Part two of our crossover! At the end of the DNAgents series, all of the team members were put in suspended animation. Rainbow, in particular, had a romantic relationship with Crossfire which started in the miniseries Crossfire and Rainbow. To top it off, it was revealed that Rainbow was pregnant before being put in storage! That was quite a bummer of an ending, and I would have preferred that these characters had a happier one.
I didn’t read She-Hulk’s first series, and only got familiar with her when she joined the Fantastic Four during John Byrne’s run. I really liked her relationship with Wyatt Wingfoot. They seemed perfect together. Too bad it didn’t last.
I would also read some issues of her second series. At first I didn’t appreciate the humorous fourth wall breaking because I found the sitcom style humor in the Justice League titles at that time more to my liking. But eventually it grew on me.
I wasn’t really into the Image Comics craze back in the early 1990s. Maybe because I was reading more DC Comics at that time, that I never really followed the hype with the hot Marvel artists who jumped ship and eventually formed Image.
All of the Image Comics I own are from back issue bins. The only Image issue I bought fresh from a comic shop was the Spawn issue that guest-starred Cerebus. I guess I found it intriguing enough to have such different characters appear together in a single issue that I had to read it immediately. Nowadays, that trope has become very common.
Also, I’m not an admirer of Rob Liefeld’s work. But I must admit that there’s something about it that’s hard to ignore. You just can’t resist looking at it, at least.
Today marks the 90th anniversary of The Ghost Who Walks, The Phantom! He really is The Man Who Cannot Die. Happy birthday, Kit Walker!
Japanese Bat (by Hal Santiago) and Judoka Warriors (by Vicatan) were two separate features that I decided to team-up for this cover. Japanese Bat was just basically Batman in Japan, and Judoka Warriors was about two secret agents, a Japanese and a Filipino, who join forces to track down stolen Imperial treasures that were smuggled into the Philippines.
Would Dazzler have been more successful if the planned multimedia venture between Marvel and Casablanca Records had pushed through? I wonder who would have played Dazzler in real life? They would also have needed to sing her songs. What would the songs have sounded like?
Marvel would apply the same tactic again a decade later with Nightcat. But that failed miserably. So maybe Dazzler’s future wouldn’t have been too different, after all?
