Comics I forgot I owned
Wow, remember when I said that because I was home, I would post more? Ha!
The first thing I did when I got home was to break out the three big longboxes full of the comics I bought during high school. And lo and behold, there were a few I forgot even existed. These are their stories.
Tonight's edition: The Amalgam Comics!
Oh, the 90's. When Marvel and DC buried the hatchet and allowed cross-company crossovers to once again occur. In the thousands. But the big one, of course, was the big ol' Marvel vs. DC where Marvel characters and DC characters fought and fought and fought on the flimsiest of pretenses. At one point in the "plot" the Marvel and DC universes fused, and the result was a series of one-shots under the banner of Amalgam Comics, featuring characters who were freakish combinations of Marvel and DC characters. Captain America and Superman combined into Super Soldier, Wolverine and Batman combined into Dark Claw, etc, etc.
I think there were twelve one-shots in all, but I only bought three: JLX (JLA meets X-Men), Spider-Boy (Spider-Man meets Superboy), and X-Patrol (X-Men meets Doom Patrol). See, those were some Fun Comics. Characters like Shatterstarfire and Nightcreeper fighting villains like King Lizard and Dr. Doomsday. You could just tell the writers (including Mark Waid, Karl Kesel, and Gerard Jones, at least on the three books that I bought) were having an absolute blast, cramming in as many random amalgamations as the poor pages could hold. Just madcap and goofy and a good time for all. These are definitely coming back to LA with me.
The first thing I did when I got home was to break out the three big longboxes full of the comics I bought during high school. And lo and behold, there were a few I forgot even existed. These are their stories.
Tonight's edition: The Amalgam Comics!
Oh, the 90's. When Marvel and DC buried the hatchet and allowed cross-company crossovers to once again occur. In the thousands. But the big one, of course, was the big ol' Marvel vs. DC where Marvel characters and DC characters fought and fought and fought on the flimsiest of pretenses. At one point in the "plot" the Marvel and DC universes fused, and the result was a series of one-shots under the banner of Amalgam Comics, featuring characters who were freakish combinations of Marvel and DC characters. Captain America and Superman combined into Super Soldier, Wolverine and Batman combined into Dark Claw, etc, etc.
I think there were twelve one-shots in all, but I only bought three: JLX (JLA meets X-Men), Spider-Boy (Spider-Man meets Superboy), and X-Patrol (X-Men meets Doom Patrol). See, those were some Fun Comics. Characters like Shatterstarfire and Nightcreeper fighting villains like King Lizard and Dr. Doomsday. You could just tell the writers (including Mark Waid, Karl Kesel, and Gerard Jones, at least on the three books that I bought) were having an absolute blast, cramming in as many random amalgamations as the poor pages could hold. Just madcap and goofy and a good time for all. These are definitely coming back to LA with me.
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