I'm a little worried. People are coming into the office and giving me their trading ideas. Editors, interns, marketing people...they're throwing "Goonies for Young Avengers!" and "Clandestine for two Harry Potter characters!" around. This leads me to believe that people are actually reading the blog. Which bothers me.
And now, it's getting to the point that I'm being emailed unprompted Fair Trades! Again, I'm really flattered, I'm just worried that people have nothing better to do than read my worthless blog. Shame on all of you.
Anyway, here's Ben Morse (who works over in Marvel.com):
BEN:
To save you the trouble of asking me, here’s my list…
1. First and foremost, WALLY WEST, THE FLASH is my favorite DC character, thus it’s imperative we get him over here. Now, on first glance, you might bigger the Flash is a huge DC corporate icon and we’d need to give up a buttload of characters to get him, but au contraire mon frère. Y’see, DC has about a billion Flashes, so they should be able to spare one for a reasonable price. So they don’t even have to be down a speedster, I’m willing to give them QUICKSILVER and then throw in his sister, THE SCARLET WITCH, to sweeten the pot. To seal the deal, I’ll even give two AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE kids to be named later. And heck, because I want him too, let’s grab IMPULSE in exchange for SPEED from the Young Avengers to make the swap complete.
2. Next up, because I just gave up the Scarlet Witch, we should get ZATANNA up in the House of Ideas. We’ve got a zillion X-Men so I’ll throw some of them DC’s way. Howzabout PSYLOCKE, ANGEL and JUBILEE—they were all in that third X-Men flick, right? So there ya go: three multimedia stars for one lady magician in fishnets; everybody goes home happy.
3. Continuing the girl power theme (ugh), I want POWER GIRL over here. I’ll offer up a straight blond-for-blond trade with MS. MARVEL for PG. I think Ms. M has more name value, bit I also think we could do a lot with PG, so DC takes this trade and likes it.
4. Just like Flashes, DC has way too many Green Lanterns, so I want one of them too. I thought about Kyle Rayner, because he’s the coolest, but his personality is too close to Nova, who already has a better costume and is overall more rad, so he’d be redundant. No, instead I want GUY GARDNER, who was born to be a Marvel character and get punched in the face by Captain America. I’m gonna be a gentleman and send DC’s way not only USAGENT, who is just as ornery and conservative as Guy, but all of OMEGA FLIGHT, because they don’t have any Canadian characters. And y’know what, since I just gave them like half a dozen characters, we get a MINOR GREEN LANTERN TO BE NAMED LATER as well (and it better not be one of the crappy ones).
5. Last but not least, I want a good villain, so let’s snag DEATHSTROKE THE TERMINATOR. I’m willing to give DC a solid trade here in the form of SABRETOOTH, primed for renewed greatness since the guy with all the Tony awards is playing him in the Wolverine movie next year. It’s a risky move on my part, but since Loeb killes Sabes anyhow, I figure we’ve said our piece with him.
NATE:
1. UNFAIR! But just barely. In my completely biased opinion, Wally and Bart are WAY more valuable than your Marvel poo-poo platter.
2. UNFAIR! Marvel’s given too much. I’d drop Angel.
3. FAIR! Be interesting to see what they’d call Ms. Marvel’s book.
4. Hmmm. Could it be G’Nort?
5. FAIR!
BEN:
1. I don’t disagree with you on the inherent awesomeness of Wally and Bart, but if DC ain’t doing anything with them, why can’t we have them? Still I see your point, so let’s see what else we got…howzabout we toss in the RED HULK too? We only really need one, right? And his book sells like a gazillion copies under the brilliant direction of its assistant editor.
2. Excellent, we keep Angel.
4. It could absolutely be G’Nort!
NATE:
1. Flattery will get you NOWHERE, you beautiful, genius man. No, Red Hulk’s too much. The bald Mr. Loeb has spun red into gold, so that’s a primo commodity. Think B/C level.
2. FAIR!
4. SUPER-FAIR!
BEN:
1. Very well, lemme think…Wonder Man? Can we give them Wonder Man? And…Dazzler? Because Jim McCann would love that, so, y’know, bonus.
NATE:
Pleasure doin’ business with ya.
-FINAL TRADE ANALYSIS-
1.
QUICKSILVER / SCARLET WITCH / WONDER MAN / DAZZLER / SPEED / 2 INITIATIVE MEMBERS TO BE NAMED LATER
for FLASH (WALLY WEST) / IMPULSE
2.
PSYLOCKE / JUBILEE
for ZATANNA
3.
MS. MARVEL
for POWER GIRL
4.
USAGENT / BETA RAY BILL / SASQUATCH / ARACHNE / GUARDIAN
for GUY GARDNER / G'NORT
5. SABRETOOTH
for DEATHSTROKE THE TERMINATOR
Okay... If you think your blogs... stink, you could always stop by the Marvel.com Message boards. :)
As for me, I compose fan fiction in the fan fiction section of the Marvel boards, so I have at least something that can be done.
Posted by Aziroth on 2008-08-15 14:56:10
Whats with the love for speedsters? I will never understand the love speedster's get. Running fast is like the last super power i would want. Just imagine the JLA chatting about how they caught there latest bad guy.
Superman: The guy was as strong as I am and just as invulnerable so I grabed hold of him and flew him up to stratosphere where he pasted out in the thin air and as I flew back down I melted a bunch of scrap metal with my heat vision and placed the bad guy in in up to his neck then cooled the metal with my super breath[also a lame power] so he could not escape.
Batman: Im Batman. After doing a spectral analysis on the muddy footprint I found at the crime scene, the soil had properties only found in one place in Gotham, so after looking in that area and the nearby buildings I found the guy, beat the snot out of him and left him tied up on the steps of police plaza. Im Batman.
Flash: Well the guy robbing the bank tried to run away but I ran faster than him a got him because im the fastest man alive.
Posted by sickboy_ukuk on 2008-08-16 05:03:00
Booster Gold would be a good member, but he kinda died during 52. >.>
Posted by Aziroth on 2008-08-16 08:26:16
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