A complete list of the names of all of the characters original to Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

1.) Believe Bridesmaid

2.) Quarter Queen

3.) Backyard Bottomslash

4.) Blackberry Brown

5.) Beyond Birthday

and, my favorite,

6.) Blues-harp Babysplit


Japanese author NISIOISIN sure has some strange ideas of what American names are like.

Dear next Booster Gold writer, may I make a suggestion or 65?

When seeking cannon fodder to fill-up an alternate timeline in the current Booster Gold story arc, writers Jeff Katz and Geoff Johns unearthed Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty’s Wild Dog, a super-vigilante character that starred in all of five comics in the late ‘80s.

I can see that the appeal of the Booster Gold title could be quite limited, but the fact that it’s a book in which Wild Dog can appear is one of its greatest strengths. It’s a comic book about the time stream of the DCU, which means it’s also a comic book about DC comics and the company’s publishing history and, thanks to the smaller outfits they’ve gobbled up over the years, that’s a lot of comics and characters. No matter when the comics were published or when they were set, characters and story elements from them can turn up in Booster Gold.

So far our hero’s teamed up with the Silver Age Flash, lost a drinking contest to deformed cowboy Jonah Hex, nearly got killed by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s notorious Batman: The Killing Joke one-shot and crossed-over with 14-year-old event comic Zero Hour.

Recently it’s been announced that Katz and Johns will be leaving the title after just four more issues. Does that mean the series is doomed, or will a new writer be able to keep it going?

I hope the latter. After all, there are a lot more stories I’d like to see. Sixty-five of them, to be exact.

For example, in no particular order…

The 853rd Century’s Legion of Executive Familiars
Enemy Ace and Balloon Buster
Biff Bradley
Slam Bradley
The Crimson Avenger (hat, not fin)
The original Global Guardians line-up
Viking Prince
The All-Star Squadron
The Young All-Stars
The Justice Experience
Zatara, two-fisted magician
The Red Bee
Vandal Savage and Ra’s Al Ghul…in the Jazz Age
Uncle Sam
Robby Reed
Pablo Picasso (stealth crossover with The Salon)
The Losers
The original Red Tornado (with the bucket helmet)
Pre-butler Alfred Pennyworth
The Old Gods (the ones who died to make way for the New Gods)
Arion and/or Atlan
Elongated Man and Sue (Showcase Presents era)
The Haney Batman, complete with Whirly-Bat
A Post-Infinite Crisis version of Wonder Tot
Streaky the Super-Cat and/or Comet the Super-Horse
Davy Crocket
Abraham Lincoln
QWSP (mischievous, not malevolent)
The Jester
Golden Age Airwave
Some New Bloods (I like Nightblade, Sparx and Anima best)
Rex the Wonder Dog, from back in the day
Superboy and The Ravers (featuring Rex the Wonder Dog from the ‘90s)
The lady versions of Wildcat and Dr. Mid-Nite (and their terrible, terrible costumes)
The Golden Age Manhunter (the one with the dog)
Signalman (pre-Meltzer)
Claw the Unconquered
The Vigilante (cowboy version)
The Inferior Five
Captain Compass
King Faraday
The (late) Question
The Justice League that only existed in 52 #24
The Justice League from right after Superman died (the one with Agent Liberty, The Ray and Black Condor)
Tomahawk
Aztek
Golden Arrow
Azrael, The Eradicator and Artemis
Red-suit Hawkman
The Blackhawks
Sugar and Spike
Edgar Allen Poe
Jonah Hex from Hex
Wesley Dodds, all Sandman Mystery Theatre-ed out
The Forgotten Heroes (this version)
Conner Hawke, Tim Drake, Koryak, Impulse and Cassie Sandsmark
Grown-up Lian Harper
The Unknown Soldier and Human Target
Elongated Man and Plastic Man
Superman, King of the World
Blue Devil (Year One)
The original Robotman
The Heckler
Primal Force

Their powers are all pretty self-explanatory.

I’m not a big fan of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Not because I don’t like the concept or the comics featuring them that I’ve read, but simply because I haven’t read all that many comics featuring them.

But from what I gather, there are relatively few writers who can and should write this somewhat challenging franchise: Keith Giffen, Blog@Newsarama.com’s Paul Levitz, that Jim Shooter kid, James Kochalka, Christopher Bird and I bet Adam Warren could write a mean Legion.

But you know who should never, ever write the Legion under any circumstances?

Me.

And here are 141 reasons why:

Alligator Lad
Cloaca Lad
Nicotine Lad
Aqualad Lad
Undergrad Lad
Non-Trad Lad
Plaid Lad
Glad Lad
Mad Lad
Sad Lad
Fad Lad
Rad Lad
Luggage Lad
Nad Lad
Lass Lad
Ladle Lad
Lady Lad
Vlad Lad
Crab Lad
Laddie Lad
Citrus Lad
Delicious Pastry Lad
Salamander Lad
Elf Lad
Very Handsome Lad
Old-Timey Lad
Lummox Lad
Lincoln Lad
Triad Lad
Bombardier Beetle Boy
Bettie Page Boy
Hamlet Boy
Drummer Boy
Antebellum Boy
Batman Boy
Man Boy
Lady Boy
Chef Boy
Toy Boy
Troy Boy
Goya Boy
Oscar De La Hoya Boy
Girl Boy
Boy Girl Boy
Hobo Boy
Soy Boy
Morse Code Boy
Bigfoot Boy
Ombudsman Boy
Oy Boy
Chomsky Boy
Play Boy
Butter Boy
Brilliant But Cancelled Boy
Bad Role Model Boy
Joy Boy
Antler Boy
Throws Like A Girl Boy
Cholera Epidemic Boy
Canary Boy
Nancy Boy
Totally Boss Boy
Braniacisatotalhomo Boy
Owlbear Boy
Rock Hard Abs Boy
Elderly Boy
Baby Boy
Void Boy
Viking Boy
Biplane Boy
Butane Boy
Pain-in-the-Ass Lass
Tiara Lass
Mine Tragedy Lass
Lemur Lass
Licorice Lass
Rassafrassin’ Lass
Sassafras Lass
Whiplash Lass
Glass Lass
Grass Lass
Nasty Lass
The Complete Works of Paul Verhoeven Lass
Grizzly Bear Lass
No-Class Lass
Librarian Lass
Outcast Lass
Outkast Lass
Class Action Lawsuit Lass
Crone Girl
Fast Girl
Burly Girl
Japanese Girl
Triceratops Girl
Ermine Girl
Spaghetti Girl
Track and Field Girl
Poltergeist Girl
Bourbon Girl
Damn Girl
School Girl
Call Girl
Scantily Clad Girl
Scrimshaw Girl
Goose Girl
Next Door Girl
Boy Girl
Casper Van Dien Girl
Pearl Girl
Earl Girl
Whirlwind Girl
Coelancanth Girl
Hurl Girl
Girder Girl
Genghis Khan Girl
Superman Girl
Pendulum Girl
World Girl
Calendar Girl
Colander Girl
Drag Strip Girl
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Girl
Lame Girl
Tomboy Girl
Women’s Studies Girl
Centaur Girl
Cupcake Kid
Carpenter Kid
Chupacabra Kid
Squid Kid
Canterbury Tales Kid
Super Kid
Capoeira Kid
Casablanca Kid
Gender-Confusion Kid
Cancelled Comics Cavalcade Kid
Ethnic Stereotype Kid
Chris Claremont Kid
Caveman Kid
Dirigible Kid



(Advance apologies if any of these are actually real Legionnaires, or if I inadvertently stole any one else’s fake Legionnaires; I didn’t feel like googling them all. Also, apologies for this post in general, but I just had to get that out of my system)