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Okay, so as some of y'all know I've been running an ongoing Morrison/Quitely invocation (essentially imagining my life as a comic, and writing various ad campaigns, blurbs, interviews, fake lettercols/threads, etc to back up the contention) to make my life a bit more interesting. And then I read about Morrison's 2-year exclusive contract with DC, and that got me thinkin'.
If Morrison's back at DC - exclusively back at DC - then I guess we have to assume that, in order for him to keep writing Aeon (the fictional name I bestowed upon the metafictional comic of my life), then the Aeon universe has to be, in some way, owned by DC - sort of like ABC, Wildstorm, etc. Which is fair enough. But this can lead to an interesting situation, allowing one to play on GM's Filth-outlined riffs of interaction with fictional universes. It goes a bit like this:
1) 'My' universe is, in this magickal scenario, owned by DC comics.
2) However, the relationship between 'my' comicverse and the DCU is rendered more problematic than that between, say, DC and Wildstorm, or DC and ABC, because 'characters' in 'my' universe can actually read DC comics, and find out what happens in the DCU. Which DCU characters can't.
3) This means that any team-ups/crossovers/etc between characters in 'my' universe (e.g. me) and DCU characters (e.g. Batman) would have to be very weird indeed. In order for a crossover between me and Batman to take place in the DCU, I'd have to insert myself into the universe as a ficsuit - with the result that, for story purposes, I would essentially be one of those weird, ultra-powerful spooky characters like the Phantom Stranger. I could disappear, walk off the page, go back to my own universe and get stuff that would be useful, see the future, know all the characters' secrets, etc.
By contrast, because 'my' universe regards the DCU characters as fictional, any Batman/Velvetvandal team-up taking place in 'my' universe would have to take place in some kind of fictional context - a dream, a hallucination, or what have you. So if, say, I have a team-up with Batman in Gotham and he decides to follow me to my reality, he would have to appear in a dream, or something.
Which is exactly what I plan to do. I'm working on the script for a Batman/Velvetvandal team-up set in Gotham, as an invocatory experiment designed to provoke Batman into following me into some level of this reality. The story also allows me to get rid of a servitor I've been meaning to decommission for a while (in a suitably dramatic fashion) and lay down some good vibes for my next poetry collection into the bargain. And I get to deepen the Morrison invocation as well, which has the added bonus of meaning I get to interact with the cool-as-ice Morrison Batman from JLA.
Just thought I'd brag about my plan, while at the same time asking for any input anyone has that'd be helpful. If anyone else has ever tried (or wants to try) anything similar, maybe we could thrash out some ideas here, too. Barbelith/X-men? Hmmm. |
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