Marvel Soaps Up!

Oh, Marvel. You crazy comic book company. As if Civil War didn't have enough drama and intruige, Marvel has announced an upcoming collaboration with CBS soap opera Guiding Light. As someone who grew up in a household in which Guiding Light was the soap to watch, this news makes me... shake my head in confusion.

Who knows, maybe it will be the most brilliant crossover of all-time. Apparently there will be events in an upcoming episode of the show that will tie into an 8-page comic to be released at a yet-unspecified date. The comic, which is set to run in issues of several regular Marvel titles, will be written by Jim McCann and penciled by Alex Chung.

The whole idea came about when Guiding Light's costume designer, Shawn Dudley, was hired to design Storm's wedding gown for her marrige to Black Panther. According to Newsarama, they all got to talking, and decided that Marvel superheroes would be the next logical move for the town of Springfield, and vice versa.

Let's just say this is one team-up no one was expecting. But it should be interesting!

-Elizabeth