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Multiversity Comics Countdown: Thanksgiving Special!

By | November 23rd, 2010
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It’s that time of year again! News will be slow this week, but that doesn’t mean we won’t have some good and entertaining original content for you!

In honor of the holiday, we present to you a special Thanksgiving Day Special for Multiversity Comics Countdown. All of Multiversity’s staff has weighed in this week to bring you two different links: the top 5 groups we would have Thanksgiving with, and the top 5 we wouldn’t! It’s an eclectic mix, and everyone at MC different answers. Fortunately, some overlapped, and it’s with that that we present to you our lists.

Click behind the cut to see who we want to eat turkey with!

Top 5 Comic-Related Families We Would Enjoy Having Thanksgiving With

5. The Oolong Island Mad Scientists (52)

Having already shown us what Thanksgiving would be like with them, the Mad Scientists of Oolong Island would certainly make for one incredibly interesting Thanksgiving dinner. I can only imagine what it’s like to break bread with a table full of men and women all planning to destroy the world. Bring on the Super Turkey!

4. The Ultimate Super Best Friends (Ultimate Spider-Man)

If there is one thing that Ultimate Peter Parker currently has going for him, it’s that his family is huge. Right now he lives with Aunt May, Johnny Storm, Bobby Drake, Gwen Stacy (kinda sorta – she did just run away), and he also sees Mary Jane and Kitty Pryde on a regular basis. As a group that constantly cracks wise with fast dialogue and arguably the most interesting problems of any teenager I know, it would be very cool to sit in on dinner with the Parkers and hear about what J Jonah Jameson screamed about today.

3. The JLA and JSA (JLA/JSA)

It’s actually a very well known comic tradition amongst DC fans at this point. The JLA and JSA often crossover for many reasons, but one bash that is certain to be repeated on a yearly basis is Thanksgiving, as seen in the OGN JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice (as well as the tie-ins). Who doesn’t want to sit at the same table as all these mighty heroes and hear what they of all people/aliens have to give thanks for?

2. The Kents and extended relations (Superman, Action Comics, Supergirl, Superboy)

The Kents are probably the most down to Earth characters in the entirety of the DCU. Ma and Pa Kent took in an alien child and instilled in him such tremendous values that he became a champion of truth, justice, and the American way. If that doesn’t scream Thanksgiving to you, then I don’t know what will.

Count in that you now get to eat dinner with Supergirl, Superboy, and Krypto, this is simply the Super-family to have dinner with.

1. The Fantastic Four (Fantastic Four)

Marvel’s first family are one of the groups that have held together through thick and thin since their original inception. Most families go through break-ups and breakdowns, and while the F4 have certainly had their fair share of rocky moments (no offense, Ben), they remain one of the greatest groups of superheroes in comics today. Who wouldn’t want to sit down with them and have a meal? If only to see what invention Reed would bring to the table to make dinner more interesting.

And considering that “3” is upon us and one of the Fantastic Four will be leaving for a bit, I’d say it’s probably good for us to sit down and get in what we can with them while they’re still all together.

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So that’s our list of people we would eat dinner with – 4 groups of superheroes and 1 group of supervillains. But who would we not want to eat turkey with? What groups would make Thanksgiving a more awkward holiday than it already is?

Top 5 Comic-Related Families We Wouldn’t Enjoy Having Thanksgiving With

5. (tie) Green Arrow and his sad bunch (Green Arrow, Rise of Arsenal)

Has any other super hero had a worse year than Green Arrow and his extended family? I don’t think so. Let’s recap some of the topics of conversation over dinner: Star City was destroyed and turned into a star shaped forest of mystical wonder, Ollie was turned into a Black Lantern, Dinah left, Ollie was convicted of murder and ostrarsized from the superhero community, Lian died, Roy had his arm ripped off, Roy started doing drugs again, Ollie was killed again, Roy joined a group of supervillains … and somewhere in there, we have the infamous dead cat.

Somehow, I can’t imagine anyone wants to participate in this. Not even Ollie or Roy. I hate to say it, but all things considered Lian is the best off right now.

5. (tie) The Wolverine Clan (Wolverine, X-23, Daken)

Wolverine might be the best at what he does, but he’s also the grumpiest at what he does. Now he also has a son and a clone, both of which have an excessively large list of baggage. I suppose you could talk about how Sabretooth murders Wolverine’s girlfriends on a yearly basis, or perhaps about how he was replaced with a demon from Hell that is killing what little friends he has and ruining his life. Meanwhile, Daken can talk about how he faked his own death after selling out his own father to Hell so he could run around in a new outfit and be a complete jerk, considering he feels like the entire Earth belongs to him. Maybe afterwards, X-23 can tell us all about how it feels to be a child abused from birth, forced to kill puppies and her friends in an attempt to make an unstoppable killing machine without remorse, which also resulted in her being placed on a black ops team to hunt and kill terrorists even though she isn’t even 18 yet.

I suppose it’ll actually sort of be like a normal Thanksgiving. Everyone will get drunk, fight, and leave grumpy!

3. The Osborns (Osborn, American Son, Amazing Spider-Man)

Oof. While eating with some battered superheroes might be awkward, how about supervillains? And not just any supervillain – the supervillain of the past year and a half or so. Norman Osborn took over the country and began warping classic heroic icons like SHIELD and the Avengers into groups to serve his manipulative will as he spread out his twisted green fingers across the globe. The man is evil to the core, and a bastard at that.

But that’s not what would ruin Thanksgiving. No, not at all. What would ruin Thanksgiving is Osborn’s illegitimate children with a woman he threw off a bridge (one of whom is currently masquerading in a stolen costume), his mentally abused son, his mentally abused son’s ex-girlfriend who slept with Norman, and the new Goblin baby. Can you even imagine what the type of conversation at that table would be like? “Happy Thanksgiving, Harry!” says Norman as he pulls the turkey out of the oven. “Looks like this bun in the oven is done. Speaking of, how’s my grandson that was almost your half brother? Remember how funny that was?”

The only thing that could make this Thanksgiving bareable is the hope that Doc Ock would crash it and try to steal the baby. Again.

2. The Walking Dead (The Walking Dead)

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Eating Thanksgiving with either groups from the Walking Dead would be a veritable nightmare. On the one hand, you could eat with Rick and company… but then you’d have to worry about Rick’s failing mental health in the wake of the death of his wife and child, or the excessive paranoia that has creeped in and turned him from a somewhat honest man trying to survive in a zombie infested world to a destroyed man who can barely sleep at night and plots to take over the town he is currently residing in. It doesn’t help that all of the other survivors are just as paranoid to simply be alive, and I can’t imagine it’ll be easy to find a turkey either.

You could also have your Thanksgiving dinner with the zombies, provided of course that you don’t mind being the main course. I also can’t imagine they’d have very many interesting things to talk about. For a group so heavily focused on the brain, I doubt you’ll find any Walker a member of MENSA.

1. The Bat-Family (too many comics to list)

I feel like this image is all I need to justify why Thanksgiving at Batman’s place would be awful. As fellow writer David Harper said, “Angst: it’s what for dinner.”


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Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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