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Originally Posted by noisereductions
oh and yes, that's the ROM I was talking about. Hasbroverse has GI Joe, Transformers, MASK, ROM, Action Man, Micronauts... Honestly, I've only read a little bit of Revolution/Revolutionaries and of the properties involved it's really only GI Joe and Transformers that I know much about, BUT I do actually find the whole thing kind of interesting. I mean... it's like when you're a kid and you have various action figures they could play together. Think of how you (Sev) were saying that you'd have the ninja from GI Joe beating the shit out of other (non-GI Joe) action figures. Well, this IDW stuff makes that kind of thing cannon. It's actually kind of neat.
When I first hear the idea, I thought it was dumb. But when I started reading Revolution, I liked it. Maybe because Callen Bunn knows how to handle writing such a thing. But, honestly the GI Joe x Transformers stuff fits together really well. Sounds strange at first, but works.
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No, I get it. It works, and there's a lot of potential there if you're into the characters (er... products?) made by Hasbro.
I'm kinda not, but I think it would be cool to have a universe where all these kind of stray properties were able to overlap. A universe where, say, Star Trek (which I totally AN a fan of) characters might run into Optimus Prime or the turtles or what have you. Or... DOCTOR WHO!! Isn't he on IDW right now? I have a few issues I picked up from the bookstore last year but the utterly failed to grab me so I have no idea where they got off to, and can't remember anything from the branding of the whole thing.
I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see the Doctor get a real proper comic book treatment, and if he were on IDW, he could mingle with his friends across the pond in the Federation... maybe fighting vampires. That would be cool.
(The Doctor did have a series in Britain in the late '70s and early '80s that was picked up by Marvel at the time for US distribution. But that was a long time ago, and I don't feel like it's asking too much to hope for a new series from a sanctioned, or more "official" feeling publisher.)