Fan Artists Drew the Wildest Fictional Dream Teams to Save Earth
The Prompt That Broke the Internet’s Brain
Every week, the team behind the long-running comic fan art series The Line it is Drawn throws a challenge at their followers on Twitter and Bluesky. Readers pitch ideas. Artists claim the ones that spark something. The results go live the following week, alphabetized by the fan who first had the idea.
This round’s brief hit different. Inspired by Andy Weir’s novel Project Hail Mary, the prompt asked a deceptively simple question: take any famous fictional character, pair them with a notable comic book alien, and figure out how that team saves the planet. The results ranged from surprisingly heartfelt to gloriously unhinged.
A Raccoon, A Fox, and the Fate of All Humanity
Eric Lee led with the entry nobody knew they needed. Rocket Raccoon and Groot — the trigger-happy space raccoon and his walking-tree best friend from Guardians of the Galaxy — get teamed with Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, the bunny cop and smooth-talking fox from Zootopia. On paper, it’s a catastrophe. A mercenary who shoots first and a by-the-book optimist who never stops believing in people.
Lee’s art makes it work anyway. There’s something almost moving about the pairing — two stories about outcasts proving their worth, suddenly sharing the same frame with the world on the line.
Wolverine Meets Stitch. Scully Meets Superman.
Marco D’Alfonso’s crossover went a different direction entirely. Wolverine and Stitch — one a nearly unkillable Canadian with blades in his knuckles, the other a genetically engineered alien designed to cause maximum destruction — share the screen in a collaboration that makes a weird kind of emotional sense. Both are weapons who found a family.
Rod Allen’s contribution might be the most conceptually audacious of the batch. Superman sits across from FBI Agent Dana Scully in what looks like an interrogation room. The man who can hear a heartbeat from orbit, questioned by a scientist who spent years refusing to believe in extraterrestrial life.
Brendan Tobin brought a bird-headed Green Lantern face-to-face with Han Solo — two reluctant heroes dragged into saving galaxies they’d rather have stayed out of. Nick Butch closed the week with a watercolor panel, two caped figures cutting through open sky, one of them shouting the line that captures the whole premise perfectly.
“Let’s save our suns together!”
What Comes Next
The challenge shifts gears for Nintendo Week. The new prompt: comic book characters trapped inside famous Nintendo games. Who belongs in Hyrule? Who gets dropped into Mushroom Kingdom and causes nothing but problems?
Suggestions go to @csbg on Twitter or @briancronin.bsky.social on Bluesky, deadline 11:59 PM Pacific on Wednesday. If last week’s entries are any measure, the artists will find something worth drawing.
