I think it's more interesting to consider the switch if the characters are replacing ones at the other company completely.

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Some really good ideas there, Chad.

Michael,

Just imagine how much fun you could have with the Make-A-Comic-Cover app on an iPhone? *grin*

Chad

Your Wonder Woman scenario beautifully fleshed out the dim thoughts I had in that direction, right down to the racial and gender politics! (I can just see the Red Skull curse "Is this the best the pathetic Americans can muster?  After your defeat, in my new order you can be my Reinemachefrau!")

The only thing I could add to the mix would be the introduction of the Greek gods into the Marvel pantheon, and the inevitable god war that would crossover between the Wonder Woman and Thor titles.

Michael,

It's been a lot of years since university and I bow to the expertise of any English majors out there who are taking comparative myth in far greater detail than I ever did, but it's my understanding the Greeks were the first to create their very detailed pantheon of gods to explain the ways of the world. The Romans had their own gods, customs and religious practices, but they were not as richly developed as the Greeks.

When the Greeks were conquered by the Romans, the invaders took a liking to these newly discovered myths and exported them back home, integrating them into their own mythology and changing the names of the Greek gods so they would sound more Roman and be more acceptable. And it wasn't just the Greeks from whom the Romans stole religion. The Romans also plundered religious practices from many of the other cultures they conquered, and grafted them into their own belief systems.

So while there are many similarities between Greek and Roman mythology, to make the claim that they are pretty much the same is akin to claiming that the Canadian and American political systems are pretty much the same. Yes, both are democracies, both hold free elections and both borrow their traditions from a common predecessor (England), but there are significant differences in the details and practices.

Nice Mike Norris JLA cover!

Thanks Chad.

The biggest difference between the Greek gods in DC and in Marvel is that in DC they'll all pretty much assholes, including Hercules. Zeus especially needs his butt kicked in the DC universe, and he recently screwed around with the Amazons again, getting on Wonder Woman's bad side.

Boy, there are an awful lot of Marvel readers here aren't there?

Not an accusation, just that it struck me as funny that a lot of people were cherry picking the best DC stuff and sending over a 3rd tier Marvel character.

"I'll give you Jack of Hearts if you'll give me that punk loser Batman."

As for me I'd like to see Hawkman in the Marvel universe if he was played right (street level but super powered criminals taken down harshly). I think he'd play really well against a lot of the Avengers, sort of a bridge between the street level characters and the standard Avengers without feeling out of place (like Spider-Man does). And in exchange I'd send the Punisher over to the DCU as both a villain in other titles (Superman and Batman spring right to mind) and an anti-hero in his own. DC tries to have characters like that but it never seems to quite work.