Powered Couple

My first exposure to this couple was in Marvel Team-Up, when they teamed up with Spidey to fight some dude named The Dark Rider in a time-traveling adventure set during the Salem Witch Trials. I know that I wasn’t even ten years old at that time, but it sparked my interest about the Salem story and I started reading about it in our school library. I think I was too young to realize how horrible it all was. I only recall seeing a picture of Cotton Mather and thinking that the way Sal Buscema drew him was not very accurate.

When Doves Fly

 Two Doves together? With Monarch in the background, you can be sure that time travel shenanigans are involved.

I quite enjoyed the Armageddon 2001 event from way back, but they kind of dropped the ball with the ending. DC had to change Monarch’s secret identity to Hawk because of leaked info that it was gonna be Captain Atom. But the whole thing with Monarch forcing Hawk to kill him in order to take up the armor and become Monarch himself was a huge plothole for me. If it had worked the way he intended it to, then he would just have been trapped in a time loop of going back in time to get killed over and over again.

Rainbow Raider

 

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.

Cross Dressing

 

This is the first part of a two issue crossover! Crossfire originally had a black skintight outfit but he was forced to destroy it to be able to get out of jail (not gonna get into the details here). So for the remainder of his series, he was just using the mask and was just dressed in an ordinary turtleneck and pants. For this imaginary story, I’ve put him back in his black costume, but with added body armor because he’s going to need it. Where is this heading? Come back in a few days to find out!