Warner and Disney would never let something like that happen. We'll be lucky, at this point, if we get any more crossovers at all.
It would probably be fun, though. You compare it to The Brave and the Bold, my own comparison would be Marvel Team-Up.
Still, never gonna happen, unless something really fucked up happens and somehow Marvel and DC both end up owned by the same parent company. Even then, it'd be unlikely.
X-Men X-Pert, my blog where I talk about X-Men comics....god, I hope that doesn't happen. They'll want to merge the universes, and then there'll be all kinds of DC up in my Marvel!
I would be more concerned about the currently more popular Marvel seriously forcing DC to radically change it's characters&world, in such a situation. Superman as the Selfless Defender of Truth, Justice, and the American Way? Sure, but now he needs to mope around for a year or so while having some sort of existential crisis, maybe involving the President being a Supervillain and offing himself, or something. Batman as the Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader? Oh, no, none of that. See, Batman has psychological issues up the whazoo, and we can really make a buck if we exploit them to the point where ol' Bats can make Moonknight look sane. And on and on.
The Marvel and DC 'verses each have admirable, distinct traits to offer, but they should never mix on a permanent basis, because they're just so fundamentally different. (Of course, there are exceptions, such as the classic JLI, but generally speaking, you can't reconcile the two verses. Not really.)
edited 29th May '13 9:51:39 AM by kkhohoho
I think the best odds of something like this ever happening is going to be through publishers that create series based around characters who actually belong to other companies, like Archie or IDW. Archie doesn't own Sonic or Megaman, but I'm guessing that due to publishing titles for both made it a whole lot easier for them to put together a crossover between the two than would be required these days for a DC/Marvel crossover.
What I'd really like to see would be Elseworld/What If style mini seriesthat took place in shared universes. Like what if Xavier found Kal El and raised him as a mutant? What if Bruce Wayne waged war against mutants to avenge the death of his parents? What if Cap was the link between the old JSA and the JLA? I think there is potential for some very good stories there, which if done in the right way could move beyond the scope of most crossovers.
Am I a good man or a bad man?I think the crossover series would work great provided that at least one side of it is not DC/Marvel. Crossing over with Independents has a lot of interesting potential. It's DC and Marvel specifically that are just so thoroughly at odds with each other's style that it just seems too confrontational to me.
The big problem with, say, teaming up Superman and Iron Man is that ultimately, someone has to be right. So every issue, you either have Superman chewing out Iron Man for being a terrible hero because he shot Lex Luthor in the face with a Tank Missile, or Iron Man's paranoia and refusal to trust people winds up revealing the bad guy's plans and saving the day, proving that Superman is a stupid, naive manchild.
Marvel is very cynical. DC is very idealistic. Ultimately, someone has to be right, and one of the fanbases is going to walk away feeling jilted and pissed off every time. Independent comics don't have as much of a tonal clash as Marvel and DC do, and that's not even getting into all the butthurt fans who are going to throw a fit no matter who wins when Batman engages the Silver Surfer in a fistfight.
edited 29th May '13 8:35:07 AM by TobiasDrake
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Compared to (traditional) DC, yeah, it is. Spiderman is constantly hounded by the press, the Avengers are their various members are hounded by the public just as much as they're 'loved', the X-Men live in a 'world that hates and fears them', Civil War happened, and so-on&so-forth. Whereas in (traditional) DC, Superman hardly gets any real flak, Batman works with the police on a regular basis, the JLA&JSA are usually respected and loved by the populace, (unless it's the 50's, but the public eventually grew out of that phase,) and so-on&so-forth. The (traditional) DC verse is a much lighter, more optimistic place, whereas Marvel is more grounded in reality, and as such, is more cynical.
These different styles also extend into the characters themselves. There areexceptions on both sides of course, but generally, Marvel characters have more problems to deal with then DC ones. Did Superman ever see the President reveal himself as a supervillain and kill himself, and then subsequently go though an existential crisis? Did Batman drink himself to both financial&personal ruin? Did The Atom (Ray Palmer,) go crazy and bit**-slap his wife? To all three, I answer 'no'. Again, there are exceptions, (such as Hal Jordan killing all the GL's and trying to recreate the universe, except instead of having him taking responsibility for his actions, like Marvel would, they just blamed it on a giant space-bug,) but DC's more prominent characters tend to make less big mistakes. Or if they do, some sort of retcon gets involved that prevents the heroes from being responsible for their mistakes.
So, with all of that together, I'd say that Marvel does have a more cynical outlook, whereas DC has a more optimistic one. It just all adds up.
edited 4th Jun '13 11:36:31 AM by kkhohoho
such as Hal Jordan killing all the GL's and trying to recreate the universe, except instead of having him taking responsibility for his actions, like Marvel would, they just blamed it on a giant space-bug.
To be fair, this isn't that different from all the retconning Marvel did of Tony Stark's betrayal of the Avengers in The Crossing. Or Onslaught, who originally was going to be Xavier's own dark side before they quickly booted Mark Waid and blamed it on Chuck absorbing Magneto's darkness and shit. Or the whole situation with Magneto himself and Xorn, to undo Morrison turning Maggie's villainy up.
edited 4th Jun '13 9:02:40 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
As much as I am firmly on Marvel's side of the things, the spirit of fairness requires me to point out that Marvel did basically the exact same thing DC did with Green Lantern by blaming Jean Grey's genocidal behavior on a giant space bird.
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Actually it wasn't that cut and dry, Jean wasn't absolved of blame until she returned. These retcons are the result of too many "major" storylines, writers feel they have to press the undo button because they are left with much less story potential otherwise. So many characters have come back from the dead because too many of them were killed off in shitty ways in the first place.
"Story potential" bothers the hell out of me. There is infinite story potential in everything. There are an infinite number of stories that can be told about Jean being alive. There are also an infinite number of stories that can be told about Jean being dead. There are an infinite number of stories that can be told. Writers refusing to tell stories because of what it will do to "story potential", reducing it from infinite to infinite, ultimately boils down to them refusing to tell those stories so that they can reserve the right to not tell those stories in the future.
Preserving "story potential" is just a bs excuse to justify Status Quo Is God.
edited 5th Jun '13 3:28:03 PM by TobiasDrake
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I'm sure there's all sorts of licensing reasons for why such a thing as this is unfeasible, but it's still something I think about fairly often: an ongoing comic series centered around intercompany crossovers - perhaps essentially Brave And The Bold but with multiple company team-ups.
Basically, instead of not interacting once a decade for huge intercompany crossovers, there would be an ongoing series where each issue was an isolated incident or so, which may or may not lead into various bigger storylines. Just like a regular ongoing series, basically. It think it could give such things a more organic approach to plot writing without having to approach every story with the idea that each meeting between whatever characters involved has to be something as dramatic as possible:
For a Marvel/DC Brave And The Bold type- deal, for instance - perhaps one issue involves Batman tracking down Hugo Strange, only to find that he has designs on capturing Professor X. The next issue could have a totally different team-up: maybe Tony Stark finds his entire company shut down by, say, Calculator - who was hired by Lex Luthor. Or Iron Fist and Luke Cage take on Black Mask - who is selling weapons to Kingpin. Etc, etc. Any number of possibilities.
Still, I think the best kind of ongoing series would be more like a JLA/Avengers series - which would allow ongoing as well as more episodic adventures. A crossover series with the tone of something like New Avengers? I'd like it.
It's at least something I've always thought Marvel should look into doing with Capcom, to expand the MvC idea into actual comics.
But... yeah. Such a thing is unlikely to happen for lots of reasons, I know. I can dream though...