View Full Version : What crossovers have you enjoyed?
brandeezy
12-16-2008, 12:54 AM
Since bitching about the quantity and quality of the modern crossover is back in vogue, I figured it be was worth it to talk about the big, epic, universe-spanning events that people actually have enjoyed.
"Infinity Gauntlet" is what cemented my interest in comics and introduced me to cosmic Marvel. A mad man killing half of living universe and ruling over the rest, in complete control of all the aspects of the universe... My 10-year-old brain couldn't get get enough of all that, and it still holds up for me today.
zack-kruse
12-16-2008, 01:05 AM
As far as recent cross-overs go, Annihilation has, by far and away, been my favorite. I have high hopes for War of Kings, too.
optimus187prime
12-16-2008, 01:28 AM
Im in the minority here but I enjoyed Civil War.
Annihilation(s) were both great, I will always have a soft spot for Age of Apocalypse
cyberauron
12-16-2008, 04:30 AM
Aninhilations 1 was great, and Idenity Crisis was the best
jaflanagan
12-16-2008, 02:29 PM
Identity Crisis and Infinity Gauntlet (both excellent) weren't crossovers. They were self contained minis series. Events at best.
Crossovers are books where there's an event, and it goes from title to title, like Secret Invasion/Civil War/Annihilation/World War Hulk/New Kyrpton/etc.
At least that's how I look at it.
Best crossover I've ever read was Batman Cataclysm/Aftershock/No Man's Land.
jasonb35
12-16-2008, 03:09 PM
No Man's Land
Age of Apocalypse
Mutant Massacre
I really think I'm going to have to read those Batman arcs
optimus187prime
12-16-2008, 04:19 PM
Oh yeah I forgot:
Bruce Wayne: Murderer?
Bruce Wayne: Fugitive
cormano
12-16-2008, 04:53 PM
Im in the minority here but I enjoyed Civil War.
Agreed.
brandeezy
12-16-2008, 05:33 PM
Identity Crisis and Infinity Gauntlet (both excellent) weren't crossovers. They were self contained minis series. Events at best.
Crossovers are books where there's an event, and it goes from title to title, like Secret Invasion/Civil War/Annihilation/World War Hulk/New Kyrpton/etc.
At least that's how I look at it.
Best crossover I've ever read was Batman Cataclysm/Aftershock/No Man's Land.
I think IG did spill over into other tittles, tho. But either way you're right I should have used "event" instead of "crossover".
timmywood-
12-16-2008, 06:33 PM
Did anyone read that Wildstorm crossover Coup Dedat (sp?)? I remember really enjoying it. It involved Sleeper. Joe Casey's Wildcats, stormwatch and the Authority (also written by Brubaker i think I could be wrong though). It was great I thought.
Man That was a great time for Wildstorm. Makes me sad that universe is falling by the wayside.
diabhol
12-16-2008, 07:07 PM
Since bitching about the quantity and quality of the modern crossover is back in vogue, I figured it be was worth it to talk about the big, epic, universe-spanning events that people actually have enjoyed.
Inferno (which also spawned one of the best What If's)
X-Tinction Agenda
Muir Island Saga
House of M
Civil War
Secret Invasion
Sinestro Corps War
I also liked "Acts of Vengeance," though it was only sort of a crossover.
I haven't read Annihilation or Annihilation Conquest, but I intend to soon.
cormano
12-16-2008, 07:14 PM
Those Annihilation hardcovers look so awesome. Damn money and lack there of.
cyberauron
12-17-2008, 12:03 AM
Identity Crisis and Infinity Gauntlet (both excellent) weren't crossovers. They were self contained minis series. Events at best.
Crossovers are books where there's an event, and it goes from title to title, like Secret Invasion/Civil War/Annihilation/World War Hulk/New Kyrpton/etc.
At least that's how I look at it.
Best crossover I've ever read was Batman Cataclysm/Aftershock/No Man's Land.
i think i remember Identiy crisis tied into other series. I think
racemccloud
12-17-2008, 04:34 AM
Messiah CompleX started out real strong, but petered out at the end, I'd have to say. Still, it wasn't bad.
winthewonderboy
12-17-2008, 06:23 AM
Superman/Madman: Hullabaloo
Sinestro Corps War
I don't know if it would be considered a crossover, but the MGH storyline in Daredevil and Alias
DC One Million
The last arc of Savage Dragon was pretty fun
galactus-hungers
12-18-2008, 02:34 AM
I thought Civil War was very good. Also even though I didnt love Secret Invasion it was my first event I have read in issues so it will always have a special place in my mind. Also BatMan: No Mans Land was pretty good.
jaflanagan
12-18-2008, 09:05 PM
i think i remember Identiy crisis tied into other series. I think
It might have, but it didn't occur in the main JLA book, and you could go read those seven issues, from scratch, and you have a whole story.
Acts of Vengeance was definitely a crossover, because it ran through the main Avengers books as well as other titles and was sequential. Because of it, i had to buy an issue of Quicksilver, which I still resent to this day.
paper
12-18-2008, 09:15 PM
I think people are probably thinking of JLA: Crisis of Conscience (http://www.amazon.com/JLA-Conscience-Identity-Countdown-Infinite/dp/1401209637), which dealt with Identity Crisis and was part of the buildup to Infinite Crisis. Not technically part of either event.
davegraham
12-18-2008, 09:37 PM
As much as I like Infinity Gauntlet I really can't remember any of the books that it crossed into. Everything I remember from it happened in the main book. I remember being really into Reign of the Supermen and Return of Superman.
However my all time favorite crossover is Age of Apocalypse from the mid 90's. For the most part I really dug all of the x-titles crossing over. None of it felt like a drag to have to read. It was a blast to explore the different corners of the x-universe and find out the different roads the characters took. I haven't re-read since so i don't know how well it holds up. Also I am a little afraid that revisiting it will unveil flaws I didn't notice back then.
jaflanagan
12-19-2008, 04:38 PM
Wait, the Quicksilver thing wasn't in Acts of Vengeance. It was in Live Kree or Die. Either way....
Age of Apocalypse[/B] from the mid 90's. For the most part I really dug all of the x-titles crossing over. None of it felt like a drag to have to read. It was a blast to explore the different corners of the x-universe and find out the different roads the characters took. I haven't re-read since so i don't know how well it holds up. Also I am a little afraid that revisiting it will unveil flaws I didn't notice back then.
This seems to come up alot around here...
I recently tried to read it, and I gotta say, I thought the art was really weak, poorly inked, inconsistent mush. Very :ahem: 90's if you will...
THat and the story itself is so poorly packaged in the trades, jumping all over the place with no sense of a throughline. So, while it was knd of neat to see the redesign of the x-men characters, it really didn't do it for me. To the point where I never finished reading it.
Did they EVER explain why Wolverine's hand didn't simply grow back?
I guessed they capped it with that adamantium stump cover so it couldn't
But why wouldn't he want 2 hands?...why not take it off? or...ARGH you see my problem here.
hometeam790
12-20-2008, 06:40 AM
I'm pretty certain no one here read it, but Valiant's Unity was a great crossover. Led to the start of the Turok series. Finding out about Magnus being Torque's son and how it led to him being sent to the future to be the heroic Robot Fighter legend he became.
smeeeeee
12-20-2008, 10:03 AM
resurrection of ras al guhl!
no that was a joke but ive enjoyed the batman war games crossovers.
I'm pretty certain no one here read it, but Valiant's Unity was a great crossover. Led to the start of the Turok series. Finding out about Magnus being Torque's son and how it led to him being sent to the future to be the heroic Robot Fighter legend he became.
I read it, in fact commented on Valiant comics in the Good comics from the 90's thread (http://www.revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=24938) just the other day.
jon_samuelson
12-21-2008, 08:37 PM
I'm pretty sure that there were crossover titles for Infinity Gauntlet, but I also think that they were fairly loosely connected. I remember a couple of issues of Incredible Hulk, and I'm sure Silver Surfer must have crossed over. The Hulk issues had a tenuous connection at best, and I can't recall anything about the Surfer issues, though I'm sure they must have crossed over, since Starlin was writing both of them at the time.