Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130519071039/@comment-61371-20130529010829

Well, my bigger point as far as the New Avengers/Transformers crossover is concerned is that we don't want to start some sort of tumbling dominoes effect with someone thinking that series justifies us covering every Transformer.

And I do agree with you on the SNL stuff. I'm not against covering those specific versions of the characters, I just want to make sure we only deal with the cast members who actually have 616 counterparts, and we deal with (primarily) those events. I'm not against noting real life events, either. Just want to make sure they're notes, not the entire profile.

"Is Marvel incorporating him into the Marvel Universe"? ...Maybe? They keep hinting at it, but it's not been done yet. So far, it's just been republishing select stuff from the 50s (we have a page for him, but I can't recall what's on it, or how much it covers). Which is part of what makes him tough to deal with. We don't know what his status is. It's a pain.

I REALLY hope you're right about Angela. Either way, I just don't want us to cover Spawn here. Discuss him in how he relates to Angela or other characters he's crossed over with, sure. But not profiled (after all, we have Nightwatch, so we don't need Spawn).

CrossGen: They published a few series, then just...stopped. So Marvel HAS published original CrossGen material.

Completely agree with you on Conan, Godzilla, etc. Almost impossible to NOT cover some of that, really.

Alien Legion, in my mind, is a unique beast. It was originally published by Marvel under the Epic imprint. And then it went elsewhere. So its roots are with the Epic stuff, but it's gone elsewhere since...unlike most Epic things (Groo being another example. Possibly Elfquest, but I can't recall where that got started).

And Spencerz, as for the licensed characters, I'd make sure to point out that just because Disney owns Marvel doesn't mean that Disney characters published in Marvel comics are Marvel characters. Though I don't see that NOT confusing people. But I can't blame them.