In 1997 and early 1998, DC and Marvel released their second and final sequels. DC and MarvelIt is also the second and final miniseries starring the new character Axel Asher, aka Access, a co-owned superhero with the power to create a portal between the DC Universe and Marvel Universe settings.
This time, the script is the product of Karl Kesel, replacing DC/Marvel: All Access and DC vs Marvel’s Ron Marz. While this is Kesel’s first visiting role in the driver’s seat, he has previously written Amalgam Singles in the publisher’s crossover series, once written about Amalgam Singles Spider Boy and Wonderful Challenger And co-written Protein X and Spider-boy team. (I do want to know that given the huge changes made by the latter for access and origin, Marz might think of Marz’s access co-creator, whom Marz didn’t say in his introduction in the volume, just that he Have done it There is a third visit to the tone of the series, the characters visit the Amalgam Universe, but by then the collaboration between DC and Marvel is gradually disappearing. )
Kesel’s partners in this book are pencil artists Patrick Olliffe and Inker Al Williamson. Their art is not unlike the art of Butch Guice in the previous series, although it does maintain a general realistic style and the artist is able to make the various characters seem to be with each other, and despite how their home comics belong to the same story, they all belong to the same story.
And, in this series, these home comics are more diverse than ever. Kesel DC and Miracle and All visits cannot.
So we see the two-gun kid drawing Jonah Hex on Jonah Hex, the legion of superheroes visiting the world of “The Days of the Future Past” and most excitingly, the original Avengers fight the original Jloa lineup (because it existed at the time, Black Canary as the founder).
A stranger and more interesting crossover is proposed in a pair of sequences, one involving access to ping ponging time, while the other involving him fighting future versions. First, we see a one-panel crossover involving Devil Dinosaur and Anthro, Phantom Eagle and Eneme Ace, as well as JSOA and the intruders. In the second we get particularly crazy in the background, such as Spider-Man clones, like Bizarros, and Super Cats on Silver Surfers Board.
Each question is stuffed with crossovers, as the access finds the character in the wrong universe again, but when trying to solve the problem, he finds himself bounced around time flow.
In the first, over-sized, 38-page issue Spider-Man and Wonder Woman takes on evil New God Mantis and The Juggernaut (a particularly odd pair of villains to team-up and for those heroes to fight, but the why of this scene will be explained before the end of the series), and then Access finds a previous, “savage” version of The Hulk fighting a still alive (but gray at the temples) Green Lantern Hal Jordan.
Since then, the lost crossover has begun, about a decade or so in New York City in the Marvel Universe. The power of Darkseid and Apokolips have formed an uneasy alliance with the brotherhood of Magneto and his evil mutants, whose goal is to conquer the world and put humanity under the Homo Superior and rule all among all.
Standing on their way are the early Avengers (Sans Hulk, but plus Captain America) and the original five teenage X-Men in their commensurate black and yellow outfits, as well as all the allies visited by DC Universe can summon: The Original Justice League lineup: The Electric, the Superman at the time, now released Young Justice: Secret #1! ).
So despite the many heroes, Kesel focuses on the channel, especially at climax, where the character faces the evil darkseid god, which is the other bad guy. Kathel even made similarities between the two, Darkseid noted that both moved other characters to pawns on the board to fight their battles and ultimately made the entire conflict a fight between their own struggles and the catch.
The final battle was conducted with the Fusion Hero, whom Access found that he had the ability to create amalgam himself, resulting in a brand new amalgam (most of what you see on the cover of Issue IV), which is the raw material in which the hero is present. Most of them are only more interesting than interesting names like Green Giant (Green Lantern + Giant Man) or Thor-El (Thor + Superman), although it’s very interesting and charming, how each of them carries their own “continuity” and only their own thoughts really exist in their own minds, like Redwing (Robin + Angel), who sticks with his training.
By far the best one is Captain Marvel Jr. + Captain America, who he calls the name “Uncle Sam!”, gives Lincoln the abilities of wisdom, Eisenhower’s strategy and Nixon’s deception.
Different from orgasm All visitsthis round of mergers does not lead to the new Amalgam comics suite…perhaps because access to “new amalgam” is all in the Marvel Universe, not their own.
Or maybe by then publishers and fans are starting to get tired of the amalgam universe. Or the second round of comic sales All visits Not what the publisher wants.
For whatever reason, without them, this special crossover is better than All visits And, obviously, DC and Marvel. It would be the final appearance of the visiting character and the last series the universe has spanned on such a massive scale, though there are still a handful of one-off crossovers left before the publisher ended his second collaborative era: the 1999s. Superman/Fantastic Four (Which is called Rops access) and Incredible Hulk and Superman, 2000s Batman/Darkward: King of New York Finally, a few years later, in 2003 JLA/Avengers.
However, it seems we don’t have to blame this particular series for the crossover stop. like All visitsit turns out to be interesting, providing more room for character interaction DC and Marvel The series, with a focus on characters from different points in DC and Marvel’s history, proved to be a rather ambitious and imaginative work.
