by Chris Billowsin Hobby Heedings0 commentstags: The Crossover Zone
After some further research, I’ve come up with a third set of Crossovers. The other two sets were posted here and are known as: 1. Formal (or Direct) Crossover When a character, celebrity, icon formally lands in another medium. 2. Analogue (or Parallel) Crossover When a character or icon is mimicked in another medium. These two kinds of Crossovers don’t capture the aspect of time, be it the past, the future, or archetypal and I decided that this would constitute its own collection of Crossovers. So I’m pleased to present the Scenario Crossover: 3. Scenario (or Temporal) Crossover The media property or its creators engage formally or directly, allowing characters in a media or medium or milieu to meet each other. There are five Formal Crossover sub-categories: Type A – Past versions of self Type B – Future version of self Type C – Shadow-versions of self Type D – Anima/Animus versions of self Type E – Archetype versions of self What follows is some examples of this using comic book heroes where Crossovers standard fare. Type A – Past versions of self Marvel 1602 was a series that had the Marvel comic universe being transported back to […]
by Chris Billowsin Hobby Heedings0 commentstags: The Crossover Zone
I’ve been long fascinated with how media properties and their creators interact with each other. The idea that a media property can be seen to possess a kind of meta-consciousness that interacts with other medias is something captures my imagination. This kind of activity is typically named a Crossover and is pretty common practice in the superhero comic medium, but has become more common in all entertainment media. Crossovers are imaginative play and are fun. As I thought about what Crossovers mean, I defined Crossovers to be where two or more media properties engage directly or in parallel with each other. But as I dug deeper I gleaned there are actually different kinds of Crossovers. They are as follows: 1. Formal (or Direct) Crossover The media property or its creators engage formally or directly, allowing characters in a media or medium or milieu meet each other. There are four Formal Crossover sub-categories: Type A – Celebrity Pollination (i.e. celebrities are fans of other medias) Type B – Trans-Media (i.e. toys become a cartoon) Type C – Character Salad (i.e. characters proper interact) Type D – Character Mashup (i.e. characters take on another character’s properties) 2. Analogue (or Parallel) Crossover The […]
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