Comments on: Comic Book Alphabet of Cool – U

By: wetstereorebel

wetstereorebel — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:21:52 +0000

I am visiting this 2008 post from the future (2011!!!!!) to tell all you prehistoric 2008-types that Martin Sheen is the new Uncle Ben.

Just wait four more years if you don’t believe me.

By: Mary Warner

Mary Warner — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 01:47:48 +0000

I saw the first line about the coolest family member in comics, and my first thought was Uncle Marvel, but then it suddenly occured to me that Uncle Scrooge was a better choice. I never dreamed you would do ALL uncles! Perhaps you should’ve done a tribute to all of Little Dot’s uncles here, too. (I think she had about 400 of them.)

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:32:46 +0000

Ah Duke; you’ve got to love a man can who be responsible for inciting a major international incident over a bad check. After being kidnapped in Iran in the late 70′s and trying to buy his way out, he said, “If you want to make an international incident out of it, why not take over the American Embassy?”

By: dmor173

dmor173 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:20:22 +0000

I remember a chris rock bit where he says how ‘your uncles prepare you for life’. Very true.

By: Jeff Ryan

Jeff Ryan — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:04:41 +0000

NFL SuperPro makes you say Uncle. He has the power of steroids!

By: Denn

Denn — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:44:37 +0000

There were letter columns in DC Comics?

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:41:55 +0000

Who’s Uncle Elvis? A Guy Gardner character?

Just kidding, I used to read his letters alongside the many others in all the DC issues.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:35:19 +0000

Is Uncle Elvis an old reference already?

Damn, that’s scary if so.

By: chris w.

chris w. — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:24:50 +0000

Will I be showing my age if I say Uncle Elvis?

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:11:47 +0000

Good call, Omar.

And the mention of Uncle Duke absolves you of the sin of not using The Question for Q.

By: Omar Karindu

Omar Karindu — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:15:37 +0000

Tch. No mention of Uncle Marvel?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:08:57 +0000

As Dan Slott so cleverly reminded us in Spider-Man/Human Torch #5, the Thing is also an “Uncle Ben,” to Franklin and Valeria Richards. (He’s a “dutch uncle” rather than a blood relation, but I think he counts.)