Friday, May 1, 2015

Crossover Cover: From Hell with Love

The Droods go to war with Doctor Delirium and the Immortals over the Apocalypse Door. Appearing or mentioned are: U.N.C.L.E. and THRUSH (from the TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.); James Bond and S.P.E.C.T.R.E.(from Ian Fleming's novels); a Martian tripod (from H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds); a Crystal Egg (from another story by Wells); the Danse Academy in the German Black Forest (from Dario Argento's horror film Suspiria); Dracula (from Bram Stoker's novel); the Nightside (the setting of another series by Green); Shadows Fall (from Green's novel of the same name); a Time War (possibly the CU version of the war seen in Doctor Who); the Carnacki Institute (from Green's Ghost Finders books); Bradford-on-Avon, Carys Galloway, the Waking Beauty, Jimmy Thunder, God for Hire, and Nicholas Hob, the Serpent’s Son (all from Green's novel Drinking Midnight Wine, though this Bradford-on-Avon is a fictionalized version of the real town of that name, where Green lives); Doctor Faustus (from Christopher Marlowe's play); Indiana Jones; the Djinn Jeannie (from the television series I Dream of Jeannie); the recently dead Griffin in the Nightside, the Lord of Thorns, the Speaking Gun, and the Collector (all from the Nightside books); Old Father Time (also from Shadows Fall); a Kandarian amulet (a reference to the Kandarian demons from the Evil Dead films); Castle Frankenstein (from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein); the Bride of Frankenstein (from the Universal film of the same name); Area 52 (located in the Antarctic, and therefore presumably the same one seen in a titular miniseries published by Image Comics); and a bizarre alien city inside an Arctic mountain (possibly a reference to Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.)

7 comments:

  1. Does Indiana Jones actually appear, or is he merely referenced? And if the former, does he actually play a role in the story, or is his appearance just an easter egg?

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  2. How is Jeannie mentioned? This is the second time the series referenced her. If I remember correctly, there was a Scooby Do crossover that originally brought her in.

    When I first heard about that referenced I think I rolled my eyes because it was a corny show (though that's what some people enjoyed about it.) Now, I figure that was because of fictionalization. In "reality" it was about one of those fearsome beings of Arab lore. Who happen to live with an astronaut.

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  3. Rafe, the Drood family's Librarian, tells Eddie, "There are a number of technically immortal individuals out there, or at least, very long lived...but you're probably already familiar with most of those. Mr. Stab, of course. The Djinn Jeannie. The Griffin..."

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  4. Major Anthony Nelson is also mentioned in "True Believers," a story in Tales of the Shadowmen Vol. 10 by Stuart Shiffman, who sadly passed away recently.

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  5. Thank you.

    I hadn't heard that about Stuart Shiffman. It's unfortunate.

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