Pop Culture from an Alternate Dimension

         I previously mentioned that CBS made two pilot movies for a Captain America series that wasn't picked up. The year before they made a pilot for Dr. Strange that wasn't greenlit either. The story goes that after having Wonder Woman, The Hulk and Spider-Man, they didn't want to be known as the "superhero channel". What if they had leaned into it? They could have been CW before CW. So, before Netflix decided to put their heroes together as the Defenders, I present a crossover that should have been. It might even have been better than this:  The 1987 MARVEL Universe Macy’s THANKSGIVING Day Parade Float Is The GREATEST Thing You've Ever SEEN  

  After Smallville went off the air I heard there was going to be a Green Arrow series. I presumed it was going to be a spin-off of the Oliver Queen from Smallville but the network wanted to do something different. In my alternate dimension Oliver Queen is in season six of Smallville just like we know it but in 2008 he would get a spin-off series and the stories they had for him in seasons eight, etc. would be used for that. Characters from both shows would still cameo on both shows. It would be like what the Arrowverse became later. This time instead of just the cover and the booklet and added a slipcase that these shows often came in. Just print the last two images on card stock, cut, fold and paste at top and bottom.

  Despite being one of the great superhero teams the Justice League has not fared well in live action. In 1979 there were two tv "specials" of Legends of the Superheroes that saw the return of Adam West and Burt Ward as Batman and Robin surrounded by other great DC heroes. The less said about that the better. In 1997 CBS made a pilot for a Justice League show. I have heard that it didn't air and it aired once in 1997. I don't know which is right. CBS had done a series of The Flash in 1990 which only lasted one season but still has a following. The Flash in this pilot is quite different however. He can't keep a job and his roommate kicks him out. The Green Lantern is Guy Gardner but looks like Hal Jordan in Guy's costume wih Kyle Rayner's logo. The creators of the pilot might have been trying to capture the humor of Giffen/DeMatties run of the Justice League but it doesn't come off the same. Who knows, if it made it to series maybe they could have fixed...