#JLA Avengers

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Perez

JLA/Avengers

[evilwickedme]

Have you ever received a gift from a friend and kind of not believe it's real?

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[omniversecomicsguide]

Team-up or throw-down? How about a little of both?!

JLA/AVENGERS (2003-2004)

has been added to the Omniverse Comics Guide! Did you manage to pick those issues up, back in the early 2000s?

Featured Cover Art:

WIZARD MAGAZINE #144 & 125

combined art by George Pérez

[demonsee2]

Batman vs Captain America by George Perez

[hehether]

I'd like JLA and Avengers to meet someday 🗣

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JLA / Avengers #2

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Some of George Perez's favorite characters from the JLA/Avengers (2003) crossover. Colors by Tam Smith.

[artbyblastweave]

My sense of what Crossovers are for, conceptually, the thing they do that other works can't, was entirely formulated by my early-childhood exposure to Kurt Busiek and George Perez's seminal 2004 Marvel/DC crossover JLA/Avengers. Like most stuff Busiek writes it's a love-letter, and part-and-parcel with its status as a love-letter was that he took the time to render the horror and bewilderment that the respective teams had upon encountering the status-quo of their counterpart's setting. The JLA encounter the anti-mutant hysteria, the supervillainous fiefdoms like Latveria, figures like Hulk and Punisher being allowed to roam free, all those tonal hallmarks of Marvel, and they come to the conclusion that the Marvel Universe is hanging on by its fingernails and that the Avengers are somewhere between in over their heads and actively negligent. Meanwhile the Avengers explore the shiny, forward-thinking, optimistic DC universe, encounter the ubiquitously positive reactions they get from people on the street just for visibly Being Superheroes, see things like the Flash Museum and the Hall of Justice, and Captain America comes to the conclusion that the Justice League obviously must have led a fascist takeover of America. Then they hit each other a lot. Anyway, if you're writing a crossover between two works and you want me to care at all, you need to meet the JLA/Avengers Bar. When a character from one work is placed in the context of another work's setting, what commentary on the original work is that character in a position to provide through their outlook and worldview? What insight, in turn, can their commentary provide on on the assumptions and conventions of their native narrative? Have all characters involved experienced enough of the events of their own work that they've actually got something to compare and contrast with, or is the crossover occurring so early in one or more of their respective timelines that you're basically dealing with OCs due to the butterfly effect? Are you actually acknowledging the different properties as discrete narratives that are abrading each other in interesting ways, or are you for the one millionth time reimagining Izuku Midoriya as a native resident of some other setting (seemingly decided via roulette wheel?) And of course, are you correct in your assessments of how these are bouncing off each other? How many times am I getting hit with "They would not fucking say that/react like that/understand their new surroundings in that way/go five minutes without trying to disembowel this fan-favorite character from the other work that you've decided they're getting along great with?"

[thebibliomancer]

Calm down, you nerds.

DC can be Earth-1 and Marvel can be Earth-A.

[smashedpages]

Remembering the late George Perez on his birthday.

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JLA / Avengers

by George Perez

DC and Marvel

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by Gabriele Dell’Otto on Tumblr

[omniversecomicsguide]

I hope the rumours of a MARVEL/DC CROSSOVER CLASSICS OMNIBUS are true!

Currently reading…

JLA/AVENGERS #1 (2003)

Script: Kurt Busiek

Art: George Pérez & Tom Smith

Love Hawkeye’s meta joke when these two teams finally meet!

[shayera-the-magpie]

Of course Ollie would have an bone to pick with Tony.