The Return Of Crossovers!

All righty, where did we leave off with these?

Oh, yeah, here (post-Halloween, yadda, yadda).

Okay, wanted to throw these in back then, but I had so much else to do...well, now I can go back, and fill it all in.
Let's just get right to it.


Marvel Team-Up Presents:
Spider-Man and
The Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players

Or, for you young whipper-snappers out there, "Spider-Man and SNL".

See, back in the day, the show was just called "Saturday Night", the "Live", was an add-on, like when they do a live episode of a sitcom today, and the original cast called themselves "the not-ready-for-prime-time players".

Over the years, people just called it "Saturday Night Live", it got shortened to "SNL", and the other casts were just known as "the cast of SNL".
The old moniker got retired, because, well, it was a mouthful, and...out of respect for that original bunch, because hardly anyone on there since has been fit to carry their laundry.

I mean, yeah, the Carvey/Miller/Myers/Lovitz years were great, and you had the odd standout like Eddy Murphy, or Will Farrell, but...y'know...

TNRFPTP were the fucking Beatles, y'know?

I mean, Murray and Ackroyd made fuggin' GHOSTBUSTERS, you know?

So, being the comedy-Beatles, they got honored with a visit from Spidey.
Cuz...well...that really used to mean something.

Also, Stan Lee is the guest-host of this particular (imaginary) episode of SNL.
So...this predicts the Stan cameos in all the Marvel films by 30 years.

Aaanyway, Jim Shooter tells the story of how this book came to be (here).

That same year saw...


Superman vs. Muhammed Ali

Not only is Ali in the book, which is obvious, but a gaggle of celebrities are in the audience on the wraparound cover including....*deep breath*...

The Beatles (with Yoko Ono, and Linda MCartney), Kirk Alyn, Lucille Ball, Sonny Bono, Johnny Carson, Cher, Dick Clark, Phyllis Diller, The Jackson 5, Jerry Garcia, Ron Howard, Jack Larson, Noel Neill, Tony Orlando, Donny Osmond, Marie Osmond, Christopher Reeve, Wayne Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch, Wolfman Jack, Peter Falk, Andy Warhol, Woody Allen, John Wayne, Jimmy Carter, Rosalyn Carter, Betty Ford, Gerald Ford, Pele, Don King, Joe Namath, Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaines, and Alfred E. Neuman.

As well as all the superheroes, the DC staffers, and Ali corner men.

So...holy shit, I can play around with six-degree-ing those celebrities for...ever

And, Superman met Spidey, so, that mashes all of that together.

But, the most obvious ones that jump out, and the gap I don't think I got to fill in well enough in crossovers part 3.5, is well...

Christopher Reeve is there, so, actors and roles can co-exist.
And, William Gaines, and Alfred E. Neuman are there, so cartoons and creators can co-exist.

So, the Superman movies and comics co-exist, and, via Gaines/Neuman, the Mad versions of everything, thus parody, exists as a dimension.

And, SNL casts passed the baton up to the Mike Myers years, and Mike Myers did Austin Powers, which had Seth Green, who went on to make "Robot Chicken", who did a skit with Stan Lee as himself, who was the fictional host of SNL in SNL/Spidey, and the SNL/Spidey book inspired the now classic superheroes sketch.

And, bam, the parody barrier is cracked.
And all those crossovers plop in.

And, again, that's just off of 3 celebs, one can spiral that off forever until every gap is filled in.
I'll just round it off as done.
Everyone can meet everybody, and "canon", is everything.

Even so...let's keep going...jumping ahead to the mid-80's...


The Avengers on 
Late Night With David Letterman

Yep, that happened.

Hey! That officially crosses over American Splendor!
Wow, funky, Harvey is a superhero after all!

Say, that's gonna be weird when the Avengers movie comes out, and the actors come on to plug that.
The Avengers have already been on!
Bet they don't say anything....

So...let's jump ahead, all the way to the tail end of the 00's with....


The Amazing Spider-Man #583

Spidey meets Obama!

Not to be outdone....


Savage Dragon #137

...had Savage Dragon shamelessly endorsing the future president.

IIII dunno, that's kinda tacky.

I'm liberal, and I still prefer my heroes apolitical.
Don't tangle 'em up with that stuff.
What if someday some beloved hero endorses the next Nixon level embarrassment?
Or, some full-blown fuggin' internment camp muthafucka?
They're gonna have that taint on 'em forever.
Nah, not cool.

But HEY!
I'll use the Kevin Bacon points!

Sonic the Hedgehog, to Savage Dragon, to Obama, to Spidey.

And to Sonic, to virtually all video games.
Sonic-fuckin-boom!

And, while we're on Obama, how about...


Army of Darkness: Ash Saves Obama

There, now I don't have to go the long way around with Danger Girl, or Mortal Kombat. Thanks, Obama.


Youngblood #8

Yeah, whippee-dee.
Youngblood sucks, fuck Youngblood.

Captain Action #5

Well, I dunno if Captain Action's book is any good, but he's good continuity glue....

The Greatest American Hero #3

Suh-weet!

Co-written by Billy Katt!

It'd be nice to declare "it's like having the show back", but this didn't last too long...

Bomb Queen VI: issues #1-4

This is where Obama comics jumped the shark, it says so on the cover.

See here for my quickie review of Bomb Queen...

So...now it's a trinity!
Sonic, Daffy, and Obama are the continuity glue of the universe.

Clearly, the Romney campaign has some catching up to do.

And, coming soon....

Yep.
Finally.

I think you can figure out what's going on there from the pic....

And...*checks off list*
That's done.

Up next, ...SCHLOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!