DC is asking help for their new Batman villain with a sweepstakes. You must sign up on their website to enter.> The contest kicks off April 30, 2026, and runs through May 31, 2026, inviting fans ages 13 and up in the U.S., U.K., and Canada to enter. The big draw is the opportunity to collaborate directly with DC on an original villain who will become part of the official continuity.The winning character is set to debut in Detective Comics #1113 this fall, with an additional appearance in Batman #14. The character will also crossover into gaming, appearing as a LEGO version in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight through post-launch DLC, alongside a DC GO! webcomic timed for Batman Day on September 19, 2026.
I feel like what that would actually boil down to is the usual creative team underhand-tossing you their ideas, slapping you on the back when you say 'yeah lets do that!' and then let you pick what color the villain's outfit will be.I just have a hard time believing that a subsidiary of a multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate would give a random fucko any real power.
>>153473865>the usual creative team underhand-tossing you their ideasaw that's adorableThey're looking for the opposite, an interesting idea they don't have to come up with or ever pay royalties on
>>153473865Yeah, when you check the website it says the person will help pick character traits. So you won’t be able to enter your OC character.
>The winning character is set to debut in Detective Comics #1113 this fall, with an additional appearance in Batman #14Condiment QUEEN
It's his year
So do you think the resulting one will be a spin-off of someone else, or some esoteric fetish thing?
>>153473574Why don't we work together to make a character? It'd be cool to brainstorm and frankenstein a character together and then submit it. Maybe we start with generating a random power and then conceptualizing the character from there. Or we just throw bullshit together and come up with some abomination. I dunno. But I think it'd be fun.
>>153473574>>153474284Hell yea. A /co/ villain.
>>153473574>become an architect>architecti think i’ve got the perfect idea for a batman villain now
>>153473574Has the last decade's worth of new writers making new Batman villains that only they are interested in using hit its dead end with Taylor and Fraction, who couldn't come up with them if their lives were on the line
>>153474284Wears a novelty t-shirt
>>153473939Yeah, they probably already have some beats written down and can't get too crazy with it.
>>153474408I liked Wound Man, even if I don't see him working outside of Dead Patterns.
>>153473939well there goes my dream of a supervillain with fanged breasts that each have their own separate identity and will.
Anyone remember The Pincher guy we came with years ago?
>>153475312None of the guys in Dark Patterns were meant to exist past their stories, hell he had the mastermind get taken out by Firefly for copyright infringementWatters knows how to do it the classic way, make a villain for a story rather than a story for a villain
>>153475753No I remember when it devolved into an ERP thread
>>153473574>The contest kicks off April 30, 2026, and runs through May 31, 2026, inviting fans ages 13 and up in the U.S., U.K., and Canada to enterOh fuck off, why is it only restricted to those countries
>>153475905They needed to include something other than the USA for the sake of minority representation
>>153474408Yeah here’s a list of some of the recent new Batman villains, The Designer, Failsafe, Peacekeeper-01, Miracle Molly, Gardner, Gotham, Mr Bloom, and The Court of Owls
>>153473574They will steal everyone's good ideas and give them minimal to no compensation
>>153475441Better take it indie, this one’s a winner
>>153474408Punchline is good only because big tiddy goth clown
>>153479303so the new one should be a goth clown with a big ass?
>>153479303Even her popularity was short lived. I mean when was the last comic she even appeared in?
>>153479955All we need is for her to appear in the new DC injustice fighting game and Punchline stocks will boom.>>153479884A hero with a big ass like Yara Flor, to be her counterpoint. She also would get a resurgence if she appears in Injustice and has a hot character model.
I think this is the first interesting development that the main Batman line has had in a while. The Absolute Batman comic has been really overshadowing the main comic for a while now.
DC never has stakes
>>153473574Doctor Rapes Women On Panel In Every Issue
>>153473574Damn...if only it was a poll we could raid...
