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I think Marvel spent 5 years telling that story, with their cosmic line, starting with Annihilation.
A Doctor Strange & Doctor Who crossover. It'd be a Paradox! As well as a potentially cool story.
A prequel to 100 Bullets. Any prequel to 100 Bullets.
Seriously, that thing's one of my favorite series, but it's one of the few things I've ever read (or seen) that would actually be better if it had a prequel or two.
edited 19th May '13 8:10:51 PM by TheMightyHeptagon
Avengers&X-Men: Eternity. Every single member that's ever been on either team, (including characters who only served for one mission, but are still considered X-Men or Avengers, as well as the New Mutants, New X-Men, Generation X, The Lights, and the X-Science Club, and finally, villains who joined the Avengers or X-Men once upon a time who have since gone back to their old ways,) and are taken from various times in their histories to do battle against a great evil, but have to figure out what to do with each other first. (And of course, the whole Time-Travel thing lets villains be taken from when they were on their respective teams. Juggernaut as a good guy, Mystique when she was an X-Man, etc.) But to make things more interesting, the villains of each team get the same deal, and this includes heroes who were once villains, getting plucked from a point when they're still villains. This leads to situations such as Hawkeye having to see what he first started as, Rouge being reminded of what she once was, Juggs' having some serious internal conflict, but perhaps most interestingly of all, Modern!Magento coming face-to-face with his old-school terrorist self.
Of course, it'd take an insane effort to actually do it well, but if we can spend 50 whole issues on it, it can be done!
(Especially if Wolverine gets plucked 100 different times simultaneously.
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edited 20th May '13 4:20:53 AM by kkhohoho
You'd need some kind of crazy writer to make it work. I don't know who could pull it off. Reminds me of Avengers Forever.
I'd opt for a British writer. They're all crazy in some way or another. And a lot of them are great.
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I can see John Wagner and maybe Pat Mills pulling that off, but they both think superheroes are stupid.
Maybe Grant Morrison?
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If you're going to list people who would refuse to do it then Alan Moore would be my choice. I think those two guys are bad choices because they don't write superheroes.
Judge Dredd is 50% satire, and he's far less superhero like than you imagine. Although I do groan at comic book people who hate superheroes.
If this insane crossover were to happen I'd suggest two writers work on it together, preferably out of Claremont, Busiek, Stern, Waid, Davis and Morrison.
edited 20th May '13 1:25:17 PM by C0mraid
Am I a good man or a bad man?I always wanted to write a Marvel comic about a cop with no superpowers in New York City, dealing with the kind of superpowered menaces, aliens, and monsters that happen every few days in NYC. Basically, "This is what happens when Spider-Man or DareDevil doesn't happen to be available."
Sort of like what Powers was supposed to be but wound up not being.
edited 21st May '13 7:59:41 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Bit of both. I figured the tone would change from story to story, to reflect the wide array of tones and atmospheres in Marvel comics. This issue might be a comedic one-shot about apprehending the Hypno-Hustler or that guy who made the gun that turns things into gold and then robbed a bank with it. The next issue might be a serious, low-key piece about comforting people whose livelihoods were just destroyed in the wake of a Hulk rampage or city-scaling Avengers or X-Men battle.
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That... actually sounds like a damn good idea. Maybe not as an ongoing, but as a 12 issue Maxiseries? Heck yeah!
(I think though, it could be an ongoing, but if only you expanded the case to a group of cops, as opposed to the focus on one cop. Of course, if you do that, the focus might slowly turn over time away from the Villains and Superhero-Destruction, and focus more on the officer's personal lives and domestic drama. Bleh.
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edited 21st May '13 11:09:05 AM by kkhohoho
Yeah, a large cast would probably be a better idea. NYPD: The Series.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Please could we have the cops take down the Walrus? Without even any superhero help. Just a handful of cops. Or even just one with a bit of mace.
X-Men X-Pert, my blog where I talk about X-Men comics.Dredd's a cop, not a superhero. There's a difference.
Also, he doesn't wear a costume. He wears a uniform, on that is based on the uniform worn by the police in Fascist Spain.
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XD That could be the Cold Open of an issue.
Law & Order Marvel U! It could be about cops and lawyers! That could totally be an ongoing.
X-Men X-Pert, my blog where I talk about X-Men comics.
I can't praise Slott's She Hulk enough. One arc is about trying to find a legal precedent for a ghost to testify at his own murder trial, which is hilarious because it makes perfect sense that this is something lawyers in the MU would have to deal with.
Marvel tried something like that in the wake of 9/11, with books starring a cop, a fireman, and a paramedic to both remind us of who heroes are in Real Life and explore what doing those jobs would be like in the MU, but all three evidently bombed. There's also the infamous scene at the end of Civil War where such "real heroes" are the ones to finally beat Steve, which a lot of fans saw as a big middle finger from Millar.

A comic about a buttload of b and c-list superheroes and supervillains flying off into space and fighting some crazy implausible cosmic threat. Because that would be awesome.