Star Trek/Green Lantern: the Spectrum War

[elric428]

Hmmm...lets see...we've had crossovers with the X-Men, Legion of Super Heroes, Dr. Who, Planet of the Apes and now Green Lantern. When will they do a Star Wars crossover. That's what I wanna see. Also would like to see a crossover of TOS meeting Next Gen as well as a crossover between NuTrek and TOS.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

Also Power Rangers.

I'm just saying.

 

[BritishSeaPower]

Green Lantern is my favorite super hero. Star Trek my favorite show. Shame it's the NuTrek crew. Especially because of how fun and enjoyable without being straight insanity Trek/Apes have been.

I am glad that we're getting someone other than the Tiptons, though.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Also would like to see a crossover of TOS meeting Next Gen...

The Sensational She-Hulk #12 by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

The Sensational She-Hulk is making a feature film at Major Motion Pictures. Crashing through a wall, she interrupts William Shatner, Patrick Stewart and Wil Wheaton making a crossover Star Trek movie!

 

[Christopher]

^Well, there's a colorist who didn't watch TNG. Goldshirt Picard, black Riker, Asian (?) Geordi, gray Worf.

 

[Idran]

I think that's on purpose; the colorist-equivalent of using "Delsney" instead of "Disney". :P

 

[Christopher]

^I dunno... if that were the intent, I'd think they would've changed the costume designs as well as the colors.

 

[Paris]

^I've seen this before. Ryan Ottley drew the crew of the E-D in an issue of Invincible, but changed them enough to not infringe on any copyrights, but it was obviously the E-D crew. Skin color, costume color, and even the symbols were slightly altered. Still looked like Federation uni's though. Did the She-Hulk issue JUST have the wrong coloring?...or was there other altered aspects in any other ways?

 

[Christopher]

Granted, there were the Power Records Trek comics where Neal Adams drew Sulu and Uhura as George Takei and Nichelle Nichols in his pencil art, but then they got colored/modified to be a black man and a blond woman, respectively. Sulu got an Afro, but Uhura was unaltered aside from the coloring. So it could be deliberate.

 

[BillJ]

I'll pick this up in trade paperback collection. Sounds interesting.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

^I've seen this before. Ryan Ottley drew the crew of the E-D in an issue of Invincible, but changed them enough to not infringe on any copyrights, but it was obviously the E-D crew. Skin color, costume color, and even the symbols were slightly altered. Still looked like Federation uni's though. Did the She-Hulk issue JUST have the wrong coloring?...or was there other altered aspects in any other ways?

This reminds me of Grant Morrison's Joe the Barbarian in which one of the characters is a broken Star Trek: First Contact Picard action figure. Sean Murphy drew it exactly, and I understand that the colorist was not supposed to color it exactly like the figure so as to skirt the edge, except that the colorist did color it exactly.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Did the She-Hulk issue JUST have the wrong coloring?...or was there other altered aspects in any other ways?

The panels I embedded were the entirety of the gag.

I seem to recall there was also a panel where Shulkie's publicity shots came back adjusted by the lab so she wasn't green, a homage to the old Majel Barrett test of Vina's makeup for "The Cage".

Re "Green Lantern", there was also Saarek:
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Saarek_%28New_Earth%29

"In his original appearance, Saarek was depicted with the 'arched and upswept eyebrows' and pointed ears typical of the Vulcans from 'Star Trek'. He also gave fellow Lantern Hal Jordan the 'Live Long and Prosper' hand sign as a farewell greeting. The sign serves as the Vulcan salute in 'Star Trek'. Saarek is thus depicted as a typical Vulcan."

(Using his left hand.)

Saarek in "Green Lantern" by Therin of Andor, on Flickr

 

[JonnyQuest037]

A few years later I read Sam Siciliano's The Angel of the Opera, which was another Holmes vs. the Opera Ghost story. And I liked that one a lot, even though it had a non-Watson narrator.

I've made a couple of attempts, but I've never been able to get very far into The Angel of the Opera. A large part of it is that Siciliano using Dr. Verner as a narrator just seemed like an excuse for him to change Holmes however he saw fit & say, "Oh, Watson/Doyle got it wrong." There's something about that that irks me, even though I loved the audaciousness of Meyer throwing out two of the best-loved Holmes stories to tell his tale in The Seven Per-Cent Solution.

I dunno. Maybe I just find Meyer's writing style much more appealing than Siciliano's, as I really liked The Canary Trainer. Great cover art on The Angel of the Opera, though.

Just to add something, in addition to the three novels, he also wrote two other Sherlock pieces:

- a short story called "Sherlock Holmes's shortest case" for the New York Times between the first and the second novel, in which Holmes deals with a case really similar to Watergate... (it is one page long)

- "A Sherlockian Miscellany" in 2005 for the Baker Street Journal, which is not a short story but a collection of letters and papers found in a box concerning Holmes (a report card, letters and telegrams from editors, friends, publishers, teachers, etc)

I've never heard of either of these, and I'm a huge Meyer/Holmes fan! I'll have to track them down. Strange that there's never been a collection of all of Meyer's Holmes stories. You'd think that could sell.

^I dunno... if that were the intent, I'd think they would've changed the costume designs as well as the colors.

I'd bet serious money that the altered colors were intentional. It's not worth the risk to potentially get sued over what's basically a throwaway gag. Very possibly the penciller was supposed to stray a little further from the TNG character designs than he did, and it's a LOT easier (and faster) to just change the colors than alter the artwork. And when you consider that the colorist is very rarely the same person as the penciller or inker, it seems all the more likely.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I seem to recall there was also a panel where Shulkie's publicity shots came back adjusted by the lab so she wasn't green, a homage to the old Majel Barrett test of Vina's makeup for "The Cage".

Yes, this was the ending of the Fantastic Four issue where a Hugh Hefner type takes unauthorized nude photos of the She-Hulk. He neglects to tell his printers that they were pictures of a green woman, so they "correct" the photos to a Caucasian skin tone. Since no one recognizes She-Hulk without her green skin, the scandal is averted. Byrne had the Human Torch give a shout-out to the Star Trek connection (as he stops by his old room to fetch some green-tinted sunglasses).

 

[Eduardo]

I've never heard of either of these, and I'm a huge Meyer/Holmes fan! I'll have to track them down. Strange that there's never been a collection of all of Meyer's Holmes stories. You'd think that could sell.

I only found about them by chance, really.

Whilod doing some google searchs related to Holmes, I saw the first one mentioned in this site, and later here, and managed to track it down to the NYT site, where you can buy a scan of the article in question.

The other one I found about in the Sherlock pastiche database, and bought a pdf copy of the article from the Baker Street Journal website.

(it is in Volume 55, issue number 02, Summer 2005, Pages 6 to 12)

A minor note regarding the database, I linked to an old version, as the latest (I think) version has an error in the author column that has displaced some names from the respective pastiches (one Meyer's story is attributed to someone named Meyersa, and Meyersa's story to Meyers, for example).

 

[JoeZhang]

^I've seen this before. Ryan Ottley drew the crew of the E-D in an issue of Invincible, but changed them enough to not infringe on any copyrights, but it was obviously the E-D crew. Skin color, costume color, and even the symbols were slightly altered.

Yes and their Geodi has enhanced ears...

 

[vegaslover62]

I have seen no trace of this crossover on the DC website.

Only a picture on the IDW site.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I have seen no trace of this crossover on the DC website.

Shared press release. "San Diego, CA (April 4, 2015) – IDW Publishing, CBS Consumer Products and DC Entertainment announced today that they will boldly go where no one has gone before…in brightest day, in blackest night." http://www.newsarama.com/24027-star-trek-green-lantern-crossover-no-really.html