Monday Memories #23 - Return To The Amalgam Age Of Comics

Each Monday this year I'll be taking a look back at a random comic, prestige format issue, graphic novel or collection of reprints from amongst my 3,000 or so comics that date from 1962 to 2003 - I figured anything in the last ten years would be too recent to hark back to.

The comics are chosen completely at random and apart from a four week lead-in period, even I don't know what I'll be looking at in the weeks to come!

Friday Night Fights - When Universes Amalgamate

For last week's fight, I headed to the wonder that was DC Versus Marvel. As you may remember, the result of that series was the Amalgam Universe where characters from both publishers were somehow combined into new and (sometimes) exciting characters . . . well, slightly exciting. Okay, more vaguely interesting.

So guess where I'm off to this week:

That's right - the Amalgam Universe! Here we find that dark and moody justice seeker, Dark Claw facing off against his on-again, off-again beloved, Talia A-Pocalypse . . . no, really . . . in the style of the then current Batman animated series.

Convinced she's not a bad sort at heart, Dark Claw gives her a chance to (from her point of view) avenge the death of her father:

Them's some mighty big claws she's got there, mate, you might want to -

Too late! Talia calls his bluff and the Dark Claw is down!

If you liked this fight, head over to Spacebooger, check out the others and then vote for your favourite!

Tonight's edition of claw-my-bluff first appeared in Dark Claw Adventures cover dated June 1997, written by  Ty Templeton with art by Templeton and Rick Burchett, though the scans come from the Return to The Amalgam Age of Comics: The DC Comics Collection trade paperback.

PS - Dark Claw gets better!