CSBG Archive
Snark Free Corner for 10/29
Welcome to the latest installment of your breath of snark free air!
Enjoy!
COMIC BOOK IDOL 3 UPDATE
Here are the entries from the six finalists for the third round of Comic Book Idol 3!
Check out the Comic Book Idol 3 forum if you want to see the rest of their pages!
I am going to post all their first pages (of their three page assignment). For reference, here is the script by Robert Kirkman (only a Marvel-style plot script, not a full script) for that first page…
Page 1:
Invincible is flying toward us, cool, iconic shot, he’s bursting through clouds, smiling, having a grand old time.
His fun is interrupted as he looks down at the ground, casually at first, then sees something distressing and starts to fly down toward us.
Caio Oliveira
a 28-year-old who is currently unemployed, from Teresina, PiauÃ, Brazil.
Charles Paul Wilson III
a 31-year-old security guard from Wharton, NJ.
Dan McDaid
a 30-year-old writer and illustrator from London.
Jon Reed
a 28-year-old accountant assistant from Alexandria, VA.
Jose “Joh James” Holder
a 36-year-old storyboard artist from Montreal.
Nicholas Pitarra
a 25-year-old college student and part-time waiter from Houston.
Get ready to vote this Wednesday!
COVER THEME GAME
As always, here is the game. I show three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, locale, creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something obvious like “They all have prices!” “They all have logos!” “They all feature a man!” etc.
In addition, please note that you must have some familiarity with comic book history to correctly guess these comics. You cannot guess the connective theme just by looking at the covers solely, you must have some knowledge beyond just the covers.
Good luck! A cool point to the first person to figure it out!
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SNARK FREE CHALLENGE
Let’s say Simon Garth, Morbius, Jack Russell and The Living Mummy all formed a superhero team. What would be the best name for their team?
THE COVER GAME
This week’s game is as follows…
Find me a cover featuring Lien Harper, daughter of Roy Harper (Speedy/Arsenal/Red Arrow)…
Floating heads don’t count!
Here is an example (which you can’t use!)….
Remember, only one cover per commenter!
Good luck!
WHO IS IT?
Remember, tell me who it is and what number clue gave it away!
1. This character was born in America, where he dropped out of high school.
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2. This character trained a future superhero.
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3. This character’s first name is Buck.
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4. This character’s interactions with the aforementioned superhero were a retcon added almost two decades into the character’s existence.
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5. This character actually interacted with TWO future superheroes before they became superheroes, (actually, both superheroes first became supervillains prior to becoming heroes).
Who is it?
Well, that’s it for this installment of Snark Free Corner.
Hope you had fun!
26 Comments
Caco
October 30, 2007 at 1:47 am
The Cover Game:
The Titans #034
Filrouge
October 30, 2007 at 2:44 am
Cover theme game.
Each charachter uses an object to fight, Guy Gardner has a power ring, Spider-man uses web-hooters, and Cable has the Psimitar.
Apodaca
October 30, 2007 at 2:56 am
That’s Cable?
Brian Cronin
October 30, 2007 at 3:03 am
That’s not Cable. It does look like him, though, now that it’s mentioned.
Patient Boy
October 30, 2007 at 3:24 am
Web hooters.
Hee hee.
El Dustino
October 30, 2007 at 3:45 am
Who is it?
Is it Hawkeye’s mentor/enemy Trickshot?
http://www.marvel.com/universe/Trickshot
I had to remember a comic I got from one of those packs that JC Penney used to sell in their Christmas catalog to get that.
Carlos Futino
October 30, 2007 at 4:02 am
About CBI, my two favorites, round after round, continue to be McDaid and Oliveira. Hope both can really break into comics soon.
Doug Atkinson
October 30, 2007 at 5:18 am
For the team name:
The Universals.
SanctumSanctorumComix
October 30, 2007 at 5:48 am
Cover game:
ALL covers are drawn by BRITISH artists.
Dave Gibbons, Mark Buckingham and Kev Walker respectively.
And THAT’s a FACT.
~P~
P-TOR
SanctumSanctorumComix
October 30, 2007 at 5:54 am
Sorry about that little bit o’snark at the end there.
I was watching some KIDS in the HALL and the “That’s a FACT” girl was just on.
~P~
P-TOR
SanctumSanctorumComix
October 30, 2007 at 5:59 am
The monster team name would be:
“Wielders of the ASS-END of the stick”.
No?
Well… SUPERNATURALS was a bad Marvel miniseries around 1998 or so. So they have THAT name lying around.
But if you’re looking for a NEW name…
How about “Crypt-Kickers”?
“Cryptics”?
“Crypts & Bloods”?
No?
OK. I’ll go now.
lol
~P~
P-TOR
avengers63
October 30, 2007 at 6:48 am
El Dustino beat me to it. I couldn’t remember his name, but rickshot is my vote as well. I had it in 2.
Crypts & Bloods is great!
How ’bout the Dead Heads?
The Horror Anti-Heroes Association? HA-HA for short!
Ryan Day
October 30, 2007 at 7:21 am
“The Monster Squad.”
Granted, there might be some copyright issues…
Randy
October 30, 2007 at 7:25 am
A red-headed Lian Harper:
http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=enlarge&issue=86228870930%2080
Scott MacIver
October 30, 2007 at 7:36 am
Hrm, a team name for them?
“The Monster Mash”
Yes. Gold. Solid gold.
As for the Who is it?, I didn’t get it, but the guess of Trickshot is a great one, as he trained Hawkeye and Swordsman. Gosh, that was a lot of purple costumes.
BrianC
October 30, 2007 at 7:38 am
The Cover Game:
The Titans #9
http://www.comicvine.com/comic/titans/9145/69290/&i=3404
acespot
October 30, 2007 at 7:57 am
Titans #25
That’s just too easy.
jazzbo
October 30, 2007 at 9:20 am
I guessed Trickshot after 2, wasn’t positive until #5 though. Funny thing is, after the first question my intial thought was Hawkeye. Don’t know whether he dropped out of high school or not, but it seems possible.
Ian
October 30, 2007 at 10:10 am
The Undying
Kirayoshi
October 30, 2007 at 10:11 am
For a team name, how about The Graveyard Shift?
Graeme Burk
October 30, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Given that “Monster Squad” and “The Creature Commandos” are already taken…I’m gonna go with the current trend in comic and call them:
“The Gothic Avengers”
Put a big red “THE INITIATIVE” banner across the top and you can see it on the cover of a Marvel Comic already.
Colossus 2000
October 30, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I’m not sure who Simon Garth is, but straight away I wanted to call the team the Garth Vaders….
I find it interesting that most of the Idol entries show him flying from left to right…. Which makes sense I guess. It would be the opening page, and if he went the other way, it would be drawing your eye to the inside of the cover, not to the edge, flipping over to the next page…. So good work guys.
John Cage
October 31, 2007 at 12:05 am
I like reusing Supernaturals as the group name, but what about some other inactive Marvel titles like Legion of the Unliving or Lethal Legion?
Have a good day.
John Cage
yo go re
October 31, 2007 at 12:07 am
All three covers feature people who have spent time in a coma?
My guess for the Who Is It is General Glory, for no good reason…
Brian Cronin
October 31, 2007 at 1:12 am
It is, indeed, that all three cover artists are British! A cool point for Peter!
Eriata
November 1, 2007 at 1:07 pm
So, would Dead or Alive? be too obvious a name for that particular group of heroes?
And yes, it needs the question mark.