crack_van | Like the Tardis, Only More ####, by jayest

My name's Elspethdixon, and I'll be driving the van for Marvel this month. I'm primarily an Iron Man & Avengers fan myself, but Marvel is a huge and varied universe with a vast number of interesting characters, and I'm going to kick the week off with some recs from all over the Marvel U. Once upon a time, the Marvel-verse had more to offer than non-stop gloom and doom -- like pure, grade A crack and talking dinosaurs in smoking jackets. My first rec, in celebration of this, is one of the tiny, tiny handful of Nextwave fics on the internet. Because nothing brings the glorious crack like Nextwave.

Fandom: MARVEL COMICS
Pairing: Tabitha/Aaron Stack (kind of)
Length: ~1,000 words
Author on LJ:

jayest

Why this must be read:

Because Nextwave + Anne McCaffrey-style brainships = 100% pure awesome

Nextwave, is/was a brilliantly warped parody miniseries by Warren Ellis, about a band of C-list superheroes joyriding in a stolen spaceship and fighting government and corporation-sponsored terrorists. Written for the brain_in_a_jar challenge, this fic manages to perfectly capture the feeling of the series, as well as having spot-on characterization on Tabitha (at least, the Nextwave version of her) and Machine Man.

Like the Tardis, Only More ####.