Is there a chance we may see a crossover between Bad Machinery and Lumberjanes? I think the two would mesh pretty well.
Crossovers are (for the most part) just a sales boost technique, a like this, try this exercise or a way to boost a line for a month or two. As a saint and a purist ascetic who is uninterested in money or success and lives only for artistic reasons, my top 3 Giant Days crossovers would exist purely to enhance the gaiety of nations and would be as follows:
Rom Space Knight And Giant Days #1
The titular Space Knight travels to Sheffield for a system-wide re-plating in one of the city’s many cutlery works. Unfortunately, the Dire Wraiths pursue him there. Susan mistakes the cosmic denizens for 80s rock band Dire Straits and vows to steal Mark Knopfler’s headband. Sal Buscema comes out of retirement on art.
Transformers: More Than Meets The Giant Days #1
The Knights of Cybertron are discovered to be a Dire Straits covers band playing pubs in Upperthorpe, Nether Edge and Carsick. Daisy has borrowed Brothers In Arms and is “hot for Knopfler”, leading inexorably to a meeting between the two factions. Esther makes a friend at the gym, but she’s a 20ft tall purple robot, and she insists that they have a “friendly” game of badminton.
All Star Giant Days & Batman #1
Like Keymaster meeting Gatekeeper at Zuul, Jim Lee and I finally creatively unite, 25 years to the day after I bought X-Men #1. Billionaire Bruce Wayne visits Sheffield to open a new wing of the Mappin Museum dedicated to his foundation’s good works in Crookesmoor, Crosspool and Ranmoor during the recent floods. Susan is drawn to the lantern-jawed philanthropist, but Daisy warns against this May to December romance. Susan and Wayne feel an instant connection, but he has to keep running off “for a meeting with Mark Knopfler about a new solo album”. McGraw becomes obsessed with Batman’s “peerless” utility belt when the Caped Crusader faces off with South Yorkshire villain MCALPINE.
For some reason, this issue features a lot of splash pages and pneumatic, sexy posing, that do not ultimately serve the plot but serve to push sales into the high hundred-thousands.
