Miscellaneous Company Crossovers (part 2)

More leftover crossovers....

...oh, these ones really aren't so bad...


Star Trek/X-Men

Eh, fanboyish fun.

Some little canon mistakes, but nothing that can't be swept under the rug as a parallel world within a parallel world stuff.
Or, just plain "fuck it".

So, some X-Men villain I've never heard of possesses and rejuvenates Gary Mitchell, and it's up to the Enterprise crew, and the X-Men, to plant this carcass back in the grave.

So, a "where no man has gone before", sequel with mutants, basically.

Not the greatest tale ever told, but....better than a bad TOS episode.
Better than "and the children shall lead".
Better than "the way to Eden".
Not quite a "city on the edge of forever", or an "obsession".
It's somewhere on the scale.
*Shrug* I liked it.


Star Trek:The Next Generation/X-Men:
Second Contact

Awful.
Bad dialog, stilted characterizations, just terrible.
Avoid.

Set immediately after the timewarp home in "ST:First Contact", but it goes screwey.
Do ya care?
Meh.

All right, so, this is the one bad apple in this bunch...sorry...

There was a novel sequel to this one, but I ain't gonna touch it.


Star Trek/Legion Of Super-Heroes

So, yeah, IDW owns the Trek license now (hence Trek being at the Infestation gangbang).
The irony being, we didn't get a DC hero crossover when DC licensed Trek...

Only two issues in, but not bad so far.
Course, issue 2 they just finally meet, and we get a cliffhanger.
But, so far, true to the flavor of both series.
..as far as I can tell; was never a big Legion reader, but Trek seems spot-on.


DC Comics Presents: 
Superman and The Masters Of The Universe

Some sort of inadvertent magical vortex from Eternia sucks up Superman, and injects him into a He-Man adventure.

Guess this was DC's way of getting un-initiated readers to give a damn about this new toy.

Ah, but this is interesting!
Skeletor is able to slice Superman's suit with his half of the Power Sword, both He-Man and Skeletor can take a Superman punch like a regular punch, and even mangy ol' Beast Man can wrassle Superman down.

Eternia must be very similar to Krypton.
Makes sense, it is at the center of the universe, and has strange properties.

The only advantage Supes has, it seems, is his flight power.

Well, as you can see from the cover, Skeletor instigates the Supes/He-Man fight with a spell.

Anyhoo, Skeletor is fought to a draw, Superman finds another portal home out in space with his super-vision, and gets the hell out of there, and then the Masters series spun off from this.

DC's innovations to the Masters universe seem to be Prince Adam, and Cringer, and Adam's human astronaut mother, so, if you thought He-Man having an alter-ego smacked of Superman, blame Superman's very own custodians.

Yeah...it's an interesting piece of history, DC's take on Masters was a sort of middle evolution between the He-Man mini-comics that came with the figures, and the Filmation series.

Filmation took the Adam/He-Man thing, and ran with it, tinkered it some, added Orko, changed the relationship of Teela to Sorceress, and then, Marvel got the license to Masters, and ran with the Filmation version.

Then, the 2002 reboot (and accompanying figure line) would seem to be an "edgy", take on the Filmation-verse.
Which, actually puts it right back to where DC had it.
Yeah, it was fun digging this out, and remembering.
Glad I'm doin' these.


The Transformers: Issue 3 (guest-starring Spider-Man)

True to its title. :)

Spidey becomes buddies with Gears, who ingratiates him into the rest of the gang, then, some Autobot/Decepticon action ensues, Spidey dances around, barely avoiding getting repeatedly squashed, and is vaguely helpful, and Gears ultimately falls off a cliff, and is smashed to pieces, and Spidey self-righteously saunters off, horrified by the apparently callous indifferent attitude of the Autobots to their comrade's "death".

Gears is reassembled, and rebooted, and all is well.

Oh, Spidey, will you ever stop being a crybaby?


The New Avengers/The Transformers

...and Spidey!
Clearly, an alterni-verse to the last Spidey meetup.

Cap, Luke Cage, Spidey, and Wolverine investigate a war brewing between Latveria, and its neighbor, and find an alien artifact emitting aggression causing brainwaves.
A further investigation finds the Decepticons at the root of it, and Spidey gets captured.
For some reason, the Decepticons are able to use Spidey's radioactive Spidey-blood as a source of high-octane Energon, and get a boost that allows them to smack the Autobots around like stepchildren.

Falcon, Ms. Marvel, and Iron Man in a Transformer sized suit show up as reinforcements.

Also, Doctor Doom is in the mix.

The Autobots repeatedly interact with the humans via their holographic human avatars that also serve as fake drivers.

A triple-cross by Doom, and gadgeteerering by Iron Man mostly win the day, although the tussling of the rest didn't hurt.

Megatron's plans are foiled, and all is as it was....or is it??
Bah, bah, buuuuumm!!!


So, that's those, up next, some more...(and almost the end)