Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login
The John Byrne Forum
Byrne Robotics > The John Byrne Forum Page of 7 Next >>
Topic: Batman & Captain America: Best ’til last! (Topic Closed Topic Closed) Post ReplyPost New Topic
Author
Message
Robbie Patterson
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 15 August 2004
Posts: 733
Posted: 07 April 2006 at 7:35pm | IP Logged | 1  

...Just received the Batman & Captain America book 2day in the post
(possibly the very last Marvel book i don't have) & just wanted to say
"WOW!" ... It made me happy because the story is near PERFECT but sad
because the art IS perfect... & I'd forgotten how much I missed JBs' Cap...

If there was one other JB DC/Marvel team up I could choose it'd be
WOLVERINE & BLOOD OF THE DEMON... What say You guys?
Back to Top profile | search
 
Robert White
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 4560
Posted: 07 April 2006 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | 2  

Silver Surver & Green Lantern
Superman & Thor
Wonder Woman & She-Hulk
Sub-Mariner & Aquaman
 
And, above all, I'd like to see one where we get to see Batman and Doctor Doom match wits. FF & Batman/Robin, maybe?
Back to Top profile | search
 
Mike Norris
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 4274
Posted: 07 April 2006 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | 3  

Let me be the first in this thread to say: JSA/Invaders.
Back to Top profile | search e-mail
 
Gregg Allinson
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 4252
Posted: 07 April 2006 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | 4  

JB's already done his "other" dream crossover for me- Darkseid vs. Galactus.  And it did not disappoint!

Otherwise, JLA/Invaders sounds good to me, as does Human Torch/Captain Marvel (my two favourite Golden Age heroes).

Back to Top profile | search
 
Frank Lauro
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 27 February 2006
Posts: 1461
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 12:24am | IP Logged | 5  

Here's one that won't interest anyone but me, probably: 

I'd love to see a DAREDEVIL/NIGHTWING crossover by Mr. Byrne.

Back to Top profile | search
 
Anthony J Lombardi
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 12 January 2005
Location: United States
Posts: 9410
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 12:35am | IP Logged | 6  

Let me also say Invaders/JSA
Back to Top profile | search
 
Francesco Vanagolli
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 03 June 2005
Location: Italy
Posts: 3130
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 2:23am | IP Logged | 7  

BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA is one of the best stories by JB ever. It's always a pleasure to see a modern super heroes comic book settled in the WW II days.

A Superman/Spider-Man team up wouldn't be bad, I have thought it since CHAPTER ONE.

Back to Top profile | search e-mail
 
John Mietus
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 9704
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 2:23am | IP Logged | 8  

JSA/Invaders all the way. Superman/FF done right would be good, too (none
of this crazy Kal-El, Herald of Galactus nonsense that Dan Jurgens subjected
us to).
Back to Top profile | search
 
Gregg Allinson
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 4252
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 2:41am | IP Logged | 9  

I didn't mind the idea of Superman as Galactus's herald per se- it's not something I was dying to see, but I don't think the idea's wholly unworkable or pointless- but it definitely took up too much of the book.  It just read like a Fantastic Four story Dan Jurgens always wanted to do with a cameo by Superman. 
Back to Top profile | search
 
Darren Ashmore
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 30 April 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 947
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 2:46am | IP Logged | 10  

Fantastic Four/Doom Patrol would be nice
Back to Top profile | search
 
John Byrne
Avatar
Grumpy Old Guy

Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 132233
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 4:48am | IP Logged | 11  

I wonder why so many fans seem always to want the team-ups to be between similar characters? It seems to me that cross-overs like Superman/Spider-Man, or Batman/Captain America work in no small part because the characters are so different. Even JSA/Invaders would give us characters in each team who have little in common with the others. When the first Superman/Spider-Man happened, lo these many years ago, I was surprised by the speed with which fan speculation turned toward getting together characters who were as much alike as possible. Green Arrow/Hawkeye was one that came up a lot.

From my end of the equation, I'd much rather have the challenge of finding stories that worked for disparate characters. One of the methods I considered for "plotting" an ongoing GENERATIONS series, for instance, would be to have two shoe-boxes filled with slips of paper on which were written the names of the characters (same names in both boxes), and pulling one or two from each, at random, to tell me who I would be using in the next issue. Really unlikely combinations would be, I thought, the most fun to play with.

Back to Top profile | search
 
Troy Nunis
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 4598
Posted: 08 April 2006 at 5:01am | IP Logged | 12  

I wonder if this is in part the competition factor, people want Similar characters together to show once and for all, which of the two is better.  Certainly the "Vs." threads and chat topics have been hale and hearty for years over this kind of thinking/desire - which if someone thinks about it, it's unlikely either company would agree to let THEIR character be shown as 2nd best (without some loophole or balance.)

Sometimes there could be something interesting in taking characters thought to be similar and using a pairing to show up the differences, i.e.. Thanos and Darksied who really aren't too much alike at all, tho' one was certainly based on the other, could stand a good juxtaposition.  But otherwise, I think the story has to be there to be told, and a simple "let 'em slug it out to see who's standing at the end" would be very boring quite quickly.

Back to Top profile | search e-mail
 

Page of 7 Next >>
  Post ReplyPost New Topic
Printable version Printable version

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login