So let's talk about DC's first mistake with this experiment. They didn't announce the creative teams in the first round. All you got was the bracket, and a list of titles with a short synopsis. So what happened was people voted for a book they thought sounded cool, and then were completely put off in the second round when the creative teams were announced. The one I remember this flip happening with was Green Lanterns: Underworld on Fire. Kyle fans rallied behind it because Kyle is an after thought these days, only for the second round to reveal the writer had done a bunch of garbage Iceman comics at Marvel about Iceman's newfound homosexuality. Of the 2021 pitches the 2 I was most interested in were Paws Off the Justice League and Animal Man/Lobo. A Jimmy Olsen and Superpets team up sounded like fun, and I like Animal Man and Lobo. Obviusly neither made it far though. What are your favorite pitches from 2021?

The second round was when DC reveled the creative teams. I haven't mentioned this yet, but it is important, voting for Round Robin was held on Twitter, Instagram, and the DC Universe forums. And this lead to normalfags really skewing the results. Things that were winning on DCU were completely blown out of the water thanks to the Twitter and Instagram votes. They didn't balance it in anyway, they just added up the vote total and called it a day. So a comic that was winning on the official DC Comics forums 2 to 1 would end up losing because Twitter and Instagram normalfags chose the pitch with characters they recognized more. Comic fans saw this as a chance to get underused characters a book, but elsewhere it was a popularity contest. The finals were held exclusively on the DCU forums, presumably to try and get more users, but what actually happened is the same people who were trying to give C-listers a shot were at the end left voting from 2 choices they didn't want.

I don't think DC did anything special for round 3, they probably just released more art and some interviews with the creative teams. For the finals though DC released a comic giving you a preview of the finalists, then you'd go sign up for the DCU forums and vote for the comic you wanted to win. I'm sure the finalists aren't a surprise if you looked at the brackets. A Robin team book was a slam dunk that had no business being on this list. And DC was still pushing Suicide Squad hard at this time. The James Gunn Suicide Squad movie had either released a little while ago or was releasing soon. Now let's take a look at the 2021 Round Robin comic.

And that's it for the preview. Which of the finalists would you have voted for? If you voted back in the day, do you remember what you voted for? Tomorrow I'll come back and post the stuff from the 2022 Round Robin.

In 2022 DC took a second and final crack at the Round Robin. 2022 had a weaker selection of pitches in my opinion. 2 Green Lantern pitches weren't needed, Cyborg had just had a comic with a similar pitch, and having another Suicide Squad book after one was in the finals last year was retarded. Out of the pitches Hawkman and Hawkwoman: The Changling was the only one I had much interest in. Wildcat could have been cool too, but it was up against Hawkman, and Captain Carrot I knew wouldn't make it past the first round. What are your favorite pitches from 2022?

Again, creative teams weren't announced until the second round, so like the year before that ruined pitches people had liked. This year was also where all the cheating controversies happened. The cheating was always one way, trying to get comics starring brown or gay people to win, or books created by brown gay people to win. It started small in the second round, but when cheating a little didn't work they began to cheat so much voters were calling the entire thing rigged. Despite me not liking there being two Green Lantern books in the bracket, they both made it to the second round. At the time this took place the Green Lantern book was really bad, so I guess Green Lantern fans were hoping for anything else.

Like the 2021 Round Robin the finals were held exclusively on the DCU forums. And this is where the cheating really got out of hand. Conner getting a shot at a Superboy book had really rallied up his fans, especially after he had been sidelined by Jon Kent for years. On the other hand nobody on the DCU forums was happy about Suicide Squad Dark. They were tired of the Suicide Squad shilling, and they found SSD finding a way to fit Batman into the book with Vampire Batman to be egregious. So a combination of people wanting Conner to get a chance in the spotlight and the general Suicide Squad and Batman fatigue meant the final round started as a complete blowout. Then the SSD author went on twitter to say that an alt universe Raven and Zatanna were going to be dykes in the comic. This was enough to rally up people to try to rig it in favor of SSD. Superboy fans were rightfully upset and called the entire thing rigged. Autists were even figuring out how SSD was getting more votes per hour 2 days into the finals than Superboy was getting on the day the polls launched. Mods on the forums assured users it was totally legitimist, but nobody believed them. Eventually they "found" cheating after being called out relentlessly. The first pic are the early poll results. The middle pic is the results before the botted votes were purged. The third pic is the results after the purge. It is funny that anyone tried to pass such blatant cheating off as legitimate votes, but eventually Superboy prevailed.

And here is the 2022 Round Robin comic. This was released before the final vote for people to get a taste of each comic like last year.

And that's the end of DC's Round Robin. Superboy won and got a mini-series, Blue Beetle from the year before got published because of the movie, and a bunch of the other 2022 pitches got short back-ups at the end of the Superboy issues. None of the back-ups ever resulted in them getting turned into their own comics though. Despite the person in charge of the Round Robin saying in interviews that the whole thing was a success, and they planned to do more, nothing ever came of it. I think the entire thing was more trouble than it was worth only to produce minis with middling success. From this preview which would you have voted for? What did you think of the concept of the Round Robin? Was it a dumb idea destined to fail, or a bad attempt at a good idea?

If you are interested in checking out Robins an anon storytimed it a few years ago. >>27350 Nobody ever storytimed Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow.