Oddest crossover of the year
Aug. 14th, 2008 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexxkayI don't read a lot of Marvel superhero comics any more. Actually, I don't *regularly* read any of them, now that I think on it. But I still go through the Marvel section of the comic book catalog, because I live in hope of something interesting coming along. Just read the first issue of something that, while the jury is still out on whether or not it is *good*, is decidedly interesting.
"Fantastic Four: True Story" is a 4-issue miniseries by Paul Cornell (he of the excellent "Human Nature" Doctor Who 2-parter from last year). It posits that something has gone wrong with the relationship between people and books, and that the FF have to enter the "Fictoverse" to find out what is making books so depressing lately. A cool author and a meta premise were enough to make me check it out.
The first issue concludes in a place I would never have expected to see the FF. They are coming to the rescue of some damsels in distress menaced by a horde of monsters, which is typical enough. The damsels in question, however, are the protagonists of _Sense and Sensibility_. Yes, we now have the world's first-ever Fantastic Four/Jane Austen crossover. (Well, someone may have done it in a fanfic, I suppose.)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!"
"Ben, that's from _Pride and Prejudice_!"
NEXT ISSUE: "Reader, I clobbered him."
"Fantastic Four: True Story" is a 4-issue miniseries by Paul Cornell (he of the excellent "Human Nature" Doctor Who 2-parter from last year). It posits that something has gone wrong with the relationship between people and books, and that the FF have to enter the "Fictoverse" to find out what is making books so depressing lately. A cool author and a meta premise were enough to make me check it out.
The first issue concludes in a place I would never have expected to see the FF. They are coming to the rescue of some damsels in distress menaced by a horde of monsters, which is typical enough. The damsels in question, however, are the protagonists of _Sense and Sensibility_. Yes, we now have the world's first-ever Fantastic Four/Jane Austen crossover. (Well, someone may have done it in a fanfic, I suppose.)
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!"
"Ben, that's from _Pride and Prejudice_!"
NEXT ISSUE: "Reader, I clobbered him."