In the wake of twin announcements that Andy Diggle has left Action Comics and Joshua Hale Fialkov has exited Green Lantern Corps and Red Lanterns before their first issues could arrive on shelves, Nick Spencer recalled his similarly aborted plans for Supergirl in 2010.
The Morning Glories writer, who penned a well-reviewed Jimmy Olsen story in Action Comics -- even as DC Comics eliminated co-features -- was named in October 2010 to replace Sterling Gates on Supergirl only to be removed two months later, before his run could begin (he ultimately shared co-writing credit on Issue 60 with James Peaty).
Taking to his blog on Wednesday, Spencer shared his idea for a Supergirl story that would have featured such other young characters as Klarion, Arrowette and, judging from Amy Reeder's unpublished cover, Robin, Miss Martian, Blue Beetle, Static and Batgirl.
"My secret hope was that the whole thing could work as a back-door pilot of sorts for a new Young Justice series," he writes. "That obviously didn’t happen."
"The idea for the story was pretty simple: Kara learns how to be a leader, Spencer recalls. "She had, to that point, been almost exclusively used as either a solo character, or in a supporting role on a team. I felt like someone wearing that ‘S’ on their chest would find people looking to them for answers when things got bad." There are more details at the link.
Spencer, who writes Secret Avengers for Marvel as well as Morning Glories and Bedlam at Image, has been critical of DC, advising creators in January "to be extremely careful in doing business there.”