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Post by Cei-U! on Sept 4, 2014 8:43:58 GMT -5
I admittedly haven't read a lot of these but I liked the ones that've crossed my path. It's almost always the art that draws me to them (Rude! Perez! Garcia-Lopez! Simonson!), except for Batman/Captain America where it wasn't really the selling point. If I have to pick a favorite, I'll go with Superman/Hulk.
Cei-U!
I summon the terrific team-ups!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2014 9:30:23 GMT -5
I haven't read any of the DC/Marvel crossovers for the same reasons Confessor mentions not caring for them. If I were to read one, it would almost certainly be Stern's Hulk vs Superman.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 4, 2014 9:54:37 GMT -5
Batman/Captain America was excellent. Hulk/Superman was simply gorgeous to look at.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 4, 2014 10:56:57 GMT -5
I guess I need to pull that Batman and Cap out of the box and read it again, for all the positive posts it's getting. For some reason I remembered nothing of it until Prince Hal posted the cover, and I was like ... I have that comic! It is to 40s comics what Raiders was to the serials, an affectionate tribute combining modern technique with the innocent fun of the original. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 4, 2014 11:13:21 GMT -5
I guess I need to pull that Batman and Cap out of the box and read it again, for all the positive posts it's getting. For some reason I remembered nothing of it until Prince Hal posted the cover, and I was like ... I have that comic! It is to 40s comics what Raiders was to the serials, an affectionate tribute combining modern technique with the innocent fun of the original. That may be why I don't remember it, as I don't think I've read it once again since I bought it back in the 90's, and had no history of the characters from that time period. So while I may have enjoyed the story itself, the history alluded to in the book was a mystery to me. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Sept 4, 2014 11:19:14 GMT -5
Darkseid vs. Galactus: The Hunger by John Byrne. It felt like more than just a "wouldn't it be cool if" excuse to team up a couple of major characters. Rather, it was one of those concepts that immediately clicks: "What if Galactus tried to eat Apokolips?" And it was great to read a crossover that focused on world-class villains, with only second-string cosmic Kirby hero characters supporting the story (Orion and the Silver Surfer, with neither operating in the traditional super-hero roles here).
I remember paging through a compilation of DC/Marvel crossovers in the bookstore, and as I skimmed one of the stories, I found myself utterly baffled because I didn't recognize anyone in the entire story! I thought I knew my DC and Marvel characters pretty well, at least all of those prominent enough to be featured in a special crossover. Nope, this was Gen 13 meets Generation X, two groups to whom I had never given the merest of glances.
My favorite "secret crossover" was the overlap of events that tied Aquaman #56 (March/April 1971) and Sub-Mariner #72 (September 1974), making my fave Jim Aparo arguably the artist of the first DC/Marvel crossover, although no one, even the creators, realized it at the time. As I recall, it was many years after that issue of Sub-Mariner that anyone noticed how writer Steve Skeates had tied both stories together, showing the back story behind a few panels that had been left mysterious and unexplained in Aquaman, and repeating verbatim the language and narration from the earlier story to firmly establish the intentional nature of the link. Notable also is the fact that both issues were the final issues in those runs for the two most significant water-breathing superheroes in comics.
The DC/Marvel crossover that I always most wanted to see, but never happened (although they probably met in the JLA/Avengers miniseries) would have been The Atom and Ant-Man. Beyond the obvious similarity in their super powers, there were some other interesting parallels and divergences between the characters. Both characters were contemporaries, starting their solo runs in 1962. They were the first notable superheroes to divorce their wives. Both resigned from activity as superheroes, but the Atom "retired" to a life at "permanently" small size in a barbaric society, and Ant-Man "retired" to a life at "permanently" normal size to return to science.
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Post by hondobrode on Sept 4, 2014 17:35:22 GMT -5
Wow ! I'd never thought of all those parallels.
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Post by chadwilliam on Sept 6, 2014 23:30:19 GMT -5
Without question - Batman Vs The Incredible Hulk. That fight scene gets derided by those more familar with the Hulk than I, but I can not look at that Garcia Lopez artwork and argue with what I see (even when he turns the comic into a Dali landscape). And unlike later crossovers which featured cheap knockoff versions of DC and Marvel properties (Mullet Superman, Ben Reilly Spider-Man, Pirate Aquaman, etc) this one had Batman, Joker, Hulk in their prime. It also understood that the stakes had to be raised to justify the need for this crossover and the Joker (at a time when every Joker tale seemed worthy of the status of instant classic) being granted complete power over all of reality accomplishes that. Treating the Hulk not as a character contractually obligated to share as much space on the page as Batman but as a wild card to be manipulated as much by the Joker as by the Caped Crusader, also indicated that the creators did place importance upon telling a valid story. I'm really not one to care about fight scenes, but this comic proved to be the exception. Batman is most compelling when the odds against him and what greater danger is there for anyone than to find themselves the target of the Hulk? |
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