Some who know me, may come to know that under my fabulous and handsome, almost godlike exterior I am in fact...a huge geek.
Now, I've never been much one for Star Trek (but I'm willing!) but almost every other geek franchise you can think of has had me snagged - boardgames, tabletop games, roleplaying games, books, films, manga, cartoons, comics, computer games...and so on.
So today to celebrate the love of the geek is my list for the best comic-book crossovers (that I have read).
In chronological order...
ALIENS vs PREDATOR
This came out in the late 80s and was the first of two large franchises to cross over that I read - although there had been several comic crossovers before - the story is pretty simple. The predators are hunters than come down to a remote planet that some humans are working on and release aliens into the environment in order to go hunt. The comics (and graphic novel) are landmark classic good and what followed was a lot more Predator comics, books etc revolving around the hunter-aliens that we knew little of from the first movie. In 1990 when the movie Predator 2 came out, us geeks got wet seats at the sight of an alien skull hanging in the Predators spaceship - hinting at a movie in the future.
Predator went on to get into fights with lots more comic heroes including Batman, Superman, Judge Dredd, JLA, Tarzan, Witchblade, Terminator (didn't he already do that?)...and some others.
When the movie came out in 2004 many were disappointed - I thought it was pretty close to the original plot and a nice little action movie with aliens slicing each other up all over...what more d'ya want.
Next up - JUDGEMENT ON GOTHAM
Alan Grant and Simon Bisley together with 2000ad made this pretty awesome crossover which was quite awesome for a British output - I have mine signed by Alan Grant...just thought I'd get that out there.
It's typically dark as per Batman at the time, that gets transported via a dimension jump belt (while chasing Judge Death) to Mega City One and the world of Judge Dredd (worst film version of an awesome comic book EVER!) after a bit of a skuffle they team up and go after Judge Death - the style is typical of Alan Grant and perfect - they made a few other crossovers afterwards with Judge Dredd and Batman but none really hit the point like this one.
Judge Dredd, as with the rest of the 2000ad stories such as Rouge Trooper, Slaine, ABC Warriors, Nemisis are comics that have actually been sadly passed over by the film world apart from the terrible film with Stallone as Dredd - I've read online that there will be a new film coming called simply "DREDD" which promises to be 10million times better.
There are are few good fan films of 2000ad stuff about - here are some!
Getting the horror on is FREDDY vs JASON vs ASH
What was a good fun crossover movie became an even more awesome comic when the Evil Dead hero Ash decided to show up and step in - using the Necronomicon to gain power the draw in Ash and the rest of the S-Mart and the killing starts.
There are a few web-geek rumors of a movie but I guess we'll have to wait and see...gotta be better than that pointless re-make of Nightmare on Elm St.
Found this pretty cool fan-flick online though.
And finally SUPERMAN & BATMAN vs ALIENS & PREDATOR
I mean, what gets better? Although they have all met before in the past this time they all gang up together for one big jamborree! The aliens and the Predators have been stuck frozen under ice of the andes since yonks ago and with a volcano going off they get unfrozen and the fun begins, just happens that Superman AND Batman are there too but that's just details how they got there - awesomeness ensures.
And what didn't I read...
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