ISB 2008: All Access pass to crapville

Another year, another blog post. Here's my latest entry into The Invincible Super Blog's 30 Second recap contest. It's pretty crappy but, I don't know, it's got its charm. Let's see, it's based on a mini-series called DC/Marvel: All Access. Written by Ron Marz and drawn by Jackson Guice and Josef Rubenstein. I wish my name was Jackson Guice. Life would be so much better. And it looks like they had the same creative team for the whole four issues. I wonder if that was common back then.

I looked around the old dank local comic shop for something to make fun of for the contest and settled on this. I probably should've went with Brigade or Youngblood but I've got a soft spot for Superman and Spider-man in the same comic. I guess it came after the Amalgam thing where Batman and Wolverine combined into "Darkclaw" and fought "Hyena" (Joker and Sabertooth). I stopped collecting comics in the early 90s so I don't know the exact details, but I've gleaned information here and there. Man, it's such an awesome idea, it's a shame they didn't do more with it. New characters are like crack to me. But I bet the corporate paperwork was a nightmare. It probably kept the New York IP lawyers in business for years. And now that Marvel and DC hate each other it'll probably never happen again. Oh well. Hopefully they'll die soon and get bought up by some dot com nerd billionaire.

I was having some trouble picking funny names for the combined heroes and I knew that as soon as I published it I'd think of some "brilliant" ones. And I did. Batman/Jubilee = Knightlight or Darknightlight? Slightly funnier than Darkshines which is only funny if you're a Muse fan. Also maybe "Brutalitee" might've worked. And the Phoenician Manhurter should probably be the Phoenician Mindfucker. Oh well, those will be in the trade paperback or maybe the Absolute edition...