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The Times They Are A-Changin'

I don't do well with change. This crossovers thing started off as a hobby.  It was a bunch of notes in a pile of 5-subject notebooks.  I mostly kept these notes to myself.  Occasionally, I would bore a friend or family member with them. When the technology became available, I started moving my notes from notebooks to word documents.  But they were still my private notes, created from research that I usually conducted late at night when I couldn't sleep. When the social media age came about, I used the MySpace blog to share some of my weird ideas about crossovers.  They weren't well read, and they were hard to reference in archives. But one person did seem to find my MySpace blog, because Win Scott Eckert, whose website I had been addicted to for years, contacted me and sent me an invite to join a group of likeminded individuals. I found that there were people in that forum who enjoyed my ideas, and had similar ideas.  So five years ago, I created ...

Return of the Quickie: Comics to Screen Part II: Marvel Comics

This blog post is about Marvel Comics characters that have been adapted to the screen...as it relates to the multiverses of Marvel Canon.  My upcoming TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE:  WORLDS AND MYTHOLOGY will cover how Marvel Comics characters and series fit into the Television Crossover Multiverse, and my other upcoming book, the Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia, will do the same for Marvel characters and series in the Cartoon Multiverse.  But Marvel over the years has also established that their own shows and movies exist within their own multiverse.  And so that's what I'm talking about today, since this is a blog about shared realities of television and film.  Omniverse Originally according to The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe 2004, "the omniverse is the collection of every single universe, multiverse, dimension (alternate or pocket) and realm." Megaverse There are certain universes which are tied to the Marvel multiverse – such as the...