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I think many people have a hard time imagining of what might work in a crossover piece.
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Nah, it's easy. You just go license a visually appealing property like Mars Attacks. Then you contrive a big crossover event across multiple properties with multiple licensors, and you further complicate things by doing covers with unrelated characters altogether, and persuade John to revisit one of his older characters in a cover, and voila, Mars Attacks ROG-2000, which is happily hanging here in my house now.
But really, since I haven't had much time to be here more than the occasional lurk, I've been thinking about this the last couple days after seeing that Mars Attacks Batman piece. It's a great commission, nicely designed. And it made me think that the key to a good crossover piece is this:
- pick a few characters you really like, rather than trying to cram everything you've ever thought you liked into one (no "Legion of Super-Heroes meets the Avengers East, West and Great Lakes") - Pick the characters who you loved in days past and still love. I'm sure there was a time I though Dazzler or Ambush Bug were great characters, but if I'd had them tattooed on my arm back when I did, I would've long since taken steel wool to the skin to remove them. - Pick characters JB draws well. I know that's pretty much everything, but the ones that really stand out -- the Thing, Silver Surfer, Batman... - Pick someone who was designed by Kirby. Those costumes are eternal and will always look larger than life on your wall - Pick a scene out of a beloved comic book, preferably with some good shiny tech background - Throw in Spider-Man somewhere. Spider-Man should be somewhere in every commission done by anyone ever
Which, shit, I realize means if I did a commission, it'd end up being a redo of Steranko's FF 130, my first comic, only with an FF consisting of Nova, Ben Grimm, Iron Man, and Wonder Man (in the Kirby red and green, of course) fighting a Frightful Four of Doctor Doom, Sandman (Flint Marko, not Morpheus), the Joker and the Creeper. With, uh, Spider-Man. Which is ludicrous.
Oh, and I think your commission should be ludicrous.
Now I just need to find a way to license all those characters from Marvel and DC...
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