Friday Worldbuilding Fun: Supers Appear in Different Eras and/or Settings

[Reynard]

Herman Melville: Morbius Dick

And now HR is involved.

 

[jian]

I recall several What If. and Dark Knights where they did this. Supers as knights in medieval times and Superman landing in Germany instead of America.

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Is that Wayne Reynolds art? Awesome.

I think Kenneth Hite did a few of these. I quite liked the Marvel Roman one (the Pythagoreans - the Fantastic Four, representing the four Pythagorean elements - as well as the Etruscan thunder god Tiwaz and of course Centurion Roma) and the early Islam one (the heroes all bear one of the 99 names of Allah such as Al-Aziz, the Mighty One; could be done as a Legion of Superheroes riff).

 

[jian]

Something popped into my head: The Marvel Literary Universe. Imagine classic literary fiction, but with supers.

Emily Brontë: Wolverine Heights

Mr Earnshaw: Here’s a feral orphan I picked up in the woods on my business trip, children. Please make him feel at home.

Children: Put him back put him back oh god

Heathcliff: (SNIKT) Too late.