History ComicBook / Crossover2020

''Crossover'' is an ongoing comic book written by Creator/DonnyCates and drawn by Geoff Shaw. It's published by Creator/ImageComics. The first issue was published in November of 2020.

* SinisterMinister: Father Lowe is a religious zealot and one of those turning people against comic book sellers, and is abusive to his son, Ryan. Later issues reveal that he [[spoiler:his church is heavily armed too]].

* BigGood: Frank Einstein more famously known as ComicBook/{{Madman}} (though he would prefer you don’t call him that) is the hero trying to ensure the safety of so called ''“Fakes”'', breaking them out of the camps and generally trying to keep the peace.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The Bat-a-rang used to kill Scott Snyder was actually used by Batman; Negan just got a hold of it and used it himself]].

* SelfDeprecation: One of the reviews on the cover of the first trade collection is from Donny Cates himself: "Meh."

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The comic book characters that appear most prominently are from creator-owned books and more indie-oriented titles. When ones from Creator/DCComics or Creator/{{Marvel}} are included, it's mostly just either through references to them or issues of their comics InUniverse, or when they are mostly obscured, like with their hands sticking out through the bars of jail cells (which is actually a trick Creator/ToddMcFarlane used in an issue of ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' to include representations of characters owned by DC and Marvel).

** The trip to Denver also deconstructs the big comic book CrisisCrossover. Sure, stories like that are fun and epic when you're following the main characters and know what's going on, but when you're just a bystander passing through with no idea of the circumstances, it just feels like a lot of chaos with familiar faces flying by.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The whole "comic book writer murders" subplot is one of fiction writing in general, basically asking the question of "what would fictional characters who have suffered badly in their stories have to say to the people who wrote them"? As it turns out, quite a few harsh words, and from the look of it, one is downright vengeful.

At a comic book shop in Provo, Utah, an employee, Ellie (short for "Ellipsis") and the store's owner, Otto, get drawn into this crisis when Ava, a child comic book character, is caught shoplifting in their store. Hearing this, a priest protesting the store, Father Lowe, and his followers, including his reluctant son, Ryan, burn the store down. As Ellie and Otto work on sneaking Ava back to her parents in Denver, Father Lowe's son, Ryan, who was arrested for helping burn down the comic store, is secretly recruited by Special Director Nathaniel Pendleton, who is in charge of the secret government program to apprehend escaped comic book characters and end the Event, and has some sort of intelligence saying that Ryan and Ellie will play a big part in future events. The story that follows can best be described as an action-thriller-drama with a big side of {{metafiction}}.

-->[[spoiler:KILL GEOFF SHAW]]

* WhamShot: The last page of issue #13, the last issue before the book went on hiatus:

In 2017, the city of Denver, Colorado is all but destroyed when some kind of big comic book CrisisCrossover involving countless characters from many different genres and publishers opens up in the middle of it, killing several people, in an incident known as "the Event". Five years later, the city has been zoned off from the public, comic book characters are feared by the public as the authorities work hard to detain the ones who slip out of Denver, many comic books have been burned or recalled, and for some extreme people, comic books and the people who sell them are downright hated. There is also an ongoing series of murders of comic book writers, with the prevailing theory being that some comic book character out there is getting payback for how they've been treated.

* {{Crossover}}: Besides taking place in the periphery of an actual big epic comic book crossover, ''Crossover'' features appearances by fictional characters from comic books included with the owners' permission. While some, as stated above, are just brief cameos, some take on more supporting roles in the story, like Christian and Deena from ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' and [[spoiler:Negan from ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'']].

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In issue #10, Pendleton says that, if the special prisoner is who he says he is, "the whole world would just be people walking into rooms and talking". Sure enough, almost that whole issue consists just of character dialogues at the Powerhouse. [[spoiler:This also doubles as a bit of foreshadowing, seeing as the prisoner is the story's writer, Donny Cates]].

In 2017, the city of Denver, Colorado is all but destroyed when some kind of big comic book CrisisCrossover involving countless characters from many different genres and publishers opens up in the middle of it, killing several people, in an incident known as "the Even". Five years later, the city has been zoned off from the public, comic book characters are feared by the public as the authorities work hard to detain the ones who slip out of Denver, many comic books have been burned or recalled, and for some extreme people, comic books and the people who sell them are downright hated. There is also an ongoing series of murders of comic book writers, with the prevailing theory being that some comic book character out there is getting payback for how they've been treated.

** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis appears AsHimself in issue #10, which he co-wrote with Cates.

* {{Crossover}}: Besides taking place in the periphery of an actual big epic comic book crossover, ''Crossover'' features appearances by fictional characters from comic books included with the owners' permission. While some, as stated above, are just brief cameos, some take on more supporting roles in the story, like Christian and Deena ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'' and [[spoiler:Negan from ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'']].

''Crossover'' is an ongoing comic book written by Creator/DonnyCates and drawn by Geoff Shaw. It's published by Creator/ImageComics.