It's been a while since IDW did an intercompany crossover

[Extrocomp]

In the 2010s it seemed like we had one almost every year, but then they suddenly stopped. The last one was Star Trek vs Transformers, which finished in 2019. There have been Galaxy Quest missions added to the Star Trek Fleet Command game and a Doctor Who limited-time event happened in The Badgey Directive, but video game crossovers are a lot less accessible because you have to invest a lot of time in learning the game.

Does anyone else want more crossovers or am I the only one?

 

[Danlav05]

IDW publishes Galaxy Quest abd Paramount owns it so that would be a cool crossover

 

[Christopher]

I generally don't care for crossovers between science fiction franchises, since by their very nature, their universes have incompatible physics, histories, alien planets and species, etc., so it makes no sense for them to share a reality, even as parallel timelines (since different timelines in the same universe must have branched off from the same original and thus must share the same physics and the same history up to the point of divergence).

A crossover can occasionally be entertaining as a purely speculative, out-of-continuity exercise, though. I liked Marvel's TOS/X-Men crossover, since it did good work with the thematic parallels, the Federation being the realization of the dream of equality and acceptance that the X-Men fought for. And there was some cleverness to the way the TOS/Planet of the Apes crossover "explained" how things got from the end of the first movie to the start of the second, though I felt they missed an opportunity to use the Enterprise's presence to explain how Cornelius, Zira, and their friend managed to launch Taylor's capsule back into space to escape the cataclysm, a physical and logistical impossibility that the third movie just glossed over.

Still, I feel IDW overdid crossovers to the point that they felt routine, obligatory, and forced rather than special. I don't want to see any more crossovers done just for the sake of doing crossovers. It's only worth doing if there's a genuinely good story reason.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

In the 2010s it seemed like we had one almost every year, but then they suddenly stopped. The last one was Star Trek vs Transformers, which finished in 2019.

A lot has happened in the industry since 2019, from the collapse of the Diamond monopoly to people leaving and moving around to publishers, like IDW, not being in the same shape as they were then. (IDW has some well-publicized financial issues, is what I mean by that.)

Does anyone else want more crossovers or am I the only one?

I'd like a third Kelvinverse/Green Lantnern crossover series, because the second ended in a really interesting place that I would like to see developed more.

I didn't think it would go anywhere, which is why I never pursued it, but from time to time I thought about hitting up Dynamite and saying, "Have you thought about doing a John Carter/Dejah Thoris crossover with IDW and Star Trek? If you're interested, I have a couple of pitches for you...."

Sure, I'd like to see more, but I don't know what I'd like to see, except for Star Trek/Godzilla. I have no idea what it would be like, but IDW recently did a Great Gatsby/Godzilla crossover that was a riot, so I know IDW would be able to find a way for Kirk to deliver a disabling flying leg kick to Godzilla.