ever since superman and Batman started palling around in World's Finest, comic book culture has understood the power of interbred story lines. You have your Secret Wars and your Ultimate Alliances and your Crisis on Infinite Earths-multi- book extravaganzas in which various characters align to fight all manner of menace, not to mention one another. Always overblown, frequently ridiculous, and often parodied, these time-shifting team-ups provide new building blocks from which comic book universes evolve and grow. They can be awesome, but if they suck, at least they do so in a memorable way.
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