Agreed though – I was reading that and thinking of Prototype as well.

Now I’ve read your ideas and you know what? I honestly would buy the book. Now, lots of people would say that, and probably mean it, but just saying that without analysis doesn’t mean a lot. After all, crappy webcomics get loads of positive fanwankery and that’s not a guidepost we should mark by.
First, your writing on this blog has constantly impressed me. It’s insightful, reasoned, and passionate about whatever the subject is.
Second, your pitches show an obvious love of character and continuity, so I have the sense that your ideas are not there simply to blatantly grab fan-attention without the substance to back it up.
Thirdly, you understand what comics are about. I am especially fond of the “toybox” idea you have, because it is something I believe in too. If you are going to take away something from comics, you must give something better for future writers to carry on. Because there *will* be future writers.
Finally, the ideas are substantially zany and absolutely fucktastically awesome and deserve publishing in seriously the only medium that I can think of to do such ideas justice. Movies and television, the other visual medium, are always constricted by so many factors that it makes it implausible to bring odd and quirky ideas to any fruitful submission. Novels and other literary formats are limited by the written word. The word is one of the most amazing things to come out of humanity, but it is hampered by its limited capacity to convey. Weird, but it is. You can have amazing insights into the human mind and emotion, but try expositing a scene of utter beauty and destruction across a galactic scale. Most sci-fi writers fail. Some get it, but they tend to be fleeting scenes, the majesty so brilliant that the writer can only capture a glimpse. Here is where the comic book makes its mark. The comic book marries the two, the written and the artistic narrative. Rarely successfully, admittedly. But just the attempt is often worth it. I think of Grant Morrison, and his stuff with Superman Beyond and Final Crisis. Some things could never have been done elsewhere. This is something that truly belongs in comic books.

Well done, sir.

Care to give us a month’s worth of reasons you should write a different title? Please?

Also, only you can return The Legion to its state of pure awesome such as when I began reading it, I hope they do pick you someday.

That’s just messed up. Nifty, but messed up.