Comments on: I have stuff that you can win!

By: chinedu

chinedu — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:44:24 +0000

i really want to win

By: Matt Brady

Matt Brady — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:59:39 +0000

Man, these are tough! I sent in my entry, and most of them I only had a vague guess on, but I was able to come up with better guesses using Wikipedia, GCD, and Google. Gotta love the internets! And there were a couple that I was able to check comics in my collection for, including one that I was going to guess at, but then got an idea and went and looked it up, and I was right! Awesome! I doubt I’ll win, but it was lots of fun! Thanks, Greg, and don’t listen to these naysayers!

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:22:44 +0000

Ignore that – Wrong thread.

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:22:10 +0000

Ah now I see what’s happened. You only get the “read the rest” text if you go in from the front page. I go directly to the page via the RSS feed so I just had the whole post slapped out in front of me with nothing to click.

By: Zeb Aslam

Zeb Aslam — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:42:42 +0000

Well…it wasn’t exactly easy, but Blair’s right…it wasn’t super-hard either. I’ll probably send my completed entry tonight (doubt I’ll win…but it was still fun).

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:35:31 +0000

“Of 30 panels, Iâ€™d guess that 24 are from â€œmainstreamâ€ comics. ”

Maybe this is the answer to the chdb’s point…

Maybe next time you do a competition like this you should either give mainstream prizes but have indie panels to identify or you should have indie prizes and mainstream panels. That way hopefully you’re introducing people to things they might not otherwise have read.

And yeah – I probably won’t win, but the panels aren’t nearly as hard as I thought they’d be

Dan

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:39:47 +0000

That’s the spirit, Blair! You did a pretty good job, too. We’ll have to see how it shakes out.

By: Blair Corbett

Blair Corbett — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 19:53:13 +0000

I don’t really get why everyone thinks it’s so insanely hard! I’m only a student, with a few years of being into comics, which I would guess is a considerably lower age than most of the readers here, and I was pretty happy with how I did. I doubt I’ll win anything, but I knew a fair number of them, I thought, and it was a lot of fun anyways.

By: Apathy Boy

Apathy Boy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:28:53 +0000

Fun! I’ll play.

I look forward to crushing you all.

By: johnkalel

johnkalel — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:42:48 +0000

Of 30 panels, I’d guess that 24 are from “mainstream” comics. This roughly parallels my moderately-ranging comics reading experience of over 40 years.

Though I claim some exposure to about 75% of the panels, I could only estimate to be in the lower 40% of points earned.

In other words, this contest is, um, not easy.

I will enter, after some verification of what I think I know.

I would be very interested in a follow-up, identifying the panels, and giving some indication of why that panel was selected. That would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the fun!

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:00:10 +0000

That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try, Rebis and Scott!

By: Scott King

Scott King — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:18:51 +0000

Man, this is just mean.

Props to whom ever wins.

By: Rebis

Rebis — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:12:17 +0000

Hey Greg, I don’t want to sound snarky (as chdb kinda does), but then again, I agree with his (her?) overall point. I’ve no idea how well I would do in this contest overall â€” I’d rank somewhere in the middle, I suppose â€” but I am pretty damn sure I’d never win, place or show. To earn your prizes, one really must have an encyclopedic knowledge of comics. It’s your contest and your call, of course, and it’s all well and good if you wish to reward those folks with more comics … but I wonder if it might not make more sense to try to get these prizes into the hands of less knowledgable readers, to expose them to stuff they wouldn’t otherwise pick up. A contest that demands this much overall knowledge of characters, storylines and art styles is great, but even better if the prize were, oh I don’t know, signed artwork or a copy of a comic script or some more insider-y trophy. (Not that you have any of those lying around. I can appreciate you just working with what you’ve got. I’m just sayin’.)

Anyway, rock on, all you comics badasses!

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:38:46 +0000

I wasn’t sure whether or not I would enter again, but I know a few. Thanks for running this contest again, Greg!

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:22:25 +0000

Wow – I’m amazed how well I did there my issue numbers are mostly guesses, but I think I had good guesses for the rest (and a few I actually knew).

Number 4 is annoying me though. I’m sure I should know it – and I’m sure I should be able to guess the artist, but I’m coming up completely blank on it.

By: Billy F

Billy F — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:56:04 +0000

I got so happy when I saw number one, because I knew that one and I thought I might actually know a lot more. It’s more like 2 more…

By: gus

gus — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:50:20 +0000

I don’t recognize any of these besides 5, 9, and 10.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:14:05 +0000

Bill – I’m not sure why you’re ineligible. Give it a try!

I’m not quite sure if you’re being rude, Mighty God King. No need for that. Just ignore the contest.

By: chdb

chdb — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:57:56 +0000

…so basically it’s a contest for completists who have somehow managed to not get everything you’re offering as a prize?

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:49:03 +0000

There is no way I could hope to win this, but I have #15 in my childhood collection. The cover was so wacky/stupid.