Best Crossover of 2007


Doominator says: Messiah Complex!

Messiah ComplexMessiah Complex was so much better than expected. It’s like two or three years of mediocre X-Men were blown away to make way for the coolest thing in the history of cool. And I’m not talking just comics. This is cooler than anything else that is cool. This is almost as cool as space. And space is fucking AWESOME.

Fin Fang Doom says: The Sinestro Corps War!

If Messiah Complex would have been completed in 2007, it would have had a fighting chance for Best Crossover of 2007. Since it didn’t, there’s really only one possible choice. The Sinestro Corps War was exactly what I want in a crossover: big fights, big suspense, and a plot that’s both entertaining ad logical.

Honorable Mention: Checkout, the Checkmate/Outsiders crossover. The thing I loved so much about this crossover is it made perfect sense. Checkmate is an organization that deals with illegal international metahuman activities, and the Outsiders were metahumans involved in illegal interantional activities. Not only did this crossover have a perfect reason to happen, it wouldn’t have made sense if it didn’t happen.

Doom DeLuise says: The Sinestro Corps War!

GL 25How do you pronounce “Sinestro,” anyway? The fat comic book guy in the Simpsons Movie pronounces it, “Sinestro,” with the “e” being pronounced, whereas I’ve always pronounced it as a slight variation of the word “sinister.” Kind of like how nobody pronounces a soft “e” in Magneto. Oh well. In case you couldn’t tell, I have nothing to add to the discussion of this crossover, just that it kicked ass in every way possible.

Jim Doom says: The Sinestro Corps War!

I’m not crazy about reviving everything old, so assembling a badguy team of Superboy Prime, Cyborg Superman and the Anti-Monitor was a tiny bit of a groaner for me, but this series was executed so well on all fronts. Geoff Johns did what I credit Bendis for doing so often in New Avengers and elsewhere, and that is he tied up the loose ends and answered all the lingering questions. Whenever you were led to think “Hey now, this doesn’t make sense…” he’d already planned for it (for example, why on earth would Superboy Prime want to fight alongside the Anti-Monitor??).

The event was able to happen without being damaged by Countdown, and while being self-contained, it has also changed the status quo and opened up a ton of new stories to tell. From the looks of it, whether it be the Darkest Night teaser or the “Infinity Gauntlet” poster ad of Mongul, this might have all just been some beautifully set-up groundwork for more great stuff to come.

Hey! Check out what we had to say about this category in 2006 and 2005!