WBrian:

> Have you read the Hellblazer(John Constantine)/AMS crossover "Dire Fates"?
> It's a pretty well-done story, even if Belldandy doesn't have more than a
> cameo appearance.  I agree with the authors that Belldandy would be hard to
> work into a John Constantine story.  Anyway, they did a pretty good job of
> working the two story lines together, doing a disservice to neither.  When
> you think about it, their scopes do overlap pretty well.

I'll have to get there and check it out. Wonder how similar it will 
be to whatever dumb idea my overworked brain came up with and prompty 
forgot in self defense?

> That's more than I can say for most crossovers.

I haven't read a good fanfic crossover ever. Ever.

> <Begin Rant>

Yay! Ranting being my favourite pastime is a well documented fact.  
^_^

> The problem with any AMS crossover is that other than the wish-gone-awry
> plot device, there are very few that allow any sense of drama.  Chris got
> around this very neatly by timing his piece during the moonrock bracelet
> time when the goddesses' powers were severely limited.  Most fanfics just
> wind up powering down the goddesses to the point where they become almost
> unrecognizable.  I often find myself reading chapter 1 and saying "Why
> doesn't Belldandy just turn that big mech into a pretty bouquet of flowers?"
> or something to that effect.  Having fully-powered goddesses challenged by
> anything of mortal contrivance just sticks in my craw, as it were.
> 
> <End Rant>

The thing is that people doing crossovers tend to want to share the 
inherent coolness (in their opinion) of both the series with fans of 
both. Unfortunately they just end up angering both. The fact of the 
matter is that Ultimate Death Killer Droids and Cyber Ninjas Of Doom 
do not exist in the AMS world, a fact that makes it so much *better* 
than all the other manga ones. So when aforementioned 
droids/ninjas/whatever do their thing it all just seems fake. Which 
is good because then hopefully people will realise that they're a 
stupid idea and stop writing them.

This did not, however, stop me from spending as much as ten seconds 
(and awfully long time for my attention span) working out the basics 
of aforementioned John Constantine crossover.  ^_-

> Anyway, if you're interested, here's a link to the "Dire Fates" homepage.  I
> haven't dared read the Sailor Moon crossover, yet <shiver>.
> 
> http://www.uh.edu/~rpm/direfates/
> 
> It's also on Ryo's AMG Fanfic page.
> 
> http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/1427/

When the university's web-server gets up and running again I'll be 
there. Just because I don't think AMS is in the slightest bit Norse 
doesn't mean I don't enjoy things Norsey, and so just because I think 
a real AMS/Hellblazer story would suck so much it's not funny won't 
stop me from racing to this page.  ^_^;;;

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Henry:

> Well, if you want traffic on the list, I could post my X-men / AMS spoof.
> 
> The character choices for the most part are rather obvious...
> 
> Cyclops: K1
> Jean Grey: Bell
> Kitty: Skuld
> Oreo: Urudo (Especially when she's got the mohawk and black leather...)
> Colossus: Tamiya
> Proffessor Kami: you know.
> 
> The only problem is Otaki.  Is he more like Wolverine or Nightcrawler?

Hah! Haven't heard Ororo called Oreo in a while.  ;-)

Otaki, for all his size, is more Kurt-esque than he is Logan-esque.

<abrupt seizures, smoke comes out of Sam's ears>

Hi, I'm Mark, Sam's backup personality. Given my inherent need to 
consume things of sillyness, please Oni no Cobb could you send this 
X-Men crossover to Sam's email address.

<more seizures, the smoke goes back inside>

OK, I'm back. What happened?

^_^

Sam