>>5970571>Art: Dan Mora>Alt-Text: Comic cover of The Riddler in the foreground. In the background, cut out newspaper letters spell “Riddle Me This” while Superman and Batman leap into action in front of a maze.Batman: Superman! You have to fight it!Ivy: The sun doesn’t fight. It feeds. Clark starts glowing as a field of flowers spawns in a ring around him. The parks shudder and flexes, the ground itself pulsating.Batman: You are stronger than this! Stronger than most people! You landed on a world of hate and violence and chose to make it better. It doesn’t matter if she’s sapping your energy. Your real power is your will!Your ally grits his teeth, Failsafe buzzes in your ear about magnetic waves but it doesn't have to bother. You can taste electricity in the air. Leaves rustle, but this is no wind. Sfx: SBOOOMMSHH!!Clark bursts from the vines into the sky, the shockwave knocking you free from the lichen that was trapping you. Ivy: No!Ivy summons a swarm of vines. You ready your defenses-Sfx: CRASH!And Clark lands, knocking the thorny vines aside.Superman: If you use your plants on us again, Doctor. I will burn them.His eyes glow, and Ivy'd vines sprout thorns.Ivy: Insolent flesh!Batman: Something’s wrong. Ivy isn’t herselfIvy: We are better than ever.Batman: Doctor! You’re too brilliant to try to force us to do something we’d do willingly. Whoever’s in there with you clearly doesn't know us. Or know you.Ivy: The mammal lies! The mammal lies!
>>5976805>Pencils & Inks: Marcio Takara. Colors: Arif Prianto>Alt-Text: Comic art of Poison Ivy covered in thorns and fungus. Her hair floats in the air in front of the sun and a psychedelic background.Thoughts race through your head, so in the depths of your mind, you retreat to commune with the highest minds on the planet.The Parliament of Trees, spiritual echoes of past heroes of the natural order.They named you your champion, when you pass on, you shall join them.Their passion is loud. Trillions of lives dance through your soul.You are awash in chaos and chlorophyll but even when lost in the weeds, you know who you are.You will save the world. Your way.Bog Venus:The Parliament sits in silence and screams with anger. Their knowledge says you belong to The Green.That you are their champion.You are their weapon. You are THEM.___Ivy: I-The vines break from Ivy’s control and lunge at her.Ivy: Am-She raises her hand, stopping them in midair.Ivy: POISON IVY!The vines launch into the air, and the trees around you follow. Massive pillars of wood forming a tower in the sky.It breaches the horizon and explodes into a cornucopia of fruits and flowers.Petals rain like water and as the clouds part, sunrise bathes you all.Ivy: Well, turns out there’s a sentient plant-based collective unconsciousness. Might as well have skipped the doctorate and just dropped peyote.Superman: And I’m sure you’d be brilliant regardless. Good morning, Doctor. I don’t think we’ve properly met. I’m Superman.They shake hands, Ivy’s palms sprouting leaves at Clark’s touch.Ivy: That’s something to get used to.Batman: We’ll have plenty of time for that later. Right now we still need to find Riddler. He’ll be in another supervision-proof base by now, we’ll need to investigate-Superman: No need.He soars into the sky, stays there a moment, and drops down.Superman: The secret is to look for what I can’t see. I can view, hear, or smell most things on this planet. I’ve already visited one of his bases, so I can recognize its blend of shadow and silence that sticks out like-He turns to you.Superman: You in the daytime.Ivy: Hah! I like this guy. And not just because he’s a floating greenhouse.Superman: I can fly there now, but at max speed, I’d tear either of you to pieces.>Phantom Riddles, Part Two>Vote Title: Mark WaidHave Superman take you to The Riddler at a slower pace.>Mental Blocked>Vote Title: Martin Lancaster, Philip Huxley, Craig OwensLet Superman fly ahead and follow after him in your new vehicle.
>>5976818>Mental BlockedLet's catch up and make sure Ivy's okay for action.
>>5976834+1Give her the rundown on events that happened since she almost died. Patch in Nightwing if he's available so he can tell his end.
>>5976818>The vines launch into the air, and the trees around you follow. Massive pillars of wood forming a tower in the sky.>It breaches the horizon and explodes into a cornucopia of fruits and flowers.>Petals rain like water and as the clouds part, sunrise bathes you all.Breaking news! Giant tree sprouts in Gotham's Robinson Park in wake of mass riots! A surprise olive branch for Gotham's people?!
>>5976818>Phantom Riddles, Part TwoThe visuals of this sound fun
>>5976834>>5976841>>5976930Locking for Mental Blocked. Update this week.
>>5978396Out of curoosity, why not leave the vote open until you're rwady to write? Or have you already begun?
>>5979369I have begun. I thought of leaving it open for longer but I wasn't seeing any new votes.Still adjusting to the weekly schedule myself.
>>5976818>Art: Rocksteady Studios ( https://www.igdb.com/games/batman-arkham-city/credits )>Alt-Text: The Riddler standing in front of a wall of computer screens. He wears a jacket with many question marks on it.>Dialogue Samples: David S. Goyer & Justin Marks. Tom King.Batman: Whatever we’re facing, we’ll face it together. Riddler won't be able to take the three of us no matter how much prep time he has.Superman: I love the chutzpah, but unless you have another one of your batsatchels, how will we bring Ivy? She raises her hands and a network of vines crisscross forming a massive basket.Ivy: Will this do?Clark flashes a smile that could bring sunrise at midnight.Superman: Team, let’s solve this Riddle._____Abattoir: So you see Mr Riddler, because the coca plant was magically created from human flesh, nasal absorption of its extract gives you access to supernatural abilities. Therefore, it's only logical to conclude…Riddler(sarcastically): Eating people gives you superpowers! Of course. It's so obvious. How didn't I see it before? Next you’ll tell me the world is flat.Abbatoir: Oh, It's actually hollow! Twenty years ago, Professor Rival’s polar expedition…The bunker doors burst open. The woman who imagines herself your boss bursts in with a horde of familiar goons.Waller: EDWARD!Riddler: Oh thank Nigma you came. Another minute of his ridiculous speeches and I would have asked him to eat my brain.Abbatoir: Awww.You step toward the government stooge and offer an obviously sarcastic handshake. Not that she could figure that out.Riddler: I must say, you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for Task Force X recruits. Isn’t there a fire-breathing mushroom man or something you could-Agent Carpenter aims their firearm at you. With shockingly poor form you may add. For that caliber, the optimal-Waller: You nuked the planet!Riddler: Oh no, no, no.You click your remote, and your computer screen lights up with newscasts from the peabrains in the media.Riddler: Superman nuked the planet. And Gotham is currently the post-apocalyptic hellhole it was always meant to be. The alien is Earth’s biggest villain and your teacher’s pet is buried under fallout both legal and nuclear. Your two biggest problems. Answered. You’re welcome.Waller: And you don’t think people are gonna wonder how Superman dropped those bombs? Why a machine that could launch all the world’s nukes existed in the first place? If the Diehard Device becomes public knowledge, the President…Riddler: Will do nothing. I’ve hacked so much dirt on him he’d do the State of the Union in a tutu if I asked. I could even have your job if I wanted, but I like you handling the paperwork for me.Waller: You can talk all the smack you want in Supermax. Take him away.Riddler: Fatima Haby Li. Lori Jane Krupcheck. Tanya Hope Carpenter.
>>5982715>Pencil Layouts: Giuseppe Camuncol.Final Pencils & Inks: Francesco Mattina. Colors: Hi-Fi Design>Alt-Text: Amanda Waller, a plus-sized Black woman, holds a gun>Content Warning: Graphic Gun Violence The armored jocks turn their weapons away from you and onto their so-called “boss.”Riddler: Did you think The President was the only head I peaked into? You of all people should know how quickly people fold when family’s on the line.Carpenter: I’m sorry, Director. My daughter…Waller: You’ll all hang for this.Riddler: BZZZ! Wrong answer! Washington was the only state that gave prisoners the choice of execution by gallows and they banned the death penalty in 2018.Waller: It’s a figure of speech you self-absorbed pretentious-C.O.M.P.U.T.O. Kryptonian lifeform detected en route.Riddler: And now we have company on the way. Underlings, escort Ms Waller to a cell while I slip into something more…comfortable. C.O.M.P.U.T.O. ready my thinking cap!The guards escort your would-be obstacle from the room so you prepare for your masterstroke.Ah, it’s good being the smartest man in the room.____LI: I hate that it’s come to this Director Waller. You were the best there was.Waller: Kill Code- Legends 1.Li: Wha-AZZZZZZElectric pulse from smart-weapons successful in temporarily neutralizing rouge assets. Execute permement measures.Carpenter: Fir-aaaarrghh!Sfx: CRACK!Rouge Agent Carpenter left hand status: Broken. Firearm status: Acquired.Sfx: BANG BANG BANG BANGRouge assets: Neutralized.Carpenter: Ughhh. God, please…Waller: I AM the best. There IS.Sfx: BANG-SPLAT!Rouge asset codename Riddler assesed current threat. Political channels potentially compromised. Consider potential solutions to threat.>Waller vs Wildstorm>Vote Title: Spencer Ackerman& Evan NarcisseRetrieve mothballed metahuman assets codenamed DV8 from cold storage. Advantages: Advanced power resources. Risks: Unreliable personalities >Panic in the Sky>Vote Title: Panic in the SkyContact rouge asset codename Batman and negotiate temporary truce to deal with common threat. Advantages: Advanced intellect, metahuman allies. Risks: Lack of loyalty. Obsessive dedication to moral code.
>>5982723>Waller vs WildstormWorking with Waller will compromise Batman.
>>5982715>AbattoirThis running gag man is hilarious. Somebody should suggest him to eat himself and become a god via syncing up with the sacred Ouroboros, and see what happens>fire-breathing mushroom manWTF GLOWIE MARIO REAL?????????>Rouge assets: Neutralized.Damn, they were forced into it by Riddler and Waller just caps them cold>Waller vs WildstormOur Batman would refuse
>>5982798That IS The Wall for you.
>>5982723>Waller vs WildstormDamn, Riddler is insane in this continuity, as expected from the quintessential Batman villain
>Waller vs Wildstorm
>>5982723>Waller vs wildstormDamn waller, you chunky bitch. Still the most dangerious woman in the room, eh?
Locking for Waller vs Wildstorm. Update on or before 4/27/2024.How is the new weekly schedule working out for you folks?
>>5984329Bothersome, but I know real life is a pain and so you do what needs to be done.
>>5984329Fine by me, the updates are still good
Update today. It's a bigger one. Hope that makes the relative lateness go down smoother .
>>5976805>Art: Fiona Staples>Alt-text: Comic art of a blond man, Threshold, sitting cross-legged in a field of flowers. He has a red glass eye and a face smeared with blood. He wears a suit with a badge that says “82.”Assessment: Bruce Wayne is harder to control than metahuman teenagers. Plan of action: Reactivate decommissioned assets.Waller: Cold storage unlock. DV8-82: Threshold.Sfx: SPSHHSHSRRSubject Acquired. Caucasian Male. Early 20s. Metahuman Abilities: Telekinesis, Telepathy. Mental Status:Threshold: I’ll KILL YOU ALL!-Agitated.Waller: Stand down Threshold. We’ve got work to do.Threshold: And who the hell are you?Waller: Amanda Waller. Your new C.O.Threshold: I’m DONE taking orders.Asset applying telekinetic force. Pressure potential over 1000 times the lethal amount. Chance of harm: zero.Waller: I know where your sister is!Threshold: What?!Sfx: PLOP!Note to self: Invest in softer floors for base tiling.Waller: International Operations froze her in a different facility when DV8 was shut down. If you behave, I’ll tell you how to find her.Threshold: Please. I’m a higher lifeform. An ultiman. I can pull all the information I need from your pathetic brai-ARRRGHHHH!Waller: Not very fun in there is it?Threshold: Shhhggk.. Gggggg.Waller: I’m going to unfreeze some of your old teammates. You’re going to keep them in line. You’re going to do this job. Then you can run off with your sister to live out your ubermench fantasies. Understand?Threshold: Y-yes.Waller: Yes, Ma’am.
>>5992730>Art: Rocksteady Games>Alt-Text: The Riddler stands surrounded by robots with green energy “bellies” >Dialouge Samples: Tom Taylor. Rocksteady Studios.Superman: The base is a kilometer south.Ivy: An American who knows metric, I’m impressed.Superman: It’s the most efficient measuring system Earth's developed. Though there are some Kryptonian units I think could improve things.Batman: You really do believe in a Better World.Superman: Let’s start with a better tomorrow. Are we close enough for your plan?Batman: REMOTE CONTROLLED BATARANG!Your device launches from your gauntlet and flies down to the base.The lead shielding may keep Superman from seeing into it but once the Batarang scans the building, it can cross reference the design with your database.Batman: It’s a repurposed airport. A common type of black site. The command center is probably in the terminal basement.Superman: It seems like you have experience.Batman: It’s good to know your enemies.Ivy: You must know a lot, then. If the Riddler’s hidden in the Earth, my children will bring him to the surface.As the three of you fly closer to the base a faint rumbling grows louder. The concrete parking lot cracks into pebbles.Ivy: HnnnnngSuperman: Are you okay?!Ivy: I feel… a resistance. There is something in that base. Like the world itself had another brain. I can push hardaARGGHH!!Massive tentacle-like flowers burst from the terminal. They open a perfect entry point for your mission.Batman: Follow my lead!You dive from Ivy’s vine net and glide down to the terminal. You feel a sharp breeze and see Superman fly past you.By the time you reach the ground, Superman’s already standing calmy surrounded by melted scrap.Superman: These were defense drones. The metal’s from Earth but the design is Kryptonian.Batman: They could have more of the anti-Kryptonian crystal, let me lead the charge.Sfx: CRASHA pair of vines drill a hole through the hallway doors, giving you a straight shot to the command center.Ivy: Can you stop comparing cape sizes and finish the job?Riddler: I can assure you Dr Isley, the job is more than finished.The Riddler walks out of the hallway wearing a helmet with three purple diodes. He is accompanied by robots with glowing green insides.Riddler: Riddlerbots, attack!The drones swarm you and your allies. Clark dashes forward but stops when he gets close.Superman: They’re full of those crystals!Ivy: Allow me to clear the air!Thick stems erupt from the ground and impale the robots. Sunflowers the size of your head sprout out their robotic cores.Superman: Using Helianthus annuus to absorb radiation. Brilliant!Riddler: You think a gardening lesson is enough to stop me? As if. Riddle me this. What’s-
>>5992735>Pencils: Juvaun Kirby & Joe Phillips. Inks: Homage Studios, Joe Phillips & John Beatty. Colors: Wendy Broome. Computer Colors: Alex Bleyaert. Letters: Bill O’Neil. Dialogue: Mike Heisler>Content Warning: Gore. Ableism.>Alt-text: Comic panel of an exploded head. Brains and eyeballs visible. >Dialouge Sample: Mike Heisler. J.M. Dematteis & Dwayne McDuffieSfx: SPUKSH!Riddler’s head explodes, spraying the floor with bone and brain. A blond man floats out of the shadows and hovers over the body.Threshold: This was the threat you wanted me to beat? How did humans get more pathetic since you iced me?Waller: He wasn’t the mission. They are.Batman: You’re using Matthew?! This is too far even for you.Waller: Using Threshold just stopped a nutcase from plunging us into World War III. We do what the mission needs. Or did you forget that, Rich Boy?Ivy: This isn’t a debate club. Let’s turn them both into fertilizer and leave.Clark steps between you and Matthew.Superman: Hold on everyone. I’m sure we can find a peaceful solution.Threshold: If we’re pitching ideas, here’s mine!Superman: ARGHH!Clark grabs his head. A trickle of blood drips from his nose. It’s like seeing god bleed.Sfx: WHOOSH!Clark grabs Threshold faster than your eye can see.Superman: Don’t do that again.Threshold: Seems you have a thick skull. Let’s play around in it.Matthew's eye glows while he stares at Clark.Superman: Nyaaah!!! Pa! Krypton! Lois! Arrrgh!He clutches his head and flies haphazardly into the sky.Threshold: Looks like someone needs therapy.Ivy: Take him down!Tree trunks launch from the ground like spears, then freeze over. A young adult slides down the now icey bark.Frostbite: What the hell, Threshold? I didn’t sign up to fight the Little Shop of Horrors!Threshold: You didn’t “sign up” at all, Frostbite. Follow my orders and kill these insects or I’ll paint the walls with your nervous system.Frostbite: Yeah yeah. Whatever you say oh- fearless leader. HnnnnngFrostbite raises his hand. Waves of heat burst from his fingers.You cover yourself in your cape, but the warmth still has you sweating in your suit. When you unfurl it, you see Ivy struggling to stand.Ivy: The heat… my children are dying.The plants Ivy was using are on fire, the blaze spreading through the airport terminal.Batman: Bat fire extinguish-Sfx: WHOOSH!!
>>5992752>Pencils: Juvaun Kirby. Inks: Cabin Boy. Colors: Unknown>Alt-Text: Comic art of Evo, a young man with bat wings, long nails long bat ears, and long hair.The wind is knocked from your lungs and you’re carried into the air. A fusion of a gangly teen and a giant Bat is hauling you into the sky.EVO: Sorry to interrupt your hot date but the bossman says he’ll yeet me into a wall if you’re still breathing. So…You’re dropped to the ground but quickly deploy your cape and start gliding to safety.FAILSAFE: PROXIMITY ALERTSfx:SMACK!A wall of bone and skin slams you to the ground, you feel a barely healed bone snap like plywood.Evo: Hahaha. Rekt. Good one Powerhaus.A giant man stands over you. He winces as he shrinks to normal size.Powerhaus: Evo I swear if you don’t shut up I’ll turn you into bat paste.Evo lands and takes the form of a canine.Evo: Easy, chief. Much angry. Very jerk.Powerhaus grabs Evo by the neck.Powerhaus: I’m from Argentina you wunderlich! And I’ve just been defrosted with a hangover to kill some poor mopes again. I am NOT in the mood.Children. Waller is using children against you. Children with massive metahuman powers. The situation will get worse if you don’t take action.>The Pact>Vote Title: Ross Beeley, Shanon Ingles, Lauren R. Mee & Josh R. TrujilloNegotiate with Waller. She’s cruel but pragmatic. If you can convince her a fight isn’t in her best interests, she’ll have DV8 stand down.>Everything Must Go>Vote Title: Matthew RosenbergRally your team to fight back. These kids have powers and the element of surprise but you, Ivy, and Clark are more skilled. >Trust>Vote Title: Mike HeislerTalk with DV8. Waller isn’t the main threat here, they are. The best way to win is not to fight at all.
>>5992753>Everything Must GoThey're too powerful to play around with. Nonlethal methods are preferable, if possible, however... Especially for anyone who can't instantly kill us. Threshold might get the Bat-Gun.
>>5992753{You may viote for any number of options. The option with the most total votes wins.}
>>5992753>Everything Must Go>TrustThe mission, the mission, the mission- the anon who came up with that had more impact than the rest of us combined
>>5992769+1What do you mean?
>Everything Must Go
>>5992753>TrustI don't wish to harm children.But then again, we have fear gas for a reason. I'm not all that concerned about threshold trying to go into our head either. A guy who regularly doses himself with fear gas is. . . a hazard.
>>5992753>TrustSurely we can suppress them in short order?
>>5992807I mean this guy
>>5993292A quote from "Artifacts" from The Batman, good taste on that anon.Fun fact, the episode was written by Greg Weissman and directed by Brandon Vietti, who would go on to co create the Young Justice animated series.
>>5992753>Trust>Everything Must GoWe talk them down, or we take them down. Cutting a deal with Waller is not a great idea right now.
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>>5992753Changing my vote from >>5992807 to>Trust>Everything Must Goin that order. If talking them down fails due to Threshold or something, we have no choice remaining but to fight. Other than Threshold himself, it seems like the other three really do not want to be involved in this.>What the hell, Threshold? I didn’t sign up to fight the Little Shop of Horrors!>Sorry to interrupt your hot date but the bossman says he’ll yeet me into a wall if you’re still breathing.>I’ve just been defrosted with a hangover to kill some poor mopes again. I am NOT in the mood.EVO and Frostbite seem like the easiest to flip. The former because he can be a fellow bat, literally. The latter because if Threshold goes then Frostbite isn't threatened with imminent head explosion. Powerhaus seems more no-nonsense plus he's in a shitty state overall, so he might be a bit harder. I doubt we can ever win over Threshold in any way, and if we can then I can't see the way through to him.
