Back in the 1950s & 60s, a comic book crossover was simple. One character would appear in another's book, and vice versa. Instant crossover. Blog crossovers started out the same way. For instance, Rob Kelly at The Aquaman Shrine and Damian Maffei at Atom: The Tiny Titan covered The Brave and the Bold #73, a comic featuring both their respective characters on the same day at each blog. Dixon's Crimson Lightning traveled the same path with The Flash (v.2) #66, addressing the comic in question in his own style, while The Aquaman Shrine did things its way.
Shag Matthews stepped up the game when he broke up the George Pérez/Alex Ross collaboration on the cover to the 1998 Crisis On Infinite Earths Hardcover into individual character spotlights, passed them around to various bloggers, and gave everyone a free hand in what else they'd post on Mar 4th, 2009. Some produced music videos with the pictures, some commented on how the characters related to one another, and so forth. Shag followed this up with Crisis On Earth-Blog: Super Powers Collection 25th Anniversary, a sprawling crossover begun on August 24th 2009, with some follow-up posts arriving as late as mid-October. Anything related to the 1980s toy line was considered fair game, from stickers to TV commercials to posters and most especially action figures and mini-comics.
I'd like to throw my own hat into the blog crossover mastermind game, hopefully with a linking device that will be a blast for folks to play with. The basic premise is that your blog will represent one or more DC characters in a massive puzzle taking various forms across a slew of blogs. Everyone is asked to create two blog posts: one featuring a "wrong answer" message and a list of links to participating blogs, the other with your very own "challenge" to your readers, whatever that may be. My hope is that this will result in a playfully chaotic network of links steering people toward a variety of blogs. Everyone involved will receive a portion of two obscure 1980s pin-ups featuring their characters, with the goal being for readers to eventually find large scans of the complete images hidden on two of the blogs.
The tentative date for the crossover is late January 2010. Because of the complex nature of the event, I've set up this blog to walk people through its creation and execution, though I stress that I want each blogger to be as individualistic as they wish.
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