An epic DC and Marvel crossover? Comics execs need it and have concepts

With the 25th anniversary of the final DC and Marvel Comics crossover approaching, and the American comics business in a state of deep uncertainty, author Gail Simone kicked off a second of optimistic Twitter power with one easy query: What would you prefer to see in a new Marvel/DC crossover?

And a few of Marvel and DC’s largest creators have answered, with the hashtag #PleaseMarvelDC.

Fan knowledge says there’s a deep divide between Marvel and DC comics, however among the many people who make these comics, it’s uncommon to seek out anybody who’s solely labored at one of many two superhero juggernauts. With all that cross pollination, you’d assume we’d get crossovers extra typically, but it surely hasn’t occurred since 1996’s DC vs. Marvel/Marvel vs. DC, which itself spawned the extraordinarily ’90s Amalgam Universe, which was populated by mashup characters like Dark Claw (Batman/Wolverine), Doctor Strangefate (Doctor Strange/Doctor Fate), and Super-Soldier (Superman/Captain America).

DC and Marvel sporadically engaged in various weird crossovers even before then, however on the time solely certainly one of them was the subsidiary of a global media conglomerate. Disney’s 2009 acquisition of Marvel quashed many hopes of a return to intercompany crossovers — and even reprinted editions of these crossovers. This one, from 2003, goes for a lowest price of $44.22 on Amazon.

Gail Simone has written comics for each firms in her profession, chopping her tooth on Marvel’s Deadpool, and shifting on to DC’s Birds of Prey and Wonder Woman. And she has one factor in thoughts for 2021 and the 25-year-anniversary of the final time DC and Marvel teamed up.

A day later, many followers have weighed in with characters they’d prefer to see meet, and the creators they’d prefer to see craft that assembly.

And after Spider-Man scribe Christos Gage tweeted about claiming characters for yourself, effectively…

Many creators weighed in within the replies. Creators like Superman artist Jerry Ordway:

Kurt Busiek, author of Marvels and The Avengers:

Deadpool co-creator Fabian Nicieza, in what’s actually a joke about how Deadpool was created:

Detective Comics scribe Cully Hamner:

DC Superhero Girls and Wonder Woman ’77 author Amanda Deibert:

Black Panther author Reginald Hudlin:

Killmonger artist Juan Ferreyra:

DCeased and Wolverine author Tom Taylor:

Wonder Woman scribe and Ms. Marvel co-creator G. Willow Wilson:

And lastly, Dark Nights Metal architect, author of Batman and Justice League, Scott Snyder, with a daring proposition:

So how about it, Marvel and DC? In 2021, followers and creators can have little a crossover, as a deal with?