You guys remember the Amalgam Universe? Secret Warps reminded me that this happened years back, and kind of surprising that it did at all. Was it fun during it's brief two year stunt, or did you just find the entire thing stupid?
You guys remember the Amalgam Universe? Secret Warps reminded me that this happened years back...
Luke Brown
John Bailey
I never read them but as a kid looking at the ads in Wizard magazine I thought Dark Claw looked badass.
Levi Wood
Fun gimmick, but a real product of its time. It'd be interesting to see a modern Amalgam, but these days, DC will crossover with anyone but Marvel and Marvel is too busy being in sync with the movies to try anything fun or outgoing.
Grayson Wright
But that's my point, the big two would never do something like this nowadays. It's somehow has gotten even more competitive and petty
Ian Clark
It was fun. Some were better than others. Speed Demon, and Magneto and The Magnetic Men were my favourites. Some fusions were lazy like Aquamariner.
Henry Cox
I personally enjoyed Iron Lantern's issue.
Jordan Bennett
The fake letter were great too. I love how some are interesting combos (Speed Demon) and some are just stupid (Kingpin/Riddler became "The Big Question).
Bentley Harris
>you were expecting an amalgam of stephen strange and kent nelson but it was i, charles xavier!
Alexander Flores
read about it online. sounded pretty cool. If for no other reason than the clever ways characters were combined, particularly their names.
Xavier Jones
I really liked them. We got to see a lot of things fans were constantly talking about or wondering about. They felt like pure, unadulterated fan service.
Cameron Hall
I am the elseworld storytimer, want me to storytime amalgam comics?
David Fisher
Sure, got Iron Lantern?
Eli Allen
I'll just do this one here, maybe link to the other threads.
David Flores
OP here, sure
Wyatt White
Camden Brown
Noah Murphy
Damn he’s got a big ass head
Jordan Harris
Jordan Rogers
Cameron Robinson
I think poor choices in which characters to combine killed the concept for most readers.
Connor Morales
Sebastian Jackson
Isn't that just regular Rogue??
Josiah Reed
Adam Martinez
Nope, her name is Runaway.
Fusion of Rogue and Gypsy.
Anthony Peterson
Jason Young
Michael Adams
Ethan Flores
Hudson Mitchell
Madame Sapphire isn't a bad name
Kevin King
Logan Butler
I missed the Nova Corps connection the first time I read this.
Dylan Mitchell
Eli Turner
Landon Perry
Jaxson Russell
Apparently Ultimo and The Shark, which is a wacky combo.
Cameron Rivera
Levi Murphy
Adrian Gutierrez
David Wood
I found all 4 of the Amalgam trades for $10 a pop at a con years back. Such a nice find that I can just sit on and make some money on.
Justin Bailey
Julian Cox
Aaron Campbell
I love me some PMS
Jaxson Lopez
Christian Nguyen
Asher Carter
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
part 5 Which one amalgam next?
Jayden Wilson
Oh no! Hal! Fuck I want more.
Anthony Allen
Fuck it, Speed Demon time
Angel Miller
Matthew Howard
Ayden Moore
I will say this, if they ever update this today, they can do better then Mandarinestro. What they should have done is combine Mandarin and Kanjar Ro, from his early Gamma Ging stuff, mixed in the the Ten Rings, and mix Sinestro and Iron Monger, ya got Fear Monger
Wyatt Lopez
Gabriel Smith
Brody Carter
Fuck, if they ever did Amalgam again and continued this? I’d automatically buy it.
Easton Myers
Jack Butler
Blake Brooks
Connor Wilson
Liam Gonzalez
Not to further push for more Earth Lanterns but they COULD maybe do a character who channels Lantern energy through a suit of armor. Like a cheap knockoff device that's far less sophisticated than a power ring, but still gets fueled by the emotional spectrum. Oh wait, they technically did do something similar (without actual emotional energy) with the China Lanterns.
Jeremiah Walker
Alexander Brooks
Super Soldier is kinda lame desu.
I don’t think there has ever been a good Superman Fusion.
Brody Torres
Sebastian Gutierrez
>Tony, Loki and Natasha are still alive
>Spider-Man is an adult
>Drax is a human again
≥Hulk is bouncing around several personalities with the main one gunning to cull the majority of Earth's population
>Captain Marvel is half Kree
>Most Skrulls are evil
>Rhodey is too traumatized to be War Machine
>Thor is currently king of Asgard
>Scarlett Witch is still pretty much irrelevant
>Just like the movies
If you're going to complain, at least make your gripes relevant. Marvel synergy died down months ago. The only thing I can think of that that still smacks of it is that upcoming Spiderverse book. And even that's going to focus on the comic book versions of the characters.
Anthony Thomas
Samuel Jackson
Nicholas Garcia
Hard to think of a great guy to fuse with him I guess.
Isaiah Evans
Owen Perez
Jack Young
Anthony Robinson
Why do they keep killing Hal?
Matthew Gomez
Connor Walker
Aiden Cook
I remember I always wanted to do a superhero rpg for a group, based on Amalgam, but never got around to it. I just made a huge list of all the characters I made up for the universe, and tried to improve on em. So fuck it, what were your guy's ideas for Amalgams?
Hellgrammite+Abomination=Damnation
Bane+Juggernaut=Dreadnaut
Jason Todd+Cyclops=Red Visor
Cassandra Cain+X-23=C-23
Damien+Daken=Damen
Justin Hammer+Weaponers Of Qward=Hammers of Qward
Blue Beetle+Venom=Stinger
M.O.D.O.K.+O.M.A.C.=Something I don't want to even attempt right now
The Watcher+The Phantom Stranger=The Phantom Watcher
Luke Cage+Booster Gold=Power Boost
Iron Fist+Blue Beetle=Iron Beetle
Caleb Sullivan
Internet/power went out cause fucking kids hit a transformer with fireworks
Eli Howard
Josiah Collins
Jonathan Gutierrez
Adrian Moore
Cooper Jenkins
By now, you guys should guess I am just doing the ones people talked about right now.
Jace Nguyen
Dylan Phillips
Andrew Reed
Jack Martin
Jayden Davis
Charles Wood
Dylan Wood
I wouldn't mind seeing Dark Claw or Amazon
This stuff is worth money?
Samuel Gomez
Tyler Perry
Ok, after this one.
Luis Ortiz
Lucas Gutierrez
John Rivera
Damn, these are kinda cool. Hammer/Weaponers Amalgam is definitely my favorite.
Samuel Adams
Lucas Morgan
Thomas Gonzalez
Bentley Johnson
John Walker
Carter Watson
Andrew Morris
Beta Ray Bill and Plastic Man=Beta Eel O'Brian
Hudson Diaz
Thomas King
Ayden Sanchez
Jacob Butler
Levi Johnson
Jace Butler
Ok, Dark Claw next
Justin Murphy
Blake Morales
Ethan Rodriguez
Noah Morris
Dylan Baker
Joshua Nguyen
Oh I didn't know they had two Dark Claw issues
Juan Price
Surprise motherfucker, he was also in the jlx comics.
Brayden Evans
Jackson Lee
Grayson Bennett
Joseph Collins
Oliver Flores
James Nguyen
Eli Wilson
Samuel Perez
Luis Butler
Alexander Nelson
could anyone really beat Dr.Fate and Dr.Strange?
Alexander Williams
Robert Moore
Charles Flores
Shit, Dark Claw is more fun that I'd thought it'd be
Carter Nguyen
Jeremiah Smith
Tyler Bailey
Jonathan Roberts
Dylan Gray
Jason Sanders
Lucas Sanders
Nathan Williams
Eli Butler
Alexander Roberts
Ian Clark
Adam Anderson
Carson Morgan
William Lopez
I'm gonna be honest, Iron Lantern looks like it could be an actual suit in the main Iron Man comics. It just looks very neat, even if it gimmicky.
Nathan Parker
Kayden Gray
Carter Morales
Austin White
Caleb Scott
Noah Stewart
Angel Sullivan
Ethan Jenkins
Cameron Lewis
Jayden Jackson
Logan Lopez
Nathan Carter
Austin Parker
Hudson Bell
Now, Amazon
Brody Barnes
Cooper Kelly
Nicholas Watson
Carson Gutierrez
Justin Lewis
Noah Lewis
William Gutierrez
Joseph Ramirez
Jose Long
Isaac Russell
Eli Diaz
I own this in trade format.
Picked it up years ago for like 3 quid at my local charity store.
Carter Howard
Daniel Nguyen
Henry Richardson
Jeremiah Williams
Ryder Reyes
Aaron Bailey
Adam Myers
The art on this was amazing.
Logan Nelson
William Morales
Landon James
Thomas Cooper
Lincoln Brooks
Green Guardsman has a much better looking suit of armor.
Brayden Butler
Luke Richardson
Xavier Ward
Tyler Cox
My only issue is that most of the mixes are based on the JLA with the X-Men and I'd prefer the Avengers
Ryder Peterson
amazing how much less interested i am because of this art style
last comic was surprisingly good, thanks for posting
Jason Jenkins
I loved it as a kid, and honestly from a marketing standpoint it worked on me, they got me into the DC side of cape comics.
Can't really comment on its quality as I haven't read it since then.
Mason Perez
>batman/wolverine
that makes no sense does it? One is a mercenary who's the best at killing. The other is utistically supposed to never kill, even if the whole universe were at stake
Kevin Sanchez
popularity dictated a lot of these fusions it seems. honestly i think if they were to somehow try again, they could do much better with much more obvious amalgams
Charles Cooper
It's also possible they thought of the Hyena (Joker+Sabretooth) character, which works better first.
Brandon Morales
Not really. Only in the most literal sense that it probably would never have been released in any other time period.
Xavier Sanchez
Dominic Evans
Kayden Torres
Austin Edwards
Easton Richardson
Alexander Cox
Wyatt Cox
Sebastian Foster
Ryder Turner
Bentley Campbell
Isaiah Barnes
Juan Thompson
Today I would expect something more like “Devil Bat” or maybe something Moon Knight related
Carter Nelson
Nathaniel Morris
Adam Baker
Will marvel ever get back to being "fun" or is that kinda thing impossible now that disney owns marvel?
Gabriel Rivera
Kayden Thomas
Elijah Reyes
Aaron Sullivan
Gavin Cook
Grayson Garcia
Dylan Allen
Isaiah Wilson
Nathaniel Wright
James Bell
Jonathan Lee
Grayson Rivera
Isn’t that Secret Warps?
Matthew Hughes
Simplest way to have a crossover would be for Marvel to bring back the Nth projector and tie it into DC's Nth metal. So you could either have a big company-wide crossover immediately or have a bridged element for later crossovers. Remember the two Howards situation between Savage Dragon and Spider-Man? They could also go with that approach and have a small crossover in-mention.
Hell, DC loves meta commentary nowadays so they could introduce some cosmic force that represents copyright law and lawyers to explain why the two multiverses run parallel.
Ethan Garcia
I love the naming conventions. It's like if Star Wars and DBZ ever cross-promoted, you'd have Gohan Solo and the Death Star Dragon Ball
Caleb Lopez
I hate any kind of DC / Marvel mixing.
I know it's all fiction and making comics DC only or Marvel only is an arbitrary limitation, but I just can't get into a story when it's crossover shit. Makes me focus on how it's a crossover and lose the normal immersion I would get from a regular non-crossover comic. I don't think it's just my own hangup at fault though, it also seems like these crossovers tend not to be written as seriously as regular stories because the writers know they're very temporary gimmicks.
Jaxon Howard
I thought it was stupid because I thought most characters looked stupid. Spider-boy... What where they fucking thinking? The coolest thing about Spider-Man is the mask. Dark Claw was the first time I ever saw something and said "edgy tryhard" and super soldier just looked so fucking dumb with his hair popping out.
Leo Johnson
I combined Beta Ray Bill with Martian Mangunter, got yourself Omega Ray Manhunter
Name some more DC guys, and I'll see if I can remember who I combined with whom
Dominic Scott
How was Aquamariner lazy?
Mason Stewart
Liam Watson
Caleb Gomez
Jacob Scott
Brody Ortiz
Cause it was good
Jaxson Richardson
They're too similar. It ends up being one character wearing the other's clothing. It's like combining Black Cat and Catwoman, you'd just get another cat themed cat burglar out of it. These kinds of fusions are best when you cross with something different, to get something more novel.
Adam Hill
Joshua James
Samuel Green
Elijah Morales
Sebastian Turner
I agree with you overall, but I don’t think Aquamariner was just one character wearing the others clothing. He might have been overly different but the differences were thereZ
Luis King
Jack Baker
Thomas Price
William Murphy
No, they aren’t.
Oliver Flores
Matthew Moore
Josiah Butler
Jonathan Mitchell
Levi Jenkins
Ethan Jenkins
I wonder if there was ever anyway for it to be possible for the Amalgam characters to interact with the characters they are combined from.
Jack Perry
Chase Foster
Mason Gomez
Whats the legality on these now? Who owns them? I know that JLA/Avengers was still canon to DC for a little while, and that trinity book was a sequel of sorts dealing with the fall out of krona, but I don't think this ever made it into canon
Caleb James
Lincoln Clark
Colton Anderson
Asher Barnes
Camden Bell
Cameron Cook
Sebastian Watson
Is that supposed to look like jack kirby?
Grayson Robinson
Is the guy who can read Lantern’s thoughts an amalgam?
Michael King
I was a kid when this came out and was so hyped for this shit, but the more I read the more I realized that none of the stories would really have any impact because, of course, neither company's properties could be damaged or altered in any significant way. Kind of lame.
Nathan Richardson
Joshua Clark
Man, these artists. Parts of the drawings are so great; energetic composition, nice line work, all that stuff. But you can tell some of these guys haven't bothered to learn any sort of anatomy or anything like that. Like, the joker guy is facing turning one way but his abs are facing straight towards the reader, what the hell, Jim Balent.
Jeremiah Ross
fuck yes
Angel Morales
Myx the 5th dimensional superman imp?!
Xavier Gomez
You don't know what their direction was.
A lot of things go into art.
Juan Cruz
I combined Catwoman and Callisto of the Morlocks together to get Calico
Charles Mitchell
>Norman
I thought he was supposed to be Harry/Harvey?
Luis Martinez
So it was a mix of OA, Ego, and Mogo. I wouldn’t have expected OA to be in there
Easton Phillips
>Hot female Guy
Why is this a recurring motif ?
Connor Peterson
I love "keep your atmosphere on" instead of "keep your pants on".
David Clark
Aaron Hernandez
The "Iron Lantern is nobody's servant" sounds like his Tony Stark speaking.
Jaxon Cooper
>Oa, not Mogo? WTF?
Joseph Myers
Is this guy still alive anywhere?
Brandon Garcia
So if sparrow is a combination of dick greyson and jubilee would that make her a trap?
Jayden Wood
The Stark Aircraft was a decent touch as well.
Matthew Harris
I mean they killed Hal Jordan like 3 times
Adam Turner
Bump.
Nolan White
Yeah Hammond