Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130519071039/@comment-61022-20130528024906

GrnMarvl14 wrote: And as for the "interaction" bit...I'd rephrase that quite a bit. Just because a character interacts with a Marvel character doesn't mean we should be covering them. Keep in mind, Spider-Man's damned near everybody, from Superman to a slew of Transformers (both in the 80s and the 00s) to the SNL cast of the 70s to whoever else I'm forgetting. While I know that wasn't your intent, by phrasing it like you did, it makes it seem like you're being more inclusive than we generally like to be.

And we should probably add something to cover characters incorporated into the Marvel Universe and how they're handled. Marvelman, Angela, and Conan all come to mind as differing examples of the same idea.

On the Spider-Man cross-over stuff. The cross-over with Superman and the most recent Transformers cross-over (New Avengers/Transformers published by IDW) technically occurred on Earth-7642 which is designated "Earth-Crossover" which is basically where stories took place that were inter company cross-overs that didn't have dimensional hopping as part of the story premise (IE: The two licensed properties shared the same universe). While the Spider-Man who appeared in is actually a native of Earth-91274 the Transformers universe (although he only appeared once and was never seen again. Also technically an exact duplicate of that Spider-Man exists on Earth-120185 which is the Transformers UK Comic universe).

As for the SNL cast.. They appeared on Earth-616, and I would say that if there is anything that merits an entry on this wiki it should be a brief overview of the actors achievements in real life and just a summary of their cannonical appearance (I would also attribute this to the David Letterman/Avengers crossover and the Jay Leno/Spider-Man crossover). Otherwise, I don't think we should be creating profiles for "cameos" of actors just because they appear on a TV screen or in the background of a scene in a comic story, because I'd amount that to merely a topical reference.

As for the Marvelman stuff... Is Marvel incorporating him into the Marvel Universe proper? Then I'd say it would be worthwhile to cover all his material.

As for Angela... I think it's much to early to speculate what stuff from the Spawn universe is going to be a carry over into the Marvel Universe. But, I somehow doubt that any of it will, they'll probably reboot her origins and find some new origin story to tell.

As for the Crossgen stuff? Have they even started publishing yet? If not, again I'd say that it is speculative at best what to do with that right now. What needs to be established is: (a) are they continuing all the Crossgen properties from where they left off or is there going to be a reboot of all the licenses? (b) is it going to be given a universe designation and will there be interactions with the Marvel Universe? If it's going to continue to be self contained (which I really doubt, given what Marvel has done with their acquisition of Malibu in the 90s.) and it's going to continue on where the previous publications left off, I think we should refer readers to the Crossgen Wiki since they're the experts. However, if it's going to be a reboot and the characters are going to crossover with Marvel characters, then I think we should cover it (much like we cover the post-Marvel purchase of Malibu material because, if I'm not mistaken those properties all interacted with Marvel characters and had reboots of some sort.)