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A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 72
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far!
Today we look at the first appearance in Quantum and Woody of…the Goat!
Enjoy!
Let’s see if this page from Quantum and Woody #3 can give you a good enough re-cap of the story…
Okay, now on to the first appearance of the goat….
They track and arms manufacturer all the way to his secret headquarters and secure a top secret government code-breaker than he had stolen, but as it turns out, he had nothing to do with the murder case they were investigating…
Woody dressed the goat in costume as a gag about the absurdity of wearing costumes, but instead, the goat became perhaps the most popular aspect of the title, even getting its own “Inaction Figure” toy and eventually its own one-shot. I wrote about the goat during the Valiant Alphabet of Cool, so check out here for more info on the goat.
10 Comments
Michael
March 14, 2009 at 8:41 am
Eric really does read too many comic books.
Dalarsco
March 14, 2009 at 8:53 am
That was awesome. This series needs collecting.
Jason
March 14, 2009 at 9:38 am
I wouldn’t call Vincent THE most popular aspect . . . it was more of a team effort all around. I do have both versions of the Inaction Figure, though.
Dalarsco . . . the series was collected in four TPBs, though I’m willing to bet they would be a bitch to find these days.
Stefan
March 14, 2009 at 10:37 am
For me it’s between this and Joe Kelly’s Deadpool for Funniest Superhero Series Ever.
Brian Cronin
March 14, 2009 at 10:46 am
Here’s Priest on the subject…
Les Dennis
March 14, 2009 at 11:13 am
Wow a great depiction of Malaysia there. A tropical country that apparenty has bald craggy mountains.
It probably would have been cleverer just to set it in Tibet.
chad
March 14, 2009 at 12:22 pm
i though the goat was hilerious to quantum and woody espically the part where woody threatened to blow its brains out if the monks did not talk.. and the series needs to be collected
Jeff Ryan
March 16, 2009 at 8:51 am
I always wonder if the unexplained goat from How I Met Your Mother was in some way inspired by this.
Felicity
March 25, 2009 at 9:14 pm
So that’s where the Goat Inaction Figure came from!
I can’t believe a comic drawn by Mark Bright came out and I didn’t pick it up.
wwk5d
August 23, 2009 at 4:37 am
Yeah, Dennis, not the most accurate description of Malaysia AT ALL lol
Still, it looks like a funny series, and I wish there were more titles like it. Too many super-hero comics are trying to hard to be ART and taken seriously, or they are trying to be ART and their humor is based on sex and violence jokes. This is refreshing, and it’s too bad there aren’t many series with the same tone out now.