This is what I want from my Wager Master vs Rambler episode. Wager Master tries to outdo the Rambler, but the Rambler keeps winning. And then he keeps leading Wager Master into getting deeper and deeper in the metaphorical hole, so that Ramber can get the thing out of Wager Master that he is really after.
I feel that we (the fans, myself included) spend so much time talking about Guise, that we seem to forget about the potential of his godlike counterpart.
Gloomweaver v. Æternus made me go back and listen to Psylence, which leads to requesting Disparation vol. 2 #71: 2 Vis, 1 bod, i.e. double Visionary consciousnesses sharing one physical form cooperatively.
A Day in the Life of Joe King
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I assume you mean before the unfortunate piano incident. I’m still waiting on something that was mentioned long ago, which is a story told through the eyes of the bartender at The Wretched Hive. I think they could write a neat issue with vignettes from the perspective of said bartender, paparazzo Joe, and Andrew Jones, a.k.a. Equity, for example.
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Oddly enough, I do not in fact mean before the unfortunate piano incident.
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Does Joe King even still exist after that, though? I mean, people saw a piano fall on that guy. Humans don’t just get up and walk away from that!
Besides, the only real reference I think we have to his former life is the camera on Say Cheese! I’m not sure if the Megalopolis apartment is still in Joseph King’s name and Guise just squats there for the remainder of the lease (or until it’s wiped out by Wager Master).
If they did have a DitL for Guise, I assume he’d do his usual Fourth Wall breaking and want to know why the writers/artists were following him around all day.
I will say that the Day in the Life episodes refer to a very specific set of options. (Absolute Zero, Argent Adept, Benchmark, Bunker, Captain Cosmic, Expatriette, Fanatic, Haka, Legacy, NightMist, Ra, Tachyon, Tempest, Unity, Wraith)
But a general story that features Joe King as the main character while still doing his paparazzi shenanigans would still be interesting.
They just mentioned that Guise has an alter ego in this week’s episode, and I realized an episode about him could be interesting.
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Yeah just clarifying so anyone who wanted to suggest such an idea would know how to phrase it.
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Guess “24 Hours Spotlighting the Goings-On of Joseph King” might be better.
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So, if they actually go through with the idea of having Writer’s Rooms for each month be an issue that came out that month, I went through the comic issues we’ve seen in DE for each Event, Critical Event, 1st Appearance Variant (abbreviated as 1A), and Notable Defeat (summarized as Incap). See what the distribution actually looks like. Hopefully this can be a useful tool if that does happen.
January:
- Freedom Five #285 (1974) (Absolute Zero Incap)
- Prime Wardens Vol. 1 #1 (1986) (Akash’Buta Event)
- Built in a Day #1 (1990) (Chairman Event)
- Darkwatch Vol. 1 #7 (2000) (Harpy 1A)
February:
- Literally Nothing, weird.
March:
- Indestructible Bunker #29 (1955) (Bunker 1A)
- Freedom Five #107 (1959) (Legacy Incap)
- Stranger in a Strange World #1 (1965) (Tempest 1A)
- Conflux #1 (1970) (Captain Cosmic 1A)
- Conflux #3 (1972) (Captain Cosmic Incap)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #344 (1975) (Baron Blade Critical Event)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #21 (1981) (Expatriette 1A)
- Justice Comics #526 (1999) (Voss Critical Event)
- Prime Wardens Vol. 1 #171 (2000) (Ambuscade Critical Event)
April:
- Cosmic Tales Vol. 1 #232 (1960) (Tachyon Incap)
- Arcane Tales Vol. 1 #200 (1964) (Ra Incap)
- Moonfall #1 (1968) (Baron Blade Event)
- Toll of Destiny #3 (1973) (Argent Adept Incap)
- Singularity #1 (1976) (Omnitron Event)
- Freedom Five #408 (1984) (Omnitron Critical Event)
- Savage Hake #1 (1988) (Ambuscade Event)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #212 (1991) (Setback 1A)
- Tome of the Bizarre Vol. 3 #193 (2004) (Terrorform Event)
- Arcane Tales Vol. 2 #508 (2007) (Kismet Critical Event)
- Alpha: The Wolf-Woman #19 (2010) (Apex Event)
- Darkwatch Vol. 1 #142 (2011) (Apex Critical Event)
May:
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #145 (1986) (Mr. Fixer 1A)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #189 (1989) (Mr. Fixer Incap)
- Freedom Five #445 (1987) (Dawn Event)
June:
- Indestructible Bunker #200 (1969) (Bunker Incap)
- Battle Unending #5 (1970) (Haka Incap)
- Freedom Five Annual #11 (1990) (Unity 1A)
- Freedom Five Annual #12 (1991) (Unity Incap)
- Abomination of Desolation #1 (1994) (Spite Critical Event)
- Darkwatch Vol. 1 #12 (2000) (Harpy Incap)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #334 (2001) (Plague Rat Critical Event)
July:
- Arcane Tales Vol. 1 #83 (1954) (Ra 1A)
- Fanatic #27 (1977) (Fanatic Incap)
- Darkwatch Vol. 1 #37 (2002) (Fey Event)
August:
- Freedom Four Annual #1 (1957) (Tachyon 1A)
- Freedom Five #100 (1958) (Absolute Zero 1A)
- Freedom Five Annual #6 (1962) (Nightmist 1A)
- Stranger in a Strange World #6 (1965) (Tempest Incap)
- Prelude of the Soulless (1983) (Spite Event)
- Tome of the Bizarre Vol. 3 #5 (1988) (Plague Rat Event)
September:
- Mystery Comics Vol. 1 #74 (1952) (Wraith Incap)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 1 #338 (1974) (Fanatic 1A)
- Rook City Renegades #37 (1986) (Expatriette Incap)
- Nightmist #100 (1993) (Gloomweaver Critical Event)
- Revocorp Presents: Earth Inc. (1996) (Akash’Buta Critical Event)
October:
- Justice Comics #102 (1948) (Legacy 1A)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 1 #27 (1948) (Wraith 1A)
- Arcane Tales Vol. 1 #14 (1948) (Haka 1A)
- The Fabric of Despair #1 (1973) (Gloomweaver Event)
- Tome of the Bizarre Vol. 2 #190 (1974) (Nightmist Incap)
- Wolf-Woman #1 (1974) (Alpha 1A)
- Night’s Plutonian Shore (1998) (Matriarch Event)
November:
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #328 (1973) (Chairman Critical Event)
- Wolf-Woman #38 (1977) (Alpha Incap)
- Run of Luck #1 (1997) (Kismet Event)
- Sunrise #1 (1999) (Dawn Critical Event)
- A Murder Most Fowl (2007) (Matriarch Critical Event)
- Tome of the Bizarre Vol. 3 #248 (2008) (Terrorform Critical Event)
December:
- Toll of Destiny #1 (1972) (Argent Adept 1A)
- Freedom Five #448 (1986) (Voss Event)
- Mystery Comics Vol. 2 #220 (1991) (Setback Incap)
- Tome of the Bizarre Vol. 4 #25 (2011) (Fey Critical Event)
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February is the worst month of the year, but it’s an honest month. 
On a more serious note, I am not sure how voting’s gonna be affected if they go through with this change. It seems a bit too limiting to me personally, like “we have this potential story but it cannot go here because that month’s series X is already taken by plot Y” or something similar.
I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to try it for a year and then evaluate? 
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It was just a thought and I don’t think you even need a year to evaluate. Just try a month.
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Yeah, as I noted in the main threads, I like the idea of monthly themes in general (I think the holiday months are not so much fun purely because people are that much into holidays, but because themes as a concept are fun), but I don’t know about this particular specific type of theming.
As at that point they might as well skip the topic suggestion and give a straight list of what issues are possible.
Or maybe they can do two polls a month. One is a regularly poll for two/three episodes of the month, and then the second is “this is a list of issues that would work for the month/year assigned to this month”.
That could be an interesting hybrid.
If they do go with this idea, WT’s bot has every issue we currently know information about, and it’d be worth trying to cobble it into an actual webpage result thing.
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I guess that would work. As long as it’s not February. 
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I’ll also add that given how noncommittal about whether it’ll be Naturalist or Captain Cosmic this month also makes me inclined to feel they may not want to limit themselves quite like that.
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I agree with not pigeonholing themselves into a certain subset each month, but I do enjoy when they make holiday-themed recordings for the episodes that release near them.
That said, I’d kind of like the intentionally heroic & competent without negative repercussions Naturalist/Capt. Cosmic story to incorporate Christmas elements. I think we heard before in the letters about Space Santa, but not had a full story about them. This could be the perfect opportunity for a mashup of the Star Wars Holiday Special, Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, and KISS Saves Santa.
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Yeah, I was a little disappointed they punted entirely on the holiday thing.
As while I can get them being burnt out on making Christmas stories specifically as it’s probably hard to make them actually sound different from each other, I wouldn’t have minded a month that was just sort of warm fuzzies in general. More light-hearted stories, basically.
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- Writers’ Room: A Story Wherein 3-5 of the Villains of the Multiverse Villains Team Up
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