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barbara gordon: I hope paul blart just becomes one of those things that just continues to get sequels for absolutely no reason where the sequels try to be bigger than the last and it gets to the point of where they just send him into space.
dick grayson: Paul Blart Mall Cop.
cassandra cain: Paul Blart Mall Cop 2.
jason todd: Paul Blart Mall Cop 3.
stephanie brown: Paul Blart Mall Cop 4: The Final Chapter.
tim drake: Paul Blart Mall Cop 5: A New Beginning.
duke thomas: Paul Blart Mall Cop 6: Blart Lives.
damian wayne: Paul Blart Mall Cop 7: The New Mall.
luke fox: Paul Blart Mall Cop 8: Paul Takes Manhattan.
jean-paul valley: Paul Blart Mall Cop 9: The Final Mall Cop.
bette kane: Blart X.
kate kane: Paul Blart vs. Larry the Cable Guy.
barbara gordon: Paul Blart (2046 Remake).
You know this brought back the Azreal question for me as well. I know there was some hard-core Azreal fans, I've met some, but 100 issues is a lot.
[Do I wish other characters got a solo yes, but I'm not going to be mad about that] I'm more mad that everytime I have tried to read Azreal I just get kind of bored. (A me problem)
So I hard agree that seeing him on a team or something would have have been really interesting. I like the idea of some sort of knock off Justice League that works in the background.
It could be one route where it's a story tone so out of what Azreal is normally placed in, or it could double down on the tone.
For a team though. It would be interesting to play off the dynamic of a bunch of 'knockoff' Justice League people having to deal with only being acknowledged as the knockoffs and not the real deal.
Azreal and four other main cast members. Start off with them being given missions by an ensemble of Justice League characters. Have them be the ones who get tasked with things the Justive League is too busy to do. Slowley over the comic run have them become separated from the main Justice League into something that is equal to the League, but just deals with different tasks. Ocassionally the comics would have a crossover with various other teams or heroes. Have a couple team ups, a couple of short term members, and add in each character getting progress in their own story.
Azreal learning over the course of the comic run that he doesn't want to be part of this life forever and have him start to settle down and leave towards the end off the comic run.
Have a character start off the story with being there because they are trying to get to the real League and have them finish with being offered a spot, but staying because this is their team now.
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I would want to do so much more research into various characters that could be part of this team.
The thing about Azrael, is that while I have reluctantly become the sort of person who rotates Jean-Paul Valley around in my mind in my free time, I still don't get why he's the guy who got a 100 issue solo run. Like is he coasting off of being Batman during Knightfall fame? Was there some deep contingent of Azrael comics fans in the 90s that I just don't know about? I feel like there's just way cooler characters who could've gotten a 100 issue solo run.
Anyway, this is just a preface to my real point which is that I think that Azrael should've been a team comics character. I just think he would be more interesting to read about if there were about six other poor saps who had to deal with the fact that he would occasionally go all avenging angel mode and randomly get caught of up in weird Cult of St Dumas-y shit.
What team should he be on? This is when I reveal that I'm not super familiar with the landscape of dc's team comics (that aren't focused on teen's/young adults). I'm not sure what team comics were even running around that time. Hmmm. Options…
Batman calls up the Justice Leage like 'I have more important things to spending my time on than hanging out with you so you can have this random knock-off Batman instead.'
I read some Justice League International comics when I was tracking down Huntress' appearence, and it might be fun to stick him in the goofier atmosphere of them, but also, I don't think the comics was running anymore by the end of knightfall
Maybe Batman just puts him in charge of the secret Bat strike force, like, idk Outsiders redux? Weren't there a bunch of replacement supermen left over from the Death of Superman event? (Which I haven't read, but eh~). Maybe one of them can join him and we get knockoff Justice League or something.
Anyway, I am accepting suggestions.
Asks have been turned on for those who have questions about the AU.