are now down to 59 remaining Black Book timelines, but as promised, we're going to take a small diversion for just a bit. We have this incredible new art from Mr Mike Becker for our take on Big Science Action, so we definitely need to settle in and create the pages this art was made for! This will be six new pages for characters that, while not technically original, are going to be heavily built up by us, so I hope you can be a little patient! We've had some good ideas for how to use them in comments, and PLEASE if you have any notions of what we can do to flesh out their stories, we'd love to hear it!
We also had a ton of comments recently, so if you've written in at all recently pop over to the comment log to see our response! Please keep them coming, I love reading your thoughts and questions!
June 16th 2024
Still plugging away at the characters from the GCPD; so far we've done Sarah Essen & Crispus Allen. There are some more to go, so it will be a little while before we jump to the next thing, but we really needed to get an update up this weekend because of a pretty major development.
For the last few updates, I've been pointing you guys at the GoFundMe to commission artwork from Mike Becker for our take on Big Science Action!, which is still ongoing. This week, however, I can share the results. Head over to the newest Blog Post to see Mike's take on our version of the Japanese superteam!
So here's why I'm really excited about this: I'm going to be finishing up the GCPD characters for a bit now, but once that is done, before I dive back into the next batch of characters from the Black Book Timelines, I'm going to take a detour and do the pages for Big Science Action! We have the core elements of their timelines written, but what will really make them pop is if there are specific stories featuring these characters that we can include, and I think that since this has been such a collaborative project, I'd love to hear from you guys! lets hear your ideas for the adventures of Big Science Action!
Thank you guys so much for following along, please don't forget to pop over to the GoFundMe to make sure we can get these characters up, vote on which Black Book Timelines you want to see done, and comment all over the place!
For the last few updates, I've been pointing you guys at the GoFundMe to commission artwork from Mike Becker for our take on Big Science Action!, which is still ongoing. This week, however, I can share the results. Head over to the newest Blog Post to see Mike's take on our version of the Japanese superteam!
So here's why I'm really excited about this: I'm going to be finishing up the GCPD characters for a bit now, but once that is done, before I dive back into the next batch of characters from the Black Book Timelines, I'm going to take a detour and do the pages for Big Science Action! We have the core elements of their timelines written, but what will really make them pop is if there are specific stories featuring these characters that we can include, and I think that since this has been such a collaborative project, I'd love to hear from you guys! lets hear your ideas for the adventures of Big Science Action!
Thank you guys so much for following along, please don't forget to pop over to the GoFundMe to make sure we can get these characters up, vote on which Black Book Timelines you want to see done, and comment all over the place!
June 8th, 2024
I appreciate everyone's patience; I'm trying to do regular updates even as I get bogged down in the long lists of characters we're doing here. I know I keep saying it's a busy time of year, but I want to make sure I never take the fact that people are reading this site at all for granted, and to keep updating and putting up new stuff. I just put up the rest of the Legion of Superhero characters from the Black Book Timelines, which include RJ Brande (the first supporting character for the Legion) and the Justice League of Earth.
Very quickly; the GoFundMe to commission artwork from Mike Becker for our take on Big Science Action is still ongoing, and we are very close to the goal! I've spoken with Mr. Becker and it is really exciting just how much he GETS it. We're working on the timelines for the team over in the discord. If you'd like to join this and many many MANY other conversations about this and many other fan timelines, please reach out for a discord link!
In the meantime, we're down to 61 remaining Black Book Timelines! Not quite halfway, but remember that more than 20 of them are New Gods. I know I've been putting this off forever... but at this point, it would have been impossible for anyone to get more votes than the GCPD. They had close to twice as many votes as the second-place entry, Doctor Vulko. This will be six more pages, so plenty of time for you guys to get your votes in, because at this point it is WAY closer, so anything could be next!
Very quickly; the GoFundMe to commission artwork from Mike Becker for our take on Big Science Action is still ongoing, and we are very close to the goal! I've spoken with Mr. Becker and it is really exciting just how much he GETS it. We're working on the timelines for the team over in the discord. If you'd like to join this and many many MANY other conversations about this and many other fan timelines, please reach out for a discord link!
In the meantime, we're down to 61 remaining Black Book Timelines! Not quite halfway, but remember that more than 20 of them are New Gods. I know I've been putting this off forever... but at this point, it would have been impossible for anyone to get more votes than the GCPD. They had close to twice as many votes as the second-place entry, Doctor Vulko. This will be six more pages, so plenty of time for you guys to get your votes in, because at this point it is WAY closer, so anything could be next!
May 22nd, 2024
This is the busiest time of the year in my regular job; we have a major trade show and then I am catching up for the rest of the month. I wind up pretty mentally exhausted, so I hope you guys will be cool if I'm a little slow to update for a bit!
That said, I did the first two of the Legion Villains; The Dominators & The White Triangle Daxamites. These are some pretty broad concepts since they're more whole alien species rather than individuals, but that does happen in comics occasionally. The other characters we have left are RJ Brande, and the members of the Justice League of Earth.
If you caught my quick update last week, we are still looking to commission Mike Becker to create art for our take on Big Science Action. We're pretty close to what we need, and if you want to help you can pop over to this little Fundraiser.
See you guys soon!
That said, I did the first two of the Legion Villains; The Dominators & The White Triangle Daxamites. These are some pretty broad concepts since they're more whole alien species rather than individuals, but that does happen in comics occasionally. The other characters we have left are RJ Brande, and the members of the Justice League of Earth.
If you caught my quick update last week, we are still looking to commission Mike Becker to create art for our take on Big Science Action. We're pretty close to what we need, and if you want to help you can pop over to this little Fundraiser.
See you guys soon!
May 12th, 2024
We're still plugging away at the next update, which will be a collection of Legion of Super Heroes Villains & Supporting Cast, but we wanted to pop in here to reach out to anyone who might want to be a part of this new little endeavor we're doing.
Longtime readers might remember this blog post, where we talked about the team of Japanese heroes from the Final Crisis books; Big Science Action. This is a really innovative batch of characters that play with ideas about mythic heroic archetypes, and it is really a perfect team to include in the DCCP. The only thing that stopped us was the pretty severe lack of usable art for these characters, as they were designed more as thematic elements of the story. I said, back when I did
Well, the Discord server has decided to put my money where my mouth is.
They reached out to my absolute dream artist to take on these characters, Mike Becker. The guy's work really speaks for itself. He's always been one of my favorites for his ability to reimagine classic DC imagery and reframe it within his own style. He's absolutely the PERFECT person to tackle this. He's responded, and is interested in the project! He's given us an extremely reasonable price for six color character pieces, so now we just have to put it together!
I do of course still have my Patreon running; it's still there mostly to give people who want to support what we do here a place to do so. I've collected a small amount there and will be putting it toward this project, but I wanted to make it as easy as possible for anyone who wanted to contribute to commissioning Mr. Becker, so I made this: a quick little creative-project GoFundMe.
If you're interested in seeing these really cool characters brought to life by a really innovative artist, please hop over to the GoFundMe and just contribue what you can! If you want to see the DCCP's international groups expand into Japan, I'll have the pages up the moment I have art ready for them!
Longtime readers might remember this blog post, where we talked about the team of Japanese heroes from the Final Crisis books; Big Science Action. This is a really innovative batch of characters that play with ideas about mythic heroic archetypes, and it is really a perfect team to include in the DCCP. The only thing that stopped us was the pretty severe lack of usable art for these characters, as they were designed more as thematic elements of the story. I said, back when I did
Well, the Discord server has decided to put my money where my mouth is.
They reached out to my absolute dream artist to take on these characters, Mike Becker. The guy's work really speaks for itself. He's always been one of my favorites for his ability to reimagine classic DC imagery and reframe it within his own style. He's absolutely the PERFECT person to tackle this. He's responded, and is interested in the project! He's given us an extremely reasonable price for six color character pieces, so now we just have to put it together!
I do of course still have my Patreon running; it's still there mostly to give people who want to support what we do here a place to do so. I've collected a small amount there and will be putting it toward this project, but I wanted to make it as easy as possible for anyone who wanted to contribute to commissioning Mr. Becker, so I made this: a quick little creative-project GoFundMe.
If you're interested in seeing these really cool characters brought to life by a really innovative artist, please hop over to the GoFundMe and just contribue what you can! If you want to see the DCCP's international groups expand into Japan, I'll have the pages up the moment I have art ready for them!
May 5th, 2024
The Batman Supporting Cast characters are finally all up! Alysia Yeoh, Lucius Fox, and Batwing are done. We saved these last three for a reason; because they represent some changes we're making to the modern Gotham City that we've been planning for a bit. It would be really great if you could let us know if the idea is coming across, and what you think of it!
This means we've finally finished another entry in the Black Book Timelines. We're down to 74 characters remaining. it looks like all my abject begging not to have to do a whole additional batch of Gotham characters by making me do the GCPD next actually got to you because the next batch of characters is going to be the Legion characters! They're mostly bad guys, although one of them is the team's financier, RJ Brande.
I'll keep trying to post periodically as I add new characters, just to keep everyone in the loop. See you soon!
This means we've finally finished another entry in the Black Book Timelines. We're down to 74 characters remaining. it looks like all my abject begging not to have to do a whole additional batch of Gotham characters by making me do the GCPD next actually got to you because the next batch of characters is going to be the Legion characters! They're mostly bad guys, although one of them is the team's financier, RJ Brande.
I'll keep trying to post periodically as I add new characters, just to keep everyone in the loop. See you soon!
April 21st, 2024
Still plugging away at the Batman Supporting Characters from the Black Book. This update included all the Bat Parents; Jacob Kane, Thomas Wayne & Martha Wayne. Are these the last Bat Parents that will get pages on the timeline? For now, yes, although I can imagine that we might do the Graysons at some point.
We have three more characters to go before we're done with the Batman Supporting Characters from the Black Book. Voting is still open for what we do next: There were a TON of votes in the last month and a lot of entries that were languishing down at maybe two votes TOTAL are now actually climbing quite a bit! Easy Company is now neck & neck with the Justice Riders! But... for now, the only entry that really stands a chance of outpacing the GCPD is the Legion characters. I'm going to say right now, if the GCPD wins after a full month in Gotham, I might just need to step out and do something else. just to break it up a little.
I would love to get more questions and comments in the next post, so maybe let's ask a question for people to try to answer. We've spent a lot of time going over DC and finding the stories that had problems in them that we still like, and coming up with our own versions of how to fix them. Have you guys found anything like that in your time reading DC? Stories that just don't quite sit right in your own version of DC? How did you change them so they fit your headcanon?
We have three more characters to go before we're done with the Batman Supporting Characters from the Black Book. Voting is still open for what we do next: There were a TON of votes in the last month and a lot of entries that were languishing down at maybe two votes TOTAL are now actually climbing quite a bit! Easy Company is now neck & neck with the Justice Riders! But... for now, the only entry that really stands a chance of outpacing the GCPD is the Legion characters. I'm going to say right now, if the GCPD wins after a full month in Gotham, I might just need to step out and do something else. just to break it up a little.
I would love to get more questions and comments in the next post, so maybe let's ask a question for people to try to answer. We've spent a lot of time going over DC and finding the stories that had problems in them that we still like, and coming up with our own versions of how to fix them. Have you guys found anything like that in your time reading DC? Stories that just don't quite sit right in your own version of DC? How did you change them so they fit your headcanon?
March 24th, 2024
Still working on the Batman Supporting Characters from the Black Book. So far, I've finished Tony Zucco, Karon, & Slam Bradley. These were fun, but they also illustrated just how much work has to get done later on when we get back to redoing the old pages like Catwoman & Holly Robinson... so we're very much looking forward to diving into that once we've worked through the rest of the Black Book!
In the meantime, the GCPD is still holding firm as the next batch of characters we'll be doing, and as we said last time, that is a LOT of Gotham characters all in a row, so if you wanted to vote for something else and break it up a little, now would be the time! Surprisingly, the one option that seems to actually be catching up is the Legion villains, but Vulko, the wizard Shazam, and the Justice Riders are all right on their heels, and the Titans villains option has suddenly made a real push!
In the meantime, the GCPD is still holding firm as the next batch of characters we'll be doing, and as we said last time, that is a LOT of Gotham characters all in a row, so if you wanted to vote for something else and break it up a little, now would be the time! Surprisingly, the one option that seems to actually be catching up is the Legion villains, but Vulko, the wizard Shazam, and the Justice Riders are all right on their heels, and the Titans villains option has suddenly made a real push!
March 12th, 2024
That's the rest of the Superman Supporting Cast from the Black Book timelines!
We did Maggie Sawyer & Dan Turpin, two great characters from the John Byrne era Superman Comics as well as the Animated Series, and Jor-El & Lara, Superman's birth parents, who I'm actually really proud of because I think we found a really interesting way to tackle them and give them their own story.
Now, of course, this doesn't mean we're done forever with this cast. When we're done with the Black Book, I'm sure we can come back and do characters like (top of my head) Emil Hamilton, Bibbo Bibbowski, Steve Lombard, Sam & Lucy Lane... maybe Kara might even have a certain cat with her when she moves to Metropolis?
In the meantime, this means we're down to 83 remaining Black Book Timelines! You guys really made an incredibly valiant effort, but I'm afraid there was literally no way anything could possibly have dethroned the Batman Supporting Characters as the next batch we're going to tackle. This is actually an even bigger group of characters than the Superman Cast was, and that took me more than a month, so if this takes me too long I will try to break it up with smaller updates.
In the meantime, it's actually looking like the rest of the GCPD is on track to be the next group I do after that, but that will be a LOT of Gotham characters all in a row, so I'm counting you guys to push something else up into first place! Doctor Vulko, the Legion Villains, the Wizard Shazam, and the Justice Riders all still have a chance! Please, I'm begging you, save me from the rampant popularity of the Batman mythology!
We did Maggie Sawyer & Dan Turpin, two great characters from the John Byrne era Superman Comics as well as the Animated Series, and Jor-El & Lara, Superman's birth parents, who I'm actually really proud of because I think we found a really interesting way to tackle them and give them their own story.
Now, of course, this doesn't mean we're done forever with this cast. When we're done with the Black Book, I'm sure we can come back and do characters like (top of my head) Emil Hamilton, Bibbo Bibbowski, Steve Lombard, Sam & Lucy Lane... maybe Kara might even have a certain cat with her when she moves to Metropolis?
In the meantime, this means we're down to 83 remaining Black Book Timelines! You guys really made an incredibly valiant effort, but I'm afraid there was literally no way anything could possibly have dethroned the Batman Supporting Characters as the next batch we're going to tackle. This is actually an even bigger group of characters than the Superman Cast was, and that took me more than a month, so if this takes me too long I will try to break it up with smaller updates.
In the meantime, it's actually looking like the rest of the GCPD is on track to be the next group I do after that, but that will be a LOT of Gotham characters all in a row, so I'm counting you guys to push something else up into first place! Doctor Vulko, the Legion Villains, the Wizard Shazam, and the Justice Riders all still have a chance! Please, I'm begging you, save me from the rampant popularity of the Batman mythology!
February 25th, 2024
Still midway through doing the last of the Superman supporting cast. We did Lana Lang, Pete Ross, and Cat Grant. We had to pretty much redo all of them from scratch since our old black book timelines were pretty bare bones, but I really like the results. I hope you enjoy them!
That brings the total number of black book timelines down to... 87! We are, of course, still working on the rest of the Superman cast, so you can expect to see the rest of them in our next update. Please keep right on voting to help determine what gets finished next... at this point, you'll be hard-pressed for it to be anything BUT the Batman supporting cast, but maybe you can get one of the other, smaller ones to sneak in first?
Lots of other new stuff in this update as well, so go explore a little, and see what you find!
That brings the total number of black book timelines down to... 87! We are, of course, still working on the rest of the Superman cast, so you can expect to see the rest of them in our next update. Please keep right on voting to help determine what gets finished next... at this point, you'll be hard-pressed for it to be anything BUT the Batman supporting cast, but maybe you can get one of the other, smaller ones to sneak in first?
Lots of other new stuff in this update as well, so go explore a little, and see what you find!
February 4th, 2024
You wouldn't think it, but that was actually one of the toughest updates we've had in a while.
It was just six characters; Irey West, Jon Kent, Helena Kyle, Mareena, and Shilo Free... although we managed to add one more, Jai West, as it came together. None of them have a timeline more than one entry long. The oldest of them, Mareena, is only 4. But LORD was this tough to put together. I think it's just operating in a different space than most of our updates; we don't generally do any "Future Continuity" here, so we really had to operate almost entirely in speculation for the future, talking about cool stories that MIGHT happen, maybe. It's just a strange headspace to work in.
That gets the total remaining Black Book Timelines down to 90, and we are rolling along nicely! I guess I shouldn't be suprised that the Batman and Superman Supporting characters seem to be in a constant battle for who gets the most votes, since those are the biggest parts of DC's whole deal. The Superman supporting cast JUST pulled ahead this morning, and since I'm pressing publish today, they'll be up next. IT remains to be seen it anything can dethrone the Batman supporting cast before the next update: the current frontrunners who might have a shot are Doctor Vulko, the GCPD, and (suprisingly) the Legion villains & supporting cast.
It was just six characters; Irey West, Jon Kent, Helena Kyle, Mareena, and Shilo Free... although we managed to add one more, Jai West, as it came together. None of them have a timeline more than one entry long. The oldest of them, Mareena, is only 4. But LORD was this tough to put together. I think it's just operating in a different space than most of our updates; we don't generally do any "Future Continuity" here, so we really had to operate almost entirely in speculation for the future, talking about cool stories that MIGHT happen, maybe. It's just a strange headspace to work in.
That gets the total remaining Black Book Timelines down to 90, and we are rolling along nicely! I guess I shouldn't be suprised that the Batman and Superman Supporting characters seem to be in a constant battle for who gets the most votes, since those are the biggest parts of DC's whole deal. The Superman supporting cast JUST pulled ahead this morning, and since I'm pressing publish today, they'll be up next. IT remains to be seen it anything can dethrone the Batman supporting cast before the next update: the current frontrunners who might have a shot are Doctor Vulko, the GCPD, and (suprisingly) the Legion villains & supporting cast.
January 25th, 2024
The timeline that won the poll last week was Felicity Smoak, who is, of course, actually a character more from TV than from comics, so it actually was a little tricky to find art to use. We also had to pretty much rebuild her timeline, since the one that was in the original Black Book was pretty unusable, but I'm actually quite pleased with the result, and I hope you like it too! I actually snuck ahead a little, doing one more page during my D&D game this afternoon; I grabbed another character off the timeline who had gotten no votes at all, so you can also hop over and check out the timeline for Alex DeWitt.
That brings the total number of Black Book Timelines down to 95! The winner of the poll this week by a pretty huge margin was Jon Kent, Mareena, Helena Kyle & Shiloh Free, which means I have four very short timelines to do, but a lot of writing as I try to explain our plans for these characters. It might actually finally necessitate that we actually create that new spot on the timeline for "soon", since some of these characters aren't even born yet.
Lastly... I don't know if any of you have noticed the fun new visual we've been slowly adding to the site? Let us know what you think!
That brings the total number of Black Book Timelines down to 95! The winner of the poll this week by a pretty huge margin was Jon Kent, Mareena, Helena Kyle & Shiloh Free, which means I have four very short timelines to do, but a lot of writing as I try to explain our plans for these characters. It might actually finally necessitate that we actually create that new spot on the timeline for "soon", since some of these characters aren't even born yet.
Lastly... I don't know if any of you have noticed the fun new visual we've been slowly adding to the site? Let us know what you think!
January 17th, 2024
The last few timelines from Camelot are finally finished, giving us Arthur Pendragon, Lady Guinevere & Lancelot Du Lac. These pages are a little harder to do, since truthfully these aren't so much adapted from comics so much as it was our own interpretation of the classic characters, but they're definitely PART of DC, and so this was a lot of fun.
With those three done, we are now down to 97 remaining timelines from the Black Book! The current character with the most votes if Felicity Smoak, so shes next! The frontrunners for next week are Doctor Vulko, the Justice Riders, and an entry that I've been calling the Super Babies, which would be Impulse, Jon Kent, Mareena, Helena Kyle & Shiloh Free. You can make any of those three the next update, or maybe you can make push something else to the forefront!
With those three done, we are now down to 97 remaining timelines from the Black Book! The current character with the most votes if Felicity Smoak, so shes next! The frontrunners for next week are Doctor Vulko, the Justice Riders, and an entry that I've been calling the Super Babies, which would be Impulse, Jon Kent, Mareena, Helena Kyle & Shiloh Free. You can make any of those three the next update, or maybe you can make push something else to the forefront!
January 11th, 2024
I'm really excited to keep working the last of the original Black Book timelines! This week, as promised, we finished Wing, the sidekick of the Crimson Avenger, but since that went pretty quickly (I was home sick) we also did some more characters out of the Black Book, The Bride & Phillip Sylvian. This brings the total number of remaining timelines down to 100!
The option that got the most votes in this first round was the Camelot characters, so that's what's next! We're going to keep all the votes going, so as of right now the current frontrunners to be next are the Batman Supporting Characters, Felicity Smoak, and Doctor Vulko. You guys can either push one of those to be next, or push one of the other options up to the forefront! I can't wait to see what you guys pick next!
The option that got the most votes in this first round was the Camelot characters, so that's what's next! We're going to keep all the votes going, so as of right now the current frontrunners to be next are the Batman Supporting Characters, Felicity Smoak, and Doctor Vulko. You guys can either push one of those to be next, or push one of the other options up to the forefront! I can't wait to see what you guys pick next!
January 4th, 2024
Happy New Year, nerds!
The last three characters of the Suicide Squad are finally updated; Merlyn, Mirror Master, & Atomic Skull. Now that they're done, that's the latest team fully updated!
So what's next? We do have our regular poll, but I actually think that this time we're going to change things up a little bit. I've stepped back from the Patreon; it's still there and people who want to help can contribute... or even go to the higher tier if they want to be named on the site, or use the Fan Continuity page... but I am going to take some of the information that was only available there and move it HERE.
See, the original Black Book timelines that we've been building this page out of for years are actually almost done! There are only 103 timelines left, and since we've just finished the Suicide Squad, the last of the top teams on the site, and it just happens to be the start of a new year, I think it might be fun for us to just focus on getting that done! That's right, ALL of the original timelines will be loaded! So we're going to create a new poll, based on those remaining 103 character timelines. We'll do them in groups, and you guys can vote on which groups comes next. This way you guys will know EXACTLY what characters you're voting on.
There is TONS to do on the site even when these are done, but this will be a huge milestone and I'm really excited to see it done! We'll get to work on the character Wing while you guys peruse the new poll, and let me know where we should start!
The last three characters of the Suicide Squad are finally updated; Merlyn, Mirror Master, & Atomic Skull. Now that they're done, that's the latest team fully updated!
So what's next? We do have our regular poll, but I actually think that this time we're going to change things up a little bit. I've stepped back from the Patreon; it's still there and people who want to help can contribute... or even go to the higher tier if they want to be named on the site, or use the Fan Continuity page... but I am going to take some of the information that was only available there and move it HERE.
See, the original Black Book timelines that we've been building this page out of for years are actually almost done! There are only 103 timelines left, and since we've just finished the Suicide Squad, the last of the top teams on the site, and it just happens to be the start of a new year, I think it might be fun for us to just focus on getting that done! That's right, ALL of the original timelines will be loaded! So we're going to create a new poll, based on those remaining 103 character timelines. We'll do them in groups, and you guys can vote on which groups comes next. This way you guys will know EXACTLY what characters you're voting on.
There is TONS to do on the site even when these are done, but this will be a huge milestone and I'm really excited to see it done! We'll get to work on the character Wing while you guys peruse the new poll, and let me know where we should start!
December 21st, 2023
This was actually a VERY labor intensive update! We had a very brief timeline in place for Dark Opal, but we always knew that, once it came time to do this update we'd want to really dig into Gemworld with both hands, so that's what we did. We reread EVERY Amethyst series, collecting art for all the characters we wanted to use, and built out our version of the whole story of Gemworld. This means we updated the pages of Amy Winston (who is now referred to as Lady Amethyst), her daughter & future Teen Titan Amaya, and the page for the future Legion of Super-Heroes Villain Mordru (who starts out as a villain in Gemworld). We've also added new pages for Dark Opal, Lord Topaz, Lady Turquoise, Lady Emerald, Lord Garnet, Lord Sardonyx, Citrina, Granch, the Diamond Priest, Donal, Phoss, Rhodo, and even Amy's dog Taffy. This is one of the most character dense updates we've done since the Green Lantern Corp, which means I did a LOT of writing, so I would really appreciate any feedback you guys have for me!
I do owe a little apology this month... we had a new reader discover the site, and clearly they were really excited. They made over a dozen comments in only a couple days, some of them many paragraphs long. Honestly, I get it, a lot of the people in the Discord server, when first finding a community of fellow obsessive nerds they go a little chat-crazy. This was, unfortunately, just way, way too much for me to try to respond to. I did the comment section normally, but had to leave a lot of it out. I apprectiate your excitement, but maybe space it out a little?
Also, we've started to add a new little detail to the site with this update that we've been setting up for a while, I'll let you find it for yourselves, but we're really excited about it.
As for this weeks update, the winner of the current poll was i hop back over to the site updates, so it looks like it's time to finally wrap up the Suicide Squad!
I do owe a little apology this month... we had a new reader discover the site, and clearly they were really excited. They made over a dozen comments in only a couple days, some of them many paragraphs long. Honestly, I get it, a lot of the people in the Discord server, when first finding a community of fellow obsessive nerds they go a little chat-crazy. This was, unfortunately, just way, way too much for me to try to respond to. I did the comment section normally, but had to leave a lot of it out. I apprectiate your excitement, but maybe space it out a little?
Also, we've started to add a new little detail to the site with this update that we've been setting up for a while, I'll let you find it for yourselves, but we're really excited about it.
As for this weeks update, the winner of the current poll was i hop back over to the site updates, so it looks like it's time to finally wrap up the Suicide Squad!
November 21st, 2023
This has been a weird couple of weeks. My wife was away staying with family while she did some online classes, leaving me mostly on my own and missing her terribly. I eventually got to get on a plane and go join her, so I've had a lot of stranger than normal opportunities to work, and was able to actually do all of what we set up in the Patreon; all of the timelines for Static's Villains and Supporting Cast. This means Gear, Frieda, Sharon, The Rubberband Man, Hotstreak, Ebon, Edwin Alva & Edwin Alva Jr. We do make reference to the existence of some other characters like the rest of the Meta-Breed, or Daisy, or Virgil's parents, but I think these timelines are the ones we really needed to get into place.
We are still refining the way the new Patreon works, and as people have continued to ask for more clarity about the polls, we're going to be going forward thusly: There are three tiers of Patreons, and each one will give you access to more behind the scenes info about the different poll options. Boosters will see the full site map so they can follow along with the Page Updates, Knights will also see the lists of New Character timelines so they can help dictate what comes next, and Czarnians will see the New Story content and can help set up the occasional Weird Third Option in the polls.
For this week, the New Character options won the poll, and next on the list currently is Dark Opal, the villain from Gemworld. We might see if we can try to expand that a little bit and add some more characters from Gemworld. We'll see!
We are still refining the way the new Patreon works, and as people have continued to ask for more clarity about the polls, we're going to be going forward thusly: There are three tiers of Patreons, and each one will give you access to more behind the scenes info about the different poll options. Boosters will see the full site map so they can follow along with the Page Updates, Knights will also see the lists of New Character timelines so they can help dictate what comes next, and Czarnians will see the New Story content and can help set up the occasional Weird Third Option in the polls.
For this week, the New Character options won the poll, and next on the list currently is Dark Opal, the villain from Gemworld. We might see if we can try to expand that a little bit and add some more characters from Gemworld. We'll see!
November 10th, 2023
We did Enchantress this week, which was a lot of fun. Not only did her timeline need a lot of touch-up, but she was really woefully underrepresented in her old page, and this new one just feels way more satisfying. Let us know what you think!
This was a quick update, so there were less votes to count. The winner was to do New Character Pages. We actually got two suggestions to do Lana Lang... but I can see that they were both from the same IP address, you sneaky pete. If anyone else would like to see Lana, or any of the other characters that have been suggested in the last few updates like Ms America, let me know!
In the meantime, the Pateon has an ongoing poll to decide who is next for New Characters, and they've decided that next up will be the villains and supporting cast for Static! We actually have some decisions to make there, so if you're interested, please join the discord conversation by joining the patreon so you can help us work out exactly what shape this is going to take!
This was a quick update, so there were less votes to count. The winner was to do New Character Pages. We actually got two suggestions to do Lana Lang... but I can see that they were both from the same IP address, you sneaky pete. If anyone else would like to see Lana, or any of the other characters that have been suggested in the last few updates like Ms America, let me know!
In the meantime, the Pateon has an ongoing poll to decide who is next for New Characters, and they've decided that next up will be the villains and supporting cast for Static! We actually have some decisions to make there, so if you're interested, please join the discord conversation by joining the patreon so you can help us work out exactly what shape this is going to take!
November 4th, 2023
The new character page this week is the Batman supporting cast member Leslie Thompkins. She was a pretty fun character to set up, as her role is clear and uncomplicated, all we really had to do was undo a few (one really) rough story that misused her
The folks over on our new Patreon are already participating in some polls that are helping define what we'll be doing next, and the Discord is now set up so that you can access new planning channels and help steer the development of the project! I want to make the barrier for entry as low as possible, because I really enjoy chatting with all of you and getting your input!.
The poll this past month heavily favored the Page Updates, so we're going to dive into the last few members of the Suicide Squad, and hopefully the page for the team itself. We got one very interesting suggestion for a new character: we spent some time on the Discord putting together Miss America, so I'm guessing that whoever suggested her was probably part of that conversation :)
The folks over on our new Patreon are already participating in some polls that are helping define what we'll be doing next, and the Discord is now set up so that you can access new planning channels and help steer the development of the project! I want to make the barrier for entry as low as possible, because I really enjoy chatting with all of you and getting your input!.
The poll this past month heavily favored the Page Updates, so we're going to dive into the last few members of the Suicide Squad, and hopefully the page for the team itself. We got one very interesting suggestion for a new character: we spent some time on the Discord putting together Miss America, so I'm guessing that whoever suggested her was probably part of that conversation :)
October 27th, 2023
It's been a very interesting few weeks! If you've looked around in the last week or so, you might notice that I've overhauled the comment, blog, and FAQ pages. I think this new layout is WAY more user-friendly, and hopefully will just generally be more fun for everyone!
Also, I've finally bit the bullet and created a Patreon for the DCCP. I don't expect many people will actually join, but I wanted to find a way to make more of our behind-the-scenes content available to everyone. Now, for those of you that want to know a lot more about what's coming down the pipeline, There's finally a place to see it!
In the meantime, for this week's update we did the three remaining characters whose pages appear under the dropdown for the Suicide Squad; Catman, Plastique, & Rick Flag. Only a few Taskforce X members left!
The New Character Option won the latest poll by a country mile, and we got a number of suggestions for Doctor Leslie Thompkins, so I'll get to work on her right away!
Also, I've finally bit the bullet and created a Patreon for the DCCP. I don't expect many people will actually join, but I wanted to find a way to make more of our behind-the-scenes content available to everyone. Now, for those of you that want to know a lot more about what's coming down the pipeline, There's finally a place to see it!
In the meantime, for this week's update we did the three remaining characters whose pages appear under the dropdown for the Suicide Squad; Catman, Plastique, & Rick Flag. Only a few Taskforce X members left!
The New Character Option won the latest poll by a country mile, and we got a number of suggestions for Doctor Leslie Thompkins, so I'll get to work on her right away!
October 14th, 2023
The character of the week this week was Bronze Tiger, and for once we didn't need to do a ton of work to update his page. Mostly, we just expanded how it was written, adding a few more interactions while he was brainwashed by the League of Assassins. We did have one HUGE conversation in the Discord creating a martial arts event that we think is going to be a ton of fun when we get to put it into the timeline, so keep your eyes open for that.
This would have taken less time, but I got horribly distracted by another project. The DCCP famously doesn't have any sort of Multiverse, but for whatever reason I got very lost this week in starting to actually map out the Multiverse in terms of the real world timeline of how it grew and developed, as it seemed to me that this perspective actually made the whole thing make sense in a way that it just hadn't before? I might try to make a blog post about it some time.
The polls this week were a lot of fun! A TON of write ins. For New Characters, we had Detective Chimp, Condiment King, Singularity Jain (who I had to google), Funnyface, and one person wrote in 'Please add Martian Manhunter's equivalent in Luthor's Injustice Gang.', to which i can only say 'we're WORKING on it!!!' We had even more Page Update write ins, including Black Adam, The Durlan, The Human Target, Both Catwomen (Selena & Holly), and even some characters who technically have allready BEEN updated in Jason Rusch & Silver St Cloud! I'd be interested to see know what you think on those two pages still needs to be updated, so please feel free to comment again!
If anyone else would like to see any of those particular characters, please let me know, and we can move them up in the order! I have been planning to update the FAQ, blog, and comment pages so that there's a clear list of what characters we're not using and why, and perhaps I can use this list as a starting point for some of those. I'm also very close to setting up a patreon where people can have a much clearer view of what characters are on the docket to be updated or added, in addtion to other new storylines, so please be on the lookout for that.
For now, the winner this week was again to keep updating pages. While there are quite a few characters left that are associated with the Suicide Squad that don't appear in the page dropdown (Enchantress, Mirror Master, Merlyn, Multiplex, Magenta, & Atomic Skull), the only characters let in the dropdown are Catman, Plastique, & Rick Flagg.... and I BET we could knock those three out in the next couple weeks, right?
This would have taken less time, but I got horribly distracted by another project. The DCCP famously doesn't have any sort of Multiverse, but for whatever reason I got very lost this week in starting to actually map out the Multiverse in terms of the real world timeline of how it grew and developed, as it seemed to me that this perspective actually made the whole thing make sense in a way that it just hadn't before? I might try to make a blog post about it some time.
The polls this week were a lot of fun! A TON of write ins. For New Characters, we had Detective Chimp, Condiment King, Singularity Jain (who I had to google), Funnyface, and one person wrote in 'Please add Martian Manhunter's equivalent in Luthor's Injustice Gang.', to which i can only say 'we're WORKING on it!!!' We had even more Page Update write ins, including Black Adam, The Durlan, The Human Target, Both Catwomen (Selena & Holly), and even some characters who technically have allready BEEN updated in Jason Rusch & Silver St Cloud! I'd be interested to see know what you think on those two pages still needs to be updated, so please feel free to comment again!
If anyone else would like to see any of those particular characters, please let me know, and we can move them up in the order! I have been planning to update the FAQ, blog, and comment pages so that there's a clear list of what characters we're not using and why, and perhaps I can use this list as a starting point for some of those. I'm also very close to setting up a patreon where people can have a much clearer view of what characters are on the docket to be updated or added, in addtion to other new storylines, so please be on the lookout for that.
For now, the winner this week was again to keep updating pages. While there are quite a few characters left that are associated with the Suicide Squad that don't appear in the page dropdown (Enchantress, Mirror Master, Merlyn, Multiplex, Magenta, & Atomic Skull), the only characters let in the dropdown are Catman, Plastique, & Rick Flagg.... and I BET we could knock those three out in the next couple weeks, right?
October 1st, 2023
This came dangerously close to being another week when what was supposed to be a quick update balooned into something that takes me a month.
We did Mordred, who should have been really simple, but of course there are quite a few characters who touch on the Arthurian Legend part of the DC timeline, and as we just implemented this one character we found a whole bunch of work to be done that we got really excited about, that would involve redoing a whole mess of characters, as well as adding others. In this case, we decided that we would get to all those pages in time so we can just let it happen in it's course... but boy, for a minute there...
In the meantime, yay! a quick update, at last!
The poll this week was for a Page Update, which is great. One person recommended that we do Plastique, who is coming up very soon as we redo the Suicide Squad pages. I'll just pop in and make sure some of the more recent pages like Killer Frost & King Shark are in good shape, but the next page to updte is Bronze Tiger... Plastique is right down the road!
We did Mordred, who should have been really simple, but of course there are quite a few characters who touch on the Arthurian Legend part of the DC timeline, and as we just implemented this one character we found a whole bunch of work to be done that we got really excited about, that would involve redoing a whole mess of characters, as well as adding others. In this case, we decided that we would get to all those pages in time so we can just let it happen in it's course... but boy, for a minute there...
In the meantime, yay! a quick update, at last!
The poll this week was for a Page Update, which is great. One person recommended that we do Plastique, who is coming up very soon as we redo the Suicide Squad pages. I'll just pop in and make sure some of the more recent pages like Killer Frost & King Shark are in good shape, but the next page to updte is Bronze Tiger... Plastique is right down the road!
September 27th, 2023
This was a weird update; it was mostly centered around the realization that certain characters kind of had organizations built into their individual timelines that needed to be seperated out into their own organization timeline. Specifically; General Wade Eiling and his Meta-Human Deterent Program, which is now called the First Strike Program. I think you'll find that both pages actually make a lot more cohesive sense than when they were mooshed into one. We eventually realized that Kobra was actually an even worse case. Once the organization Kobra was split out into it's own page, it became by far the single biggest organization timeline in the whole project. Kobra, the character, is now Kobra Khan. (we found a TON of unlinked references to Kobra... evidentally we'd just done a poor job of managing these. So if you find any more... or you find links that go to the person when they should go to the organization, please let us know!)
Once this was done, I think we managed to come up with a much more interesting story for the First Strike Program, involving a few more characters. Telling that story gave us an opportunity to add Chemo to the timeline, which is great, but the real focus here was building up a character we've had a ton of requests for over the last few years; Peacemaker. He's finally in the timeline, and we think our particular take on him is both going to be suprisingly unique, but also just immedatiely feel like this is exactly who this charater should be.
Also, just as a tiny bonus, we added one more character that came together over in the discord server. She might be a bit of an afterthought in regard to this week's update, but I honestly just adore how Dreamgirl came together and I'm excited to see what you all think of one of the first characters to really come almost entirely from the discord. Well done, guys!
Now to the poll for this week. I'm sure you noticed that we stripped out the weird third option and simplified the remaining choices. The reality is, I really have two major tasks to do on the site: keep uploading character from our original hand-made timelines, and continue updating existing pages to the current format. I was adding the weird third option as a bit of a filler, but in the past few months it was getting all the votes every time. I'm sure it was fun, but if I keep getting sidetracked, those main tasks are just going to languish forever. So for now at least, I'm just going to pare it back to those two basic choices, and let you guys go ahead and tell me if you have any new suggestions for characters to add or update as we go.
This time, the winner is to add a new character, which means I'm going back to the old handwritten timelines and grabbing the next character in line: Mordred! There's actually a few fun Arthurian characters still to be added, so I'm excited to see this part of the timeline expand.
Once this was done, I think we managed to come up with a much more interesting story for the First Strike Program, involving a few more characters. Telling that story gave us an opportunity to add Chemo to the timeline, which is great, but the real focus here was building up a character we've had a ton of requests for over the last few years; Peacemaker. He's finally in the timeline, and we think our particular take on him is both going to be suprisingly unique, but also just immedatiely feel like this is exactly who this charater should be.
Also, just as a tiny bonus, we added one more character that came together over in the discord server. She might be a bit of an afterthought in regard to this week's update, but I honestly just adore how Dreamgirl came together and I'm excited to see what you all think of one of the first characters to really come almost entirely from the discord. Well done, guys!
Now to the poll for this week. I'm sure you noticed that we stripped out the weird third option and simplified the remaining choices. The reality is, I really have two major tasks to do on the site: keep uploading character from our original hand-made timelines, and continue updating existing pages to the current format. I was adding the weird third option as a bit of a filler, but in the past few months it was getting all the votes every time. I'm sure it was fun, but if I keep getting sidetracked, those main tasks are just going to languish forever. So for now at least, I'm just going to pare it back to those two basic choices, and let you guys go ahead and tell me if you have any new suggestions for characters to add or update as we go.
This time, the winner is to add a new character, which means I'm going back to the old handwritten timelines and grabbing the next character in line: Mordred! There's actually a few fun Arthurian characters still to be added, so I'm excited to see this part of the timeline expand.
September 10th, 2023
This one was really supposed to be much easier.
The poll result from last week was to keep redoing characters from the Suicide Squad, which mean that up next was Ravager. That should have been simple; just touch up her timeline to make sure it's all still up to date, redo the page layput and the artwork, and rewrite what we have to say about her. Simple.
As I tried to write her history, however, I just kept finding that there was content missing, We hadn't really told her story in a way that did her justice. So we went back and updated her timeline with some new content... but that meant we needed to add some new characters, like her mother, Lillian Worth. We also needed to bring in the character responsible for killing her mother, and had to do a ton of work to update them for our project, resulting in the character Marauder. In doing all of this, we even realized that we had some ground to cover in the way we told her father, Slade Wilson's, story and needed to include his long-time aid Wintergreen to do so.
So here we are, one 'simple' task completed. Please let me know what you think!
For the next update, the winner of the poll this week was, again, the weird third option. This time, this means we're again diving into one particular story beat and trying to refine it. This time it's General Wade Elling's Meta-Human Deterrent Program.
The poll result from last week was to keep redoing characters from the Suicide Squad, which mean that up next was Ravager. That should have been simple; just touch up her timeline to make sure it's all still up to date, redo the page layput and the artwork, and rewrite what we have to say about her. Simple.
As I tried to write her history, however, I just kept finding that there was content missing, We hadn't really told her story in a way that did her justice. So we went back and updated her timeline with some new content... but that meant we needed to add some new characters, like her mother, Lillian Worth. We also needed to bring in the character responsible for killing her mother, and had to do a ton of work to update them for our project, resulting in the character Marauder. In doing all of this, we even realized that we had some ground to cover in the way we told her father, Slade Wilson's, story and needed to include his long-time aid Wintergreen to do so.
So here we are, one 'simple' task completed. Please let me know what you think!
For the next update, the winner of the poll this week was, again, the weird third option. This time, this means we're again diving into one particular story beat and trying to refine it. This time it's General Wade Elling's Meta-Human Deterrent Program.
August 28th, 2023
It looks like I managed to do this whole update in exactly two weeks. That's pretty good, right?
So, this was a 'weird third option' update; an expansion of the DDCP's international heroes. We've added a whole new team; The Kingdom. One member was already in our timeline, Vixen just needed to be updated to add her membership to her already stacked resume, but we went on to add all our new characters; Congorilla (hes' back!), Anansi the Spider, Dragonfly, Shango, & Doctor Mist.
This one was a ton of work and has been a long time coming. I usually ask for your feedback, but this time I'm officially demanding it. Everybody tell me what you think! I'll expect your report on my desk by end of business today.
The poll results this week were so weird! THe winner was the Page Update option, so we'll be working on Ravager next, but we had a ton of votes for the Weird Third Option. What's going on, there?
So, this was a 'weird third option' update; an expansion of the DDCP's international heroes. We've added a whole new team; The Kingdom. One member was already in our timeline, Vixen just needed to be updated to add her membership to her already stacked resume, but we went on to add all our new characters; Congorilla (hes' back!), Anansi the Spider, Dragonfly, Shango, & Doctor Mist.
This one was a ton of work and has been a long time coming. I usually ask for your feedback, but this time I'm officially demanding it. Everybody tell me what you think! I'll expect your report on my desk by end of business today.
The poll results this week were so weird! THe winner was the Page Update option, so we'll be working on Ravager next, but we had a ton of votes for the Weird Third Option. What's going on, there?
August 7th, 2023
This was a suprisingly complex new character. Even though Nyssa Al Ghul has barely forty appearances in comics in total, adding her to ourtimeline instantly brings quite a bit of intrigue to the League of Assassins. She also does quite a bit to expand our depiction of the history of the world, As she's the first actual Holocaust Survivor to join our timeline.
The poll for this week was wild, but it looks like we're going to be doing the Weird Third Option! This means we'll be expanding out international cast a little by taking characters from another continent and creating new team that, while we'll be building it from certain comic precidents, is effectively original to our timeline.
This is always a little tricky when we do it. The goal here is to make something that feels like a natural extention of what is already in place. This will also probably take more than one week, so sit tight!
The poll for this week was wild, but it looks like we're going to be doing the Weird Third Option! This means we'll be expanding out international cast a little by taking characters from another continent and creating new team that, while we'll be building it from certain comic precidents, is effectively original to our timeline.
This is always a little tricky when we do it. The goal here is to make something that feels like a natural extention of what is already in place. This will also probably take more than one week, so sit tight!
July 31st, 2023
We went to Terrificon in Connecticut this weekend, which remains one of my all-time favorite cons. I hope everyone gets a chance to check it out some time!
Harvey Bullock is finished, and I think wound up being a pretty good page with some neat character observations. As always, please let me know what you think! I also made one small change elsewhere on the site, but I'll let you guys see if you can figure it out.
As for the newest poll, the New Character Option came out ahead, so it looks like I'll finally be doing a character that's been there for some time now; Nyssa Al Ghul!
Harvey Bullock is finished, and I think wound up being a pretty good page with some neat character observations. As always, please let me know what you think! I also made one small change elsewhere on the site, but I'll let you guys see if you can figure it out.
As for the newest poll, the New Character Option came out ahead, so it looks like I'll finally be doing a character that's been there for some time now; Nyssa Al Ghul!
July 24th, 2023
I was going to finish this post on Friday, but we went and did the whole "Barbenheimer" thing... and those two movies are WAY too long to watch as a double feature. It messed up my sleep schedule for the rest of the weekend.
But we've finally updated the page for Bane. He didn't need his timeline updated all that much, but we actually wound up writing quite a bit about the character and about the Knightfall storyarc, so hopefully you'll enjoy his page.
On to the next update! The winner of the poll was the New Character Option, which means we'll be adding someone entirely new! We had two suggestions this week, Harvey Bullock & Cindy Reynolds. Cindy is of course actually already on our site, just under a different name since her traditional comic name is actually an ethnic slur... you can find her here. So that means our next character is everyone's favorite loveable curmudgeon of a formerly corrupt police Lieutenant!
But we've finally updated the page for Bane. He didn't need his timeline updated all that much, but we actually wound up writing quite a bit about the character and about the Knightfall storyarc, so hopefully you'll enjoy his page.
On to the next update! The winner of the poll was the New Character Option, which means we'll be adding someone entirely new! We had two suggestions this week, Harvey Bullock & Cindy Reynolds. Cindy is of course actually already on our site, just under a different name since her traditional comic name is actually an ethnic slur... you can find her here. So that means our next character is everyone's favorite loveable curmudgeon of a formerly corrupt police Lieutenant!
July 4th, 2023
It is actually interesting how different it is working on an extremely established character like Deadshot in contrast to someone more obscure like Nemesis. While I can always do a writeup about the character and their history, it does become a little tricky to find something to say about them that doesn't seem like I'm just telling everyone what they already know. In this case, We did actually get a change to refine the way we present his story that I think manage to highlight what makes them really interesting, so I hope you find the time to let us know what you think!
The Page Update option won the poll by a landslide again; I just think people enjoy voting more when the character named in it is more recognizeable, and everyone certainly knows Bane. There was one interesting write-in in the New Character option; someone write in 'Azrael"... which means that they don't realize Azrael actually is already on the site and recently updated. I suppose I should probably tell you where he is, but I actually do think you'll enjoy it if you find him after having had to look for a bit :)
The Page Update option won the poll by a landslide again; I just think people enjoy voting more when the character named in it is more recognizeable, and everyone certainly knows Bane. There was one interesting write-in in the New Character option; someone write in 'Azrael"... which means that they don't realize Azrael actually is already on the site and recently updated. I suppose I should probably tell you where he is, but I actually do think you'll enjoy it if you find him after having had to look for a bit :)
June 24th, 2023
It is nice to just be able to bang out a single character update. Nemesis really needed quite an overhaul on both his page and his timeline, but I think this is a much better expression of both his role in our timeline and just of the character overall. As always, please let us know what you think!
The New Poll result is to again do another Page Update, which I honestly appreciate because the Suicide Squad have been sitting unfinished for a while so I'm glad to tackle them! I'll be getting to work on Deadshot next.
The New Poll result is to again do another Page Update, which I honestly appreciate because the Suicide Squad have been sitting unfinished for a while so I'm glad to tackle them! I'll be getting to work on Deadshot next.
June 19th, 2023
We haven't really done an update like this one before, where rather than focusing on a specific character, we instead work on including an event in the timeline that wasn't there before. You'll find the battle to stop Hal Jordan from destroying time happening 4 years ago. We had to spend a while working out a version of this that we all really liked, and it wound up drawing from some unexpected places. We go into the process a little on the page for the one new character we added as a part of this event, Damage.
We had a much shorter amount of time with the polls up this time. We did have one suggestion of a possible new character to add in Brainwave, but the winner was very clear; The Page Update Option. This means we're going to be redoing a character with a VERY old page, Nemesis.
We had a much shorter amount of time with the polls up this time. We did have one suggestion of a possible new character to add in Brainwave, but the winner was very clear; The Page Update Option. This means we're going to be redoing a character with a VERY old page, Nemesis.
June 11th, 2023
Thank you everybody for being so patient! This is a really busy time of year for me, and I just didn't always have the mental bandwith to sit down and work on the project. I did find time, however, and I think you'll find that this was a big one!
The winner of the poll was Anton Arcane, Swamp Thing's archnemesis. What I found, however, was that even with the timelines we had previously built, there were so many ideas I wanted to include, and they wound up effecting so many other characters, that I really couldn't just do Arcane. I had to get workable versions of all the characters that his story touched.
So to start, you'll find that we finally re-did the page for one of my all-time favorite characters; Swamp Thing. We also did a small bit of work on both his daughter, Sprout, and on the Floronic Man, just tweaking some events in their timelines. Beyond that, however, we also did whole pages of Swamp Thing Supporting Characters and Swamp Thing Villains, including the promised Anton Arcane, Abigail Holland, Matthew Cable, The Patchwork Man, Avery Sunderland, and Linda Holland.
I know I always ask you guys what you think, but this time it really, really would mean the world for you to just pop a little comment in to let me know how these timelines work for you. I spent the last month reading all of Swamp Thing over and over; these stories really are among my favorite and it was really important to me that we get them all to line up in a way that did them justice while also working in our timeline. We made some very deliberate changes that I think make the whole thing a very fun re-interpretation of the original story, and I am just dying to know what people think of them.
Being gone so long of course also meant that we got a LOT of comments, so the comment log has been updated. If you've sent in any comments in the last month or so, please swing by and see if I've responded.
Wildly, the poll for that month swong WILDLY in favor of the weird third option! I didn't actually include what that weird thrid option would be, So I think I'm going to have a conversation over on the discord to decide what we're doing next. If you want to join in, feel free to send a message asking for an invite!
The winner of the poll was Anton Arcane, Swamp Thing's archnemesis. What I found, however, was that even with the timelines we had previously built, there were so many ideas I wanted to include, and they wound up effecting so many other characters, that I really couldn't just do Arcane. I had to get workable versions of all the characters that his story touched.
So to start, you'll find that we finally re-did the page for one of my all-time favorite characters; Swamp Thing. We also did a small bit of work on both his daughter, Sprout, and on the Floronic Man, just tweaking some events in their timelines. Beyond that, however, we also did whole pages of Swamp Thing Supporting Characters and Swamp Thing Villains, including the promised Anton Arcane, Abigail Holland, Matthew Cable, The Patchwork Man, Avery Sunderland, and Linda Holland.
I know I always ask you guys what you think, but this time it really, really would mean the world for you to just pop a little comment in to let me know how these timelines work for you. I spent the last month reading all of Swamp Thing over and over; these stories really are among my favorite and it was really important to me that we get them all to line up in a way that did them justice while also working in our timeline. We made some very deliberate changes that I think make the whole thing a very fun re-interpretation of the original story, and I am just dying to know what people think of them.
Being gone so long of course also meant that we got a LOT of comments, so the comment log has been updated. If you've sent in any comments in the last month or so, please swing by and see if I've responded.
Wildly, the poll for that month swong WILDLY in favor of the weird third option! I didn't actually include what that weird thrid option would be, So I think I'm going to have a conversation over on the discord to decide what we're doing next. If you want to join in, feel free to send a message asking for an invite!
May 6th, 2023
The pages this week are all deliberately short. I haven't been in the habit of trying to explain all the variations of the Legion of Superhero characters, and while that might change someday when I start redoing the pages of the actual Legion, for now, I think a smaller, simpler explanation of the members of the Fatal Five; Tharok, Emerald Emperess, Persuader, Mano & Validus explains who they are and how they're going to fit into our timeline really well.
The Poll this week was pretty wild. While there were a FEW votes for the Weird Third Option or for the Page Update Option (where one person suggested we either do Alfred or Catwoman's pages next), the New Character Option was overwhelmingly the winner, and not a single person wrote in a suggestion, which means that everybody is CLAMORING for Antone Arcane!
This upcoming week is a crazy busy one for me (I'll be working the biggest trade show of the year for my office) So I can pretty much guarantee that I won't be able to post anything for at least two weeks. In that time, I might not be able to do anything more than just Arcane's page... but I really love Swamp Thing and I want to make sure I do these pages justice, so if i'm gone for a bit, just know that I'm churning away trying to put a really good update together! In the meantime, here's the next poll!
The Poll this week was pretty wild. While there were a FEW votes for the Weird Third Option or for the Page Update Option (where one person suggested we either do Alfred or Catwoman's pages next), the New Character Option was overwhelmingly the winner, and not a single person wrote in a suggestion, which means that everybody is CLAMORING for Antone Arcane!
This upcoming week is a crazy busy one for me (I'll be working the biggest trade show of the year for my office) So I can pretty much guarantee that I won't be able to post anything for at least two weeks. In that time, I might not be able to do anything more than just Arcane's page... but I really love Swamp Thing and I want to make sure I do these pages justice, so if i'm gone for a bit, just know that I'm churning away trying to put a really good update together! In the meantime, here's the next poll!
April 28th, 2023
This past week, while I was on a long drive for a long weekend i was taking with my wife, some of the people on the discord messaged me to let me know that several parts of the website were giving 404 errors. I wasn't able to get ANY of it on my phone, and couldn't get on the site editor to see if it was okay, so for a few hours there I was despairing at the thought that this website, the result of a literally unmeasurable amout of my time and effort over the course of the last decade... might not exist anymore.
Some of the folks on the discord mentioned that they were still able to see most of the characters, and proceeded to save every. single. page. They worked together and reached the character limit on four full google docs. They all said they hoped it would prove unnecessary, but they wanted to help me save as much as they could. I was literally in tears.
Thankfully, when I finally got somewhere with solid internet and could log into the site editor I was able to just publish the site even though the latest character was unfinished to resolve the issue. I've also finally gone ahead and upgraded to a paid weebly account to make sure I have unlimited storage space, so you might also notice that there's less weebly branding now. I'm also going to start implementing much more aggressive change logs with each update so I can, over time, have reliable backups for everything.
So in the end, I guess that little error was worth it! The show of support from you guys was just an incredible gift. I can't believe you did that for me.
The character I was working on this month was Amanda Waller. I would have liked to sneak in a few more Suicide Squad characters who really desperately need to have their pages redone, but this is a pretty busy time of year for me, so she was really all I was able to do, although I did get a ton of comment responses up and a new blog post. Hopefully we'll get a chance to do a little bit more with the coming update. The winner this week was the New Character Option, which means I get to work on the Fatal Five. I'm going to try to actually just get all five of them done at once, which might take me the better part of the next month, but I think we'd all like to see them all just go up together.
Some of the folks on the discord mentioned that they were still able to see most of the characters, and proceeded to save every. single. page. They worked together and reached the character limit on four full google docs. They all said they hoped it would prove unnecessary, but they wanted to help me save as much as they could. I was literally in tears.
Thankfully, when I finally got somewhere with solid internet and could log into the site editor I was able to just publish the site even though the latest character was unfinished to resolve the issue. I've also finally gone ahead and upgraded to a paid weebly account to make sure I have unlimited storage space, so you might also notice that there's less weebly branding now. I'm also going to start implementing much more aggressive change logs with each update so I can, over time, have reliable backups for everything.
So in the end, I guess that little error was worth it! The show of support from you guys was just an incredible gift. I can't believe you did that for me.
The character I was working on this month was Amanda Waller. I would have liked to sneak in a few more Suicide Squad characters who really desperately need to have their pages redone, but this is a pretty busy time of year for me, so she was really all I was able to do, although I did get a ton of comment responses up and a new blog post. Hopefully we'll get a chance to do a little bit more with the coming update. The winner this week was the New Character Option, which means I get to work on the Fatal Five. I'm going to try to actually just get all five of them done at once, which might take me the better part of the next month, but I think we'd all like to see them all just go up together.
April 8th. 2023
I know I've been trying to do an update every week, but sometimes real life just doesn't let me get to it. I missed last week, but I've finally put up Cyclotron, which also included an update to his most related character, Firebrand.
The extra week meant we actually got a LOT of fun comments responding to the big update last time, so if you've commented recently, head over to the comment log where I've probably responded to you. I really live for this stuff, so if you ever have any observations you'd like to share, I would love to hear them.
For this week, the winner was the Page Update, so we'll be redoing at least one existing page, maybe more. The main suggestion I got was to actually go do the Legion of Doom's page rather than a specific character, but the reality is that page just isn't ready to be built out yet. It's serving more as a placeholder as we work out just who is on that team.. So it looks like we're FINALLY going to do start in on the Suicide Squad, starting with Viola Davis herself.
The extra week meant we actually got a LOT of fun comments responding to the big update last time, so if you've commented recently, head over to the comment log where I've probably responded to you. I really live for this stuff, so if you ever have any observations you'd like to share, I would love to hear them.
For this week, the winner was the Page Update, so we'll be redoing at least one existing page, maybe more. The main suggestion I got was to actually go do the Legion of Doom's page rather than a specific character, but the reality is that page just isn't ready to be built out yet. It's serving more as a placeholder as we work out just who is on that team.. So it looks like we're FINALLY going to do start in on the Suicide Squad, starting with Viola Davis herself.
March 26th, 2023
Now THAT was an update.
As you recall, this week was the first time the "weird third option" won the poll, and the write-in suggestion was to finish the Doom Patrol Supporting Cast. That meant a few things, so just follow along with me here. We started out with a character we'd planned to add as a Doom Patrol Supporting Cast member, but once we overcame the difficulty in making her fit into our timeline at all, it actually worked to just put Crazy Jane right into the team proper, where she actually belongs.
The bulk of our supporting cast additions, however, are part of an update to the Larger Doom Patrol story; the new team's island laboratory headquarters on Oolong Island. Starting with updated pages: we redid Will Magnus, the owner of the island, and I think did a much better job with his timeline. Next was Pat Dugan, their first new staff member. Redoing Pat's page included some timeline updates that we desperately needed, and to do that we also jumped down and redid the original Star-Spangled Kid. This was a huge chunk of work, and I really loved the result.
On to brand new pages; we added Kimiyo Hoshi, who we actually get asked about a lot, and finally, the character people were probably the most interested in. Scandal Savage's new love interest; Kitty Faulkner. I'll let her page speak for itself, but doing this also led to a lot of updates to Scandal herself, and I am MUCH happier with the new story we have for her.
On to next week! Wgot some suggestions for Page Updates; one person requested Alfred, while another person simply wrote "Waller Time!" which I appreciated. Far and away, however, the biggest response this week was the New Character option, and it looks like people actually want to see us move ahead with Cyclotron, so expect to see him next!
As you recall, this week was the first time the "weird third option" won the poll, and the write-in suggestion was to finish the Doom Patrol Supporting Cast. That meant a few things, so just follow along with me here. We started out with a character we'd planned to add as a Doom Patrol Supporting Cast member, but once we overcame the difficulty in making her fit into our timeline at all, it actually worked to just put Crazy Jane right into the team proper, where she actually belongs.
The bulk of our supporting cast additions, however, are part of an update to the Larger Doom Patrol story; the new team's island laboratory headquarters on Oolong Island. Starting with updated pages: we redid Will Magnus, the owner of the island, and I think did a much better job with his timeline. Next was Pat Dugan, their first new staff member. Redoing Pat's page included some timeline updates that we desperately needed, and to do that we also jumped down and redid the original Star-Spangled Kid. This was a huge chunk of work, and I really loved the result.
On to brand new pages; we added Kimiyo Hoshi, who we actually get asked about a lot, and finally, the character people were probably the most interested in. Scandal Savage's new love interest; Kitty Faulkner. I'll let her page speak for itself, but doing this also led to a lot of updates to Scandal herself, and I am MUCH happier with the new story we have for her.
On to next week! Wgot some suggestions for Page Updates; one person requested Alfred, while another person simply wrote "Waller Time!" which I appreciated. Far and away, however, the biggest response this week was the New Character option, and it looks like people actually want to see us move ahead with Cyclotron, so expect to see him next!
March 18th, 2023
Ma & Pa Kent were a weirdly dense bit of rewriting. They were already referenced in a suprising number of places, so we had to pick through a few different stories and rewrite them... but that's often what I like about doing supporting characters. They sort of force you to rethink and refine as you go. Their actual pages (Jonathan Kent & Martha Kent) do wind up looking pretty similar since their role in the story is basically a dual one, but there are some distinctions between the two, and of course they also have a nice little story that plays out between the two of them when they are younger. Talking about the Kents is a really easy doorway into talking about the larger publication history of Superman, which i can talk about for WEEKS, so I really had to work to keep these short.
This is the first week ever that NO ONE voted for the new character option, which to me suggests that modern comic readers must really just not have any idea who Emerald Emperess is :) What actually won this week was the Weird Third Option! at least two different people wrote in that they wanted to see the Doom Patrol Supporting Cast including Scandal's new love interest... so that's what we're doing!
This is the first week ever that NO ONE voted for the new character option, which to me suggests that modern comic readers must really just not have any idea who Emerald Emperess is :) What actually won this week was the Weird Third Option! at least two different people wrote in that they wanted to see the Doom Patrol Supporting Cast including Scandal's new love interest... so that's what we're doing!
March 10th, 2023
I got to reread James Robinson's Starman this week, which is an absolute treat. I don't know if you guys are following along at all, but if any of you feel at all compelled to check out the series I'm working on as I go, this is a really great week to start, because boy, thats such a great read.
While Robinson's Starman is practically overflowing with supporting cast, We focused on the main characters in our version of Jack Knight's story. In addition to our promised addition of The Shade, we also did The Mist, and a pseudo-original-but-not-really character, Sadie Nash. I would love to hear what you guys think of what we did here, it's a small change to the cannon story, and we certainly aren't pretending that it's BETTER, but we do think it works with our timeline really well.
We had a BUNCH of suggestions for every part of the poll this week., including more than one suggetion under the Weird Third Option to do the new Doom Patrol supporting cast and Scandal's new love interest. We had suggestions for several characters we don't yet have plans to include, but if you have idea about how they might be incorporated, by all means, reach out to me in the discord! Among them were Tommy Monaghan, Professor Pyg, and Libra, the last of which im pretty sure was a repeat of a comment I replied to over in the comment log, so if you've made multiple requests for this guy... go look there, I answered you :)
Ultimately though, the New Character Option DID win the poll, which means we'll be doing the characters that we actually are planning to include that were suggested this week for the THIRD time... Ma & Pa Kent. I've actually been looking forward to this one!
While Robinson's Starman is practically overflowing with supporting cast, We focused on the main characters in our version of Jack Knight's story. In addition to our promised addition of The Shade, we also did The Mist, and a pseudo-original-but-not-really character, Sadie Nash. I would love to hear what you guys think of what we did here, it's a small change to the cannon story, and we certainly aren't pretending that it's BETTER, but we do think it works with our timeline really well.
We had a BUNCH of suggestions for every part of the poll this week., including more than one suggetion under the Weird Third Option to do the new Doom Patrol supporting cast and Scandal's new love interest. We had suggestions for several characters we don't yet have plans to include, but if you have idea about how they might be incorporated, by all means, reach out to me in the discord! Among them were Tommy Monaghan, Professor Pyg, and Libra, the last of which im pretty sure was a repeat of a comment I replied to over in the comment log, so if you've made multiple requests for this guy... go look there, I answered you :)
Ultimately though, the New Character Option DID win the poll, which means we'll be doing the characters that we actually are planning to include that were suggested this week for the THIRD time... Ma & Pa Kent. I've actually been looking forward to this one!
March 4th, 2023
I do not know what got into me this week.
As promised, I redid pages for both Jason Todd and Red Hood this week, which actually had me doing a LOT of extra reading. Once they were done, however, I kind of just kept going. Negative Man has been the next character on the list to redo for a while now, so I went ahead and tackled him... which also led me to do a certain Doom Patrol supporting cast member that people have been asking me to do forever. Then I went on to do all the last couple remaining Doom Patrol member pages with Mento and Negative Woman. That means we're done with redoing character pages for the Doom Patrol, although the team itself isn't done yet. We plan to add a bunch of supporting cast members, including that mysterious girlfriend of Scandals, but those characters are neither page updates OR characters being added from the book, so I think they're going to wind up being a weird third option someday.
Meanwhile, when you count all the pages I added last week, Dr Helga Jace, Maseo Yamashiro and Takeo Yamashiro (or Wakizashi, as we called him here), and combining of certain supporting cast and villain pages into the new Outsiders Supporting Cast & Outsiders Villains pages, this is a TON of new pages in the last few weeks. I guess doing one character at a time for a while gave me time to refuel my batteries?
I defintely want to continue to just plan for one new character a week, because I'd much rather over than under deliver. With this much content, I would really appreciate if you guys dug in this week and let me know if you find any errors anywhere, or... this is critical... please let me know if you like it!
In the meantime, the winner of the poll this week was to add new characters. There were a few suggestions; we got ANOTHER suggestion to do Ma & Pa Kent, which suggests that that might just continue for a while, and another person suggested Jonah Hex. Meanwhile, there actually were a few people writing in that they wanted to see us do the character we listed, so I think we'll tackle the Shade this week.
As promised, I redid pages for both Jason Todd and Red Hood this week, which actually had me doing a LOT of extra reading. Once they were done, however, I kind of just kept going. Negative Man has been the next character on the list to redo for a while now, so I went ahead and tackled him... which also led me to do a certain Doom Patrol supporting cast member that people have been asking me to do forever. Then I went on to do all the last couple remaining Doom Patrol member pages with Mento and Negative Woman. That means we're done with redoing character pages for the Doom Patrol, although the team itself isn't done yet. We plan to add a bunch of supporting cast members, including that mysterious girlfriend of Scandals, but those characters are neither page updates OR characters being added from the book, so I think they're going to wind up being a weird third option someday.
Meanwhile, when you count all the pages I added last week, Dr Helga Jace, Maseo Yamashiro and Takeo Yamashiro (or Wakizashi, as we called him here), and combining of certain supporting cast and villain pages into the new Outsiders Supporting Cast & Outsiders Villains pages, this is a TON of new pages in the last few weeks. I guess doing one character at a time for a while gave me time to refuel my batteries?
I defintely want to continue to just plan for one new character a week, because I'd much rather over than under deliver. With this much content, I would really appreciate if you guys dug in this week and let me know if you find any errors anywhere, or... this is critical... please let me know if you like it!
In the meantime, the winner of the poll this week was to add new characters. There were a few suggestions; we got ANOTHER suggestion to do Ma & Pa Kent, which suggests that that might just continue for a while, and another person suggested Jonah Hex. Meanwhile, there actually were a few people writing in that they wanted to see us do the character we listed, so I think we'll tackle the Shade this week.
February 24th, 2023
Steve Trevor's page was honestly a real treat. A lot of stories actually revolve around him, and he gets to feel like a really weighty, well build character. I do know that the role we've given him does diverge a little from what a lot of people might expect, but we really believe that our take is actually way more in keeping with the way the character was concieved than we'd ever have been able to do otherwise, so we really hope you enjoy this one.
We had a little extra time this week so we went ahead and made a few other fairly obvious changes elsewhere on the site. See if you can spot them! I also just put up a new Blog post about the infamous James Gunn announcement about the DCU. I know the last thing anyone needs is the opinion of one more random guy on the internet talking about movies that don't even exist yet, but if you WANT to read my reactions, that's where you'll find them.
The poll winner this week was the Page Update Option, and we had a few pretty great suggestions for which pages to tackle. One was for Amanda Waller, who we would actually be coming up on pretty soon once we wrapped up the Doom Patrol. The other two were Red Hood AND Jason Todd... who if you're a long time follower, you'll know are two different characters in our timeline.
I know we said we'd be focusing on one character at a time... but since those two are so closely tied, I guess we could tackle them together, right?
We had a little extra time this week so we went ahead and made a few other fairly obvious changes elsewhere on the site. See if you can spot them! I also just put up a new Blog post about the infamous James Gunn announcement about the DCU. I know the last thing anyone needs is the opinion of one more random guy on the internet talking about movies that don't even exist yet, but if you WANT to read my reactions, that's where you'll find them.
The poll winner this week was the Page Update Option, and we had a few pretty great suggestions for which pages to tackle. One was for Amanda Waller, who we would actually be coming up on pretty soon once we wrapped up the Doom Patrol. The other two were Red Hood AND Jason Todd... who if you're a long time follower, you'll know are two different characters in our timeline.
I know we said we'd be focusing on one character at a time... but since those two are so closely tied, I guess we could tackle them together, right?
February 18th, 2023
Making new character pages often means I get to go back and reread a lot of classic appearances. This week I did Talia Al Ghul, which means I got to read a whole bunch of Dennis O'Neil Batman comics, and it was absolutely fantastic. If you have the chance, or you're looking for some classic series to experience again, I really recommend this one.
The poll result this week was for the New Character Option, and we had a few suggestions for what character to add. One was Darkseid, and I totally get the push to see him join the Project, but he's probably going to remain one of the last characters to go up once we get to the New Gods. So that leaves the second suggestionl Steve Trevor. I hope you guys like our take on him!
The poll result this week was for the New Character Option, and we had a few suggestions for what character to add. One was Darkseid, and I totally get the push to see him join the Project, but he's probably going to remain one of the last characters to go up once we get to the New Gods. So that leaves the second suggestionl Steve Trevor. I hope you guys like our take on him!
Febuary 12th, 2023
Getting into the original Doom Patrol members now, and we immediately started to pick at the timeline of the team itself. Techincally the character this week was Niles Caulder, but in updating his page we also wound up making a few little changes elsewhere, which I expect will continue to happen with the rest of the team. This also lead to us removing a character from the timeline, and I'm sure that most longtime readers already know who I'm talking about.
The winner of the poll this week was to add a new character, and we got a few suggestions as to just who it should be. Talia Al Ghul was suggested again, and this time since that option actually came out ahead, she'll be who we work on next. We did have some fun other suggestions though. Someone simply said 'Harper Row", one of those new characters invented by Scott Snyder during his run on Batman... who we really had no plan on ever using. Another commenter suggested Per Degaton, and that we use him as a sort of The Master to Rip Hunter's Doctor, which is pretty clever. We'd have to talk about it a little; I have the sense that if we were going to use him, we'd prefer him to have a particular origin that actually gets into what happens to a person who tries to time travel and gets lost in alternate timelines, but that does feel like it could get a little dicey.
One suggestion I particularly appreciated was "whoever you chose as Scandal's love interest". She'll absolutely be going up at some point; she's going to be one of the Doom Patrol supporting cast.
The winner of the poll this week was to add a new character, and we got a few suggestions as to just who it should be. Talia Al Ghul was suggested again, and this time since that option actually came out ahead, she'll be who we work on next. We did have some fun other suggestions though. Someone simply said 'Harper Row", one of those new characters invented by Scott Snyder during his run on Batman... who we really had no plan on ever using. Another commenter suggested Per Degaton, and that we use him as a sort of The Master to Rip Hunter's Doctor, which is pretty clever. We'd have to talk about it a little; I have the sense that if we were going to use him, we'd prefer him to have a particular origin that actually gets into what happens to a person who tries to time travel and gets lost in alternate timelines, but that does feel like it could get a little dicey.
One suggestion I particularly appreciated was "whoever you chose as Scandal's love interest". She'll absolutely be going up at some point; she's going to be one of the Doom Patrol supporting cast.
February 3rd, 2023
This was another incredibly satisfying update! Again, just one character, but it was a character that REALLY deserved some thorough attention. As the poll last week suggested... I skipped ahead and redid the page for Deathstroke. I was actually a little nervous with what we had to say about him, so this week I shared our whole updated page with our discord server to get some feedback from everyone there. It was really satisfying to get to talk with everyone about it, so if you're at all interested in seeing advanced looks at updates, feel free to reach out with your email address for a discord invite.
For the three of you reading this in the distant future, this is the week we got James Gunn's announcement for the first wave of projects for his new DCU. I'm notoriously not very good at responding to this stuff, but I do feel like I should put up some sort of blog post in response to it, so if I manage to muster up enough to say to it, maybe I'll get that up this week.
In the meantime, I really enjoyed the new poll format! We had a great suggestion for a new character to add that is absolutely on our list; Talia Al Ghul... but this week we got more votes for the Page Update Option, so we'll be doing Niles Caulder this week. We actually have had some really interesting conversations about some changes for his story, so this should be fun!
For the three of you reading this in the distant future, this is the week we got James Gunn's announcement for the first wave of projects for his new DCU. I'm notoriously not very good at responding to this stuff, but I do feel like I should put up some sort of blog post in response to it, so if I manage to muster up enough to say to it, maybe I'll get that up this week.
In the meantime, I really enjoyed the new poll format! We had a great suggestion for a new character to add that is absolutely on our list; Talia Al Ghul... but this week we got more votes for the Page Update Option, so we'll be doing Niles Caulder this week. We actually have had some really interesting conversations about some changes for his story, so this should be fun!
January 28th, 2023
So I made a bit of a decision with this new update. I struggled a little last week trying to get all those Metamorpho characters in place, and It occurred to me that I've spend a while now feeling a little strained to get each update together, and I think those characters might have suffered a little. I just didn't get to drill down and really explore them as much as I sometimes do.
So this week, I decided to just really focus on one character. I did Thorn, the mother of Jade & Obsidian, a character drawn from a lot of different sources in DC cannon, and I really hope you guys will enjoy what we put together, because we did quite a bit of work to get her to work in a way that felt organic, that fed the larger timeline but also gave her her own story.
I'm sorry if you guys really enjoy seeing LOTS of characters with each update, but I think this might just be a much more satisfying pace to work in, So I think I'm going to start to veer this way a little more.
On to the results of the poll this past week. We had pretty much the exact respose we were expecting. People REALLY want us to jump the line and go update Deathstroke, so that's the next character we're going to work on. If we're going to keep trying to focus on one character at a time, but I'd like to make it clear that you guys can absoltely weigh in on who that character is. So in this next Poll, I will say who the character COULD be, but if you guys have someone you'd rather see, please let me know!
So this week, I decided to just really focus on one character. I did Thorn, the mother of Jade & Obsidian, a character drawn from a lot of different sources in DC cannon, and I really hope you guys will enjoy what we put together, because we did quite a bit of work to get her to work in a way that felt organic, that fed the larger timeline but also gave her her own story.
I'm sorry if you guys really enjoy seeing LOTS of characters with each update, but I think this might just be a much more satisfying pace to work in, So I think I'm going to start to veer this way a little more.
On to the results of the poll this past week. We had pretty much the exact respose we were expecting. People REALLY want us to jump the line and go update Deathstroke, so that's the next character we're going to work on. If we're going to keep trying to focus on one character at a time, but I'd like to make it clear that you guys can absoltely weigh in on who that character is. So in this next Poll, I will say who the character COULD be, but if you guys have someone you'd rather see, please let me know!
January 17th, 2023
You'd think an update to just add a few new support characters would be easy, right?
The new characters in this update were Sapphire Stagg, Simon Stagg, and Java... the supporting cast for Metamorpho. They're all really part of the same story, so the difficulty here was to have each character read as it's own thing when really its just the same story three times from three perspectives. They wound up being kind of short, because while that story was a big part of Rex's past, there's a real sense that he's since moved on. If you like them, I would really appreciate it if you let me know. If you don't... maybe keep that to yourself.
I had surgery last week, so while I was planning to do a few more supporting cast/villains for the Outsiders characters, I think I'm just going to call it a win and post with what I have. Be sure to swing by the comments, because we had a few new ones go up. The results of the newest poll is to keep adding characters, and I specifically mentioned Thorn, The Shade, The Mist, and The Fatal Five... so we'll see how much of that we can get done.
I had this idea to try something a little different with the poll this week. It might not actually work at all, because it won't be you guys selecting from three options. Instead, I'm going to say, in advance, that I'm going to be updating pages on the website. You know how that works; pages that have been up for a while but that haven't been updated to the new format. I'll just have the comment/suggestion box set up... and you guys tell me which characters, of all the unupdated characters on the site, you'd like me to do next. That'll be my next task, to just tackle your favorite suggestions.
The new characters in this update were Sapphire Stagg, Simon Stagg, and Java... the supporting cast for Metamorpho. They're all really part of the same story, so the difficulty here was to have each character read as it's own thing when really its just the same story three times from three perspectives. They wound up being kind of short, because while that story was a big part of Rex's past, there's a real sense that he's since moved on. If you like them, I would really appreciate it if you let me know. If you don't... maybe keep that to yourself.
I had surgery last week, so while I was planning to do a few more supporting cast/villains for the Outsiders characters, I think I'm just going to call it a win and post with what I have. Be sure to swing by the comments, because we had a few new ones go up. The results of the newest poll is to keep adding characters, and I specifically mentioned Thorn, The Shade, The Mist, and The Fatal Five... so we'll see how much of that we can get done.
I had this idea to try something a little different with the poll this week. It might not actually work at all, because it won't be you guys selecting from three options. Instead, I'm going to say, in advance, that I'm going to be updating pages on the website. You know how that works; pages that have been up for a while but that haven't been updated to the new format. I'll just have the comment/suggestion box set up... and you guys tell me which characters, of all the unupdated characters on the site, you'd like me to do next. That'll be my next task, to just tackle your favorite suggestions.
January 8th, 2023
Surprisingly, that was actually a pretty smooth update!
I did the new version of the original Injustice Gang, which means a few new character updates, and a few entirely new characters done entirely from scratch. Electrocutioner & the original Mirror Master didn't need to be changed that much, but we actually had to go back and redo almost all of Major Disaster's timeline to make him work. Nothing that hard, right?
So that just leaves the completely new characters; The Wizard was a fun deep dive and I love that we finally had a way to use him. Then we had to find counterparts to Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, which is never easy. What we came up with, I think, is some really interesting takes on some villains we might not have used normally; The Fisherman and the Human Flame. I would love to get some feedback on the way we implementing them, beause I think we managed to make them pretty interesting.
Moving on, the winner of the most recent poll was the New Character Option, so it looks like I'll be working on some Metamorpho Supporting Cast next. Please keep up your commenting, it sustains us!
I did the new version of the original Injustice Gang, which means a few new character updates, and a few entirely new characters done entirely from scratch. Electrocutioner & the original Mirror Master didn't need to be changed that much, but we actually had to go back and redo almost all of Major Disaster's timeline to make him work. Nothing that hard, right?
So that just leaves the completely new characters; The Wizard was a fun deep dive and I love that we finally had a way to use him. Then we had to find counterparts to Aquaman and Martian Manhunter, which is never easy. What we came up with, I think, is some really interesting takes on some villains we might not have used normally; The Fisherman and the Human Flame. I would love to get some feedback on the way we implementing them, beause I think we managed to make them pretty interesting.
Moving on, the winner of the most recent poll was the New Character Option, so it looks like I'll be working on some Metamorpho Supporting Cast next. Please keep up your commenting, it sustains us!
January 1st, 2023
2023 absolutely does not sound like a real year, does it?
That was a fun, drama-free update. Three completely unrelated characters; Calculator, Lady Styx, and Klarion. All three of them required a lot of re-imagining, and all of them have pretty wild timelines. I know I usually ask you guys what you think, but I really did a lot of rethinking and reframing of the roles these three play, and I would really appreciate it if you all jumped in and gave me any feedback you might have, because this is the sort of thing the foundation of the whole site is built on.
The winner of the latest poll is the new version of the original Injustice Gang. This is something that comes right out of the discord, where we had a fun conversation working out just who would be in an earlier version of the team meant to mirror the founding Justice League members. It's meant to be a deliberately less-than-optimized team, which will give us a chance to use some rather weird, obscure characters you might not have seen otherwise. If that sounds like a fun time to you, you can always send me an email asking for a discord link.
It's also definitely more characters than I usually do in one update, so I'll be working on if for more than a week. I'll try to do an update midway through... but this also means that this next poll is going to have a little while for you guys to lean into it, so I'll try to make it a good one!
That was a fun, drama-free update. Three completely unrelated characters; Calculator, Lady Styx, and Klarion. All three of them required a lot of re-imagining, and all of them have pretty wild timelines. I know I usually ask you guys what you think, but I really did a lot of rethinking and reframing of the roles these three play, and I would really appreciate it if you all jumped in and gave me any feedback you might have, because this is the sort of thing the foundation of the whole site is built on.
The winner of the latest poll is the new version of the original Injustice Gang. This is something that comes right out of the discord, where we had a fun conversation working out just who would be in an earlier version of the team meant to mirror the founding Justice League members. It's meant to be a deliberately less-than-optimized team, which will give us a chance to use some rather weird, obscure characters you might not have seen otherwise. If that sounds like a fun time to you, you can always send me an email asking for a discord link.
It's also definitely more characters than I usually do in one update, so I'll be working on if for more than a week. I'll try to do an update midway through... but this also means that this next poll is going to have a little while for you guys to lean into it, so I'll try to make it a good one!
December 25th, 2022
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
I just wrapped up the three remaining members of the new Doom Patrol, Major Disaster, Starman, and Scandal Savage. hopefully we've set them up in a way that makes is clear why we think these specific characters will work so well in the new version of the Doom Patrol led by Beast Boy. We do have a few more updates to this team, but in order to pull them off we'll have to dig into some other characters elsewhere on the site.
In the meantime, the winner of the most recent poll was to add some brand new character pages, so next up is Klarion, Calculator, & Lady Styxx... three characters who probably couldnt be any more different. I'll aim to get them done in the next two weeks, so in the meantime, I would love to hear what other questions or suggests you all have for the site!
I just wrapped up the three remaining members of the new Doom Patrol, Major Disaster, Starman, and Scandal Savage. hopefully we've set them up in a way that makes is clear why we think these specific characters will work so well in the new version of the Doom Patrol led by Beast Boy. We do have a few more updates to this team, but in order to pull them off we'll have to dig into some other characters elsewhere on the site.
In the meantime, the winner of the most recent poll was to add some brand new character pages, so next up is Klarion, Calculator, & Lady Styxx... three characters who probably couldnt be any more different. I'll aim to get them done in the next two weeks, so in the meantime, I would love to hear what other questions or suggests you all have for the site!
December 11th, 2022
I am not going to bore you guys for WHY this past week was a weird one, but suffice to say, I had a pretty weird work / life schedule. Still, it was fun to add a few new supporting characters to the timeline in Batman's love interests Julie Madison, Vicki Vale, and Silver St. Cloud. their roles in the timeline are pretty simple, but within the relatively simple text of the timeline we can all infur the complexity of those relationships, so I really think these are fun additions.
While there were a few votes for adding new characters, the winner of the Poll was actually a tie between redoing Doom Patrol pages and taking a break from Character Pages entirely to spend some time cleaning up the Timeline Pages. I get to basically be the deciding vote, and to be honest starting to do the Timeline cleanup just strikes me as an incredibly daunting task. I really put it on the poll as a filler and didn't think it had a chance of winning, so i'm just going to gracefully pull the curtain over that one and keep doing Doom Patrol pages for now. That task IS on the docket and you will be seeing not just a massive cleanup of those pages but a huge re-organization of how they're actually presented. (My intention is to eventually actually organize the timeline pages to simply references specific events, and then actually create cool little sub-pages for the events that explain them in detail and list all the little resulting changes from the event.)
I do also actually need to do the team pages for the Outsiders and the Doom Patrol, so perhaps I'll tackle those before I get to the Doom Patrol character pages. Given my current working speed, you will likely see an update in two weeks instead of one... but that's still pretty good, right? See you soon!
While there were a few votes for adding new characters, the winner of the Poll was actually a tie between redoing Doom Patrol pages and taking a break from Character Pages entirely to spend some time cleaning up the Timeline Pages. I get to basically be the deciding vote, and to be honest starting to do the Timeline cleanup just strikes me as an incredibly daunting task. I really put it on the poll as a filler and didn't think it had a chance of winning, so i'm just going to gracefully pull the curtain over that one and keep doing Doom Patrol pages for now. That task IS on the docket and you will be seeing not just a massive cleanup of those pages but a huge re-organization of how they're actually presented. (My intention is to eventually actually organize the timeline pages to simply references specific events, and then actually create cool little sub-pages for the events that explain them in detail and list all the little resulting changes from the event.)
I do also actually need to do the team pages for the Outsiders and the Doom Patrol, so perhaps I'll tackle those before I get to the Doom Patrol character pages. Given my current working speed, you will likely see an update in two weeks instead of one... but that's still pretty good, right? See you soon!
December 3rd, 2022
Finally finished the last two Justice League villains that have been showing up on the polls forever; Asmodel & Mageddon. As you might imagine doing the latter required a rediculous amount of updating cross-references from all over the site, not the least of which because I had apparently been misspelling it's name the whole time.
With those two done, that is pretty much (finally) a wrap on Justice League baddies. I'm sure there will be more down the line that might crop up, but as far as villains that are specficially focused on the League and who actually go under that category, that's the end of my list. Moving forward we now have a bunch of collections of smaller supporting characters and villians of smaller characters with no real rhyme or reason as to the order they were added so you might be suprised just who shows up next.
But first... the winner of the next poll might suprise one of you. One voter even added; "Even though it definitely won't win the poll, I'm just fascinated to see anyone take one those love interests as characters. For a sort of darkly romantic noir setting, I think they have a lot of untapped potential." Yep... Batman's love interests won. Who would have guessed?
With those two done, that is pretty much (finally) a wrap on Justice League baddies. I'm sure there will be more down the line that might crop up, but as far as villains that are specficially focused on the League and who actually go under that category, that's the end of my list. Moving forward we now have a bunch of collections of smaller supporting characters and villians of smaller characters with no real rhyme or reason as to the order they were added so you might be suprised just who shows up next.
But first... the winner of the next poll might suprise one of you. One voter even added; "Even though it definitely won't win the poll, I'm just fascinated to see anyone take one those love interests as characters. For a sort of darkly romantic noir setting, I think they have a lot of untapped potential." Yep... Batman's love interests won. Who would have guessed?
November 20th, 2022
I hope you guys don't mind me throwing up this quick update, even though the only new character I've added is Eclipso. He has a pretty complex timeline, so I really do hope you enjoy it... I just also had a particular Blog post I really felt like I needed to get up this week.
I'm going to keep working on the Justice Leage Villains in the meantime. It's obviously a holiday week (Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday), but I'll try to at least get one or two more characters up before we dive back into the poll and see what we're going to do next!
I'm going to keep working on the Justice Leage Villains in the meantime. It's obviously a holiday week (Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday), but I'll try to at least get one or two more characters up before we dive back into the poll and see what we're going to do next!
November 14th, 2022
I did it! I think I'm going to need to start expecting that an average week for me is about two characters in general, the third has seemed to push it every time lately.
That's the the last three members of the Outsiders done; Geo-Force, Katana, and Halo. These three were actually a lot of fun to do together, because as the three original characters introduced in the original Outsiders series their stories are kind of intertwined. I hope you guys like the take we did on these three, please let us know! we really do thrive on hearing what you guys think.
It looks like next up on the polls, we get to jump right back into some classic villains. We're out of town this week to visit family for Thanksgiving, so it remains to be seen if that means MORE time for updates, or less....
That's the the last three members of the Outsiders done; Geo-Force, Katana, and Halo. These three were actually a lot of fun to do together, because as the three original characters introduced in the original Outsiders series their stories are kind of intertwined. I hope you guys like the take we did on these three, please let us know! we really do thrive on hearing what you guys think.
It looks like next up on the polls, we get to jump right back into some classic villains. We're out of town this week to visit family for Thanksgiving, so it remains to be seen if that means MORE time for updates, or less....
November 04, 2022
The new team is finished! Just for fun, I'm actually not going to tell you where it is, I'll just let you find it :) Let me know when you do!
I just put up a blog post sharing a Superman movie pitch I really liked from twitter in 2020.. If you have a chance, please follow the links in the post to go give the original author some love, because I couldn't work out how to share the actual tweets here.
In the meantime, it looks like the next big task is to finish up the Outsiders! The modern team is pretty much all done, so it's just a question of redoing some of the original members. This should be fun!
I just put up a blog post sharing a Superman movie pitch I really liked from twitter in 2020.. If you have a chance, please follow the links in the post to go give the original author some love, because I couldn't work out how to share the actual tweets here.
In the meantime, it looks like the next big task is to finish up the Outsiders! The modern team is pretty much all done, so it's just a question of redoing some of the original members. This should be fun!
October 31st, 2022
Happy Halloween!
I've been going slowly recently; but I want to make sure that even if I'm putting up SMALL updates, I'm still putting them up. I continued with the Justice League Villains, and this time finished Kanjar Ro and Queen Bee. I wanted to get Eclipso up also, but after re-reading a bunch of his appearances, including the Keith Giffen 90s series, I feel like I really want to take another pass at his story before I put it up, so I'm going to table him for now and move on to what's next.
We've left this poll up for a while longer that some of our previous ones, and it actually was VERY close, but it looks like we finally are going to work on our Surpise Team. I hope I haven't built this one up too much, but I'm pretty excited for it!
I've been going slowly recently; but I want to make sure that even if I'm putting up SMALL updates, I'm still putting them up. I continued with the Justice League Villains, and this time finished Kanjar Ro and Queen Bee. I wanted to get Eclipso up also, but after re-reading a bunch of his appearances, including the Keith Giffen 90s series, I feel like I really want to take another pass at his story before I put it up, so I'm going to table him for now and move on to what's next.
We've left this poll up for a while longer that some of our previous ones, and it actually was VERY close, but it looks like we finally are going to work on our Surpise Team. I hope I haven't built this one up too much, but I'm pretty excited for it!
October 25th, 2022
The update schedule for the last few weeks has gotten weird.
This past week was my anniversary, so I just didn't spend a lot of time sitting at my laptop. The two quick additions i wanted to do before I got the the League baddies actually needed wholly new timelines, and we'd actually gotten pretty creative with them... but they're up now; you can check out Jason Blood's Supporting Characters, which now include Glenda Mark & Randu Singh.
I'm going to leave the poll up for a bit while I finally get out the update that we're scheduled to do. I'll try to keep it simple so i can put up an update at the end of the week, but as we close in on the holiday season it might be a safe bet that the updates will be slightly more sporatic even as I try to keep them relatively regular.
I mean, I think I did a pretty good job of staying on top of them this year, right?
This past week was my anniversary, so I just didn't spend a lot of time sitting at my laptop. The two quick additions i wanted to do before I got the the League baddies actually needed wholly new timelines, and we'd actually gotten pretty creative with them... but they're up now; you can check out Jason Blood's Supporting Characters, which now include Glenda Mark & Randu Singh.
I'm going to leave the poll up for a bit while I finally get out the update that we're scheduled to do. I'll try to keep it simple so i can put up an update at the end of the week, but as we close in on the holiday season it might be a safe bet that the updates will be slightly more sporatic even as I try to keep them relatively regular.
I mean, I think I did a pretty good job of staying on top of them this year, right?
October 15th, 2022
I actually had more I wanted to do this week, but I accidentally hit publish in the middle of this weeks update, so rather than allowing it to be visible unfinished, I went ahead and completed what i was working on and put this update up now. I might try to get more of it together before the weekend is over.
Only two characters this week, although they will likely both represent a bit more than just updated character pages. Indigo was first; and in redoing small bits of her story, we stumbled into some changes we really wanted to see made in regard to the death & return of Donna Troy. Second was Jason Blood. In doing a little pre-rewrite research we basically realized that we were pretty lacking in stories that were actually derived from the Demon's solo comics, so we had some conversations about what we'd like to see. I'd be eager to hear about what you think of the additions to his story.
Meanwhile the blog last week was actually very close; but in the end the winner was to add more Justice League Villains. I had a little bit more i wanted to do with last week's Outsiders update, so I might try to sneak one or two of those in if I can, but otherwise it's on to the next batch of baddies!
Only two characters this week, although they will likely both represent a bit more than just updated character pages. Indigo was first; and in redoing small bits of her story, we stumbled into some changes we really wanted to see made in regard to the death & return of Donna Troy. Second was Jason Blood. In doing a little pre-rewrite research we basically realized that we were pretty lacking in stories that were actually derived from the Demon's solo comics, so we had some conversations about what we'd like to see. I'd be eager to hear about what you think of the additions to his story.
Meanwhile the blog last week was actually very close; but in the end the winner was to add more Justice League Villains. I had a little bit more i wanted to do with last week's Outsiders update, so I might try to sneak one or two of those in if I can, but otherwise it's on to the next batch of baddies!
October 6th, 2022
This was a small but VERY challenging update! As promised, we redid the pages of three Supporting Characters. Each was challenging for a different reason; Commissioner Gordon is so foundational for the Batman stories that he's really hard to try to expand on. Instead you find that the character gets better the simpler he is. Meanwhile Artemis is an artifact from a problematic but really fun era of comic history, and even though she's had some success in modern stories we really wanted to make our version stay true to her 90s origin.
And then there's Jimmy Olsen. Dear lord, are there a lot of competing ideas about Jimmy and how to do him justice. I think I might have reached out to more people to get feedback on Jimmy than I've done in a very long while, and in the end all we really had was a mountain of possible contradictory ideas. In the end I think I'm really happy with what we came up with!
There's also another change to the site that probably won't effect your reading experience that much; for a while now, the open source blog plug-in I've been using has been subject to spam comments, a lot of them with some pretty offensive language. Unlike the rest of the comments on this site which essentially send me your message for me to then put up and respond to, these were posted automatically and required a lot of time for me to go in and delete them. I'm sure there was probably a simpler solution, but i just rebuilt the whole blog in Weebly's site builder. I think I managed to reproduce most of the blog's features, the only exception being that there's no share function... but I don't think I was writing anything in there that anyone was likely to want to share anyway.
Also, I've really been enjoying the discord recently, there's been a lot of fun conversations going on. I don't want to misrepresent anything; there really aren't a lot of folks in there yet, but I'm really enjoying the folks who are, so if you'd like a fun place to come talk comics, then you can message me your email for an invite, or just email me a request right to [email protected].
In the meantime, the results of the latest poll are to continue redoing pages for the Outsiders, So next up is Indigo & Jason Blood. Indigo is actually one of the reasons I though to do this entire project in the first place, so I've been looking forward to redoing her page.
And then there's Jimmy Olsen. Dear lord, are there a lot of competing ideas about Jimmy and how to do him justice. I think I might have reached out to more people to get feedback on Jimmy than I've done in a very long while, and in the end all we really had was a mountain of possible contradictory ideas. In the end I think I'm really happy with what we came up with!
There's also another change to the site that probably won't effect your reading experience that much; for a while now, the open source blog plug-in I've been using has been subject to spam comments, a lot of them with some pretty offensive language. Unlike the rest of the comments on this site which essentially send me your message for me to then put up and respond to, these were posted automatically and required a lot of time for me to go in and delete them. I'm sure there was probably a simpler solution, but i just rebuilt the whole blog in Weebly's site builder. I think I managed to reproduce most of the blog's features, the only exception being that there's no share function... but I don't think I was writing anything in there that anyone was likely to want to share anyway.
Also, I've really been enjoying the discord recently, there's been a lot of fun conversations going on. I don't want to misrepresent anything; there really aren't a lot of folks in there yet, but I'm really enjoying the folks who are, so if you'd like a fun place to come talk comics, then you can message me your email for an invite, or just email me a request right to [email protected].
In the meantime, the results of the latest poll are to continue redoing pages for the Outsiders, So next up is Indigo & Jason Blood. Indigo is actually one of the reasons I though to do this entire project in the first place, so I've been looking forward to redoing her page.
September 30th, 2022
I just went and plowed through an extra week this time. All the characters we were adding for the Tartarus update are brand new, they're not timelines we have prepped... and for most of them we really didn't go in with a plan, we just had an idea that these characters would fill the niche we needed if we could get them working, so in every case we really did have quite a bit of work to do.
I tell you what though? I think we nailed it. So in addition to Bloodsport & Spellbinder, this time we added Cyborgirl, Scorch, & the Turtle. I really like what we've put together, I think these are cool takes on these characters, and I think the lineup we've made for Tartarus really works. They manage to all be eclectic, out-of-the-box characters who are effective in general but WAY more dangerous against the heroes they're paired with, and are more about disrupting them rather than fighting them directly, which I just think will be very cool.
So on to next week! You guys did your damndest, but there was just no way anything was going to beat the supporting characters, so it looks like we'll be redoing the pages for Commissioner Gordon, Artemis & Jimmy Olsen. Now that Tartarus is finally out of the polls, I'll need to put a new regular third option in there. We've recently come up with a new idea for a new team that we need to add to our timeline, and I think it might be fun if I don't quite tell you all who it is right yet, and see if it can actually perform in the poll that way. Let's see!
I tell you what though? I think we nailed it. So in addition to Bloodsport & Spellbinder, this time we added Cyborgirl, Scorch, & the Turtle. I really like what we've put together, I think these are cool takes on these characters, and I think the lineup we've made for Tartarus really works. They manage to all be eclectic, out-of-the-box characters who are effective in general but WAY more dangerous against the heroes they're paired with, and are more about disrupting them rather than fighting them directly, which I just think will be very cool.
So on to next week! You guys did your damndest, but there was just no way anything was going to beat the supporting characters, so it looks like we'll be redoing the pages for Commissioner Gordon, Artemis & Jimmy Olsen. Now that Tartarus is finally out of the polls, I'll need to put a new regular third option in there. We've recently come up with a new idea for a new team that we need to add to our timeline, and I think it might be fun if I don't quite tell you all who it is right yet, and see if it can actually perform in the poll that way. Let's see!
September 18th, 2022
I was moving to a new office at work this week so I didn't have a ton of time to do the new Tartarus members I wanted to do. So far we've only done Bloodsport & Spellbinder, and there are a few more I'd like to try to get done, so I'm going to take another week to see who else I can in there.
I'll leave the poll up for another week, although at this point something crazy would have to happen for the winner to not be the Redoing Supporting Characters. Maybe it's just because the characters listed there are extremely recognizeable.
I'll leave the poll up for another week, although at this point something crazy would have to happen for the winner to not be the Redoing Supporting Characters. Maybe it's just because the characters listed there are extremely recognizeable.
September 10th, 2022
This was a fun update! since in the Poll i had specifically said the GCPD, Amazons, and the Daily Planet, I decided to do one character from each; Renee Montoya, Nubia, & Perry White. There were also pages for characters in each category (Jim Gordon, Artemis, & Jimmy Olsen who DESPERATELY need their pages redone, but I just ran out of time if I wanted to get this update done by this weekend.
Wildly, the poll winner this week was FINALLY to do the Tartarus characters! I'm kind of desperate to get the lot of them done, so I'm just going to come forward now and say that I plan to finish this stack of characters before I update again. There aren't THAT many of them so it shouldn't take too long, but given that several of them don't have a timeline ready to go... well... We'll get them done.
Actually, this poses an interesting question... if it meant that I got more of the site done at a more reasonable pace, and could actually update it more reliably... would any of you be interested in a Patreon for this site? Let me know!
Wildly, the poll winner this week was FINALLY to do the Tartarus characters! I'm kind of desperate to get the lot of them done, so I'm just going to come forward now and say that I plan to finish this stack of characters before I update again. There aren't THAT many of them so it shouldn't take too long, but given that several of them don't have a timeline ready to go... well... We'll get them done.
Actually, this poses an interesting question... if it meant that I got more of the site done at a more reasonable pace, and could actually update it more reliably... would any of you be interested in a Patreon for this site? Let me know!
September 2nd, 2022
I do want to keep trying to put something up every week, but this one just took a little longer, and probably not for the reason you might think.
This post was about Justice League villains again, and as promised I started with the Royal Flush Gang. I reallty like what we did here, creating our own spin on them that is more or less original. The problem was, it was actually hard to find enough to say about them to fill all the necessary pages. They make a lot of appearances, but they really don't have a whole lot of actual content to their name. I didn't want to just fill it with nonsense, though, so I decided to take a little time and try to actually make them interesting. I do really like the story we came up with for them, though, so let us know what you think!
I did cheat a little and also do one more Justice League baddie; Prometheus. This is a character I really like, and I hope you like what we did with him.
Coming up next, for some reason the Supporting Characters absolutely dominated the poll this week, so we'll see who among the Daily Planet Staff, GCPD, or the Amazons we wind up doing!
This post was about Justice League villains again, and as promised I started with the Royal Flush Gang. I reallty like what we did here, creating our own spin on them that is more or less original. The problem was, it was actually hard to find enough to say about them to fill all the necessary pages. They make a lot of appearances, but they really don't have a whole lot of actual content to their name. I didn't want to just fill it with nonsense, though, so I decided to take a little time and try to actually make them interesting. I do really like the story we came up with for them, though, so let us know what you think!
I did cheat a little and also do one more Justice League baddie; Prometheus. This is a character I really like, and I hope you like what we did with him.
Coming up next, for some reason the Supporting Characters absolutely dominated the poll this week, so we'll see who among the Daily Planet Staff, GCPD, or the Amazons we wind up doing!
August 20th, 2022
While redoing the pages of Outsiders it became really clear that we'd severely dropped the ball by not including Thunder. She's just way more important than we'd allowed, but we'd built the timelines in such a way that we needed to do a pretty severe overhaul of not just her timeline, but the timelines of her entire family to make it happen. Still, it NEEDED to happen. Their ages are all slightly different, and the order of events have changed... so if anyone finds any errors in any of Black Lightning's families or supporting characters timelines, please let me know!
In the meantime; Thunder is done, along with her partner Grace Choi, and Outsiders field leader Jade. We'd already done Arsenal, Nightwing, and Metamorpho, so we're actually on a good pace with this team. Next up is a character that's particularly near and dear to us, Indigo. We also had a small relevation about Paula Brooks spring from a conversation on the discord server about Catwoman's costumes, which led us to give Paula a different costume, and a new name. We'd love to get your feedback on that one.
But we're not going to keep going with the Outsiders just yet, because the current poll says that next up is more Justice League Villains. I've been promising the Royal Flush Gang for a bit, so we'll probably try to start there. At some point we may need to re-organize the villians again; while organizing the heroes by their teams has generally worked, it may eventually prove that the villians are better served by being organized similarly to how we did the supporting characters. we'll see.
Let's see, what else happened this week. Oh right... this. We had nothing to do with this... no one asked us about it, it just showed up in our inbox already published. Still... it IS pretty cool to be noticed :)
In the meantime; Thunder is done, along with her partner Grace Choi, and Outsiders field leader Jade. We'd already done Arsenal, Nightwing, and Metamorpho, so we're actually on a good pace with this team. Next up is a character that's particularly near and dear to us, Indigo. We also had a small relevation about Paula Brooks spring from a conversation on the discord server about Catwoman's costumes, which led us to give Paula a different costume, and a new name. We'd love to get your feedback on that one.
But we're not going to keep going with the Outsiders just yet, because the current poll says that next up is more Justice League Villains. I've been promising the Royal Flush Gang for a bit, so we'll probably try to start there. At some point we may need to re-organize the villians again; while organizing the heroes by their teams has generally worked, it may eventually prove that the villians are better served by being organized similarly to how we did the supporting characters. we'll see.
Let's see, what else happened this week. Oh right... this. We had nothing to do with this... no one asked us about it, it just showed up in our inbox already published. Still... it IS pretty cool to be noticed :)
August 14th, 2022
For those of you that managed to draw a line from me going to a comic convention to me feeling really sick in the same week... you were right. I finally caught the Covid.
It wasn't that serious, thank god. I'm fully vaccinated and boostered. Basically the sweatiest cold I've ever had with a very rough cough, but I didn't need to go to the hospital or anything, so I'd say I was pretty lucky. I'm definitely going to be much more careful about masks going forward, though.
In the meantime, I did have a ton of time to work on the site, but I was pretty feverish for a lot of it, so I'm going to rely on you folks to go over these new pages and let me know if any of it reads particularly poorly. First of all, as promised, I went in and did some international characters; The Great Ten are now completely finished. They're not big pages, as they're really more in the timeline for flavor than for any particular story of their own, but I think our version of DC is more interesting having them. We also did some work with Big Science Action, but you'll find that over in the latest blog.
Since the bulk of the votes coming in over the last week were for more Justice League villains, I also dove in there. Because this week featured the release of the Sandman on Netflix, which is very nearly the best comic adaptation I've ever seen, I was particularly inspired to do Doctor Destiny, although I wound up completely redoing his timeline form the one we had originally prepared. The new timeline actually lead me to include another character that we'd never originally planned to use, but I really like having him here; the Jack Kirby Sandman, Garrett Sanford. I also did one more character who was simply next on the list of Justice League villains, and who happens to have a lot in common with Doctor Destiny; Floronic Man.
This means that I've actually done two of the three selections from the poll already. That means I'll be spending the next week working on updating pages of the Outsiders, which is pretty exciting. I think some of their timelines actually need to be updated a little to match with some of the small changes the larger timeline has gone through, so that should be fun. In the meantime, I'd really love to have some more conversations with you guys about what your personal head-cannons or timelines look like, so If you have ideas you'd like to share, please drop them as comments, and maybe include your email so I can send you a discord invide and we can chat about it. Stay healhy everyone!
It wasn't that serious, thank god. I'm fully vaccinated and boostered. Basically the sweatiest cold I've ever had with a very rough cough, but I didn't need to go to the hospital or anything, so I'd say I was pretty lucky. I'm definitely going to be much more careful about masks going forward, though.
In the meantime, I did have a ton of time to work on the site, but I was pretty feverish for a lot of it, so I'm going to rely on you folks to go over these new pages and let me know if any of it reads particularly poorly. First of all, as promised, I went in and did some international characters; The Great Ten are now completely finished. They're not big pages, as they're really more in the timeline for flavor than for any particular story of their own, but I think our version of DC is more interesting having them. We also did some work with Big Science Action, but you'll find that over in the latest blog.
Since the bulk of the votes coming in over the last week were for more Justice League villains, I also dove in there. Because this week featured the release of the Sandman on Netflix, which is very nearly the best comic adaptation I've ever seen, I was particularly inspired to do Doctor Destiny, although I wound up completely redoing his timeline form the one we had originally prepared. The new timeline actually lead me to include another character that we'd never originally planned to use, but I really like having him here; the Jack Kirby Sandman, Garrett Sanford. I also did one more character who was simply next on the list of Justice League villains, and who happens to have a lot in common with Doctor Destiny; Floronic Man.
This means that I've actually done two of the three selections from the poll already. That means I'll be spending the next week working on updating pages of the Outsiders, which is pretty exciting. I think some of their timelines actually need to be updated a little to match with some of the small changes the larger timeline has gone through, so that should be fun. In the meantime, I'd really love to have some more conversations with you guys about what your personal head-cannons or timelines look like, so If you have ideas you'd like to share, please drop them as comments, and maybe include your email so I can send you a discord invide and we can chat about it. Stay healhy everyone!
August 5th, 2022
Well I said I'd be finishing the Birds of Prey, and that's what I did
It was only one character, Batgirl... but it was one that deserved a lot of time, and I hope you like her new timeline. I wanted to do a few more characters, but I've been alternately at a convention or sick this week, so this is what I was able to do.
The winner of the poll this week was the International characters, so I'm going to start working on that for now. I'm still pretty sick, so I don't know if I'll get that far into them, so for now I'll just go ahead and leave the poll as it is, since I'm probably not going to get much further in the meantime.
It was only one character, Batgirl... but it was one that deserved a lot of time, and I hope you like her new timeline. I wanted to do a few more characters, but I've been alternately at a convention or sick this week, so this is what I was able to do.
The winner of the poll this week was the International characters, so I'm going to start working on that for now. I'm still pretty sick, so I don't know if I'll get that far into them, so for now I'll just go ahead and leave the poll as it is, since I'm probably not going to get much further in the meantime.
July 29th, 2022
Taking another week to do a few more Justice League villains was fun. I was trying my best to alternate between classic villains and baddies from Grant Morrison's JLA run, but in practice they actually blur together quite a bit; very few classic JLA villains WEREN'T redefined by Morrison. We did the General, Starro, and the Key.
The poll winner this week was "Finish the Birds of Prey"... but thankfully that's just one character, Stephanie Brown. I'm ASSUMING we'll be able to get that done, so if we have some more time I'll try to include some of the second-place poll entry; getting some of the characters from Tartarus & the Global Guardians added & updated.
We're off this weekend to Terrificon!
The poll winner this week was "Finish the Birds of Prey"... but thankfully that's just one character, Stephanie Brown. I'm ASSUMING we'll be able to get that done, so if we have some more time I'll try to include some of the second-place poll entry; getting some of the characters from Tartarus & the Global Guardians added & updated.
We're off this weekend to Terrificon!
July 23rd, 2022
I didn't get a ton of time this week to work on Justice League villains; we spend a few days traveling to meet some friends, so I only got the first few characters off my list; Amazo, T.O. Morrow, & Professor Ivo. Other than Amazo, I'd be the first to admit that those two mad scientists aren't quite the flashiest way to begin, so I think I'm going to spend another week on the League villians. I had a ton of great suggestions over in our discord... if you'd like to join the conversation, go ahead and send a comment with your email address so I can send you an invite.
In the meantime, I'll be going to Terrificon next weekend, a very cool comic convention at the Mohegan Sun casino in CT for my actual job, so maybe I'll see some of you there!
In the meantime, I'll be going to Terrificon next weekend, a very cool comic convention at the Mohegan Sun casino in CT for my actual job, so maybe I'll see some of you there!
July 15th, 2022
The extra week on the Birds of Prey was really fun; these are characters with really complicated histories, and I love them. I redid the Huntress, Cassandra Cain, and Zinda Blake. although we did make some changes to the latter's timeline, so she's not technically part of the Birds of Prey anymore.
I didn't get a chance to finish the Birds; (it's my wife's birthday week) but we'll get back to it, I've put off following the poll a bit too long. After two weeks, we're finally going to be going with some Justice League Villians. A lot of the characters we have lined up are taken from the Grant Morrison JLA, not all of them, but a lot. So if you have a partcular Justice League baddie you'd like to see included, let me know!
I didn't get a chance to finish the Birds; (it's my wife's birthday week) but we'll get back to it, I've put off following the poll a bit too long. After two weeks, we're finally going to be going with some Justice League Villians. A lot of the characters we have lined up are taken from the Grant Morrison JLA, not all of them, but a lot. So if you have a partcular Justice League baddie you'd like to see included, let me know!
July 8th 2022
I'm continuing to try to maintain this weekly update schedule, but sometimes that's going to mean they're a little smaller This week, since I was redoing pages of characters I REALLY care about, I went much slower. For now, you'll just see an updated Birds of Prey page, and also an update to one of my all-time favorite characters, Oracle.
I really want to do at least a LITTLE more time to work on the Birds of Prey, so I'm actually going to keep the current poll up and running, so you all have another week to help choose what we do next.
In the meantime, let me know if you'd like a discord invite!
I really want to do at least a LITTLE more time to work on the Birds of Prey, so I'm actually going to keep the current poll up and running, so you all have another week to help choose what we do next.
In the meantime, let me know if you'd like a discord invite!
June 30th 2022
Updates to the site organization are always a little tricky logistically. I'd previously tried to avoid having too many tiers of page lists so the dropdown menus don't get messy, but now that I've done it with the Villains pages and the concensus seems to be positive, it was time to do the same with the Supporting Cast Pages.
You'll see they're now organized more like that Villain pages, grouped into categories. This also let me include characters that clearly also belong elsewhere, and I think the result looks really good. One unexpected side effect was that the Solo Characters page actually makes way more sense now. It's exclusively characters that REALLY earn that title.
This required a lot litle little moves everywhere and small changes to links that go all over the sire. You guys have been amazing at spotting small mistakes, so I'm kind of counting on you to let me know if I made any errors.
Now I didn't want to go a whole weel without any new content, so I redid the page one of the most important supporting characters in DC's history; Lois Lane.
For next week, it looks like we're starting to redo the pages of the Birds of Prey. Even though it's one of the smallest teams there's a LOT to dig into for these characters, so we want to make sure we do them justice. In the meantime, let me know what you think of the latest changes, and be sure to vote in the poll below for what we work on next!
You'll see they're now organized more like that Villain pages, grouped into categories. This also let me include characters that clearly also belong elsewhere, and I think the result looks really good. One unexpected side effect was that the Solo Characters page actually makes way more sense now. It's exclusively characters that REALLY earn that title.
This required a lot litle little moves everywhere and small changes to links that go all over the sire. You guys have been amazing at spotting small mistakes, so I'm kind of counting on you to let me know if I made any errors.
Now I didn't want to go a whole weel without any new content, so I redid the page one of the most important supporting characters in DC's history; Lois Lane.
For next week, it looks like we're starting to redo the pages of the Birds of Prey. Even though it's one of the smallest teams there's a LOT to dig into for these characters, so we want to make sure we do them justice. In the meantime, let me know what you think of the latest changes, and be sure to vote in the poll below for what we work on next!
June 24th, 2022
This brief trend of trying to get updates done once a week has been wild, but so far I've been able to keep up with it!
The task this week was to do more Justice Society Villains, but in practice it actually wound up being entirely focused on Hawkman baddies; Shadow Thief, Gentleman Ghost, and Onimar Synn. Beyond that, however, we also wound up including some characters I've wanted to do forever; Khufu Kan-Tarr, Chay-Ara Thal, Ke-Dre & Hath-Set. PLEASE give me some comments on these characters and let me know what you think, these were wildly fun to make!
The thing I added as a place holder on last week's poll wound up winning HARD, so it looks like this week I'll be working to re-organize the support & solo characters on the site. I've tried something similar before, but maybe this will wind up being something a little easier to follow.
A few more folks have joined the discord in the meantime. Is there a way to easily give you all an invite to the discord and still not just openly make it available to lunatic internet? In the meantime, comment with your email for an invite!
The task this week was to do more Justice Society Villains, but in practice it actually wound up being entirely focused on Hawkman baddies; Shadow Thief, Gentleman Ghost, and Onimar Synn. Beyond that, however, we also wound up including some characters I've wanted to do forever; Khufu Kan-Tarr, Chay-Ara Thal, Ke-Dre & Hath-Set. PLEASE give me some comments on these characters and let me know what you think, these were wildly fun to make!
The thing I added as a place holder on last week's poll wound up winning HARD, so it looks like this week I'll be working to re-organize the support & solo characters on the site. I've tried something similar before, but maybe this will wind up being something a little easier to follow.
A few more folks have joined the discord in the meantime. Is there a way to easily give you all an invite to the discord and still not just openly make it available to lunatic internet? In the meantime, comment with your email for an invite!
June 17th, 2022
It seems like I've been meaning to make these changes to team lineups forever.
The Freedom Fighters changes were pretty much already completed when we redid the government organizations, and the Global Guardians really only had two changes. We kept Vixen in the Guardians but updated her so she does so while still remaining with Justice League, and we re-imagined the Creeper as something closer to his usual comic depiction, which meant taking him off the Guardians.
Tartarus saw a few more changes in an effort to rethink their membership to mirror the current Watchtower lineup. We still have more characters to add to the timeline to flesh out this team, but for now it's accurate for now.
Finally, the biggest changes were over in the Omega Men, where we've essentially supplanted their history with our other space-faring team, L.E.G.I.O.N. In doing so we've taken out a lot of extranious characters and slimmed the whole story down to something that we find much cleaner and more entertaining, using far more relevant characters.
It's wild that we're getting so many poll responses even though I'm putting up these smaller, quicker updates. The winner this time was actually to keep doing Justice Society villains. A lot of the upcoming villains are actually Hawk-centric, so we may add a new category for their villains. In fact, we're thinking about doing the same thing for the supporting characters & solo characters that we did for the villains, breaking them up by their associate main hero. What do you think? let us know!
Also come join us in the discord! (comment with your email address for an invite!)
The Freedom Fighters changes were pretty much already completed when we redid the government organizations, and the Global Guardians really only had two changes. We kept Vixen in the Guardians but updated her so she does so while still remaining with Justice League, and we re-imagined the Creeper as something closer to his usual comic depiction, which meant taking him off the Guardians.
Tartarus saw a few more changes in an effort to rethink their membership to mirror the current Watchtower lineup. We still have more characters to add to the timeline to flesh out this team, but for now it's accurate for now.
Finally, the biggest changes were over in the Omega Men, where we've essentially supplanted their history with our other space-faring team, L.E.G.I.O.N. In doing so we've taken out a lot of extranious characters and slimmed the whole story down to something that we find much cleaner and more entertaining, using far more relevant characters.
It's wild that we're getting so many poll responses even though I'm putting up these smaller, quicker updates. The winner this time was actually to keep doing Justice Society villains. A lot of the upcoming villains are actually Hawk-centric, so we may add a new category for their villains. In fact, we're thinking about doing the same thing for the supporting characters & solo characters that we did for the villains, breaking them up by their associate main hero. What do you think? let us know!
Also come join us in the discord! (comment with your email address for an invite!)
June 6th, 2022
I focused mostly on making small updates to timelines here and there. They're mostly pretty small, so I won't bother pointing them all out, but if you notice any changes... well, then you're really paying attention! Thank you!
I did do a few characters this week as well. I know Justice Society Villains was on the poll, but it got so few votes I figured no one would mind if I got a few of them out of the way. I mostly worked to flesh out the Injustice Society, where I finished Johnny Sorrow, Sportsmaster, Paula Brooks, Icicle... and a character a few people might have some real interest in, Artemis Crock.
One exciting bit of news this week is that I had a few people join me on the new discord server. It's been really fun having folks to chat with about the project, and about comics and DC in general. If you're at all interested in joining the conversation, please send me a request and your email address in a comment.
In the meantime, the winner of this poll was the team membership update, so this week I'll try to focus on moving around the lineups of the teams in question (the Global Guardians, Freedom Fighters, Omega Men & Tartarus) and not spend two much time redoing the individual characters pages in an effort to actually get them done.
I did do a few characters this week as well. I know Justice Society Villains was on the poll, but it got so few votes I figured no one would mind if I got a few of them out of the way. I mostly worked to flesh out the Injustice Society, where I finished Johnny Sorrow, Sportsmaster, Paula Brooks, Icicle... and a character a few people might have some real interest in, Artemis Crock.
One exciting bit of news this week is that I had a few people join me on the new discord server. It's been really fun having folks to chat with about the project, and about comics and DC in general. If you're at all interested in joining the conversation, please send me a request and your email address in a comment.
In the meantime, the winner of this poll was the team membership update, so this week I'll try to focus on moving around the lineups of the teams in question (the Global Guardians, Freedom Fighters, Omega Men & Tartarus) and not spend two much time redoing the individual characters pages in an effort to actually get them done.
June 3rd, 2022
it's official; the Ragnarok event is now completely purged from the history of the Justice Society. Please let me know if you find any vestigial references to it anywhere, because they SHOULD all be gone.
After the small update last week finishing the pages for Sandman & Prince Gavyn, this week we redid the Spectre, and then settled in to redo the Hawks. Hawkman & Hawkwoman, and the method we use to move them between timelines, were the subject of our most recent poll, and the overwhelming result of that poll was for Carter & Shiera to be placed in suspended animation within their weapon vault. This means we also got to add a very particular Hawkman villain, Byth, who we are also going to use in our updated version of Tartarus, so that was a very productive update!
In an effort to complete the Justice Society this week, we also implemented a few changes that are actually from the comments; We brought Traci Thirteen into the Society, and added a brand new character, Amazing Man. His timeline is actually a bit of a departure from how we usually create characters, and I really hope you guys like him.
Moving forward, now that the Society is complete, as promised, I'll be focusing on making a few changes to the timeline based on some of the comments we've recieved lately, some of which we've already done as part of this update! I have a new, quick poll below for what to do once that's done, and I've also set up a preliminary attempt at a discord server. If you'd like an invite, go ahead and ask for it in a comment (include your email address so I can send it to you). I'll be discussing ideas for including Jessica Cruz, and would love to hear your feedback.
After the small update last week finishing the pages for Sandman & Prince Gavyn, this week we redid the Spectre, and then settled in to redo the Hawks. Hawkman & Hawkwoman, and the method we use to move them between timelines, were the subject of our most recent poll, and the overwhelming result of that poll was for Carter & Shiera to be placed in suspended animation within their weapon vault. This means we also got to add a very particular Hawkman villain, Byth, who we are also going to use in our updated version of Tartarus, so that was a very productive update!
In an effort to complete the Justice Society this week, we also implemented a few changes that are actually from the comments; We brought Traci Thirteen into the Society, and added a brand new character, Amazing Man. His timeline is actually a bit of a departure from how we usually create characters, and I really hope you guys like him.
Moving forward, now that the Society is complete, as promised, I'll be focusing on making a few changes to the timeline based on some of the comments we've recieved lately, some of which we've already done as part of this update! I have a new, quick poll below for what to do once that's done, and I've also set up a preliminary attempt at a discord server. If you'd like an invite, go ahead and ask for it in a comment (include your email address so I can send it to you). I'll be discussing ideas for including Jessica Cruz, and would love to hear your feedback.
May 28th, 2022
In an effort to have this log updated a little more often, I'm going to try to celebrate tiny updates a little more often. This way maybe I won't need to step away for several weeks after each update just to recharge.
For now, I've finished Sandman and a small update to Prince Gavyn to make him fit the updated timeline. Let me know what you think :)
Also, I'm toying with creating a Discord Server. It's a little new to me, but I see so many interesting ideas fomr people here that I'd love to find a way to have a more immediate way to talk to you about it.
For now, I've finished Sandman and a small update to Prince Gavyn to make him fit the updated timeline. Let me know what you think :)
Also, I'm toying with creating a Discord Server. It's a little new to me, but I see so many interesting ideas fomr people here that I'd love to find a way to have a more immediate way to talk to you about it.
May 5th, 2022
I finally managed to squeeze in the villain characters I've been trying to add foreverl Despero & Kobra. I think you'll really like them, please let me know!
Beyond that, I've continued to work on redoing the Golden Age Justice Society. I'm not going to link you to the team page just yet, because I'm still in the middle of redoing it and it's kind of a mess at the moment, but I've done the characters Jay Garrick, Al Pratt, Hourman, & Wildcat. I redid their timelines quite a bit, so please let me know if you like them. Bringing Jay Garrick into the modern timeline meant adding a few new supporting characters for him, namely his wife and one of the earliest archetypes for a superhero love interest, Joan Garrick, and the very obscure Flash villain The Rival.
Yet again, we got quite a few compelling comments, some of which we're clearly going to want to implement right away, and some of which actually look like they might spur a little debate. swing by if you've commented lately, we might have replied!
As for the latest poll results, it looks like people really want to see me start to put some of the reader feedback in motion. That is actually going to need to sit on the backburner for a bit, becuase I don't think I can leave the Golden Age Justice Society unfinished; I'm going to need to buckle down and finish rebuilding their timeline before I can move on. Because of that, the poll I'm putting up is actually not about what to do next with the site. Instead, this is going to be something of a first; I'm going to open up a story choice to everyone.
We've established the events that have pulled Alan Scott and Jay Garrick into the modern timeline, but we still need to do Hawkman and Hawkwoman. I have a few ideas about the right way to do it, but I'd love to get some feedback from you guys, so please let me know what you think is the best method, or let me know your own!
Beyond that, I've continued to work on redoing the Golden Age Justice Society. I'm not going to link you to the team page just yet, because I'm still in the middle of redoing it and it's kind of a mess at the moment, but I've done the characters Jay Garrick, Al Pratt, Hourman, & Wildcat. I redid their timelines quite a bit, so please let me know if you like them. Bringing Jay Garrick into the modern timeline meant adding a few new supporting characters for him, namely his wife and one of the earliest archetypes for a superhero love interest, Joan Garrick, and the very obscure Flash villain The Rival.
Yet again, we got quite a few compelling comments, some of which we're clearly going to want to implement right away, and some of which actually look like they might spur a little debate. swing by if you've commented lately, we might have replied!
As for the latest poll results, it looks like people really want to see me start to put some of the reader feedback in motion. That is actually going to need to sit on the backburner for a bit, becuase I don't think I can leave the Golden Age Justice Society unfinished; I'm going to need to buckle down and finish rebuilding their timeline before I can move on. Because of that, the poll I'm putting up is actually not about what to do next with the site. Instead, this is going to be something of a first; I'm going to open up a story choice to everyone.
We've established the events that have pulled Alan Scott and Jay Garrick into the modern timeline, but we still need to do Hawkman and Hawkwoman. I have a few ideas about the right way to do it, but I'd love to get some feedback from you guys, so please let me know what you think is the best method, or let me know your own!
March, 19th, 2022
Nothing in the world slows me down like having to do a bunch of rewriting on a group of character's timelines at once.
While the plan here was to dig into some long-awaited badguys that I've been meaning to add to the site forever, I hit a brick wall when I started in on the Brotherhood of Evil. Their timeline is obviously tied to the Doom Patrol... and I had done some pretty big shifts to THEIR timeline to accomidate some changes I'd done to Beast Boy. There's not really that many of them... The Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, Phobia & Warp.. but I had to take them all apart and put them back together before i could finish this update. It took me so long that I really had to cut the update short... I'd planned on including Despero and starting in on members of the Injustice Society, but I really wanted to get the site updated, for some pretty interesting reasons.
I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I've been getting a ton of comments that i really felt compelled to act on. People are giving me long, considerate feedback, and a lot of it is going into my notes for changes to do in the future. Even if you don't usually do so, you might want to swing over and check out the Comment Log, because people have had some really good ideas lately.
One of them was actually to do a small update in the drop down menus used for site navigation. I've added a few new sub-lists in there, and while it does clean the main menu up it adds a lot of sub-menus, and I'm not sure if im sold on it, so I'd appreciate any feedback on it you might have.
Moving forward; continuing to redo pages for the Golden Age Justice Society won the most recent poll pretty handily, so I'll be doing that.... in a minute. I've been wanting to get those last few baddies up for a while, so I'm just going to tackle a FEW of them before I dive in and work on characters like Jay Garrick, Al Pratt and Hourman.
As always thank you so much for reading, and for all your feedback!
While the plan here was to dig into some long-awaited badguys that I've been meaning to add to the site forever, I hit a brick wall when I started in on the Brotherhood of Evil. Their timeline is obviously tied to the Doom Patrol... and I had done some pretty big shifts to THEIR timeline to accomidate some changes I'd done to Beast Boy. There's not really that many of them... The Brain, Monsieur Mallah, Madame Rouge, Phobia & Warp.. but I had to take them all apart and put them back together before i could finish this update. It took me so long that I really had to cut the update short... I'd planned on including Despero and starting in on members of the Injustice Society, but I really wanted to get the site updated, for some pretty interesting reasons.
I don't know what happened, but all of a sudden I've been getting a ton of comments that i really felt compelled to act on. People are giving me long, considerate feedback, and a lot of it is going into my notes for changes to do in the future. Even if you don't usually do so, you might want to swing over and check out the Comment Log, because people have had some really good ideas lately.
One of them was actually to do a small update in the drop down menus used for site navigation. I've added a few new sub-lists in there, and while it does clean the main menu up it adds a lot of sub-menus, and I'm not sure if im sold on it, so I'd appreciate any feedback on it you might have.
Moving forward; continuing to redo pages for the Golden Age Justice Society won the most recent poll pretty handily, so I'll be doing that.... in a minute. I've been wanting to get those last few baddies up for a while, so I'm just going to tackle a FEW of them before I dive in and work on characters like Jay Garrick, Al Pratt and Hourman.
As always thank you so much for reading, and for all your feedback!
January 22nd, 2022
Updates go WAY faster when you're not trying to add 30 characters at once.
As promised, we continued to update existing pages for the Justice Society. This meant doing the two youngest members of the modern day Society; Blue Beetle & Steel. they're both fun, but Blue Beetle in particular was a blast, because i actually got to reread his classic 2008 series in it's entirety, and while I knew that book was good, I'd forgotten just HOW good it is. Practically every issue is a banger.
That wraps up the modern Society, which means I'm moving on to the classic Golden Age society members. For this update, that's Doctor Fate, Alan Scott, and Hippolyta. Of the three, Hippolyta has the most new content because since I wrote the original version of her page I've actually read the complete run of classic Wonder Woman issues, and I had a lot to say about it.
The biggest actual timeline changes, however, happened with Alan Scott. We're going to be completely removing the Ragnarok event from our story; it's always felt cumbersome and unweildy, and given that we really only need four of those characters to transition to the modern timeline it just makes more sense to tackle each character's situation individually. In Alan's case, we built a story involving the obscure Hal Jordan villain Evil Star and an actual team-up with Abin Sur. It's very different from what we had previously, but we think it feels much more organic now. We'd honestly love some feedback... if you have any reaction to it, positive or negative, please let us know.
With a much shorter turn-around on updates this time there were less votes, but that actually made the winner much clearer; next up will be more villains from the to-do list. We'll be doing Despero, the Brotherhood of Evil, and several members of the Injustice Society. Let me know what you'd like to see next time!
As promised, we continued to update existing pages for the Justice Society. This meant doing the two youngest members of the modern day Society; Blue Beetle & Steel. they're both fun, but Blue Beetle in particular was a blast, because i actually got to reread his classic 2008 series in it's entirety, and while I knew that book was good, I'd forgotten just HOW good it is. Practically every issue is a banger.
That wraps up the modern Society, which means I'm moving on to the classic Golden Age society members. For this update, that's Doctor Fate, Alan Scott, and Hippolyta. Of the three, Hippolyta has the most new content because since I wrote the original version of her page I've actually read the complete run of classic Wonder Woman issues, and I had a lot to say about it.
The biggest actual timeline changes, however, happened with Alan Scott. We're going to be completely removing the Ragnarok event from our story; it's always felt cumbersome and unweildy, and given that we really only need four of those characters to transition to the modern timeline it just makes more sense to tackle each character's situation individually. In Alan's case, we built a story involving the obscure Hal Jordan villain Evil Star and an actual team-up with Abin Sur. It's very different from what we had previously, but we think it feels much more organic now. We'd honestly love some feedback... if you have any reaction to it, positive or negative, please let us know.
With a much shorter turn-around on updates this time there were less votes, but that actually made the winner much clearer; next up will be more villains from the to-do list. We'll be doing Despero, the Brotherhood of Evil, and several members of the Injustice Society. Let me know what you'd like to see next time!
January 9th, 2022
I've just spent two months building out our version of the Green Lantern Corp. What a great time. I reread tons of classic Green Lantern comics to make sure I got the issue references right, and in the process wound up completing several series collections I didn't realize I hadn't completed. It's such a huge list of characters with such a huge history, It basically meant I got to spend months deep diving into a very particular corner of the DC universe. It was a fun exercise, and I really recommend you try it.
So what characters have been added? I started with characters I would consider major parts of the story, Killowog, Tomar Re, Katma Tui, Arisia Rrab, Ch'p, Mogo, Salaak, Soranik Natu... and of course Sinestro & Abin Sur.
Then came the real meat of the job; going through the dozens of other Green Lanterns and finding the ones that either needed to be included in our timeline because of their own merit, or could be used in clever ways to build up our story. This obviously isn't an exaustive list of all 3600 Lanterns (or 7200, once they go to two lanterns per sector), but it's the characters that we wanted to name and include; Galius Zed, Medphyll, Chaselon, Stel, Larvox, K'ryssma, Apros, Shilandra Thane, Boodikka, G'nort, Laira, Brik, Rot Lop Fan, Arkkis Chummuck, Graf Toren, Penn Maric, Hannu, Saarek, Princess Iolande, Adara, & Prohl Gosgotha.
I'm not going to do a blog post of Green Lantern characters I didn't include, because that would be insane, but I'd love to hear if you guys have any favorite Green Lanterns that we left out, and what it is about their design or story that you like... maybe we can work out a way to include them down the road.
In addition to adding all these characters stories, we also made a few changes to the structure of the timeline we had in place. They mostly had to do with Arisia, who was in the timeline previously as a member of our Omega Men. We've updated her story in a way we're really proud of. Now, instead of Arisia, the Omega Men will be joined by fameously round Green Lantern, Galius Zed. We also have several more updates to do with the Omega Men; We're basically going to rebuild the team's history and membership completely.
But WHEN are we going to do that? I was tempted to do that whole rebuild before publishing this update, but it's been a while since the last time I posted, and I wanted to share what we've done so far. In the meantime, The latest poll wasn't close at all, it looks like everyone wants us to keep updating Justice Society characters, so that's where I'll go next, to work on pages for Blue Beetle, Steel, Doctor Fate, Alan Scott & Hippolyta. Please let me know where you'd like me to go from there!
So what characters have been added? I started with characters I would consider major parts of the story, Killowog, Tomar Re, Katma Tui, Arisia Rrab, Ch'p, Mogo, Salaak, Soranik Natu... and of course Sinestro & Abin Sur.
Then came the real meat of the job; going through the dozens of other Green Lanterns and finding the ones that either needed to be included in our timeline because of their own merit, or could be used in clever ways to build up our story. This obviously isn't an exaustive list of all 3600 Lanterns (or 7200, once they go to two lanterns per sector), but it's the characters that we wanted to name and include; Galius Zed, Medphyll, Chaselon, Stel, Larvox, K'ryssma, Apros, Shilandra Thane, Boodikka, G'nort, Laira, Brik, Rot Lop Fan, Arkkis Chummuck, Graf Toren, Penn Maric, Hannu, Saarek, Princess Iolande, Adara, & Prohl Gosgotha.
I'm not going to do a blog post of Green Lantern characters I didn't include, because that would be insane, but I'd love to hear if you guys have any favorite Green Lanterns that we left out, and what it is about their design or story that you like... maybe we can work out a way to include them down the road.
In addition to adding all these characters stories, we also made a few changes to the structure of the timeline we had in place. They mostly had to do with Arisia, who was in the timeline previously as a member of our Omega Men. We've updated her story in a way we're really proud of. Now, instead of Arisia, the Omega Men will be joined by fameously round Green Lantern, Galius Zed. We also have several more updates to do with the Omega Men; We're basically going to rebuild the team's history and membership completely.
But WHEN are we going to do that? I was tempted to do that whole rebuild before publishing this update, but it's been a while since the last time I posted, and I wanted to share what we've done so far. In the meantime, The latest poll wasn't close at all, it looks like everyone wants us to keep updating Justice Society characters, so that's where I'll go next, to work on pages for Blue Beetle, Steel, Doctor Fate, Alan Scott & Hippolyta. Please let me know where you'd like me to go from there!
October 30th, 2021
That was a really fun update! I wasn't really adding new content, I was refining what was already there. In this case, we updated the timeline and membership of the Freedom Fighters. The big change we made was in rethinking the relationships between all the various goverment organizations at play; Checkmate, the DEO... and we also created Argus, which actually wound up being a lynchpin in the creation of several teams we already had in place; Team 7, the Suicide Squad, and yes... the Freedom Fighters. You can take a look at their various timelines to see the updates, but we've also made several small changes to who's on what team.
We also wound up removing several characters... You can check the blog post I did about them. As for additions, we added two characters; Commander Steel and Doctor Cyber. One actually does a ton of stuff to build up our existing stories, and one is just, I think, a really cool reimagination of a very particular little window of DC's story.
The poll from last week had even more replies, and the results were pretty close again... It actually could have gone in any direction depending on when we called it. As of today, however, the result is to add characters from the to-do list. That means the next time we update, you'll see a whole bunch of Green Lanterns! This'll be fun.
Here's the poll for next time... thank you folks so much for participating! Having you all give me some direction in what part of the project to tackle next has really given my favorite hobby a whole new level of enjoyment. I can't wait to see where you send me next!
We also wound up removing several characters... You can check the blog post I did about them. As for additions, we added two characters; Commander Steel and Doctor Cyber. One actually does a ton of stuff to build up our existing stories, and one is just, I think, a really cool reimagination of a very particular little window of DC's story.
The poll from last week had even more replies, and the results were pretty close again... It actually could have gone in any direction depending on when we called it. As of today, however, the result is to add characters from the to-do list. That means the next time we update, you'll see a whole bunch of Green Lanterns! This'll be fun.
Here's the poll for next time... thank you folks so much for participating! Having you all give me some direction in what part of the project to tackle next has really given my favorite hobby a whole new level of enjoyment. I can't wait to see where you send me next!
September 28th, 2021
I really like responding to the "what to work on next" polls; It's fun to have a set guideline for what's expected next. This time that meant the first five characterers from the Justice Society; Power Girl, Mister Terrific, Doctor Midnite, Stargirl, & Atom-Smasher. Among that group there's actually quite a few supporting characters that I could have branched off and done, but I wanted to finish the group the way I said I would.
As for the most recent poll; There was actually a tie between continuing to redo pages of the Justice Society, and working on my list of necessary timeline updates. Since I JUST finished adding Society characters, I'll go ahead and do the timeline changes next.
I'll put the poll up again, but I'm going to make a few changes to it in the meantime. I'll make a point of not adding whatever I'm currently working on (in this case, the timeline updates), and I'm going to change which characters I'm offering to add off the to-do list. Clearly, no one is really anxious to see me add the Brotherhood of Evil (which honestly just tells me that there's not enough classic Doom Patrol fans following us), so I'll mix it up and see if some other characters draw some interest.
Also, I'm going to add a different third option; the supporting cast of the Justice Society characters I just added.
As for the most recent poll; There was actually a tie between continuing to redo pages of the Justice Society, and working on my list of necessary timeline updates. Since I JUST finished adding Society characters, I'll go ahead and do the timeline changes next.
I'll put the poll up again, but I'm going to make a few changes to it in the meantime. I'll make a point of not adding whatever I'm currently working on (in this case, the timeline updates), and I'm going to change which characters I'm offering to add off the to-do list. Clearly, no one is really anxious to see me add the Brotherhood of Evil (which honestly just tells me that there's not enough classic Doom Patrol fans following us), so I'll mix it up and see if some other characters draw some interest.
Also, I'm going to add a different third option; the supporting cast of the Justice Society characters I just added.
August 24th, 2021
That was actually a really great new way to approach a new batch of updates! Just as promised, I added more characrers from the to-do list; Lady Vic, Solomon Grundy, the Ultra-Humanite, Mordru, and... holy crap, the longest timeline we've ever done, Vandal Savage. Setting a goal in advance really helped. We love getting feedback on these, so if you've got observations, let's hear them!
When we listed the characters we were going to we included Malovar, a name of one of the Gorillas from Gorilla City. It was our plan to have Malovar actually be the son of Grodd, because in Devon Grayson's Titans series when she introduced the team Tartarus, it's membership was designed to mirror the lineup of the Titans, and theyt included Grodd as the counterpart to Wally West. We're doing something similar with our version of Tartarus, but using Grodd seemed like an over-extension... and he's currently occupied with the Legion of Doom. At the time, the plan was to use this son-of-Grodd version of Malovar as his stand-in... but in the end that just didn't quite work. We'll need a different Flash villain for the job.
I've also done a little change with the Comment Log... I've moved all of the current log to the "Comment Archive", so the log now contains nothing but new comments. It gave me room to put a huge number of comments I've been meaning to add, so if you've commented and I haven't posted it, take a look!
I really liked having the poll for what to do next! It had a much bigger turnout than I've ever had on anything before, which makes me think this is something we should keep doing. In this case, the option with the most replies was to continue to rewriting & reformatting pages, which mean the next thing we're going to do is update pages for Power Girl, Mister Fantastic, Doctor Mid-nite, Stargirl & Atom-Smasher.
It's entirely possible that the reason that option got picked the most because it was the top option, so as an experiment , here's the same poll with the options moved around, let's see what people want me to do next:
When we listed the characters we were going to we included Malovar, a name of one of the Gorillas from Gorilla City. It was our plan to have Malovar actually be the son of Grodd, because in Devon Grayson's Titans series when she introduced the team Tartarus, it's membership was designed to mirror the lineup of the Titans, and theyt included Grodd as the counterpart to Wally West. We're doing something similar with our version of Tartarus, but using Grodd seemed like an over-extension... and he's currently occupied with the Legion of Doom. At the time, the plan was to use this son-of-Grodd version of Malovar as his stand-in... but in the end that just didn't quite work. We'll need a different Flash villain for the job.
I've also done a little change with the Comment Log... I've moved all of the current log to the "Comment Archive", so the log now contains nothing but new comments. It gave me room to put a huge number of comments I've been meaning to add, so if you've commented and I haven't posted it, take a look!
I really liked having the poll for what to do next! It had a much bigger turnout than I've ever had on anything before, which makes me think this is something we should keep doing. In this case, the option with the most replies was to continue to rewriting & reformatting pages, which mean the next thing we're going to do is update pages for Power Girl, Mister Fantastic, Doctor Mid-nite, Stargirl & Atom-Smasher.
It's entirely possible that the reason that option got picked the most because it was the top option, so as an experiment , here's the same poll with the options moved around, let's see what people want me to do next:
August 1st, 2021
Just a few more additions to the timeline, I've added two more titans villains; Brother Blood & Blackfire. Adding Blackfire actually made me aware of the fact that Deacon Blackfire, the Batman villian, was kind of redundant name-wise, and was infact not really a character that was adding anything, so I took him off the timeline.
I'm going to keep going with some more villains for a bit, but the reason I went ahead and posted an update is because I actually wanted to try something; I've asked you guys what direction I should go in before, but it finally occured to me that I've never actually done so while saying what character updates that would include.
So here's a new reader poll. I'm going to add some more characters of my to do list for a bit... for now that looks like Lady Vic, Vandal Savage, Malovar, Mordru, the Ultra-Humanite, & Solomon Grundy. once I have that done I'm going to go in one of two directions. Let me know which one you'd rather see.
I'm going to keep going with some more villains for a bit, but the reason I went ahead and posted an update is because I actually wanted to try something; I've asked you guys what direction I should go in before, but it finally occured to me that I've never actually done so while saying what character updates that would include.
So here's a new reader poll. I'm going to add some more characters of my to do list for a bit... for now that looks like Lady Vic, Vandal Savage, Malovar, Mordru, the Ultra-Humanite, & Solomon Grundy. once I have that done I'm going to go in one of two directions. Let me know which one you'd rather see.
July 17th, 2021
we have some fun new content for you guys... after our last blog post, we leaned in to finish our version of the Marvel Family, which meant doing Mary Marvel, Freddy Marvel, and Uncle Dudley... but in filling out their timelines, we also went ahead and updated Captain Marvel, Doctor Sivana, & Sabbac but also got to add a few new characters. Sivana's kids Magnificus, Thaddeus Jr, and Georgia... but also beloved weirdo Marvel character, Mister Mind. They're all pretty brief timelines, but I think the roles we carved out for these characters all do a great job of enhancing Captain Marvel's story within the larger DC timeline.
I'd love to know what you guys think specifically about this new content, so I'm actually going to put a comment field right here in the update log.
I'd love to know what you guys think specifically about this new content, so I'm actually going to put a comment field right here in the update log.
April 30th, 2021
The Future Titans have all been updated, and onew new suprise character has been added. We did Amethyst (and her mom, Amy Winston), Offspring, Aquagirl.... and added Sprout, a pretty drastic redesign of Tefé Holland, the daughter of Swamp Thing.
I actually really liked how, with both Amethyst and Longshadow, I stopped and did all the characters related TO them. It might be a fun way to carry on, and when i got to Sprout, I really considered doing it again. The only character I have related to her currently is Swamp Thing, and that'll be a pretty hefty page redesign, but there are a ton of other characters waiting in the wings to be added that also would have been included in a full sweep of Swamp Thing characters; Abby Arcane, Anton Arcane, Agent Cable, the Patchwork Man, the Fluronic Man... and I would also consider redoing all the Black Orchid characters since I've been considering tying them more directly into the Swamp Thing mythology. Would that be a more satisfying way for me to continue?
We also popped over to the list of small changes we've been meaning to implement, and included a character that we'd previously written out; Queen Clea. let us know if you like this new take on her!
In any case, this is the Titans now finally completely updated, so next up is the Justice Society.
I actually really liked how, with both Amethyst and Longshadow, I stopped and did all the characters related TO them. It might be a fun way to carry on, and when i got to Sprout, I really considered doing it again. The only character I have related to her currently is Swamp Thing, and that'll be a pretty hefty page redesign, but there are a ton of other characters waiting in the wings to be added that also would have been included in a full sweep of Swamp Thing characters; Abby Arcane, Anton Arcane, Agent Cable, the Patchwork Man, the Fluronic Man... and I would also consider redoing all the Black Orchid characters since I've been considering tying them more directly into the Swamp Thing mythology. Would that be a more satisfying way for me to continue?
We also popped over to the list of small changes we've been meaning to implement, and included a character that we'd previously written out; Queen Clea. let us know if you like this new take on her!
In any case, this is the Titans now finally completely updated, so next up is the Justice Society.
April 8th, 2021
SO we kinda fell into a rabbit hole there.
I've been working on the future Teen Titans... I finished Robin's page first, since he's the core of that group, and was moving a good pace. I went on to redo Longshadow... and wound up completely rethinking his legacy with Super-Chief, which led to me going back and reading ever appearance of the character, and to actually recreating the him for our timeline as two different characters; Saganowahna, who is pretty much a one-for-one recreation of the original, and Super-Chief, a new take on the character set in a new era. Longshadow has also always had an intreraction with Manitou Raven in our timeline, but we've been meaning to make some changes to him and to his wife Dawn; so we really needed to do a lot of work to update their timelines and rethink their roles in our story. This, again, involved going and reading every appearance of both characters.
So, technically we barely moved and only did two new characters, but we wound up doing some huge redesigns that, if you ask me, really evolve those characters. We'll keep going with with the future Titans, but we wanted to stop and publish an update with so much new content.
I've been working on the future Teen Titans... I finished Robin's page first, since he's the core of that group, and was moving a good pace. I went on to redo Longshadow... and wound up completely rethinking his legacy with Super-Chief, which led to me going back and reading ever appearance of the character, and to actually recreating the him for our timeline as two different characters; Saganowahna, who is pretty much a one-for-one recreation of the original, and Super-Chief, a new take on the character set in a new era. Longshadow has also always had an intreraction with Manitou Raven in our timeline, but we've been meaning to make some changes to him and to his wife Dawn; so we really needed to do a lot of work to update their timelines and rethink their roles in our story. This, again, involved going and reading every appearance of both characters.
So, technically we barely moved and only did two new characters, but we wound up doing some huge redesigns that, if you ask me, really evolve those characters. We'll keep going with with the future Titans, but we wanted to stop and publish an update with so much new content.
March 16th, 2021
Ok, given how much work was involved in that, I think I did a really good job!
Creating a page for the Teen Titans West meant we had to redo the original Teen Titans page, and move all those characters off of it. This meant that a lot of links elsewhere on the site were now wrong, so that all had to be updated. (if you find a broken link anywhere, or just any sort of inconsistency, please let me know) We also redid the actual timelines for all these characters, since we wanted the Titans West to operate for longer. That, and we just needed to do more with everyone.
So; the Titans West. You now have updated pages for Flamebird, Herald, Bumblebee, and Kid Devil, as well as a brand new page for Lilith. Argent's page was already updated, so she really just needed a small change to her timeline. I am VERY happy with the updates; I think all these characters work way better now. The biggest specific change, though, was to Hawk & Dove. originally this was just one page rather than two, and the two brothers both died in the Qurac Bombing. Now Hank survives, and we've added Dawn Granger, the new Dove. Admittedly, I've never been a huge Hawk & Dove fan, but after going out and reading their comics for this update, I wound up with a lot to say about them, and did a new Blog Post about them.
The new comment system seems to be working pretty well. I updated the Comment Log page... if you've ever commented here and never seen me post your comment, check again, maybe it's up now. If it's not, maybe I haven't gotten to it... or maybe you talked about the other Lantern Corps. Stop doing that.
Next up I'm closing in on finishing all the Titans; I don't think I ever did Beast Boy, for some reason, so obviously he's next. After that, however... the only characters under the Titans banner are all the young characters who will someday be a new Titans team but, within our timeline, haven't met yet.
I'm actually vaguely thinking about a new way to organize the character dropdown, as the current organizational style feels like it might be getting a little sloppy. The last time I changed it it wound up being a herculean task, so I'm still on the fence. Maybe I should throw up another poll, and see what you all think?
Creating a page for the Teen Titans West meant we had to redo the original Teen Titans page, and move all those characters off of it. This meant that a lot of links elsewhere on the site were now wrong, so that all had to be updated. (if you find a broken link anywhere, or just any sort of inconsistency, please let me know) We also redid the actual timelines for all these characters, since we wanted the Titans West to operate for longer. That, and we just needed to do more with everyone.
So; the Titans West. You now have updated pages for Flamebird, Herald, Bumblebee, and Kid Devil, as well as a brand new page for Lilith. Argent's page was already updated, so she really just needed a small change to her timeline. I am VERY happy with the updates; I think all these characters work way better now. The biggest specific change, though, was to Hawk & Dove. originally this was just one page rather than two, and the two brothers both died in the Qurac Bombing. Now Hank survives, and we've added Dawn Granger, the new Dove. Admittedly, I've never been a huge Hawk & Dove fan, but after going out and reading their comics for this update, I wound up with a lot to say about them, and did a new Blog Post about them.
The new comment system seems to be working pretty well. I updated the Comment Log page... if you've ever commented here and never seen me post your comment, check again, maybe it's up now. If it's not, maybe I haven't gotten to it... or maybe you talked about the other Lantern Corps. Stop doing that.
Next up I'm closing in on finishing all the Titans; I don't think I ever did Beast Boy, for some reason, so obviously he's next. After that, however... the only characters under the Titans banner are all the young characters who will someday be a new Titans team but, within our timeline, haven't met yet.
I'm actually vaguely thinking about a new way to organize the character dropdown, as the current organizational style feels like it might be getting a little sloppy. The last time I changed it it wound up being a herculean task, so I'm still on the fence. Maybe I should throw up another poll, and see what you all think?
February 28th, 2021
Okay... I think I got the bulk of it. I also hopefully repaired the bulk of the comment system, so if you find any spots in the website where I've used the wrong pronouns for Grant, please let me know!
I also finished the page for Captain Marvel villain, Sabbac. I'm a little tempted to spend a time doing Mary & Freddy Marvel, but I've been putting off diving into the Titans West Coast for a WHILE now, so I think I really do need to do that now.
I also finished the page for Captain Marvel villain, Sabbac. I'm a little tempted to spend a time doing Mary & Freddy Marvel, but I've been putting off diving into the Titans West Coast for a WHILE now, so I think I really do need to do that now.
February 24th, 2021
Kind of an emergency update here, or as close to one of those as I am likely to get. I'm actually in the middle of adding a character, which means that you're all going to see his unfinished page right now, but this is actually important enough for me to go ahead and post an update so I get this out.
I just got a comment that informed me of something I had just completely missed... I started a new job last year, and this bit of news just flew past me. Grant Morrison, a writer I reference constantly, came out as non-binary last November. I have a grand total of four reactions to this, so here they are, in the order that they hit me;
First: Good your you, Grant! They said some really interesting stuff about growing up gender-nonconforming in a time when the language to describe their experience didn't exist, and I'm just really glad that they have the opportunity now to express themselves.
Second: You know... in my lifetime I've had a pretty decent number of close friends and family that I know and love come out as gay, or trans, and it's a different experience for everyone. In almost every case, though.... you're never really SUPRISED. When it's someone you know really well, it's more like a dawning "oh!" moment, when you realize that you kind of already knew this about them, you just hadn't totally put it together? Looking at Grant's unbelievably prolific body of work, it's very easy to immediately recognize that they've been infusing their work with an undercurrent of gender non-conformity the whole time. That's really cool.
Third: The comment I received asked that I go through the website and correct the gender pronouns I use for Grant, instead using their preferred they/them. Obviously, I need to do this. As a person trying my best to support my LGBTQ friends and family, I am always finding that there are things I'm doing or saying that I could do or say better, and I am always appreciative of the opportunity to improve myself.
Fourth: Oh no.
I need to go through the WHOLE WEBSITE and look for references to Grant Morrison, and correct the pronouns I use for them. That... is going to take a WHILE. I fanboy about their work CONSTANTLY.
So... let me just quickly finish the character page that I'm currently working on so it isn't hanging out unfinished and visible for everyone, and then I'll settle in to make this change. The commenter who asked me to do this also pointed out that my entire new commenting system doesn't work (the field asking for a name actually wants an email address and doesn't seem to want to accept input unless it gets one), so since I am going to need to go page-by-page anyway, I might as well fix that at the same time.
Just as a quick update; I've recently added a few more members of the Ravens, including Gunhawk, Cinder & The Electrocutioner. I really enjoy the vibe of this little group, even though they're only really set up for one particular story. Also, in trying to collect all my comments into one place I realized I had promised one commenter that I would jump ahead and get Iris West put up, so I finally did her page. I'm actually really curious what people think of our version of her, since we're including some stories that might be unfamiliar to modern readers.
Hopefully I'll be back to doing page updates & new characters soon. Thank you again to the commenter that pointed this out to me!
I just got a comment that informed me of something I had just completely missed... I started a new job last year, and this bit of news just flew past me. Grant Morrison, a writer I reference constantly, came out as non-binary last November. I have a grand total of four reactions to this, so here they are, in the order that they hit me;
First: Good your you, Grant! They said some really interesting stuff about growing up gender-nonconforming in a time when the language to describe their experience didn't exist, and I'm just really glad that they have the opportunity now to express themselves.
Second: You know... in my lifetime I've had a pretty decent number of close friends and family that I know and love come out as gay, or trans, and it's a different experience for everyone. In almost every case, though.... you're never really SUPRISED. When it's someone you know really well, it's more like a dawning "oh!" moment, when you realize that you kind of already knew this about them, you just hadn't totally put it together? Looking at Grant's unbelievably prolific body of work, it's very easy to immediately recognize that they've been infusing their work with an undercurrent of gender non-conformity the whole time. That's really cool.
Third: The comment I received asked that I go through the website and correct the gender pronouns I use for Grant, instead using their preferred they/them. Obviously, I need to do this. As a person trying my best to support my LGBTQ friends and family, I am always finding that there are things I'm doing or saying that I could do or say better, and I am always appreciative of the opportunity to improve myself.
Fourth: Oh no.
I need to go through the WHOLE WEBSITE and look for references to Grant Morrison, and correct the pronouns I use for them. That... is going to take a WHILE. I fanboy about their work CONSTANTLY.
So... let me just quickly finish the character page that I'm currently working on so it isn't hanging out unfinished and visible for everyone, and then I'll settle in to make this change. The commenter who asked me to do this also pointed out that my entire new commenting system doesn't work (the field asking for a name actually wants an email address and doesn't seem to want to accept input unless it gets one), so since I am going to need to go page-by-page anyway, I might as well fix that at the same time.
Just as a quick update; I've recently added a few more members of the Ravens, including Gunhawk, Cinder & The Electrocutioner. I really enjoy the vibe of this little group, even though they're only really set up for one particular story. Also, in trying to collect all my comments into one place I realized I had promised one commenter that I would jump ahead and get Iris West put up, so I finally did her page. I'm actually really curious what people think of our version of her, since we're including some stories that might be unfamiliar to modern readers.
Hopefully I'll be back to doing page updates & new characters soon. Thank you again to the commenter that pointed this out to me!
February 13th, 2021
Wow. Quarantine, huh?
Obviously thats not all thats been keeping me away. I started a new job back in October, one that I really enjoy. For the first time, I was spending my working hours being really mentally engaged. My wife has always talked about needing to rest mentally after work, and for the first time, I understood what she meant. It's been several months now, and I'm only just now finding the mental fuel to return to my hobbies. Obviously, this is an amazing problem to have, and I've very lucky.
But I did find time here and there to move forward a little, and while it's not a huge update, I'm pretty proud of this one: it's two of the most important Titans; Starfire & Raven. They both needed a good amount of tweaking to their timelines; small details in their origins needed to be updated, and in the case of Raven, we actually needed to add a few new characters in her mother Arella, and her teacher Azar, as well as updates to her father, Trigon. This ultimately led to needing to update up to four character pages all at once, which always slows me down to a crawl.
In the meantime, before we start adding more new content, I really want to get the Titans fully updated. We have some major changes to make to them, because we want to alter the group we've been calling "Flamebird's Titans" into a take on the West Coast Titans, which will need a little bit of timeline correction. That's a lot of minor characters, but hopefully, because they're smaller and don't have such a vast network of connections to other characters, their pages will be easier to do.
Also it's high time I made some updates to the comment system. Rather than having peoples comments scattered all over the website, I think I need to bring them all into one location. I should also add some sort of Frequently Asked Questions section, because I swear to god, the number of essays I keep getting with people explaining, at length, why we should really consider adding the different lantern corps to our timeline is starting to get a little rediculous.
Plus, we need to add some system that will let us keep track of who is commenting what, because plenty of comments seem to want to start a conversation of some kind, and we just have no way of doing that. Sometimes I'm getting some really good ideas from comments and I have no way of giving that person credit.
(Of course, sometimes that's a good thing. I got an AMAZING note recently; pointing out that we made an error with the characters we involved in the first World War. We have American characters joining the war efforts at the start, but America was noteably uninvolved in the war until several years in. That note was so useful and will be so easy to correct, and ordinarily we'd love to thank the person who helps us out like that. In this case, however, the sheer amount of attitude dripping off this persons comment made us VERY glad we didn't have any way to thank him. "You do realize that your entire "History" regarding what DC characters did during the years 1914-1916 is absurd, right..." Ah... no, dude. Obviously we didn't. Calm down.)
Obviously thats not all thats been keeping me away. I started a new job back in October, one that I really enjoy. For the first time, I was spending my working hours being really mentally engaged. My wife has always talked about needing to rest mentally after work, and for the first time, I understood what she meant. It's been several months now, and I'm only just now finding the mental fuel to return to my hobbies. Obviously, this is an amazing problem to have, and I've very lucky.
But I did find time here and there to move forward a little, and while it's not a huge update, I'm pretty proud of this one: it's two of the most important Titans; Starfire & Raven. They both needed a good amount of tweaking to their timelines; small details in their origins needed to be updated, and in the case of Raven, we actually needed to add a few new characters in her mother Arella, and her teacher Azar, as well as updates to her father, Trigon. This ultimately led to needing to update up to four character pages all at once, which always slows me down to a crawl.
In the meantime, before we start adding more new content, I really want to get the Titans fully updated. We have some major changes to make to them, because we want to alter the group we've been calling "Flamebird's Titans" into a take on the West Coast Titans, which will need a little bit of timeline correction. That's a lot of minor characters, but hopefully, because they're smaller and don't have such a vast network of connections to other characters, their pages will be easier to do.
Also it's high time I made some updates to the comment system. Rather than having peoples comments scattered all over the website, I think I need to bring them all into one location. I should also add some sort of Frequently Asked Questions section, because I swear to god, the number of essays I keep getting with people explaining, at length, why we should really consider adding the different lantern corps to our timeline is starting to get a little rediculous.
Plus, we need to add some system that will let us keep track of who is commenting what, because plenty of comments seem to want to start a conversation of some kind, and we just have no way of doing that. Sometimes I'm getting some really good ideas from comments and I have no way of giving that person credit.
(Of course, sometimes that's a good thing. I got an AMAZING note recently; pointing out that we made an error with the characters we involved in the first World War. We have American characters joining the war efforts at the start, but America was noteably uninvolved in the war until several years in. That note was so useful and will be so easy to correct, and ordinarily we'd love to thank the person who helps us out like that. In this case, however, the sheer amount of attitude dripping off this persons comment made us VERY glad we didn't have any way to thank him. "You do realize that your entire "History" regarding what DC characters did during the years 1914-1916 is absurd, right..." Ah... no, dude. Obviously we didn't. Calm down.)
October 16th, 2020
So the winner of that particular survey was actually for us to keep going with new characters, so that's what we did. As promised, we continued with the Titan enemies. In particular, this meant doing two characters that we had to sort of reconstruct out of some vague references here and there, but the roles we've put together for these two are, we think, actually pretty cool: Damien Darhk, and The H.I.V.E. Mistress. getting a solid sense of these two characters gives H.I.V.E. a much more consistent presence in our timeline, which is good, because it's role is pretty expansive.
Then of course, it was time to do THE Titans villain: Trigon. Such a wild character. It's pretty fitting that this was the character we started out October with. From there we started in on the classic assassin characters featured in the Titans timeline; we're creating a team of potential apprentice assassins to classic Titans Villain Deathstroke, and used the name of a short-lived group of assassins from Birds if Prey called the Ravens. The first character from that group was Cheshire, who is such a hugely important character in the Titans mythology. Creating her also meant we needed to start a page for another team that we've referenced a few times; Vandal Savage's Tartatus. So when we push forward with new characters, the characters from these two new groups will be the ones we focus on.
In the meantime, however, some of these characters reference old pages that REALLY need updating. Deathstroke's page is still in the old format, and there are some events we've actually removed from the timeline that might still be referenced there. Perhaps even more frustrating, though, was the fact that Trigon's page obviously needs to heavily reference Raven, and she's STILL not rewritten. So I think I might just put a quick pause here on the new characters for a little while (I might do Copperhead first, since I already have art for him) and just go back and do the major Titans characters that haven't been updated yet. The fact that Starfire and Raven are still waiting for me to do their pages is just weird.
Oh, one last thing. the small children of the current generation of heroes will obviously be in the timeline someday, but they're WAY down the list, since most of them are still infants. Still, doing Cheshire didn't really feel complete until I gave Lian her page, so that's done too.
Then of course, it was time to do THE Titans villain: Trigon. Such a wild character. It's pretty fitting that this was the character we started out October with. From there we started in on the classic assassin characters featured in the Titans timeline; we're creating a team of potential apprentice assassins to classic Titans Villain Deathstroke, and used the name of a short-lived group of assassins from Birds if Prey called the Ravens. The first character from that group was Cheshire, who is such a hugely important character in the Titans mythology. Creating her also meant we needed to start a page for another team that we've referenced a few times; Vandal Savage's Tartatus. So when we push forward with new characters, the characters from these two new groups will be the ones we focus on.
In the meantime, however, some of these characters reference old pages that REALLY need updating. Deathstroke's page is still in the old format, and there are some events we've actually removed from the timeline that might still be referenced there. Perhaps even more frustrating, though, was the fact that Trigon's page obviously needs to heavily reference Raven, and she's STILL not rewritten. So I think I might just put a quick pause here on the new characters for a little while (I might do Copperhead first, since I already have art for him) and just go back and do the major Titans characters that haven't been updated yet. The fact that Starfire and Raven are still waiting for me to do their pages is just weird.
Oh, one last thing. the small children of the current generation of heroes will obviously be in the timeline someday, but they're WAY down the list, since most of them are still infants. Still, doing Cheshire didn't really feel complete until I gave Lian her page, so that's done too.
September 20th, 2020
We've just finished the last two characters from the Justice League that were waiting to have their pages updated; Captain Atom and Metamorpho. This means that finally... the task of redoing all these character pages are finally done. So what does that mean is next? Well, there are a few different directions we can go... and I thought it might be fun to put up another poll, so here it is:
August 22nd, 2020
That got out of hand. Back on the regular page updates, and the next character on the list was Black Lightning. We have access to a lot more resources now than we did when we started this project, so when we do pages now we can go look up series that we'd never actually read before, and in this case that meant the 2009 Black Lightning Year One miniseries by Jen Van Meter. It really opened up the story of Jefferson Pierce quite a bit, and we decided to alter his timeline to fit the story in that comic. This also meant we needed to create a few more characters. We were always planning on eventually adding Jennifer & Annissa Pierce, but now we also added his ex-wife Lynn Stewart and mentor Peter Gambi. Beyond that, we had to update his archnemesis Tobias Whale, as well as add another character original to the Year One series, Victor Swann.
That was supposed to be a single character update. What the hell, man.
That was supposed to be a single character update. What the hell, man.
August 13th, 2020
Ugh. Still more apocalypse.
PLEASE remind me, in the future, to stop trying to do whole teams of characters at once in one update? Usually I do one character, finish them, update the page, and just work until it's all done, and post a site update for the finished group. In this case, I tried to do the entire Fearsome Five (Doctor Light, Psimon, Gizmo, Shimmer, Mammoth, and then later Jinx) at once, and just BLERGH. Other than Doctor Light those characters really don't have their own stories, they're all basically just functionaries of the larger whole that is the team. Two of them, Mammoth & Shimmer, actually have THE EXACT SAME TIMELINE, because they're twins and are basically joined at the hip. Plus the team itself has ties to other groups like H.I.V.E, as well as all the heroic teams they've run up against.
Then of course, there''s Doctor Sivana, who plays a pretty big role in The Fearsome Five's story. I found his name cropping up often enough that I ultimately just had to do his page, and that was no small feat. We wanted him to have a complex history, and hopefuly we achieved that.
Also, we have a small suprise, because while the classic Gizmo exists as a member of the Fearsome Five, we're also adding a new character based on the Teen TItans take and adding him to our potential future team of Titans lead by Damian Wayne. Hopefully it feels organic... maybe check him out and tell us what you think of him?
Now that this slog is finally done, I think we're going to try our best to keep alternating between adding character pages, and redoing classic pages. Just... one at a time. because that was rough.
PLEASE remind me, in the future, to stop trying to do whole teams of characters at once in one update? Usually I do one character, finish them, update the page, and just work until it's all done, and post a site update for the finished group. In this case, I tried to do the entire Fearsome Five (Doctor Light, Psimon, Gizmo, Shimmer, Mammoth, and then later Jinx) at once, and just BLERGH. Other than Doctor Light those characters really don't have their own stories, they're all basically just functionaries of the larger whole that is the team. Two of them, Mammoth & Shimmer, actually have THE EXACT SAME TIMELINE, because they're twins and are basically joined at the hip. Plus the team itself has ties to other groups like H.I.V.E, as well as all the heroic teams they've run up against.
Then of course, there''s Doctor Sivana, who plays a pretty big role in The Fearsome Five's story. I found his name cropping up often enough that I ultimately just had to do his page, and that was no small feat. We wanted him to have a complex history, and hopefuly we achieved that.
Also, we have a small suprise, because while the classic Gizmo exists as a member of the Fearsome Five, we're also adding a new character based on the Teen TItans take and adding him to our potential future team of Titans lead by Damian Wayne. Hopefully it feels organic... maybe check him out and tell us what you think of him?
Now that this slog is finally done, I think we're going to try our best to keep alternating between adding character pages, and redoing classic pages. Just... one at a time. because that was rough.
April 15th, 2020
How's everyone enjoying the apocalypse? First of all, Shado is now up. The survey is still in place below, but as I'm sure you can tell if you just look at it, the results were pretty much always a given. I did like having it, though. Maybe I'll add more surveys like this one in the future. Meanwhile, as you can imagine, I'm spending quite a bit of time on the website, but perhaps not quite the way you'd expect.
While I was continuing to fix and update the Titans pages, I realized something about the way I was doing it: I was ticking down the characters that are listed under the team in the dropdown, but there are plenty of classic Titans that aren't there, because they're currently with other teams. Starfire is with the Omega Men, Beast Boy and Raven are with the Doom Patrol. Continuing to work this way would mean that we wouldnt do these characters until we got down to those teams. Of course, realizing that, I looked back at the other teams I'd already 'finished', and low and behold, there are a ton of characters that I'd managed to skip over.
So that's what I've been doing. In the Watchtower I had skipped Plastic Man and Tomorrow Woman, both of whom were fun to do. Meanwhile in the Justice League.... hold crap. I went back and redid pages for The Atom, Hawkman, Martin Stein, Vixen, Ice, Fire, Bloodwynd, Captain Marvel, and Robotman. I'm still not DONE, there are several more characters in the League I need to redo (and this whole process has given me a long list of changes I need to make in other places and minor characters I need to add;..
But honestly, I'm having a little quarantine fatigue setting in. Rewriting pages is, weridly, a little taxing, so I think I'm just going to switch over and go back to transposing in characters from the main list for a while. The Green Arrow villains are pretty much finished, so next up are TItans villains. We'll start with Dr. Light and the Fearsome FIve.
While I was continuing to fix and update the Titans pages, I realized something about the way I was doing it: I was ticking down the characters that are listed under the team in the dropdown, but there are plenty of classic Titans that aren't there, because they're currently with other teams. Starfire is with the Omega Men, Beast Boy and Raven are with the Doom Patrol. Continuing to work this way would mean that we wouldnt do these characters until we got down to those teams. Of course, realizing that, I looked back at the other teams I'd already 'finished', and low and behold, there are a ton of characters that I'd managed to skip over.
So that's what I've been doing. In the Watchtower I had skipped Plastic Man and Tomorrow Woman, both of whom were fun to do. Meanwhile in the Justice League.... hold crap. I went back and redid pages for The Atom, Hawkman, Martin Stein, Vixen, Ice, Fire, Bloodwynd, Captain Marvel, and Robotman. I'm still not DONE, there are several more characters in the League I need to redo (and this whole process has given me a long list of changes I need to make in other places and minor characters I need to add;..
But honestly, I'm having a little quarantine fatigue setting in. Rewriting pages is, weridly, a little taxing, so I think I'm just going to switch over and go back to transposing in characters from the main list for a while. The Green Arrow villains are pretty much finished, so next up are TItans villains. We'll start with Dr. Light and the Fearsome FIve.
March 5th, 2020
Progress is slow but ongoing. A few more Titans are up, namely Terra and Tempest. I've also done several Green Arrow baddies; Clock King, Count Vertigo, and Black Spider. Oliver doesn't really have a rogues gallery, per-se, but once we elevated Clock King to more of a city-wide crimelord archetype, the other characters started to fall into place around him in ways that were actually pretty satisfying.
Next up we still have plenty more Titans to update, and it's on to the classic Titans villains like Dr. Light, the Fearsome Five, and a certain Demon Lord. I do also want to get classic Green Arrow character Shado in here, but there's some disagreement around here as to whether we want to use the classic Mike Grell take on her (my preference), or the updated New 52 version that would allow us to wedge ANOTHER teenage sidekick into the Green Arrow brand in the form of his half-sister Emiko. The jury is still out, but if you have an opinion in the matter you can absolutely weigh in. In fact, I'll even slap a survey here, let's see what that does!
Next up we still have plenty more Titans to update, and it's on to the classic Titans villains like Dr. Light, the Fearsome Five, and a certain Demon Lord. I do also want to get classic Green Arrow character Shado in here, but there's some disagreement around here as to whether we want to use the classic Mike Grell take on her (my preference), or the updated New 52 version that would allow us to wedge ANOTHER teenage sidekick into the Green Arrow brand in the form of his half-sister Emiko. The jury is still out, but if you have an opinion in the matter you can absolutely weigh in. In fact, I'll even slap a survey here, let's see what that does!
December 2nd, 2019
So that was a few months of me needing to focus on other things, but of course I'm always messing around on here. For us, that was a few more members of the Titans: specifically Aqualad, Speedy, Miss Martian, and Argent. Also, because of all the work on Aquaman's story, I also went back and redid Atlan, the ancient sorcerer responsible for Atlantis' magic.
One big change that's happened in the past few months is that the comment boxes we've been adding to pages are actually working. I'm actually, for the first time, getting interaction from readers! It's an absolute delight. I've been doing my best to repost those comments and reply to them. Unfortunately, sometimes people seem to really want to engage in a back-and-forth exchange, and I don't really have the ability to participate with that with the way I've set this up... all I can really do is post one comment, and reply to that.
So if you've TRIED to do that... I'm sorry. I really do value your imput. If you email me, then we can really get into it :)
One big change that's happened in the past few months is that the comment boxes we've been adding to pages are actually working. I'm actually, for the first time, getting interaction from readers! It's an absolute delight. I've been doing my best to repost those comments and reply to them. Unfortunately, sometimes people seem to really want to engage in a back-and-forth exchange, and I don't really have the ability to participate with that with the way I've set this up... all I can really do is post one comment, and reply to that.
So if you've TRIED to do that... I'm sorry. I really do value your imput. If you email me, then we can really get into it :)
September 20th 2019
There have been a few small updates in the last few months. We updated both Superboy and Kid Flash, which means the big four are done. In that time, a new Young Justice comic has been released by DC, which has a bunch of cool new costume designs for the characters while also managing to completely loose itself in a slog of backstory retcon fudgery.
In the meantime, we've continued forward with adding new characters. Next up was Aquaman Villains. On the surface, that's not huge, since we already had several of them in the bag. We really only added King Shark and Siren. however, we ALSO finally got around to watching the Aquaman movie, and realized that there were some major gaps in our Aquaman backstory. To fix it, it meant we went back and altered Ocean Master, Kalandro, Thorne, and Aquaman himself, as well as adding pages for Atlanna, Tom Curry, Orvax Marius, and Arthur Curry Jr.
In the meantime, we've continued forward with adding new characters. Next up was Aquaman Villains. On the surface, that's not huge, since we already had several of them in the bag. We really only added King Shark and Siren. however, we ALSO finally got around to watching the Aquaman movie, and realized that there were some major gaps in our Aquaman backstory. To fix it, it meant we went back and altered Ocean Master, Kalandro, Thorne, and Aquaman himself, as well as adding pages for Atlanna, Tom Curry, Orvax Marius, and Arthur Curry Jr.
April 30th 2019
The Green Lantern villains are, for now anyway, finished. That means I've added The Controllers, Effigy, Legion, Doctor Polaris, and Sonar. I'm very aware of just how many of Green Lanterns foes I left out. I feel like i actually need to do a blog post about it, because there are a LOT.
In the meantime, I'm going to swing over to redoing some more classic pages, and bang out a few more members of the Teen Titans!
In the meantime, I'm going to swing over to redoing some more classic pages, and bang out a few more members of the Teen Titans!
March 30th 2019
I started into the Teen Titans, and I already find I have a lot to say about them. I've done the main page, and the first few characters Talon (who is our take on Tim Drake), and Wonder Girl. So far so good!
Meanwhile, I'm also continuing to move forward, adding new characters that haven't been on the site before. That meant I finally finished the wacky extended timeline of the Guardians of Oa, as well as the lesser-known Kyle Rayner villain, Nero. I believe I'll be sticking to new characters just for a bit, so hopefully you'll see a few more Green Lantern Villains moving forward!
Meanwhile, I'm also continuing to move forward, adding new characters that haven't been on the site before. That meant I finally finished the wacky extended timeline of the Guardians of Oa, as well as the lesser-known Kyle Rayner villain, Nero. I believe I'll be sticking to new characters just for a bit, so hopefully you'll see a few more Green Lantern Villains moving forward!
March 3rd 2019
Ok! so now every character under the Watchtower and Justice League have been redone and have had a comment section added to them! That was a lot of work, but this should be a MUCH more functional version of the site. I have a lot of updated pages elsewhere on the site that don't have a comment feature, but I'll get to them when i get to them. for now I'll keep updated my way down, which means next up is the Teen Titans.
I do of course want to keep adding new characters, but the next up is the Guardians of Oa, and that's a little daunting. maybe I just need to bite the bullet and make that one happen.
I do of course want to keep adding new characters, but the next up is the Guardians of Oa, and that's a little daunting. maybe I just need to bite the bullet and make that one happen.
February 1st, 2019
I'm continuing to update pages with the new comment section option. As of now I've redone all of the Watchtower pages, and I'm not starting to work on the Justice League pages. I'm using this as an opportunity to also just reveiew the pages for spelling and to read them for a general sense of flow, as I'm often confronted by my tendacy to just write something up and hit publish without really giving myself a chance to reread it. This is slow-going, but ultimately I hope it makes the whole thing an easier and more enjoyable read.
I'm of course also trying to continue to add new characters, which means I'm going deeper into the Green Lantern characters. So far that's meant the Manhunters, Atrocitus (which required me to go in and rethink the page of Saint Walker), The Weaponers of Qward, Fatality, and a very simplified version of Krona. Doing characters like that requires me to dig a little into the long-format version of what my DC universe IS, a story without Multiverses or Anti-Monitors... but hopefully this simplified story is easy enough for anyone to follow.
Next up we continue into the Green Lantern characters, which means next up is the actual Guardians themselves. wish me luck.
I'm of course also trying to continue to add new characters, which means I'm going deeper into the Green Lantern characters. So far that's meant the Manhunters, Atrocitus (which required me to go in and rethink the page of Saint Walker), The Weaponers of Qward, Fatality, and a very simplified version of Krona. Doing characters like that requires me to dig a little into the long-format version of what my DC universe IS, a story without Multiverses or Anti-Monitors... but hopefully this simplified story is easy enough for anyone to follow.
Next up we continue into the Green Lantern characters, which means next up is the actual Guardians themselves. wish me luck.
January 11th, 2019
Ok, this is going to be interesting. I built my own little comment system. As I update pages, I'll add a little spot for people to send in any comments, questions, or suggestions... they'll go to a dedicated email addess and I'll put them up onto the page as they come in. If they come in.
Also, just to make sure I am continuing to work forward, I added two new pages; One for Star Sapphire and one for Carol Ferris.
Also, just to make sure I am continuing to work forward, I added two new pages; One for Star Sapphire and one for Carol Ferris.
January 9th, 2019
Well this is a first; two updates in as many days. I've updated Animal Man & Congorilla to finally close out the Justice League, but I've also tried something new. I'm implementing a new comment feature on my updated pages. So far it's already on Animal Man as well as all of the Watchtower characters. I'll keep adding it as I update pages, but I would love to see if this winds up getting a little more interaction with people than the old Forum, which basically just took up space.
The next batch of updates will be the Titans, but I might spend a little while going through the Watchtower and Justice League just to update and spellcheck a little while also adding in the new comment feature. Meanwhile for new characters, we'll be continuing the Green Lantern Villains.
The next batch of updates will be the Titans, but I might spend a little while going through the Watchtower and Justice League just to update and spellcheck a little while also adding in the new comment feature. Meanwhile for new characters, we'll be continuing the Green Lantern Villains.
January 8th, 2019
Wow, I havent updated this in a long time. This is what happens when I try to do a lot of characters at once, the website sits un-updated forever while i get them all done. Diving into the Legion of Doom, I realized that we were missing something we really needed, and did a little shuffling of the timeline to create the Secret Society. This lead to an update to Giganta's page before I tackled Gorilla Grodd.
Continuing the regular page updates, I finished Inza Nelson & Obsidian, which means we're finally closing in on completeing the entire Justice League membership roster!
Moving on, now that the Flash Villians are finally complete, the next step are the Green Lantern Villains. Obviously the first step was Sinestro, but to do him properly I also wound up doing Abin Sur, which also necessitated a whole page for the Green Lantern Corp, since there are so many characters that are going to wind up there. Finally, I also added Sinestro's three lieutenants; Amon Sur, Arkillo, & Karu-Sil!
I do love doing huge blocks of characters like that, but I feel like on your end it looks like the page is sitting stagnant, so maybe it's better for me to focus on one character update at a time. Also. I've realized that the forum (which I really only kept around as a goof, no one had ever posted in it) hasn't been working for a while, so maybe I should look into some new ways for people to interact with the site? we'll see!
Continuing the regular page updates, I finished Inza Nelson & Obsidian, which means we're finally closing in on completeing the entire Justice League membership roster!
Moving on, now that the Flash Villians are finally complete, the next step are the Green Lantern Villains. Obviously the first step was Sinestro, but to do him properly I also wound up doing Abin Sur, which also necessitated a whole page for the Green Lantern Corp, since there are so many characters that are going to wind up there. Finally, I also added Sinestro's three lieutenants; Amon Sur, Arkillo, & Karu-Sil!
I do love doing huge blocks of characters like that, but I feel like on your end it looks like the page is sitting stagnant, so maybe it's better for me to focus on one character update at a time. Also. I've realized that the forum (which I really only kept around as a goof, no one had ever posted in it) hasn't been working for a while, so maybe I should look into some new ways for people to interact with the site? we'll see!
September 5th, 2018
I just wrapped up the Rogues! their page is completed, all the remaining members are now up. We finished Doctor Alchemy, Pied Piper & Girder, but also updated a whole bunch of character pages, namely Mirror Master, Sam Scudder, Magenta, & Digger Harkness. I also redid Captain Boomerang, but decided that he really needed to stay under the Suicide Squad, because Owen Mercer has never really been a Flash Villain even though he served briefly with the Rogues.
Of course, finishing the Rogues doesn't quite mean we're done with the Flash Villains just yet. There's a certain primate super-villain that needs to be finished, which is going to be a huge step toward finishing the Legion of Doom. I should be able to get him up and running before the month is over!
Of course, finishing the Rogues doesn't quite mean we're done with the Flash Villains just yet. There's a certain primate super-villain that needs to be finished, which is going to be a huge step toward finishing the Legion of Doom. I should be able to get him up and running before the month is over!
August 6th, 2018
This is a nice, hefty update. Lots of new characters, and lots of redesigned pages.
First, rather than just update one of the many versions of Starman, we decided to do them all. that means David Knight, Ted Knight, Jack Knight, Prince Gavyn, and the modern Starman Mikaal Thomas are all there. We've done some real work on some of these character, miking around backstories and costumes in a way that we think works really well, but you really have to read all of them for the new legacy to take shape.
Meanwhile, we've also continued to work on the Rogues. we're not done yet (there are a lot of them), but this month we've added the Top, Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, the Trickster, the ORIGINAL Trickster James Jesse, and the vintage Flash villain the Thinker.
First, rather than just update one of the many versions of Starman, we decided to do them all. that means David Knight, Ted Knight, Jack Knight, Prince Gavyn, and the modern Starman Mikaal Thomas are all there. We've done some real work on some of these character, miking around backstories and costumes in a way that we think works really well, but you really have to read all of them for the new legacy to take shape.
Meanwhile, we've also continued to work on the Rogues. we're not done yet (there are a lot of them), but this month we've added the Top, Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, the Trickster, the ORIGINAL Trickster James Jesse, and the vintage Flash villain the Thinker.
July, 16th, 2018
A smaller update, but an update nontheless... we've wrapped up the last of the magical-themed villains for now (there wil lbe way more down the road of course) with Felix Faust, and then started in on one of my favorite groups of baddies, the Rogues, with Captain Cold, and his sister Golden Glider. We've also redone a one of our classic pages with Green Lantern badass, Guy Gardner.
June 12th, 2018
We did a update to an existing page again... this time it's classic Justice League member Ted Kord, the second and perhaps most fameous Blue Beetle. FOr the villains this month we were focused on Wonder Woman's enemies, knocking out Doctor Psycho, Doctor Poison, Helmut Streicher, and Red Panzer. we also did Morgaine Le Fay, a classic enemy of Wonder Woman but also of many other characters across the DC's mythology. That should actually have us pretty well done with Diana's enemies, and so it's on to the crazy long list of Flash Villains.
May 3rd, 2018
It's been an interesting couple of months... We continue to redo pages with our new enhanced content... this time we did Ronnie Raymond. We also continued to create new pages for the villains; We're now thoroughly in the thick of Wonder Woman's rogue's gallery after having added Ares last time. This time it was Circe, Cheetah, the one-time replacement Cheetah Sebastian Ballesteros, and Silver Swan.
Having done Circe we realized that we had never, even in the pen and paper timelines that we are slowly using to build up the content of the site, completed a timeline for CIrce's daughter Lyta. She's still very young and doesn't really contribute much to the current timeline, but she's definitely going to effect it someday, so I decided to go ahead and give her a page. Doing this, it occurred to me that I also hadn't made a page for the Doom Patrol character Kate Goodwin evven though we had made a reference to her relationship with Cliff Steele. She's a character that can bring a lot to the story if permitted to, so I went ahead and put something together for her.
Having done Circe we realized that we had never, even in the pen and paper timelines that we are slowly using to build up the content of the site, completed a timeline for CIrce's daughter Lyta. She's still very young and doesn't really contribute much to the current timeline, but she's definitely going to effect it someday, so I decided to go ahead and give her a page. Doing this, it occurred to me that I also hadn't made a page for the Doom Patrol character Kate Goodwin evven though we had made a reference to her relationship with Cliff Steele. She's a character that can bring a lot to the story if permitted to, so I went ahead and put something together for her.
March 6th, 2018
Where are we.. okay! We redid the page for Hawkwoman, but primarily we focused on new character pages this month, now that we've had some time to rest after that tidal wave of Batman baddies. This time it's Superman Villains. We had a good number of them already in place, but there are, just like last time, quite a few to go. We started with Bruno Manheim (we started with him because his timeline ties intro some of the other organized crime characters that we already had in place), Morgan Edge (now with alien superpowers!), Blackrock, Titano, The Cyborg Superman, Doomsday, and Mongul. This is a very different world than killer clowns and rocket-penguins.
To keep from being burned out, I also actually jumped ahead a little bit and did one of Wonder Woman's biggest baddies; Ares.
To keep from being burned out, I also actually jumped ahead a little bit and did one of Wonder Woman's biggest baddies; Ares.
March 2nd, 2018
Honestly, after all that time banging out Batman villains, I just needed some time away. We're starting to build up the foundation of a Marvel Timeline, so that was a very nice break. In the meantime, we've been focusing on rewriting the Justice League members that we were ignoring while focusing on all those batman baddies. so far that means Hal Jordan, Oliver Queen, & Elongated Man.
Also, because the new Black Lightning series has been fun, I also swerved a little bit and decided to do a page for Tobias Whale.
Also, because the new Black Lightning series has been fun, I also swerved a little bit and decided to do a page for Tobias Whale.
January 18th, 2018
And we're back!
Yes, we did take a little time off over the holiday, but a big part of what's kept us away for a full month us the decision we made to just put our heads down and bang out the rest of the Batman Villains. Rather than do them one at a time we created a whole group of pages and committed to finishing them all en-mass before we posted again. This means you're looking at pages for The Ventriloquist, Killer Moth, Calendar Man, Blockbuster (both Roland and Mark Desmond flavored), Hugo Strange, Deacon Blackfire, and Rupert Thorne. Now, finally, definitvely.... I can say that the Batman vilians are finished.
For now. Finished for now. There are more, obviously... but this main batch, at least, is in the books.
Also, for whatever reason, I realized that we had never done a page for a very obscure supporting character that actually probably diserved one, so we've added General Ph'yzzon, the eventual husband of fan-favorite character Starfire. There's virtually no art for this character at all, so if anyone has better suggestions for ways to present him we're more than willing to listen to them.
Also, rereading some pages, I discovered that I really hadn't done enough prereading of a few pages before I posted them, so I did a good amount of cleanup on a lot of them. Donna Troy was practically unreadable, for some reason, so if we lost you with that one previously, it should be in much better shape now.
We haven't posted in social media for a bit thanks to the massive undertaking that was the Batman baddies, so that needs to go up. Otherwise, we've neglected page updates for pre-existing characters so we need to knock out several classic Justice Leaguers before we move on to the Superman villains. Lots more to come!
Yes, we did take a little time off over the holiday, but a big part of what's kept us away for a full month us the decision we made to just put our heads down and bang out the rest of the Batman Villains. Rather than do them one at a time we created a whole group of pages and committed to finishing them all en-mass before we posted again. This means you're looking at pages for The Ventriloquist, Killer Moth, Calendar Man, Blockbuster (both Roland and Mark Desmond flavored), Hugo Strange, Deacon Blackfire, and Rupert Thorne. Now, finally, definitvely.... I can say that the Batman vilians are finished.
For now. Finished for now. There are more, obviously... but this main batch, at least, is in the books.
Also, for whatever reason, I realized that we had never done a page for a very obscure supporting character that actually probably diserved one, so we've added General Ph'yzzon, the eventual husband of fan-favorite character Starfire. There's virtually no art for this character at all, so if anyone has better suggestions for ways to present him we're more than willing to listen to them.
Also, rereading some pages, I discovered that I really hadn't done enough prereading of a few pages before I posted them, so I did a good amount of cleanup on a lot of them. Donna Troy was practically unreadable, for some reason, so if we lost you with that one previously, it should be in much better shape now.
We haven't posted in social media for a bit thanks to the massive undertaking that was the Batman baddies, so that needs to go up. Otherwise, we've neglected page updates for pre-existing characters so we need to knock out several classic Justice Leaguers before we move on to the Superman villains. Lots more to come!
December 13th, 2017
More new stuff! The barrage of Batman baddies never ends; We've completed Firefly, Clayface, and Man-Bat. Meanwhile we've actually completed all the pages of our new Justice League with Big Barda and her husband Mister Miracle, and have moved onto some of the classic Justice Leaguers of yesteryear, starting with Barry Allen.
Meanwhile, something very interesting has happened. The actual content we're transposing onto the site has been ongoing forever: I think we started this project maybe six or seven years ago. Well... as best as I can tell... it's done. I've said this to myself before, but I was always able to find new corners of the DC pantheons of characters and stories to divert our attention.... but this time I think we've actually killed it. I was always saving the Endless for the very end, and they are officially on the books. There are plenty of characters we didn't include... maybe even more that we included. But in every case, as best as we can tell, it was an active choice to exclude those characters. Maybe we'll find more down the road, who knows, but for now... finished.
So what next? We focus on getting all that content into this website, obviously. There's a ton of work to do what with the page redesigns and bringing in new characters... If I had to I'd say we're about halfway done. Even then, there will be updates and new idea for types of content (objects like the batmobile! places like the fortress of solitude! event-specific pages the clean up the timeline! who the hell knows?)
Here's a fun fact, though. DC began it's new 52 imprint in 2011, essentially ending the classic DC universe as we knew it. This was a huge catalyst in us starting to recreate DC for ourselves. Well, it's starting to become evident that Marvel comics did the same thing in 2015 with convergence. So even though we're done with the big book of DC that is slowly making it's way onto this site, we're already asking some new questions like "how long do you think Spider-Man has actually had his powers at this point?"
Which is kind of how this whole thing started. Stay tuned :)
Meanwhile, something very interesting has happened. The actual content we're transposing onto the site has been ongoing forever: I think we started this project maybe six or seven years ago. Well... as best as I can tell... it's done. I've said this to myself before, but I was always able to find new corners of the DC pantheons of characters and stories to divert our attention.... but this time I think we've actually killed it. I was always saving the Endless for the very end, and they are officially on the books. There are plenty of characters we didn't include... maybe even more that we included. But in every case, as best as we can tell, it was an active choice to exclude those characters. Maybe we'll find more down the road, who knows, but for now... finished.
So what next? We focus on getting all that content into this website, obviously. There's a ton of work to do what with the page redesigns and bringing in new characters... If I had to I'd say we're about halfway done. Even then, there will be updates and new idea for types of content (objects like the batmobile! places like the fortress of solitude! event-specific pages the clean up the timeline! who the hell knows?)
Here's a fun fact, though. DC began it's new 52 imprint in 2011, essentially ending the classic DC universe as we knew it. This was a huge catalyst in us starting to recreate DC for ourselves. Well, it's starting to become evident that Marvel comics did the same thing in 2015 with convergence. So even though we're done with the big book of DC that is slowly making it's way onto this site, we're already asking some new questions like "how long do you think Spider-Man has actually had his powers at this point?"
Which is kind of how this whole thing started. Stay tuned :)
December 7th, 2017
Still plugging away. Dear LORD Batman's rogue's gallery is huge! Three more finished character pages: Mister Freeze, Killer Croc, and The Scarecrow. Meanwhile we're continuing to update the pages of the New Justice League; We've finished Connor Hawke as Green Arrow, Zatanna, and totally new addition to the League: Elasti-Girl.
Next up... more Batman villains. I don't even know if I'm halfway done yet... this is insane. also I'm about to dive into some of the New Gods in the Justice League, which means I'll also be adding more content to the so-far-kinda-spartan New Gods page. wish me luck!!!
Next up... more Batman villains. I don't even know if I'm halfway done yet... this is insane. also I'm about to dive into some of the New Gods in the Justice League, which means I'll also be adding more content to the so-far-kinda-spartan New Gods page. wish me luck!!!
November 28th, 2017
continuing with the Batman baddies, we've finished a few trickier ones: Victor Zsasz, Mad Hatter, and one of the biggest: Poison Ivy. We've also started in on some characters for our new Justice League... so far we've done Booster Gold and Black Canary. Both characters really needed a lot of work, so hopefully you'll enjoy the new layouts.
November 7th, 2017
The last of the characters under the Watchtower banner have been updated: Zauriel & Aztek. There are a few other characters that have been on the team, of course, but they're kept in other parts of the site, so we'll get to Big Barda and Plastic Man soon. Meanwhile, moving on down the list, the Justice League page has been redone, and I think it looks pretty good. to get it right we finally created a page for the Justice League Task Force, and updated the pages of all the characters that are going to be founding members of this offshoot team that actually looks pretty cool.
Meanwhile, for new additions to the site, we continued with the Batman Villains, and we have quite a few new additions! Black Mask, the Riddler, Cluemaster, and the Penguin... but we also added a couple of Gotham's more traditional mobsters Carmine Falcone & Sal Maroni.
Writing it all out, we actually did really good this month! Stay tunes for more!
Meanwhile, for new additions to the site, we continued with the Batman Villains, and we have quite a few new additions! Black Mask, the Riddler, Cluemaster, and the Penguin... but we also added a couple of Gotham's more traditional mobsters Carmine Falcone & Sal Maroni.
Writing it all out, we actually did really good this month! Stay tunes for more!
October 6th, 2017
September needed a lot of my time for personal reasons, but I want to get back into the saddle. I just completed the updated page for John Stewart. I discovered that I had been spelling his name wrong this entire time since the commedian spells his name Jon, and somehow I just picked that up. I should have corrected all of the incidents of misspelling, but the page is pretty big, and I might have missed some. If you find any, please let me know.
Still regaining my footing after the missed month, but I should be back in the rhythm by next week!
Still regaining my footing after the missed month, but I should be back in the rhythm by next week!
September 8th 2017
The pace I was going slowed down a little once I left the Aquaman villain territory and entered Batman's rogue's gallery, but we're still going forward. So far we've done Ra's Al Ghul and Two-Face, both pretty big characters that required a lot of updates on a lot of other character pages. Also, back in the world of existing character pages we're updating, the next in line was Orion of the New Gods. It just so happens that, over in the world of pencil and paper where I'm actually working out all these timelines before they ever show up online, I'm currently working on the larger New Gods universe. I went ahead and set up a New Gods, but for now it's all pretty spartan. This will all expand as we keep going.
August 18th, 2017
I have to say, this idea of trying to upgrade a few heroes pages AND add a bunch of new villains is a challenge, but it's awesome when we get it. This week we finished the founding members of the Watchtower by redoing Aquaman's page, and started into the team recruits by doing John Henry Irons, both of which look WAY cooler now.
As for new characters, we're not quite ready to dive into the Rogues yet, but we did do two of the most prominent Flash villains. Eobard Thawne, the original Reverse Flash, required some very deft work, creating a now-destroyed alternate timeline... and the modern Reverse Flash, Hunter Zolomon's Zoom.
We also tackled several classic Aquaman villains, Black Manta & Ocean Master, as well as a few villains that are more or less original to our project, Kalandro and Thorne. Often when we start including the badguys you can watch as the main hero's timeline fills in and gets much more exciting, but in Aquaman's case the effect was even grander. His story has a grand epic scope, and as the players start to come in the whole thing just looks bigger and more awesome. Let us know if you like it!
As for new characters, we're not quite ready to dive into the Rogues yet, but we did do two of the most prominent Flash villains. Eobard Thawne, the original Reverse Flash, required some very deft work, creating a now-destroyed alternate timeline... and the modern Reverse Flash, Hunter Zolomon's Zoom.
We also tackled several classic Aquaman villains, Black Manta & Ocean Master, as well as a few villains that are more or less original to our project, Kalandro and Thorne. Often when we start including the badguys you can watch as the main hero's timeline fills in and gets much more exciting, but in Aquaman's case the effect was even grander. His story has a grand epic scope, and as the players start to come in the whole thing just looks bigger and more awesome. Let us know if you like it!
August 9th, 2017
Oh man, what a week. We've added a hugh swath of Superman baddies; Parasite, Livewire, Toyman and Silver Banshee! That's actually most of the Superman villains we plan to use, althought we might be persuaded to add a few of his weirder and more obscure enemies down the road, a lot of them just don't really hold up as part of a larger narrative.
Meanwhile, we're continuing to update our existing pages, and this week we did a couple huge ones. Since we did Superman last week, we had to finish off the big three. That's right, Batman and Wonder Woman have both seen huge updates on their pages, and we're much happier with both of them now. As we continue to add villains, you're going to see both of their timelines swell dramatically very soon, but the page itself now reads much better. We've very satisfied with the way both pages read now.
Keep coming back, I have literally no idea where we're going next!!
Meanwhile, we're continuing to update our existing pages, and this week we did a couple huge ones. Since we did Superman last week, we had to finish off the big three. That's right, Batman and Wonder Woman have both seen huge updates on their pages, and we're much happier with both of them now. As we continue to add villains, you're going to see both of their timelines swell dramatically very soon, but the page itself now reads much better. We've very satisfied with the way both pages read now.
Keep coming back, I have literally no idea where we're going next!!
August 3rd, 2017
A small break, there, while we went on vacation, but now we're back at it, and the site has been updated with a newly re-written page for the very first DC character, Superman!
We should get to Batman and Wonder Woman, but it's been a while since we did any new characters, so maybe I'll look into getting another chunk of the Superman Villains up? Check back soon and see!
We should get to Batman and Wonder Woman, but it's been a while since we did any new characters, so maybe I'll look into getting another chunk of the Superman Villains up? Check back soon and see!
July 14th 2017
A slower week this week, but still, a weekly update achieved! This week you get classic Superman Villains, Mr Mxyzptlk and Metallo! Next, now that we've finished the updates on our new Watchtower, it's time to move on to the classic Watchtower, and that means the big 3 are next! Check back in to see our rewritten pages for Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman!
July 5th. 2017
We actually made it! two Wednesdays in a row! We set a lofty goal and reached it this time! We continue to update our earlier characters in the new format: this week we updated Hawkgirl, Martain Manhunter, and Firestorm!
Meanwhile, we continue to do update with new characters. Since we're doing villains and we've already done General Zod, it only seemed fair to do his followers Faora & Non. These guys have interesting histories in the comics, but we also got creative with their backstories. Hope you like them! Follow us on Facebook for updates!
Meanwhile, we continue to do update with new characters. Since we're doing villains and we've already done General Zod, it only seemed fair to do his followers Faora & Non. These guys have interesting histories in the comics, but we also got creative with their backstories. Hope you like them! Follow us on Facebook for updates!
June 21st, 2017
Just to keep this ball rolling, we're going to be aiming at Wednesdays moving forward as our target to update with one new page, and one rewritten page. This week, we did a classic Superman badie, Bizarro, and rewrote the page for on of the highest profile characters in DC, Cyborg. Follow us on Facebook for updates!
June 17th, 2017
Continuing this new rhythm of doing one new character from among the villains and redoing a classic page, we've added one of the new faces of DC, Harley Quinn, and redone the classic Titans bad boy, Arsenal. These were both a LOT of fun :)
June 9th, 2017
We've continued updating classic characters with the new format by doing The Flash, but we've also updated our first team page, the Watchtower. A lot of the team pages were never actually finished on the first pass out of sheer impatience, so this is going to be good for us.
In the meanwhile, we've also continued our new push into the world of villains by doing one of the most noteworthy bad guys not just in DC, not just in comics, but anywhere. The Joker has entered the building.
In the meanwhile, we've also continued our new push into the world of villains by doing one of the most noteworthy bad guys not just in DC, not just in comics, but anywhere. The Joker has entered the building.
May 30th, 2017
Since the new page format is a bit more time consuming, and because we're also going back to redo classic pages, these updates need to come a little quicker, even if we have less to show for them. We just updated Troia, which also meant fixing up her backstory a little so it felt a little more sensical. Hopefully this exercise of going back and cleaning up old pages will help us find narrative mistakes we've made in our existing timeline and crafting them into something that works a little bit better.
May 23rd, 2017
So we've finally arrived at what our changes will be, and in classic fashion it will be a long, slow slog to make happen. We've started by rewriting the very first her on the page: Nightwing. The actual timeline is rewritten so that it's less of a pile of info and reads in a more linear fashion. We've also taken the text at the bottom of the page and broken it up into separate sections to organize the ideas in it. Lastly, we added buttons at the bottom of the page for related characters and teams.
WE think it looks good. Let us know!
The same format was applied in the first new character added since the change; Lex Luthor. We're now in a similar situation as we were early on in the page's lifespan, when new characters were being added with bottom-of-the-page text, but we were also going back and adding it to the earliest characters that only had their timelines in place. There's a LOT more content to work on. Probably too much, if I didn't love doing this so much :)
WE think it looks good. Let us know!
The same format was applied in the first new character added since the change; Lex Luthor. We're now in a similar situation as we were early on in the page's lifespan, when new characters were being added with bottom-of-the-page text, but we were also going back and adding it to the earliest characters that only had their timelines in place. There's a LOT more content to work on. Probably too much, if I didn't love doing this so much :)
April 28th, 2017
Team 7 is completed. It led to a few subtle reworkings withing the world of the various spy-organizations that exist across the timeline... But ultimately it seems to all make a little more sense than it did previously.
This is actually the end of our initial push into the world of the heroic characters that exist in the DC Universe. There are a LOT more to come, but before we get into it, we need to start aproaching our timeline from the other side. It's time to start bringing in the villians. It's hard to continue to bring in characters that no one has ever heard of when some of the most sucessful characters of all time are still waiting in the wings. We've already done Brainiac. Lex Luthor is next. the Joker isn't far behind. This is something we're very excited about!
Of course, there's also the small matter that today is National Superhero Day. We've considered how to celebrate, and we've decided that this might be a great time to actually look back at what we've already done and begin something that was a long time coming: We're going to start refining the pages that we've already done. It'll be a long time, but we think we're ready to start tinkering to make this less of a giant dump of info and something that a person might actually be able to read and enjoy. We don't want to skimp on the new content, so we'll likely start going back and forth from here, refining the existing pages as we add new ones.
SO within the next few months, hopefully the site will start shaping up into something new and exciting. Keep checking back with us!
This is actually the end of our initial push into the world of the heroic characters that exist in the DC Universe. There are a LOT more to come, but before we get into it, we need to start aproaching our timeline from the other side. It's time to start bringing in the villians. It's hard to continue to bring in characters that no one has ever heard of when some of the most sucessful characters of all time are still waiting in the wings. We've already done Brainiac. Lex Luthor is next. the Joker isn't far behind. This is something we're very excited about!
Of course, there's also the small matter that today is National Superhero Day. We've considered how to celebrate, and we've decided that this might be a great time to actually look back at what we've already done and begin something that was a long time coming: We're going to start refining the pages that we've already done. It'll be a long time, but we think we're ready to start tinkering to make this less of a giant dump of info and something that a person might actually be able to read and enjoy. We don't want to skimp on the new content, so we'll likely start going back and forth from here, refining the existing pages as we add new ones.
SO within the next few months, hopefully the site will start shaping up into something new and exciting. Keep checking back with us!
April 10th, 2017
We've created what amounts to an entirely new team, completely unique to our project.
In an effort to show the influence of Wildstorm on our DC universe, we've built a team assembled from various outsider characters across DC's landscape. Characters from Wildstorm, but also Milestone, Vertigo... and even some obscure characters that were actually built in DC to directly emulate Wildstorm's influence.
swing by and check out our new team, the Elite. I think you'll find that it manages to merge the flavors of Wildstorm comics with DC's singular storytelling style.
From here, we're working on another small bit of Wildstorm adopted into DC proper: Team 7. we've already put in a few members lke Amanda Waller and Deathstroke... but we've found a few interesting characters to add in.
In an effort to show the influence of Wildstorm on our DC universe, we've built a team assembled from various outsider characters across DC's landscape. Characters from Wildstorm, but also Milestone, Vertigo... and even some obscure characters that were actually built in DC to directly emulate Wildstorm's influence.
swing by and check out our new team, the Elite. I think you'll find that it manages to merge the flavors of Wildstorm comics with DC's singular storytelling style.
From here, we're working on another small bit of Wildstorm adopted into DC proper: Team 7. we've already put in a few members lke Amanda Waller and Deathstroke... but we've found a few interesting characters to add in.
March 15th, 2017
Oh, my god, guys.... we did it. We finished the Legion.
This was the BIGGEST undertaking we've had so far. I won't drone on about what it entailed... It's already described pretty thoroughly in the team page, but suffice to say, trying to carve a single timeline out of this MOUNTAIN of content was herculean. We are intensely proud of the results, and we can't wait for you to check them out!
Now back to a more normal update schedule!
This was the BIGGEST undertaking we've had so far. I won't drone on about what it entailed... It's already described pretty thoroughly in the team page, but suffice to say, trying to carve a single timeline out of this MOUNTAIN of content was herculean. We are intensely proud of the results, and we can't wait for you to check them out!
Now back to a more normal update schedule!
December 30th 2016
The very long wait for this relatively small update is actually due to some real-life distractions; I'm starting a new career, and had to make sure I passed a certification test. thank you all for being patient while we got that all out of the way.
We've just put up two new characters. Rocket Red is a minor Justice League afterthought that we're instead using as a part of our Global Guardians. His timeline has been made so that he's functioning more as a part of our existing team timeline, but hopefully giving the character a solid purpose and place in the world is doing him a service. Meanwhile, we also finally put up Lobo. We think we found a fun way to make him work, and I'd love to hear what you think of him.
We've just put up two new characters. Rocket Red is a minor Justice League afterthought that we're instead using as a part of our Global Guardians. His timeline has been made so that he's functioning more as a part of our existing team timeline, but hopefully giving the character a solid purpose and place in the world is doing him a service. Meanwhile, we also finally put up Lobo. We think we found a fun way to make him work, and I'd love to hear what you think of him.
December 7th 2016
We're getting very close to a pretty big milestone, when we start working on the Legion of Super Heroes. just a few more solo hereos to go before we get there.
We just included one of the only elements of the modern multi-color Lantern Corps that we're going to use: the Blue Lantern Saint Walker. also, you'll see that we added a small team page for the royal court of Khandaq, where we've added Black Adam, Isis, and their loyal retainer Northwind.
Additionally, I've added a blog to the site so that I can have a spot to talk about the different examples of source material we come across. I'm going to try to give myself a weekly update schedule, but we'll see how that works out :)
We just included one of the only elements of the modern multi-color Lantern Corps that we're going to use: the Blue Lantern Saint Walker. also, you'll see that we added a small team page for the royal court of Khandaq, where we've added Black Adam, Isis, and their loyal retainer Northwind.
Additionally, I've added a blog to the site so that I can have a spot to talk about the different examples of source material we come across. I'm going to try to give myself a weekly update schedule, but we'll see how that works out :)
November 11th, 2016
We've just added one of the best known of DC's sword & sorcery stories: Travis Morgan, the Warlord of Skarteris. it might be an obscure addition, but it's definitely something that needs to be part of the larger tapestry of the complete DC Universe.
November 1st, 2016
Just a few more new updates in the last few days. We've added the classic bat-family antihero Anarky, and DC's answer to Deadpool; Ambush Bug.
Oct 20th, 2016
Lots of new additions over the past month. Primarily the's been a series of new solo characters, including Sergant Rock, Black Orchid (all three of them), and the classic DC Character Guardian.
We're digging into some of the slightly more obscure characters now, but very soon we'll be starting in on one of the single biggest sweeping projects yet... trying to tackle the HUGE task that is the Legion of Super Heroes :)
We're digging into some of the slightly more obscure characters now, but very soon we'll be starting in on one of the single biggest sweeping projects yet... trying to tackle the HUGE task that is the Legion of Super Heroes :)
Sept 20th, 2016
That's one of the small pitfalls of a site like this... sometimes real life catches up to you.
Several small changes have been put in place, including some of the older members of Shadowpact, and one young hero in particular: Traci 13. Lots more work to do on the earlier Shadowpacts, as they represent the foundations of magic in the DC Universe.
Also (this is a bit more personal), I just rewrote the front page. The original text had more animosity in it than it needed. This project shouldn't be about frustration, it should be celebrating this thing we love. Hopefully you get a better sense of that now.
Several small changes have been put in place, including some of the older members of Shadowpact, and one young hero in particular: Traci 13. Lots more work to do on the earlier Shadowpacts, as they represent the foundations of magic in the DC Universe.
Also (this is a bit more personal), I just rewrote the front page. The original text had more animosity in it than it needed. This project shouldn't be about frustration, it should be celebrating this thing we love. Hopefully you get a better sense of that now.
July 27th, 2016
And that's a wrap on the Suicide Squad! The team page needs to be updated with our blurb about the team, but now that we've finished Rick Flagg, Merlyn, Hellhound, the Evan McCulloch Mirror Master and his predecessor Sam Scudder, we have the basic outline of our team. There very well might be more members cropping up when we start digging deeper into the bad guys of the DC Universe, but for now, this is our lineup.
Coming um next is a deeper cut into the magic users of the DC timeline, including the participants in the older versions of the Shadowpact. Also, we have a redesign for the current team's history, most notably by actually including THE Shadowpact, the spell the team was initially assembled to cast!
Coming um next is a deeper cut into the magic users of the DC timeline, including the participants in the older versions of the Shadowpact. Also, we have a redesign for the current team's history, most notably by actually including THE Shadowpact, the spell the team was initially assembled to cast!
July 14, 2016
We just wrapped up Holly Robinson, a fun character by any measure.
Why did we just stop doing Suicide Squad memebers to do Catwoman & Holly, you ask? because our Suicide Squad history includes Hellhound, who is very clearly a Catwoman villain. That's right... Batman's rogues gallery is so well established, some of them have their own villains. Stay tuned.
Why did we just stop doing Suicide Squad memebers to do Catwoman & Holly, you ask? because our Suicide Squad history includes Hellhound, who is very clearly a Catwoman villain. That's right... Batman's rogues gallery is so well established, some of them have their own villains. Stay tuned.
July 3, 2016
Real life has slowed us down quite a bit, but we're finding a new rhythm.
we've done a few characters that fit into the Suicide Squad like Bane, Deadshot & Magenta, but almost more importantly we've added some major characters simply because they're related to our Suicide Squad additions: doing Bronze Tiger meant we needed Lady Shiva & Richard Dragon.
Also, you'll see that Giganta is finished, but she has no tied to the Suicide Squad at all. She had them when we started her, but we found a few pretty insurmountable inconsistencies with her timeline, and had to adjust her accordingly.
Finally, we added someone we're particularly proud of; Catwoman has such a lush background of stories to draw from, it was mostly a challenge of trying to fit them all in to a timeline that felt like it flowed naturally from Batman's story. check it out, and tell us if you liked it!
we've done a few characters that fit into the Suicide Squad like Bane, Deadshot & Magenta, but almost more importantly we've added some major characters simply because they're related to our Suicide Squad additions: doing Bronze Tiger meant we needed Lady Shiva & Richard Dragon.
Also, you'll see that Giganta is finished, but she has no tied to the Suicide Squad at all. She had them when we started her, but we found a few pretty insurmountable inconsistencies with her timeline, and had to adjust her accordingly.
Finally, we added someone we're particularly proud of; Catwoman has such a lush background of stories to draw from, it was mostly a challenge of trying to fit them all in to a timeline that felt like it flowed naturally from Batman's story. check it out, and tell us if you liked it!
April 29, 2016
That was by far the largest update we've done yet.
If you've only ever navigated the site by following links between pages, this might not be QUITE as evident, but we just completely redid the layout of pages. The most obvious place where you'll see this is in the dropdown menus on the top of the page. Previously we simply had a massive list of characters, but now they're organized by team affiliation. To service this, we've completely redone the team pages to include an evolving membership list in each year of the timeline, as well as groups of button links representing major noteworthy lineups.
We've also gone page by page and removed the blue header in favor of an actual title, because that looks better when you access the page from your phone. It still looks pretty bad, but this is at least a major improvement.
ALSO... in working on the timelines of each team, we discovered some pretty major story gaps in both the Justice League and Doom Patrol. We retooled the last three years timelines for both teams, creating new modern lineups for both groups. It's by far the biggest changes we've made in any of the content that was already loaded onto the page, and required a ton of tiny edits all over the site.
Writing all this out is pretty easy, but we're talking about an entire month of work. Good times :) We celebrated by doing a few random characters, Aquagirl & Doc Magnus.
Now back to the Suicide Squad. :)
If you've only ever navigated the site by following links between pages, this might not be QUITE as evident, but we just completely redid the layout of pages. The most obvious place where you'll see this is in the dropdown menus on the top of the page. Previously we simply had a massive list of characters, but now they're organized by team affiliation. To service this, we've completely redone the team pages to include an evolving membership list in each year of the timeline, as well as groups of button links representing major noteworthy lineups.
We've also gone page by page and removed the blue header in favor of an actual title, because that looks better when you access the page from your phone. It still looks pretty bad, but this is at least a major improvement.
ALSO... in working on the timelines of each team, we discovered some pretty major story gaps in both the Justice League and Doom Patrol. We retooled the last three years timelines for both teams, creating new modern lineups for both groups. It's by far the biggest changes we've made in any of the content that was already loaded onto the page, and required a ton of tiny edits all over the site.
Writing all this out is pretty easy, but we're talking about an entire month of work. Good times :) We celebrated by doing a few random characters, Aquagirl & Doc Magnus.
Now back to the Suicide Squad. :)
March 23, 2016
Amethyst (both generations) and Offspring are finished, as well as the first two members of our Suicide Squad, Ravager and Captain Boomerang. As both characters are legacies, we also had to do their parents; The original Captain Boomerang Digger Harkness....
And Deathstroke.
That's right, Deathstroke has entered the building. That's a huge step for us, because he's the first true villain we've included in our timeline.
We've made a few passes at new ways to organize the drop-down menus, and some have seemed better than others, but we're getting ready to really try to execute this one. Either the navigation of this site is about to change drastically.... or it's going to stay exactly the same and I'm about to waste an afternoon.....
And Deathstroke.
That's right, Deathstroke has entered the building. That's a huge step for us, because he's the first true villain we've included in our timeline.
We've made a few passes at new ways to organize the drop-down menus, and some have seemed better than others, but we're getting ready to really try to execute this one. Either the navigation of this site is about to change drastically.... or it's going to stay exactly the same and I'm about to waste an afternoon.....
March 15, 2016
We've just completed the Crimson Avenger and Jonah Hex. These are two huge characters that both exist in the earlier timeline, and as such need a lot of new pages built to support their stories. They're very different, though, because while the Crimson Avenger is almost a completely re-thought character in our timeline, Jonah Hex has remained largely consistent with his comic appearances. If anything, we had to tone down the character a bit, because for a former confederate bounty hunter, the guy seems to do a lot of time traveling.
We're going to do a few young characters next, characters that might not have become heroes yet, but who are definitely going to have a bright future.... and then it's on to the Suicide Squad. we've done a lot of work on the team, and are proud of the new lineup we've put together.
We're going to do a few young characters next, characters that might not have become heroes yet, but who are definitely going to have a bright future.... and then it's on to the Suicide Squad. we've done a lot of work on the team, and are proud of the new lineup we've put together.
March 9, 2016
Building out the Blackhawks is actually pretty tricky, for two very different reasons.
The first is that it's entirely a team that happens in "the past", and while that timeline is slowly expanding, there always seem to be years that simply haven't been used yet. Which means we have to make a lot of new pages just to make the whole thing work. It's not HARD, per se, just a lot of busywork.
The second reason is a little bit more embarrassing, but the fact is that the individual members of the Blackhawks just aren't as important as the team at large, so trying to make each of them feel like unique characters took a little doing. obviously, this is a team that is much more closely tied to the actual war efforts in Europe during WW2, and we did a lot of reading about the period to give them some authenticity, but it still comes down to making characters that feel unique and that have had their own lives.
Attempts to shuffle the site so that it's easier to read came up pretty frustrating. The logical path is to organize the characters by team, but some of them are on MULTIPLE teams through their career, and it becomes pretty muddy pretty quickly. For now, we'll just keep going as we are, and at some point really commit to redesigning the page as a whole.
The first is that it's entirely a team that happens in "the past", and while that timeline is slowly expanding, there always seem to be years that simply haven't been used yet. Which means we have to make a lot of new pages just to make the whole thing work. It's not HARD, per se, just a lot of busywork.
The second reason is a little bit more embarrassing, but the fact is that the individual members of the Blackhawks just aren't as important as the team at large, so trying to make each of them feel like unique characters took a little doing. obviously, this is a team that is much more closely tied to the actual war efforts in Europe during WW2, and we did a lot of reading about the period to give them some authenticity, but it still comes down to making characters that feel unique and that have had their own lives.
Attempts to shuffle the site so that it's easier to read came up pretty frustrating. The logical path is to organize the characters by team, but some of them are on MULTIPLE teams through their career, and it becomes pretty muddy pretty quickly. For now, we'll just keep going as we are, and at some point really commit to redesigning the page as a whole.
Feb 22, 2016
That's a bunch of really fun characters done.
Alpha Centurion is largely pointless, but we're all fans of him regardless. The Question, Swamp Thing, and John Constantine, on the other hand, have MASSIVE stories all their own, and finding ways to fit those stories into our timeline was a real labor of love.
Lastly, we got to add a little piece of Superman's story that we absolutely love; Krypto. I think we did a great job of fitting him into the world in a way that dodges some of the silliness of the idea.
Next up is the Blackhawks, but first we have some ideas about reorganizing the page. As the number of characters increases, it gets harder to browse, so it might be worth our time to mess with it a little bit. Also, the character names currently don't show up on the mobile version of the site, so maybe we can do something about it. Stay tuned :)
Alpha Centurion is largely pointless, but we're all fans of him regardless. The Question, Swamp Thing, and John Constantine, on the other hand, have MASSIVE stories all their own, and finding ways to fit those stories into our timeline was a real labor of love.
Lastly, we got to add a little piece of Superman's story that we absolutely love; Krypto. I think we did a great job of fitting him into the world in a way that dodges some of the silliness of the idea.
Next up is the Blackhawks, but first we have some ideas about reorganizing the page. As the number of characters increases, it gets harder to browse, so it might be worth our time to mess with it a little bit. Also, the character names currently don't show up on the mobile version of the site, so maybe we can do something about it. Stay tuned :)
Feb 15, 2016
The last members of the Freedom Fighters are up. These are all totally original members of their lineup, and each of them was a lot of fun for their own reason.
Firehawk was probably the most normal character update, as she's also a supporting character for Firestorm. What made her fun was the research into her costume. For some reason, none of us remembered the work Jamal Igle had done on the character in Firestorm Volume 3, and it was a joy to rediscover.
Nemesis was fun because we got to revisit a talking point we all enjoy; the interpretation of modern feminism in Wonder Woman. We try not to drone on on the matter, but the idea of presenting a partner / love interest for Wonder Woman is always a loaded topic.
The fun part about introducing Spy-Smasher was largely in digging into her past history. the original Spy-Smasher was the subject of a 12 part 1940 movie serial, and finding an excuse to watch those is always a pleasure.
Lastly, we have our very first character from Wildstorm comics, Caitlin Fairchild. We aren't using much of Wildstorm; it's characters are a little too derivative to be particularly useful. but Caitlin fits our world quite nicely, and it's a lot of fun to bring her in.
We have a few characters coming up with no particular association to any one group before we get into the Blackhawks.
Firehawk was probably the most normal character update, as she's also a supporting character for Firestorm. What made her fun was the research into her costume. For some reason, none of us remembered the work Jamal Igle had done on the character in Firestorm Volume 3, and it was a joy to rediscover.
Nemesis was fun because we got to revisit a talking point we all enjoy; the interpretation of modern feminism in Wonder Woman. We try not to drone on on the matter, but the idea of presenting a partner / love interest for Wonder Woman is always a loaded topic.
The fun part about introducing Spy-Smasher was largely in digging into her past history. the original Spy-Smasher was the subject of a 12 part 1940 movie serial, and finding an excuse to watch those is always a pleasure.
Lastly, we have our very first character from Wildstorm comics, Caitlin Fairchild. We aren't using much of Wildstorm; it's characters are a little too derivative to be particularly useful. but Caitlin fits our world quite nicely, and it's a lot of fun to bring her in.
We have a few characters coming up with no particular association to any one group before we get into the Blackhawks.
Feb 10, 2016
We just wrapped up some very bizarre characters. Omac is just a very strange Jack Kirby concoction, and getting managing to stay true to his story while transposing it into modern continuity is a real backflip. Frankenstein is at least already a part of continuity, but he's just such a weird creation. We've include him along with his wartime team, the Creature Commandos.
Both characters are now part of the modern Freedom Fighters, which definitely makes them one of the most far-out collection of super-heroes to be found in our timeline. We love that about them.
There's a few more members to the Freedom Fighters, including the characters' we've found to operate as their government liaisons. it should make sense in practice.
Both characters are now part of the modern Freedom Fighters, which definitely makes them one of the most far-out collection of super-heroes to be found in our timeline. We love that about them.
There's a few more members to the Freedom Fighters, including the characters' we've found to operate as their government liaisons. it should make sense in practice.
Feb 7, 2016
Finishing Amanda Waller and Director Bones required a LOT of work, because in order to sort out the mechanics of who was in control of what organization when, we had to make team pages for the DEO, S.H.A.D.E, and Checkmate. this also ties into the team pages of the Global Guardians, Freedom Fighters, and the Suicide Squad. it just goes to show how involved Waller and Bones are in the machinations of the government organizations in our timeline.
Now we get into some of the really weird characters in our version of the Freedom Fighters. These characters aren't in the team in existing continuity, but we really like the idea of including them. Stay tuned, and let us know what you think.
Now we get into some of the really weird characters in our version of the Freedom Fighters. These characters aren't in the team in existing continuity, but we really like the idea of including them. Stay tuned, and let us know what you think.
Jan 27, 2016
Some of the longest legacy characters in the Freedom Fighters are Manhunter, Iron Munro & Phantom Lady. They have very dense histories, and tons of influence across our timeline. Characters like this require a lot of work, but it's fun to see the result when we're done.
Getting Sandra Knight finished is a lot of fun, because she was the founder of Checkmate, and now we're about to delve into some of the intrigue involving the various espionage groups. First and foremost is one of my personal favorite characters, Amanda Waller.
Getting Sandra Knight finished is a lot of fun, because she was the founder of Checkmate, and now we're about to delve into some of the intrigue involving the various espionage groups. First and foremost is one of my personal favorite characters, Amanda Waller.
Jan 25, 2016
We're now several entries into the Freedom Fighters. Uncle Sam was a big project, because he is present for most of America's history (at least each of our wars). We've also completed Human Bomb, and our version of Black Condor.
Black Condor also had a series of legacy characters, and ties back to Manitou Raven as well. This legacy is entirely our own creation, but it gives us a great connection between these characters, and we're big fans of it. We have quite a bit of work to do going forward with the Freedom Fighters, both in their original and current incarnations. We've made a lot of changes to these characters, but I think everyone will be quite excited by the result.
Black Condor also had a series of legacy characters, and ties back to Manitou Raven as well. This legacy is entirely our own creation, but it gives us a great connection between these characters, and we're big fans of it. We have quite a bit of work to do going forward with the Freedom Fighters, both in their original and current incarnations. We've made a lot of changes to these characters, but I think everyone will be quite excited by the result.
Jan 7, 2016
We've completed Shining Knight, who we THOUGHT we had added as the original character of the Knight & Squire legacy, but it turns some that had already been done in actual continuity.
Shining Knight is fun, because other than Etrigan, he's the first character to really participate in the era of DC history that includes Arthurian Legend, but there's a lot more of that to come down the road when we get into characters like Madam Xanadu, Phantom Stranger, and obviously Mogan Le Fay and Merlin. He's also a part of the All-Star Squadron. lots of fun stuff to include.
Shining Knight is fun, because other than Etrigan, he's the first character to really participate in the era of DC history that includes Arthurian Legend, but there's a lot more of that to come down the road when we get into characters like Madam Xanadu, Phantom Stranger, and obviously Mogan Le Fay and Merlin. He's also a part of the All-Star Squadron. lots of fun stuff to include.
Jan 5, 2016
Percival Sheldrake, the original Knight, is now up. The plan to create a post showing our process for creating a character is going to be moved to the Forum, as it winds up being a little too wordy for Facebook.
Dec 31, 2015
We've put up Knight & Squire. there is a little bit more work to do with them, because we're including the original Knight so we'll need to do a page for Percival Sheldrake We're also latching onto the idea that Percival started his career as the Squire to the Shining Knight, which is going to be a little bit of work. not only are we going to include him in our All-Star Squadron, but we'll likely have to create some new timeline pages to accommodate his early life in King Arthur's court.
Meanwhile, as we create new pages to put up new characters, we're also continuing the work of actually building the the whole timeline. There are hundreds of characters finished that aren't on the page yet. As of now, we're largely done with heroes for the foreseeable future, and are working on the villains. This is at once more frustrating, because they are far less defined that the heroes and often require a lot more work, but also incredibly rewarding, because once you create a timeline for a characters villains you've created a much deeper narrative tapestry that really defines a particular hero.
We're giving some thought to doing a series of Facebook posts that outline the actual process we go through to incorporate a new character into the timeline. We'd be using the character we're currently working on: Doctor Light.
Meanwhile, as we create new pages to put up new characters, we're also continuing the work of actually building the the whole timeline. There are hundreds of characters finished that aren't on the page yet. As of now, we're largely done with heroes for the foreseeable future, and are working on the villains. This is at once more frustrating, because they are far less defined that the heroes and often require a lot more work, but also incredibly rewarding, because once you create a timeline for a characters villains you've created a much deeper narrative tapestry that really defines a particular hero.
We're giving some thought to doing a series of Facebook posts that outline the actual process we go through to incorporate a new character into the timeline. We'd be using the character we're currently working on: Doctor Light.
Dec 29, 2015
The Shadowpact is now up. Working with a group of characters instead of one at a time is obviously more time consuming than we meant it to be, so we'll be focusing on one character at a time from now on.
Also, we've moved the Site Updates out of the Forum and onto it's own page. We're still trying to find a better way to make it possible to give us feedback, but we're comic book nerds, not web designers. Hopefully we can find something that gives our readers a way to feel more a part of our process.
Also, we've moved the Site Updates out of the Forum and onto it's own page. We're still trying to find a better way to make it possible to give us feedback, but we're comic book nerds, not web designers. Hopefully we can find something that gives our readers a way to feel more a part of our process.
Dec 07, 2015
Finally finished the Atom and his supporting characters, which means that every single character currently on the site now has their entire page finished. We're currently building the pages for the members of the shadowpact, expect the update within the week.
Nov 23, 2015
Both The L.E.G.I.O.N. and the Omega Men are now up, in what is clearly our largest post yet. While doing one huge post obviously takes much longer, it means whole groups of characters are updated at once. Next up is the Shadowpact, and we can see if this style of update will continue to work.
Nov 06, 2015
For the most part, we've finished one of the harder groups of characters we've had to deal with yet; the Global Guardians. Our version of this team uses much higher profile characters than the original team, but even still, some of these were pretty obscure.
In fact, this is one of the first times we had to remove some characters after the fact. Our lineup originally included two more characters from the Power Company: Witchfire & Striker Z. Trying to do their pages wound up highlighting just how unnecessary these characters were, however, so for now, they're gone.
Now, it's on to our completely updated version of two Intergalactic teams, L.E.G.I.O.N. and the Omega Men. A lot of these characters don't have a huge amount of existing story, and have been thoroughly rewritten to craft a pretty decent space opera-type feel, but the end result is pretty cool.
In fact, this is one of the first times we had to remove some characters after the fact. Our lineup originally included two more characters from the Power Company: Witchfire & Striker Z. Trying to do their pages wound up highlighting just how unnecessary these characters were, however, so for now, they're gone.
Now, it's on to our completely updated version of two Intergalactic teams, L.E.G.I.O.N. and the Omega Men. A lot of these characters don't have a huge amount of existing story, and have been thoroughly rewritten to craft a pretty decent space opera-type feel, but the end result is pretty cool.
Nov 01, 2015
The first and most obvious update today is the addition of the Forums. Hopefully, this will create a more interactive feel to the site. We're always interested in how people react to the changes we've made in the continuity, and we hope to hear more from everyone as to what they like and don't like. This project wouldn't be possible without feedback from fellow fans to know which stories to structure the rest of the timeline around, and the more we get, the better this project looks.
Second, we're working to finish the pages that were made earlier on when we weren't featuring the second section where we discuss the changes made in the character. This can sometimes be a bit more labor intensive than you might think, but it's where we get to share our thoughts and feelings on the character, and hopefully we'll be caught up soon.
Second, we're working to finish the pages that were made earlier on when we weren't featuring the second section where we discuss the changes made in the character. This can sometimes be a bit more labor intensive than you might think, but it's where we get to share our thoughts and feelings on the character, and hopefully we'll be caught up soon.