Add another title to my imaginary DC Comics imprint (aka Books I Would Totally Buy): On her LiveJournal, Alice Hunt presents her take on a book starring a Ralph and Sue Dibny very different from what we’ve seen in the past few years:
… What I’d do is start off where they met, the debutante ball, and after an adventure that includes Ralph in a waiter’s outfit and Sue more than proving her mettle under fire, they run off and get hitched. They’re young, they’ve done a kind of stupid thing, but they’re pretty happy all the same. And since Sue’s loaded, they decide to blow her Daddy’s money by traveling all over the world to see what they can see. Instead of jetsetting and coincidentally stumbling over a mystery in every location ever, which got pretty ridiculous after 2 or 3 issues in the old series, they’d actively seek out these mysteries — I imagine Ralph trying to convince Sue that they should summer in the Pine Barrens to seek out the Jersey Devil, while Sue overrides him and they end up in Monaco trying to find the Irish Crown Jewels. (Every now and again, of course, Ralph succeeds, and they end up staying in the US. He’s a homebody.)
I particularly like that in her world, the book would be set in the early to mid-1960s. Oh, and it would occasionally feature The Question as a guest star. I want this comic.
The accompanying illustration is, I believe, by Meg Hunt.
(Link via John Jakala.)
January 29th, 2007 at 10:55 am
What a grand concept…I would be a faithful fan of a book like this (it won’t happen, of course, but that won’t stop me from dreaming that DC would someday let Ms. Hunt do ALL-STAR RALPH & SUE…)
January 29th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
What a great idea for a book. I’d totally buy this, too. Of course, for it to come to pass, they’d have to actually let DC characters start, you know, occasionally enjoy their lives once again.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Those sisters know what they’re talking about.