Posted: 12 February 2018 at 9:31am | IP Logged | 10
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Mr. Byrne - I did kinda mean to make that a joke. I guess I was a little too subtle (imagine that! ME being subtle!) I'd feel the same outrage about someone cutting up one of your books. And the products are all I'll ever have, unless the opportunity miraculously arises to meet you, Mr. Garcia-Lopez, or others of the remaining classics. (Ramona Fradon, Joe Sinnott, Marie Severin... can't think of too many still on this side of the sod.) However, sir, if you're ever in Greater Cleveland, let me know. Dinner's on me.
Robert B. - Remember that along with the Fantastic Four and Dr. Strange, the West Coast Avengers also got involved in that era. And as you noted, I don't recall anyone stepping on anyone else's toes.
So, extra-temporal occurrences. Well, my first is obviously* Superboy and Supergirl in the future with the Legion of Super-Heroes.
I was amused with Green Lantern being pulled into the 57th/58th century as Pol Manning (and his relationship with Iona Vane might be listed as a "lost love", under another topic.)
I liked the Doc Savage crossovers with Spider-Man and with the Thing and the Human Torch.
The Guardians of the Galaxy were always pretty cool to me*, so I liked the crossovers with The Thing and Captain America, the Defenders, and Thor (although that Thor story was a little pushy. Frozen in an ice block in space? Where'd the WATER come from?)
The follow up to that Thor story where Korvac/Michael came back to confront the Avengers was a multi-part story that actually had my attention... something like eleven or twelve issues, but it didn't crossover, and it wasn't quite so blatant that I felt slapped in the face with a sea bass.
I really liked Brave and the Bold #192, Batman and Superboy. Mike Barr had his own flavor of Batman which didn't bother me too much... but when Batman encounters his old friend as a boy, the character transition was very pleasurable.
Characters in other times... I think that a Deathlok series set in the 20th century might be interesting - or did they do that? I know that there was a Deathlok body in a Marvel Two-in-One story - drawn beautifully by Mr. Byrne, no less - but it wasn't really Deathlok.
And for a really quirky idea... a lot of religions and belief systems have winged beings as deities. It might have been fun to have a tale where Hawkman and Hawkgirl got transported through time to different eras, creating these myths. There were a lot of ways to do it. In a Hawkman story as part of another plan by I.Q. that backfired again. Or as part of a JLA story against the Time Master. Or even in Brave and the Bold, with Batman, against the Time Lord.
*It's obvious if you know me, anyhow. :)
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