Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues blog
Superheroes are already fantasy, but why stop there?
As a kid, I was, no surprise, the biggest Super Friends fan going. One of the show’s hallmarks (like the Justice League comics that inspired it) was the way in which the larger assembly of heroes would divide into smaller groups to tackle simultaneous crises. I loved seeing who went with who each time, and made up my own mental wish-list sub-groupings.
Today, I still love this about the medium—and its inventive derivations.
My first online stop of the day is Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, a daily dose of fictional meetings of fictional characters (as opposed to the “real” meetings of fictional characters that play out in comics, movies, and TV shows).
A labor of love by Ross Pearsall, it combines characters who (usually) haven’t co-starred in an actual published story. Ross doesn’t limit himself to superheroes; his covers also tap popular figures from science fiction, action-adventure, comic strips, rock music, and more.
Many of the pairings are inspired (Dr. Mid-Nite and Moon Knight) and sometimes batsplat crazy (Vibe joins the Monkees). The digital mojo on display is seamless, plus Ross has a gift for clever wordplay; the titles of his fake stories are spot-on.
Ross may rue the day I discovered his work because I regularly send him unsolicited suggestions. A guy who teamed up Huntress and Darkman and Godzilla and Boba Fett and Peanuts and Tiny Titans is obviously is not lacking for inspiration.
Still, he humors me, and sometimes even runs with one of my suggestions. (Sometimes it turns out that he beat me to it—either a team-up that was already up but I missed or one already in the works. Geek minds think alike.)
Ideas I proposed:
The Thing and Thing 1 and Thing 2 (though the main co-star is the other Thing)
James Kirk and Han Solo (both space captains)
Rocketeer and Bulleteer
Firestar and Starfire
Flash Gordon and Flash
Tarzan and Atom (namely Sword of the Atom)
Superman and Greatest American Hero
Hawkman and Indiana Jones (both archeologists)
She-Hulk and He-Man(hers and his hyphenates)
Scooby-Doo and Deadman
All work copyright its respective original creators. All team-up alchemy credit to Ross. Keep it going, Ross!
As a kid, I was, no surprise, the biggest Super Friends fan going. One of the show’s hallmarks (like the Justice League comics that inspired it) was the way in which the larger assembly of heroes would divide into smaller groups to tackle simultaneous crises. I loved seeing who went with who each time, and made up my own mental wish-list sub-groupings.
Today, I still love this about the medium—and its inventive derivations.
My first online stop of the day is Super-Team Family: The Lost Issues, a daily dose of fictional meetings of fictional characters (as opposed to the “real” meetings of fictional characters that play out in comics, movies, and TV shows).
A labor of love by Ross Pearsall, it combines characters who (usually) haven’t co-starred in an actual published story. Ross doesn’t limit himself to superheroes; his covers also tap popular figures from science fiction, action-adventure, comic strips, rock music, and more.
Many of the pairings are inspired (Dr. Mid-Nite and Moon Knight) and sometimes batsplat crazy (Vibe joins the Monkees). The digital mojo on display is seamless, plus Ross has a gift for clever wordplay; the titles of his fake stories are spot-on.
Ross may rue the day I discovered his work because I regularly send him unsolicited suggestions. A guy who teamed up Huntress and Darkman and Godzilla and Boba Fett and Peanuts and Tiny Titans is obviously is not lacking for inspiration.
Still, he humors me, and sometimes even runs with one of my suggestions. (Sometimes it turns out that he beat me to it—either a team-up that was already up but I missed or one already in the works. Geek minds think alike.)
Ideas I proposed:
The Thing and Thing 1 and Thing 2 (though the main co-star is the other Thing)
James Kirk and Han Solo (both space captains)
Rocketeer and Bulleteer
Firestar and Starfire
Flash Gordon and Flash
Tarzan and Atom (namely Sword of the Atom)
Superman and Greatest American Hero
Hawkman and Indiana Jones (both archeologists)
She-Hulk and He-Man(hers and his hyphenates)
Scooby-Doo and Deadman
All work copyright its respective original creators. All team-up alchemy credit to Ross. Keep it going, Ross!
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