My personal choice for a Batman pairing: Wonder Woman.

I dunno, I'd like to think I'd get along well with another me.  That may well be ego, though!

See, to me, that's one of the advantages to this system; you can clearly see what's related to what, and you don't have someone replying to Frakes down in the middle of a debate about pudding.

"Shaking things up" by killing off a major character, not as an integral part of a storyline but just because, smacks of "In this issue, someone will DIE!" gimmickry.  Honestly, it'd shake things up far more to have him naturally move up and be promoted to his own captaincy.

This.  All of the this.  A death like that would be epic levels of lame, both for killing an interesting character like that and for invoking "It's okay, we have a spare".

Humbug!  That's not a double negative! *This* isn't not a knife! (No, wait…)

The gifted program I was in in fifth grade did a Star Trek theme that year.  Among other things, we watched the episode of DS9 about the Ferengi woman who masqueraded as a man.  Apparently, they wanted to get us into gender studies early!

Oh!  And the crossover with the then-contemporary version of Tom Swift, which involved really freaky time travel that blew my mind.

I remember the Casefile where they were handcuffed to a nuke that was going to go off and destroy… Toronto?  Some major Canadian city.

Having been a few years out of the appropriate age bracket when they came out, I'd say that Animorphs were definitely a cut above your standard Sweet Valley/Goosebumps/Babysitter's Club/what-have-you one-a-month kids' books.

And looking at it, this comment sounds really harsh.  …I'm not sure how to make it less so.  Sorry!

AUGH now there's a flashback.  Good god, that book was kind of regressive in retrospect, wasn't it?  The entire anti-technology plotline is kind of disturbing now…

Choose Your Own Adventures could transcend to become eduringly weird.  One of my favorites, Space and Beyond, has a few endings that are still mind-stretching. (Though I was very disappointed to realize that the incredibly strange planet you visit at one point is just a described-in-obtuse-terms version of modern-day…

I think there may be a few others, but mostly from the original series.

See, I *love* the threaded replies.  They make it so much easier to follow the various sub-coversations.  But then, maybe I'm just used to it from Usenet.

Agreed and agreed.

Bravo! Bravo! Encore! Author! Arriba!

I think both ways of doing it have some merit, and neither is missing something because it doesn't incorporate the other.

Personally, I've always thought the idea was really cool!  Which is why, I suppose, I do so much stuff with alternate-universe counterparts and the like…

Not common, but not unknown.  There's a strain of anime that's deeply influenced by classic rock; see, for instance, Cowboy Bebop, FLCL, and as Lovecraft mentioned, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure.