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Lemme guess. All three covers/issues feature people killed by OMACs in OMAC Project? (Rocket Red, Overthrow, and Firefly)

And the answer for the question is Frenzy, but I didn’t get it until #4. :

Actually got it on #2, but just as a guess, and #5 threw me off again.

An alternative for the Cover Theme is psychosis: Overthrow was a paranoid conspiracy nut, Guy Garnder had that whole split personality thing, and Firefly is a pyromaniac who thinks he sees visions in his flames.

(psst! that’s the old Snark Free Challenge, isn’t it?)

Cover game – Easy! Mr. Miracle (80s series) #7:
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=46627&zoom=4

(Gosh, they are looking quite gay on that cover!)

Hunter (Pedro Bouça)

Thanks, yo!

I had it written down but I must have forgotten to put it into the actual piece.

Challenge: Probably Sandman: A Game of You. I kinda dug the scratchy art in the middle, but it was jarring.

All ocvers feature ‘replacement’ heroe’s (or not the first to use the name)

Ted Kord wasn’t the first blue beetle, Guy Gardner wasn’t the first Green Lantern, and Azrael wasn’t the first Batman.
(which I’m running off the Knightfall novel for that last one though – I think it’s he who brings down firefly).

And by ocvers, I of course meant covers.

Though it’s the new BB, does this Infinite Crisis cover counts?
http://impulsosolar.cl/blogs/media/INCR_Cv5_Lee.jpg

MarkAndrew,

Apparently DC is allowing Colleen Doran to go back and re-ink that fill-in issue she drew. The inker screwed it up, so she’s going to make it look all purty-like in time for the next volume of Absolute Sandman.

(which I’m running off the Knightfall novel for that last one though – I think it’s he who brings down firefly).

Nope, that’s Batman Classic.

That issue is from about a year or so after that Contagion crossover where the virus gets loose in Gotham City, to place the issue in context.

Each of these issues features a fight in the headquarters of a major corporation? (I’m not sure about the third issue.)

Michael is wrong: because Firefly appeared in JLA#115-116 which followed OMAC#6 chronologically (even though they were published three and two months prior).

FGJ is wrong, because DC#717 was quite some time AFTER Azrael had been ousted as the Bat.
However…the Firefly featured IS the second person to bear that name, so replacements for the originals remains a good guess. In fact, the Rocket Red featured in the JLE was a replacement for the original Rocket Red who served as a member of the JLI, because THAT RR was a Manhunter.

And, FGJ, by heroe’s, I’m pretty sure that you meant heroes.

The Blue Beetle book is noteworthy for its resurrection of Dar Garrett.

Cover game: Boo$ter Gold #22 doesn’t count. It’s only got the Bug on it.

Captain Atom #16 probably doesn’t count. It’s only got their floating heads.

Here’s my entry: Superman v2 #142
http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=90248&zoom=4

Just to note (that I’m a big nerd), it was Bruce who took down Firefly during Knightfall as well.

I meant Dan, not Dar Garrett. Dar is a whole ‘nother hero!

How about this REALLY STUPID answer for the theme:
#1: BB
#2: GG, RR
#3: FF

All three books feature characters with double initial pairs. I feel like Harkle Harpell for even suggesting this answer, though.

Yeah, Rocket Red, Firefly and Overthrow were all killed by those stupid robot OMAC things in the OMAC Project (Firefly MIGHT have been killed in the beginning of Infinite Crisis #1 by the OMACs, but I think it was in OMAC Project #6).

I like yo go re’s answer, though, so I’ll give him a cool point for it!

After some checking, there seems to be some debate as to the veracity of my claim regarding continuity, especially in the case of Firefly. So I guess that Michael’s right.

Also, after further checking, there’s only been ONE Firefly post-COIE. There were two pre-, but that doesn’t count…does it?

I appreciate your tenacity, acespot!

Brian, if he was indeed dispatched fatally, then it occurred in OMAC #6.

I just checked the issue – yep, it was OMAC Project #6 that Firefly was terminated (the stupid OMAC robot’s term, not mine ).

“I wish I could see more?” C’mon, Brian, don’t give me straight lines like that!

I wish Dale Keown has penciled Hulk #400. It was the last part of a four issue story; Keown penciled the first three, but left the book (and Marvel, if I remember correctly) and a fill-in artist completed the last issue (in what looked like a very rushed job, though it wasn’t bad). The discontinuity of that last issue was jarring.

Got Joanna Cargill/Frenzy at #2.

As for fill-in stories I’d have preferred with the original artist, the one that leaps to mind first is Breakdowns, the end of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League era. I know Kevin Maguire was already off the book by that point, but he came back for a couple of the issues and it would have been nice to see him do all of the JLA ones. And of course Bart Sears should have done all of the JLE issues, not just the one or two that he ended up doing.

Also, does it count if I wish Dick Dillin hadn’t died so he could continue penciling the first volume of JLA up through issue 241?

My vote for having the original artist do the fill-in- New Teen Titans #5, done by Curt Swan instead of regular George Perez.

I’ve always sworn that if I ever had the money, I’d get Perez to draw it, just for me

To amend my previous statement, it turns out Keown didn’t pencil The Incredible Hulk #399, either . So he penciled half of the story, but not the other half. Dang faulty memory…

Before Brian mentioned it in the question my immediate thought for replacing a fill-in was New X-Men. But not just one storyline. I want the whole damn run drawn by Frank Quitely!

Brian mentioned the Korvac Saga – why Alan Weiss was approached to follow George Perez I’ll never know.
on a slightly more obscure note, I’m as big a fan of the Doug Moench/Gene Day Master of Kung Fu as anyone so to have Day’s gorgeous art be replaced for 2 issues by the completely unsuitable Rick Magyar and Alan Kupperberg art team still rankles to this day.The story in question (111/112) would have been wonderful with Gene Day art but is only passable at best with that team.

ALL 3 covers feature characters who take their names /abilities from creatures.

- Blue BEETLE
- ANIMAL Man
- FIREFLY

C’mon… it’s an EASY answer like THAT which you seek.
No?

darn.

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And as for having ONE artist finish a story… while it’s not at the absolute TOP of my list, it WOULD have been nice for TONY HARRIS to have finished the entire 4-issue MINI-SERIES, instead of bailing out after 2 issues and having a craptastic fill-in job by (THE normally excellent) PAUL CHADWICK.

ESPECIALLY, after they built up a metric ass-ton of hype about HARRIS doing the project to boost sales.

4 issues.
How hard is it to have that all IN THE CAN… BEFORE soliciting it.

But, at least Marvel has gotten much better at that kind of thing…oh wait.

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P-TOR

OOps… forgot to actually TYPE the NAME of the mini series.

DOCTOR STRANGE : FLIGHT OF BONES

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P-TOR

Cover Game – Captain Atom, #16
http://www.boosterrific.com/comics/issues/cap116.php

Hey, they are floating heads…but you have to imagine they are together.

Cover Game:

Adventures in the DCUniverse #8
http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=60930&zoom=4

I’d have George Perez ink Curt Swan for the second part of Whatever Happened To The Man of Tomorrow, because good as Kurt Schaffenberger is (and the man deserved a final bow on Superman), it jars too much with Perez’s sensational inks on part one.

The Comic-Con masquerade ball is many things. Silly, impressive, heartwarming, sad, and popular.

But it never has been and never will be cool.

If you’ve ever seen it in person, you’ll know why. If not, you can never truly grasp how wholly… amateur the whole thing is. It’s on the level of the Star Wars kid.

I’d like to have Tony Harris ink everything from the time he left until Snejberg came aboard Starman. Unfortunately, being that he left due to creative differences, that’ll never happen. But if wishes were horses…

Hey! It’s a week later and I just got back from vacation! So nobody’s reading! But nevertheless I feel the need to throw my response to the challenge into the ether.

I’ve said before here that Nexus 1-55 (and attendent miniseries) is arguably the greatest comic run of all time, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve fantasized that Steve Rude will go back and replace the fill-in pencils on issue #31. It was part of a line of fill-ins, and I’d love to see them all redrawn by The Dude, but I’m not greedy. That issue in particular had art by some guy named Gerard Forton and it was eye-gouging bad. Self-published 14-year-old bad. Really really bad. What a blight on a great run. C’mon Steve! Go back and redraw that issue yourself, just for the sake of art!