Comments on: Snark Free Corner for 4/30

By: Mark_Lucas_TBP

Mark_Lucas_TBP — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:51:11 +0000

In the issue where Superman and Doomsday kill each other, Superman uses his heat vision at full poer about a foot from Doomsday. It was shown as red beam about a foot wide with slightly flaming edges.

Don’t know if that helps the beam vs. pyrokinetic argument, but it was a heck of a visual.

I’m in the beam camp, myself.

By: buttler

buttler — Mon, 14 May 2007 04:13:45 +0000

i’m pretty sure the disguised-legionnaire answer is the correct one, but it needs to be said anyway:

all three covers feature the legion of super-heroes!
also, all three show cosmic boy.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 03 May 2007 01:04:44 +0000

You know, it looks like we all forgot Superman II

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:16:23 +0000

I announce all the winners in the Cool Points archive!

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2005/10/31/cool-points-archive/

Granted, I’m usually behind on listing all the winners.

By: yo go re

yo go re — Wed, 02 May 2007 05:11:35 +0000

Why is that? Why does Brian never acknowledge whether or not anybody got it right? It make the whole process much less enjoyable/rewarding, doesnâ€™t it?

Well, I certainly think so, but who knows? I can’t speak to Brian’s motivations, but if I had to rationalize it, I’d say that he either 1) doesn’t want to discourage any late-comers by throwing up a big flashing banner announcing that the game is over, or B) wants people to keep guessing in case they come up with something cool he hadn’t thought of…

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 02 May 2007 01:38:12 +0000

[quote]Is Supermanâ€™s heat vision a blast of heat from his eyes, or does it just make stuff hot by looking at it? Basically, the question is, â€œDo people see red blasts emitted from Supermanâ€™s eyes?â€[/quote]

Didn’t the first appearance of Superman’s heat vision give the explanation that it was “the heat of Superman’s X-Ray vision”?

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:52:33 +0000

Why is that? Why does Brian never acknowledge whether or not anybody got it right? It make the whole process much less enjoyable/rewarding, doesn’t it?

By: yo go re

yo go re — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:32:58 +0000

Iâ€™m just wondering if no oneâ€™s gotten the â€œcorrect answerâ€ yet

Always a dicey thing, since the only time I can recall Cronin ever actually revealing the answer to any of his questions was when someone finally got the “they were all black” cover theme game.

But the reason I felt guilty about guessing Leyendecker was that he’s credited on the cover, which is how I managed to look him up the other day…

–yo
certifiable cheat

By: Evil102

Evil102 — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:19:54 +0000

There was another X-Men from around the same era where Cerebro had become sentient and was trying to kill the X-Men by utilising the Xavier Protocols. Professor X bought time by fooling it into believing it had killed them all.

Damn, I’m remembering all over again why I didn’t bother picking up th X-titles during those years…

By: "O" the Humanatee!

"O" the Humanatee! — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:05:54 +0000

The flat-plane composition of the Amazon Attacks cover (I can readily imagine it being carved as a bas-relief) reminds me of some of the friezes on the Parthenon depicting horsemen in battle (do a Google Image search on “Parthenon frieze” for examples), though it certainly differs in numerous ways. Then again, so does the Leyendecker example yo go re linked to. A Greek image of battle seems like a more appropriate inspiration for a depiction of fighting Amazons than an Irish one. That’s not to say yo go re is wrong – I’m just wondering if no one’s gotten the “correct answer” yet.

By: Graeme Burk

Graeme Burk — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:18:03 +0000

I’m amazed no one has said this…the cover is also homaging Wonder Woman #1, albeit via a pastiche of Leyendecker

I had Rafael Kayanan with #3. This week was great– I figured out the cover challenge, named the artist and came up with something for the cover homage. Most weeks I walk away from it empty handed.

By: SanctumSanctorumComix

SanctumSanctorumComix — Tue, 01 May 2007 14:07:55 +0000

Re: when villains think they won but didn’t

The latest Marvel Team-Up series.
It ended with the return of Titannus, who’s being mind-controlled and is destroying a good chunk of U.S. real estate.

A bunch of “Secret Defenders” (assembled and led by Doctor Strange) show up and fight him, to no avail.

Then, it SEEMS to be that Titannus kills each and every one of them in grisly fashion, only for it to be a fake-out.
New character “Crusader” (who took over after “Freedom Ring” was killed) formed a reality-bubble around Titannus, making him think that he was killing all the heroes, when he was really just stuck in a sphere.

Pretty much a direct rip off of that Justice League story with Despero.

~P~
P-TOR

By: Eriata

Eriata — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:59:29 +0000

A bit stretchy, but the Sandman. Doctor Destiny (with Morpheus’s jewel) and Morpheus retreat to the dream world, where the psycho breaks the jewel. Flash of light, no Morpheus, celebrating psycho. Pan back, to reveal that the Doctor is in fact dancing on the palm of a much more powerful Morpheus.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:44:34 +0000

Norman Osborn is one of the five people who go through the ritual of (something or other)…one gets power, one gets instant death, one gets insanity, one gets immortality, and the fifth gets, I dunno, a free coupon for the next ritual of something-or-other. Everyone gets their gift, Osborn gets power and goes and finally trounces Spider-Man once and for all, reveals his secret identity, and murders him in front of dozens of shocked onlookers…

And at the start of the next issue, we see him back at the site of the ritual, babbling incoherently about how he’s killed Spider-Man for good. Because he got the insanity, not the power.

By: James

James — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:41:15 +0000

There was a teriffic issue of Detective Comics, written by Peter Milligan, where Bruce Wayne wakes up one day and discovers he isn’t Batman (or Alfred doesn’t know that he is, at least), there’s no Batcave beneath Wayne Manor, etc. Batman does exist, as it turns out, but it’s (apparently) someone else. But Wayne notices small things (like a piece of the Batmobile) that convinces him that he isn’t crazy. To cut to the chase, it turns out that his experience is the work of a psychic teenager who has used his abilities to invade Batman’s mind to determine his identity (which he does). The story ends with the teenager revealing Bruce’s secret to the world on a television talk show. Except it’s really just the kid’s imagination, as he lies in a coma, unable to reveal what he knows to anyone. Very trippy story that was considerably different than any other Bat books being published at the time, as I remember it.

By: -alistairw

-alistairw — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:24:50 +0000

Of course, there’s all the “John Harkness” Fantastic Fours: a lot of battles that were won by villains, most notably the fight between Doom and Kristoff that ended in the destruction of the world.

But…it was all a dream…

Poor Steve Englehart.

By: Rusty Priske

Rusty Priske — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:19:19 +0000

Is the Who Is it? Barry Windsor-Smith?

(I have no idea at some of the clues, so it is just a wild guess.)

By: sean

sean — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:47:40 +0000

The Infinity War climaxes with the Magus taking the Infinity Gauntlet and seemingly controlling all of reality … until it is revealed that, in fact, he was given a fake-Reality Gem and Thanos still holds the real one (though it may not have yet been revealed that Thanos was in control of the Reality Gem at that time; I think they left it at “Whoever had it still has it”. I don’t remember when they finally said that Warlock had given it to Thanos.).

By: Mr Tumnus

Mr Tumnus — Tue, 01 May 2007 12:25:42 +0000

I seem to recall that the end of the last book of Grant Morrison’s Zenith (Phase Four I think?) hinged on a similar trick – as the many-angled ones destroy the heroes, ravage the earth and set about dominating our entire universe, the viewpoint pulls back to show that they’ve been trapped in a crystal for like the last six episodes…

By: Terry Allen

Terry Allen — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:39:33 +0000

WHO IS IT ? #4

Rafael Kayanan

Terry