Greatest Heroes on Earth...3

Crime Syndicate

There are a few reasons why this title should be written.

1)  Stories where the villain gets to win can be very entertaining, and Earth 3 is based around the idea of villains winning.

2)  Mirror universe stories are equally entertaining, and Earth 3 has hundreds of stories that can be told about the mirror duplicates of popular mainstream DC characters.

3)  With My52 Justice League shying away from having a Big 3 team of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, the Crime Syndicate is a place to showcase stories that are, more or less, about those three.

As you can tell by that last point, I'm not going to make the Crime Syndicate a simple dark carbon copy of my Justice League.  While there are dark opposites at play here, I don't want this series to feel beholden to what's happening in other titles.  Plus, in a survival of the fittest world like Earth 3, I can't imagine anybody less than Ultraman, Owlman and Superwoman leading the pack.  The CSA also typically includes not-Flash Johnny Quick and Green Lantern expy Power Ring.

That they're currently on the third person to wear the power ring makes me smile and sets up a nice running story a la the drummer from Spinal Tap.

Earth 2 had some weird metaphysics about how good always has to win on our Earth
and evil always wins on their world.  Quietly ignored...

In my pitch for the My52 Justice League, I hinted that Earth 3 would be the origin point for the villain Dr. Impossible and possibly hint at a Final Crisis-like event over there where whatever passes for the good version of Darkseid attacked the Earth.  Although I'm not going to mirror Earth 1 history here too closely, that seems as good a starting point as any, as we can pick up our villainous protagonists trying as they try to reclaim their control of the Earth.  For the first time ever, we get to start on the ground floor(-ish) of the Crime Syndicate take over and watch how they go about it.

Sounds like fun.