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Age of Kulan Gath. From Uncanny X-Men 190-191. Manhattan and its denizens were transformed by the master spell of the wizard-king Kulan Gath, who was opposed by the X-Men and other freedom-fighters.
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Pretty sharp, detailed piece of work. The Kulan Gath story wasn't one of the better X-Men stories, but it's always refreshing to see a forgotten piece of the Mutant Universe explored.
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I like these stories where reality is changed to something else. I think "House of M" is one such case, although different editors and writers (even different readers) mean that it is treated as an alternate reality/timeline, instead of the main reality/timeline, but altered to be something else (unlike Age of Apocalypse, which was a new timeline created when something changed in the past).
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I like them too. Same with Age of X, I think; it happened within the 616 reality. Another one that I like is the Amalgam Universe, which was recreated as a separate realm after the DC and Marvel Universes became separate again.
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And, assuming the universes used were the main ones, there is also JLA/Avengers.
Reality changed so much, it morphed into one where the two teams worked together regularly (making me think of how they keep wasting so many opportunities with the Ultraverse).
I wish those could be acknowledged more. I think DC used Krona's cosmic egg, but I doubt Marvel did anything.
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Yeah, Krona's egg! That and the crossover were mentioned in some Marvel Universe handbooks in the mid-2000s. The DC characters were just described as a league of heroes, if I remember correctly.
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Actually referencing these events more directly is something I liked on DC's side. But all their reality-changing crises is something I do not like. Now, even if Jubilee went to the DCU, the Robin she would meet would be someone else, someone who never saw her before.
I do not think the DC reality change impact would reach the MU and alter the (never-referenced, anyway) memories of people who interacted with DC people.
Unlike the Amalgam merging, where I think the memories were lost (at least, to some degree or by some characters), the DC vs. Marvel bits are meant to remain, don't they?
So, Marvel heroes retain the memory of DC heroes who no longer exist.
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Yes, I agree. Too much rebooting at DC. Wish they'd do a JLA-Avengers crossover again or something similar. But pre-New 52.
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I would love that.
Pre-New 52, of course.
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That was a great storyline! Nice work of art too.
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Thanks! I was 11 when I first read it... still powerful, and pre-dated Age of Apocalypse by a decade or so.
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very cool!!!!!! i JUST reread that part in the x-men series, such a good story. poor spidey... was also what led to the arrival of Nimrod!! good stuff
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Thanks! Yup, poor Spidey. Shocking stuff!
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wonderfull art, wonderfull story, wonderfull age of comics
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Thanks, and yes, those were the days!
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Nice, I remember those issues well.
He was a Conan enemy I think, brought forward by possessing a guy through an enchanted necklace.
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Thanks. Yup, I think so, too! Then he was integrated into the Marvel Universe. He appeared in a tamer, two-part Avengers story during the Busiek era.
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