Anonymous
asked:
Do you think Jim Lee's WILDCATS were a particularly good fit for DC? Obviously they were more Marvely by design, and DC has a long history of hammering purchased characters into their continuity, but WILDCATS in particular always seemed like an awkward fit that they still don't know what to do with.

While I don’t think they were integrated particularly effectively–partially because the folks doing so were trying to accommodate all sorts of elements from the history of the series–I do think that the core WildC.A.T.s concept–the Daemonite war, the subspecies made up of part-human, part-Daemonite descendents with super-powers, the secret war on Earth–could all have been integrated into the DCU in an effective way. If nothing else, the DCU doesn’t really have a group of characters like the WildC.A.T.s, so there was ground for them to stand on. (Similarly, I feel like Gen 13 could also have been ported over in a more intact way–trying to dovetail that concept into all of the Cadmus stuff made a muddle of both, in my opinion.)

The Wildstorm concept that I think fits the worst into the DCU is The Authority/Stormwatch–and, go figure, that’s the one they’ve had the most success with.