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Snark Free Corner for 10/30
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Enjoy!
COOL COMIC THINGS
You know what I think was a cool idea?
When the Archie characters were turned into superheroes. I especially loved how they handled it.
Archie became Pureheart the Powerful, but the way it worked was, once he was finished being a superhero, the Pureheart would wipe his (and everyone else's) memory of the event, so the very next issue could be back to normal with stuff like...
Eventually, Jughead, Betty and Reggie were in on the gig (Reggie was a bad guy, while Betty and Jughead were Archie's own little Justice League).
The idea was even big enough to get its own series (short-lived, though)!!
Very cool, I think.
SNARK FREE CHALLENGE
If you're a New York District Attorney, and you have evidence of, say, the Vulture firing a gun at Spider-Man, would you consider attempted murder charges? Or have superhumans changed the landscape of law to the point where firing a pistol at a superhero is no longer considered to be having an intent to kill?
FUNNY COMIC MOMENT
This borders a bit on morbid humor, but it is still pretty funny, from 1990's JLA #35...
COVER HOMAGE
One cool point to the first person who can tell me which film this Get Kraven cover is homaging!
WHO IS IT?
Remember, as always - tell me who it is and what number clue gave it away!
1. This character used to be a disc jockey.
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2. This character is a mutant.
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3. This character is not American.
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4. This character was once the head of security for the Brand Corporation.
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5. This character has been seen recently as Pro-Registration in the Civil War conflict.
Who is it?
Well, that's it for this installment of Snark Free Corner.
Hope you had fun!
- Posted on October 30, 2006 @ 05:21 PM
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12 Comments
Myke
October 30, 2006 at 6:15 pm
The Movie is "Cape Fear"
Omar Karindu
October 30, 2006 at 6:32 pm
More specifically, it's the remake of Cape Fear with Robert de Niro in the Mitchum role.
And yes, as DA I'd push thsoe charges, if only to forestall the inevitable guy who shoots his wife and then claims he didn't have intent to kill because he was so sure she was really Ms. Marvel or Spider-Woman in civilian guise.
Omar Karindu
October 30, 2006 at 6:33 pm
Oh, and the character...is it MicroMax? It took me all the way to #5 to get it, because that's when everythign else finally added up.
CalvinPitt
October 30, 2006 at 6:36 pm
The character in question is Micromax. I figured it out on hint #4, because i remembered Nightcrawler mentioning it to Cyclops, during that "Fatal Attractions" story.
moose n squirrel
October 30, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Spider-man can be killed with a bullet. Why wouldn't that be attempted murder?
Jer
October 30, 2006 at 8:38 pm
I'd press the charges, provided I could either get enough witnesses OR Spider-man himself to come in and corroborate AND that the Vulture couldn't make a "self-defense" claim stick. Since you probably couldn't get Spidey to come in for that (what with him being wanted by the law himself off-and-on through his career), you may have to stick with just charging Vulture with all the rest of the mayhem that he undoubtedly caused in his latest crime spree.
Adam Jones
October 30, 2006 at 9:10 pm
It would just be one more crime added to the long list the Vulture would have had for that day. Spiderman would be making a citizin's arrest when he saw law breaking. He has every right to go after the Vulture. So, although attempted murder might be a "no s***" type of crime, it doesn't get washed away.
Billy F
October 30, 2006 at 10:49 pm
The cover homage is very much so the remake of Cape Fear.
The "who is it" is very much so Micro-Max.
Unfortunatly I was beaten to both.
And that JLA panel stills cracks me up. Right after
"Countdown to Infinite Crisis" a friend of mine went through his entire collection of Giffen and Dematteis's JLA run to try and remember which issue this was in.
Derek B. Haas
October 31, 2006 at 6:36 am
Spider-Man had better not be making a citizen's arrest, as the laws regarding them in the US make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) to execute one without opening yourself to a load of civil lawsuits, not to mention criminal prosecution.
(I am not a lawyer, but this is what I understand.)
J to the A.A.P.
October 31, 2006 at 8:25 am
Spider-Man had better not be making a citizen’s arrest, as the laws regarding them in the US make it extremely difficult (if not impossible) to execute one without opening yourself to a load of civil lawsuits, not to mention criminal prosecution.
Hence, the mask.
Pureheart Prime
October 31, 2006 at 10:26 am
Woah, Dude.
If you haven't already posted on why you find Archie comics interesting, please do. Or please post a link to the piece.
Because I just don't get it. When I was a kid I found that reading Archie comics after reading Lee/Ditko or whatever made me stupid. Not Richie Rich or Casper stupid but pretty stupid. I'd have to go and read Aquinas' Summa or such and critique it savagely before I could tie my shoes again.
Pureheart Prime
October 31, 2006 at 10:27 am
Further: I ask because you're not stupid and probably have impeccably tied shoes.