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1996 Fools: DC vs ... DC????
Article 41951 of rec.arts.comics.dc.universe: Path: news.jhu.edu!aplcenmp!night.primate.wisc.edu!newsspool.doit.wisc.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!adt105 From: Aaron Thomas <ADT105@psuvm.psu.edu> Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.dc.universe Subject: DC vs ... DC???? Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 17:57:55 EST Organization: Penn State University Lines: 95 Message-ID: <96093.175755ADT105@psuvm.psu.edu> References: <4jdsbk$9df@news.ualr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: psuvm.psu.edu X-Authinfo-User: adt105@psu.edu Sorry, this was supposed to go out earlier this week. OTOH, birthdays are more important than the spreading of news that must have been on every network by now. DATELINE --- New York City Following the heels of their economically successful DC Versus Marvel miniseries coproduced with the Marvel Entertainment Group, DC Comics has announced plans for a new project. Jenette Kahn {major SP? sorry - AT}, president of DC, was surrounded by some of the biggest names in comics, past (characters) and present (creative types). "As you must know, DC is part of the Time-Warner corporation. Earlier this year, Turner Communications joined our happy family. This created not only one of the largest cross-media businesses in the world today, it also united two of the biggest 'houses' in animation, Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barberra." Before, Turner had acquired some of the Warner Bros. theater shorts and ran them on their various television networks, along with classic Hanna-Barberra shorts and newer H-B products like "Jonny Quest and the Space Mutants". Now, the two families of 'toons are united, once again in WB's case, under one roof. Paul Levitz, of DC: "Basically, we had a lot of fun doing DC VERSUS MARVEL, but there were two major problems. One, we had twice as much bureaucracy to deal with than the enormous amount a crossover ususally takes. Two, we had to split the money too ways. (laughter) We decided to take a look at our properties and see what we could meddle with. Unfortunately, not everyone was as enthusiastic as we were about disrupting their storylines to have a Real crossover. So we ruled out the regular DCU and Vertigo books in one fell swoop. Then one day Ted ÕTurnerå walks in, taking the usual VIP tour, trying to steal copies of Alex's work on Kingdom Come (laughter), - coming this summer from DC] (more laughter) Anyway, he comes up to us and says, 'Why don't you do something more with those WB characters? I mean, two measly books?' I smiled and said something, but I saw KC 'Crossover' Carlson's eyes light up, and I knew that an Idea was Born. When I get back an hour later, I see ALL THESE people, from James Robinson down to Tommy, the Copy Boy hovering around KC like flies to honey. It was... I'll let KC tell it." KC Carlson: "We had been discussing a 'sequel' of sorts to DC VERSUS MARVEL, but everytime we mentioned it around a certain creator, he'd start describing, in detail, his plans for INFERIOR FIVE VERSUS ANGEL AND THE APE. (laughter) When I heard Mr. Turner mention the Warner Brother characters, I thought back to that morning, when I was watching "Scooby-Doo" on TNT. Then I remembered - We own THAT] As soon as they left I snagged a pencil and paper and wrote down a few ideas - nothing concrete, no actual scripting, but what eventually became the basis of a proposal for a series we're calling WARNER BROTHERS VERSUS HANNA-BARBERRA] The basic premise is similar to that of DC VERSUS MARVEL, so there won't me much time wasted on the How? of the matter. This will be a storyline like a 'classic' cartoon; it will be staightfoward for the kids, but there will be plenty of parts that adults will get. There will be several mini-battles, in addition to the main bouts that will once again be voted on by the public. Currently, we have tentatively planned so far: Marvin the Martian Vs. The Great Gazoo] Speedy Gonzales Vs. Quickdraw McGraw as El Kabong] Daffy Duck, as Duck Dodgers Vs. Jonny Quest] Yosemite Sam Vs. Dick Dasterdly and Muttlay] Bugs Bunny Vs. Yogi Bear] Pinky and the Brain Vs. Scooby-Doo] Road Runner Vs. Speed Buggy] Currently we are sticking with the creative team from DC VERSUS MARVEL, although this will probably change; Peter David won't write Pinky & the Brain unless all the characters from books he writes are drawn in, and Ron Marz wants to replace their opponent with A Pup Named Scooby-Doo. (TWO MINUTES OF LAUGHTER])" ======================================================================= That's about it, other than some lawyers explaining how they "temporarily restructured" the licensing of the Hanna-Barberra characters to Archie Comics to pull this off. Any comments, from out there in racdcu land? ObDC: This will affect DC the company, in that a lot of manpower will go into this. In turn, that may affect the quality of the DCU storylines. In addition, I've 'heard' (not really a reliable source, but...) that there may be a CANONICAL appearance of a certain POWERful TALKING Tiger... so will it be Tiger-Man or Talking Tawny? Aaron Thomas, who'd pay $3.95 for a well-written (when I don't say well-written, it is IMPLIED, people]) THE GREAT GAZOO VERSUS MARVIN THE MARTIAN.
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