comics

Sorry if this is hard to understand, don't know quite how to phrase it. I mostly mean that it seems like Japan has a big industry of their comics, which aren't dominated by one genre like superheroes do in America, being used as fuel for animated series. Is it possible for the Americans to have...

In Late 1939 Detective Comics, Inc. v. launched a copyright lawsuit against Fox Feature's Wonder Man which they claim was a complete copy of their Superman character. Detective had a strong case alleging Wonder Man exhibiting similar powers and characteristics (super-strength, super-speed...

The Iron Age (or Modern Age, but I prefer the term Iron Age because what's "modern" is always shifting) is generally considered to have started in 1996 and continues today. So I'd like to ask if there are any interesting PODs during this era you'd like to discuss. Here are some I have: - What...

When it comes to heroes, you don't get much more iconic than Superman and Batman. So it's only fitting that their respective archnemeses are two of the most notorious villains of pop culture. I am, of course, speaking of the Ultra-Humanite and Hugo Strange. Of course, as inevitable as it may...

Much like Walt Disney and Osamu Tezuka, Jack Kirby was an artist who was not only legendary, but one who had such a profound impact on the medium he worked in that it would be unrecognizable without him and his influence. Frank Miller famously went so far as to say that the history of comics...

Again, I know there was already a thread for this, but it's dead. I think one interesting POD with some very far-reaching repercussions would be "Marvel Time" never getting introduced.

Yes, I already know there was a thread about this, but it's dead, so I figured it would be best to make a new one. Here's an idea: what if the Second Circuit had ruled that Wonder Man didn't infringe on Superman?

Following up on the Bronze Age thread, I'd like to ask if anyone has interesting ideas for PODs related to the Dark Age of Comic Books. Here are a few I came up with: -What if Hal Jordan's infamous heel-turn hadn't happened? -What if Todd McFarlane hadn't opted to produce the Spawn toys...

Continuing from the Golden and Silver Age threads, I felt like asking if anybody had any interesting POD ideas regarding the Bronze Age of Comic Books. Here's one: IOTL, Jim Shooter and Chris Claremont got into a dispute over the resolution of The Dark Phoenix Saga. When Shooter pitched the...

Essentially, sort of a literary equivalent to The best movies/TV shows/video games never made threats. Only this time, it's about books ranging from novels, comic books and graphic novels, and textbooks for schools.

OK, so everyone at this point has heard of the two biggest Comic Publishers of all time right? DC (formerly National) and HIT (Formerly Quality) have been in the pop culture Nexus ever since the 1930s, although it was the 40s when they both truly hit their stride with guys like Wonder Woman...

Everyone who's into comics will be familiar with the Crisis on Infinite Earths event/storyline created by DC in the mid-80s that sought that bring an end to the muddled continuity of the then DC Multiverse by merging the 5 most popular Earths into one, big continuity. Those Earths were the then...

After having a conversation with Mr_ Bondoc, I decided to start a new TL with him. And yes, this is a collaborative effort so anyone who wants to join in and share your ideas, you can with, (of course) our permission. So here's the POD: POD: June 7, 1954: Alan Turing refuses to commit suicide...

What would you say is the earliest possible time for comics to come around?

We have all talked about it, but it has been done. Chip Zdarsky has written a nifty comic mini-series which details what would happen in Marvel characters didn't maintain their same age in a "sliding time scale". As such, the series details, "On this Earth, many Marvel heroes such as Spider-Man...

This is sort of a spin-off of @The Director's thread Pop Culture Oneshot Scenarios. Only now, it describes various aspects of what ever it is you can think of as if it was on a series of TV Tropes articles. YMMV, Nightmare Fuel, WMG, the works. Fire away, all.

So what if Marvel remained independent and had the resources to purchase Lucasfilm? Say that the 1990s are much kinder to Marvel, with no bankruptcy scare for one, allowing them to be stable enough to acquire the other company? I guess the result depends on when they acquire LF - before the...

In the manga/anime series, quirks are common place. Izuku Midoriya's mother is listed as a 4th generation quirk user, and is close to 40. This means quirks appeared sometime between the American Civil War and the late 1920s. I want to know how different their world is. WW II hashed out with...

So I think we can agree that from a global perspective, the pop culture economies of the US and Japan are really beyond compare (in terms of volume, multinational influence, etc),* especially if we’re talking specifically about the mediums of comics and animation, and even more so in video...

So in 1979 Jim Shooter pitched a weird Movie about Dazzler. The whole plot was too weird to describe here. Read it here http://comicsalliance.com/dazzler-movie-jim-shooter/ So what if this movie was made?