I'd like to see an Exiles/New Excalibur crossover. Two books written by Chris Claremont. Both off in their own little corners of the Marvel Universe. One team that hops from reality to reality fixing problems created by those pesky bugs. The other team had a recent time travel excursion, and is lead by a guy that's no stranger to alternate realities himself.
The trick is that I don't want it to be any big event, just a little meeting that leads to a good old fashioned misunderstanding battle, and an eventual team-up against something. The roadblock to the misunderstanding part is each team currently having one of the Braddock siblings, but maybe Captain Britain could get lost in Crosstime someplace, and that leads Excalibur (searching for him) into a run-in with the Exiles (possibly aware of his presence in other realities, which would almost certainly get Psylocke fired up to help him).
Claremont's already had Roma, a force for order I think, pop up in both books (albeit once in flashback). One could argue that the Exiles, with their missions to "save" realities, whether the inhabitants of the reality they're messing with want it or not, could be an unwitting instrument of Chaos, especially with Proteus on the team (even if he doesn't realize it yet), and Captain Britain probably represents Order, so there's a potential for some sparks there.
It's just something that might be fun to see, if given a proper build-up in the titles. Two teams that happen to converge on the same place at the same time, and go from there. Doesn't have to be part of something company wide, maybe more on the scale of the Avengers-Defenders War. Or maybe even the upcoming Justice League/Justice Society hoo-hah, though I bet that's going to cast significant ripples over the DCU.
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Exiles-Excalibur would probably be a lot more fun than this year's JSA-JLA.
Brad Meltzer and Geoff Johns team up for two books full of cutesy chatter and disembowelments.
Should be great.
You don't want a large-scale event? boy are you out of touch with the comics industry! Which is doing really well, honestly. Uh-huh.
Not to add to the problems, but there are one or two other things that might stand in the way of a misunderstanding, although may actually aid the concept of a crossover: Dazzler's ex-husband and father of her child (supposedly) is Longshot -- on the Exiles.
And Nocturne, um, WAS on the Exiles, with Blink and Morph at least.
They MIGHT recognize each other. :)
Wait...you want two teams to get together and have adventures, WITHOUT a huge universe-spanning, mega-crossover EVENT that will forever change the face of comics as we know it? Just a nice little three issue plot or so?
Are you mad?
Do they do stuff like that anymore?
What the heck, we can always dream!
Oh, I am just snarky today!
fortress: Maybe we'll get a two negatives make a positive situation.
kelvingreen: I prefer to think of myself as being on the cutting edge.
ebony bishop: Wait, i can weasel out of this. Yeah, see the Longshot on the Exiles had his memories wiped by Mojo (and was given to the Exiles in return for I guess broadcasting their adventures), so he won't remember Dazzler or hesitate to attack her.
And Nocturne is still recovering from her stroke so she probably won't be on the mission with the rest of Excalibur.
sallyp: Yes, I am quite mad, in the crazy sense of the word.
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