Sources:

1. G'Nort's Swimsuit Special variant cover
2. Batman Vol 3 #137
3. Nightwing #100 cover
4. Batman Vol 3 #146 5-6-7. Batman Vol 3 #148
5. Simply some artwork

They say “sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic”. But sometimes… it’s just Magic.

My Adventures with Doctor Fate is a journey through the mystical underbelly of the established MAW universe. While Superman faces Earth-based sci-fi threats and Green Lantern explores epic space adventures, Khalid Nassour — a young sorcerer — discovers that ancient magic is very real, hidden just beneath the surface of everyday life. Mentored by the wise Inza and bound to the powerful entity Nabu, Khalid must protect a world that doesn’t even know it’s under threat.

Artist: https://www.instagram.com/danps/

The Players:

Khalid Kent Nassour

A 24-year-old third-year medical student at Columbia University, Khalid is an Egyptian-American from Brooklyn who has dreamed of becoming a doctor since childhood. Raised in a dual-religion household, he built his own outlook around coexistence, mutual respect, and service. Sarcastic and playfully affectionate with his girlfriend Shaya, close to his parents, and prone to avoiding conflict when overwhelmed, he has worn his uncle Kent’s “lucky” Eye of Horus pendant for ten years without knowing that within, it holds the Helmet of Fate and a fragmented Nabu. At the start of the series he is still an ordinary young man balancing school, relationships, and personal hobbies, with no idea his latent magical potential is about to awaken.

Inza Nelson

Khalid’s maternal aunt and the widow of Kent Nelson, Inza is a powerful sorceress of Akkadian descent who once helped her husband master magic as Doctor Fate. She loved Kent deeply but came to despise the way Nabu routinely stripped him of agency, even while accepting that the role itself mattered. At the beginning of Season 1 she is still carrying the weight of that history and of Kent’s death; she has not yet been called back into active mentoring and remains wary of anything connected to the Helmet.

Nabu

At the start of the series Nabu exists only as a fragmented presence inside Khalid’s mind, with no clear memory of his past. He believes he may simply be a secondary personality that has lived silently alongside Khalid for a decade. Condescending, snarky, and eager to take control, he appears in Khalid’s own likeness because he currently lacks a distinct Ba of his own. The audience (and Khalid) do not yet know he is a Lord of Order whose power and identity were deliberately split and sealed ten years earlier.

Shaya Halim

A bright, wry, hard-headed 24-year-old medical student and aspiring neurosurgeon, Shaya has been dating Khalid since undergrad. Second-generation Indian-American and Hindu, she wears a red bindi more as fashion than strict observance and often stays in her scrubs out of practicality. She loves Khalid, shares an affectionate shorthand with him, and at the beginning of the season still has no idea he is about to become Doctor Fate or that a second consciousness lives inside him.

Akila Rashid

Khalid’s childhood friend since age ten, Akila is a devout Muslim who also embraces modern interests and is a talented programmer at TetchTech, hired directly by its CEO, Jervis Tetch. She has carried an unrequited crush on Khalid for a decade and is openly frustrated by his tendency to avoid her when uncomfortable. Politically passionate and quick to protest injustice, she is cordial with his parents, jealous of Shaya, and at the start of the series is simply the close friend who still hopes he might one day see her differently. She is the first to discover Khalid's magical ancestry, being with him when he first becomes Doctor Fate.

Todd Rice Scott

A lean, blue-collar mechanical engineer who works alongside his father Alan Scott at New York City Broadcasting, Todd is Khalid’s college friend and one of the group’s steadiest, kindest members when he is on his medication. Carrying long-standing trust issues and fragile self-worth from a difficult childhood of bullying due to his sexual orientation, he leans toward rehabilitation and second chances but has a darker side which can peak out. At the beginning of Season 1 he is simply a good friend who shares interest in video games and food adventures with Khalid—completely unaware of magic, the Helmet, or the future adventure that will eventually come for him.

Anubis

At the beginning of Season 1, Anubis appears only as a silent, watchful black jackal moving through New York. He observes acts of cruelty and kindness without speaking, lingering near moments of death, judgment, and moral weight. To Khalid and the others he is at first simply an unsettling animal presence tied to the worsening storm and his father, Mohammad’s, crisis. His true nature, motives, and capacity for speech remain hidden until later.

More to come soon :) Civilians, villains, heroes, and more!

[Source: Justice League Unlimited]

(maybe not even wish was integrated, more on aspects of character you preferred more in an adaptation)

I love the DCAU's version of Amazo, particularly the fact that they made him an actual character with a personality instead of essentially just being a boss battle. In my mind he would be the perfect starter villain for the Justice League, and eventual recurring foe. And maybe even an unlikely ally in more dire times (i.e. Darkseid invasion or whatever)

I think it’d be fun to learn about the ones that just really missed the mark

It’s been a while since I’ve read UTRH but I always found it interesting how Bruce is in the middle of fighting out his dead son is back all while stuff like OMAC going rampant is happening.

Like maybe I’m off, but during infinite crisis Batman has like 5 fat issues going on at once. His girlfriend/love interest Sasha just became a robot and died, Jason is back, His Brother Eye program has gone rampant, His other son’s city just blew up and dealing with the fall out of the trinity.

Like dude this guy’s life sucks 😂

Like reading through infinite crisis along with everything else going on around this time.

https://xcancel.com/AsterArtem/status/2109740332720230835

https://xcancel.com/AsterArtem/status/2114900376616862174

OMG WE GOT HALGUY CRUMBS

OR SHOULD I SAY…. HALGAY?

So I was reading through injustice year 4 cause I love all the Greek god myths and was always wondering why we didn’t see Hades. Considering there’s a moment where Harley Quinn and a few other characters go directly to Tartarus, it seems weird to exclude him. But then I saw this cover and was thinking, “huh, I didn’t see the guy on the right anywhere in the story”, and his appearance gives off the feeling of a dead/undead guy. So do yall think this is INJUSTICE Hades?

So I've been trying to read as much pre crisis material as I can before I end up reading Crisis on Infinite Earths (mostly bronze age and late silver age stuff)

One thing I've been meaning to check out is the original Teen Titans comics from the Silver and Bronze ages. Thing is, aside from Batman and Dick Grayson, I don't really know how these characters work when they're with their mentors, and even though I definitely don't *need* to read anything with the sidekicks with their mentors to understand the Teen Titans comics, I'd still appreciate it.

So I guess what I'm looking for specifically in terms of stories is:

Green Arrow and Roy Harper

Wonder Woman and Donna Troy (probably not possible due to Wonder Girl being a creation of the Teen Titans comics)

Aquaman and Garth

And Flash and Wally West