Hey, why not go whole hog on the stereotype thing and at least have some fun with it.

The modern day Newsboy Legion were the sons of the original group (later explicitly revealed to be clones of the originals), S.T.R.I.P.E.'s son is Mike Dugan (Just checked my copy of JSA #81 & he's in there), and I believe that the Plastic Man featured in Brave & The Bold #123 is the son of the original who was featured in DC's 60s revival.

Does anyone else here remember the huge B&B #123 debate that raged in the letter pages of Batman & the Outsiders back in the day? Good times.

I’m disappointed nobody’s suggested a Shamrock versus the Serpent Society story yet. If we’re doing blatant Irish references, that seems like an obvious one.

The original cover theme game was going to involve snakes!

It was going to be a GI Joe cover, a Captain America cover, and then it all just fell apart on me.

Not to mention that the Cap bit is a bit too much on the obscure side.

You might want to fix question #3 even though everybody obviously knows what you mean. I have nothing else to contribute :p

Ha!

Thanks, Da Fug!

-Teaming up with Zombie William Butler Yeats to defeat a giant robotic Maud Gonne.

-Battling a team of evil hurling-themed super villains.

-A time-displaced Queen Elizabeth allies with Klaw and Turner D. Century in a plot to destroy all the musicians in Ireland. Guest starring Dazzler and The Pogues.

-Introduction of a new villain the Dark Lord of the Dance. He can tap over 38 taps per second, and he can kick you in the face just as fast.

Don't worry about it. Your idea could be used as a new origin for Shamrock and then lead to a story about her being a character searching for a new motivation/cause

I meant no offense, though you're quite correct re: current state of the IRA. Perhaps that kind of story would work better if set in an alternate time, such as the seventies.

You could sexy up that costume a little bit, for starters! Give the fanboys what they want!

Make the shamrock on the front a cutout a la Power Girl, and you're there.

Rather than a mystical bent, as the others have taken, I'd make her power less of a subconscious thing (where good things just "happen" to her) and more of a struggle: she can sense probabilities, and through practice knows how to take advantage of the best ones. Someone chasing her wouldn't just *happen* to twist his ankle and fall, she'd need to lead him to the place where that was most likely to happen. She has a great enough sense of cause and effect that she (with her ghosts' help) can nearly extrapolate the future - that even helps with her hairdressing, because she can spot trends and hot looks before they arrive. You could even have a flashback somewhere about how much she hates Scarlet Witch, because Wanda would arbitrarily change the things Shamrock had seen, basically canceling her powers at a whim.

So, the first story: she sees a man walking down the street, and he trips over a crack in the sidewalk. She starts thinking about the events that led to him putting his foot down in that exact spot: how many steps it was from the corner, any half-steps or larger steps he'd had to take, anyone he had to walk around, everything. But she also begins thinking forward, about where he's going to be next, what the odds are of anything specific happening to him. In the process, she realizes he's going to be killed in a stickup in two days - she now has an appointment to keep to foil the robbery and keep him safe.

And it's like that for almost everyone she meets: her kitchen calendar is full of handwritten notes and post-its about where she needs to be when in order to "luckily" show up and make people's lives better.

And then at the end of issue one, she meets someone she can't read in either direction...

As for whether or not Shamrock is salvageable, with the right creators ANY character can be saved but it would take one hell of a job with Shamrock considering she's a pretty rubbish character to begin with in my opinion.

It's like Morrison on Animal Man. The only things in place were a costume, an origin, powers, and a short lived team affiliation. All the things that kept him from being generic were created by Morrison. He could just as easily created someone brand new and done the exact same stories.

I think it would be much tougher to salvage characters who have gone through multiple creative teams and "new directions".