Comments on: Comic Book Legends Revealed #200 – Part 3

By: Anthony Durrant

Anthony Durrant — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:13:06 +0000

That New Teen Titans Graphic Novel was finally completed in 2010 and finally saw print on September 29th of this year. It is still called GAMES and is available at Amazon.com/Amazon.ca.

By: Spider-Man en Clar?n, parte 3 - P?gina 10 - psicofxp.com

Spider-Man en Clar?n, parte 3 - P?gina 10 - psicofxp.com — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:57:30 +0000

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By: Paul Ware

Paul Ware — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:00:36 +0000

Why didn’t taking the caveman into the future change history the same as killing him did? Because that was what they were supposed to have done in the first place. The caveman’s fate was to go to the future and do the things that he did in Titans #31, but by killing him Flash and Mal altered that. By going back they restored the timeline to what it always should have been.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:17:07 +0000

They’ve also said recently in an interview somewhere that the reason that nobody remembers Peter Parker being Spider-Man is *not* part of Mephisto’s bargain, but something else to be explained later. Therefore, logically, MJ no longer remembers that Peter is Spider-Man, but (like the Fantastic Four, which is why this was being explained) would remember that she should know who he is. Hence “another life”.

By: Apokoliptian

Apokoliptian — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:21:59 +0000

Please, someone must tell Harlan Ellison that Steve Skeates wrote a story about time travel. He should be sued for that!!!!!!!!!

By: J to the AAP

J to the AAP — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:28:13 +0000

Or they are clever little Easter Eggs….

I think so too, like when Pete’s looking for jobs in that first post-Mephisto issue JRJR did. Harry’s girlfriend says there’s an ad asking for a wedding photographer in the paper to which Peter answers something like “Nah, I have bad mojo when it comes to weddings”.

The whisper is probably in there to create an easy opening for a retcon of the retcon when the time comes for that.

Anyway, congrats on the 200th, the legends column is what originally lured me to this blog!

By: JoeBen

JoeBen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:38:52 +0000

Congrats on #200 and the book! This is a great column, I love reading and telling others about it.
Thanks!

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 02:27:20 +0000

If you read the issues with Paper Doll where M.J. is dating the actor, and she’s reading “FAUST”… plus she tells Spider-Man that she knew him in “another life” (while she was safely in the safe-room, and speaking via the intercom – which he can’t really hear her since he’s fighting for his life), that is all the evidence needed that she DOES indeed remember.

Or they are clever little Easter Eggs….

The ‘another life’ line is her saying it there so she doesn’t throw Spiderman off working by revealing that his ex is shagging someone else, possibly phrased that way to give the reader a laugh.

If she remembers that she gave up the love of her life to save someone else, why she is someone else’s bed, and not trying to win him back?

By: John

John — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:22:00 +0000

I used to love the wacky Bob Haney stuff when I was a kid. Kind of hard to read the stuff now. Happy 200th!

By: ParanoidObsessive

ParanoidObsessive — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:16:17 +0000

“But don’t expect it to be crystal clear. The printing method (CMYK) means that it has a few layers of ink, so it’s a little off-register.”

In that case, could it be more an instance of confirmation bias, or something similar to an inkblot test, where the viewer reads more into ambiguous data than is actually there?

I’ve never actually tried to magnify the speech bubble in question, so I have no idea how clear/blurry the resulting text would be, but it seems to me that if it’s blurry enough, then the actual context of the words might be lost, forcing the viewer to “fill in the blanks” based on their own perception of the context. ie, people see what they expect to see.

By: Ethan Shuster

Ethan Shuster — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:06:18 +0000

Hey, JayBee,
Maybe Bats was just hoping to get rescued by Wonder Woman. I mean, wouldn’t you?

By: JayBee

JayBee — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:42:28 +0000

This is NOT a slam on Bob Haney. However, I recently re-read some issues of Brave & the Bold from the seventies (that Bob wrote) that were lacking in logic and detail. One specific team-up with Wonder Woman had Batman chained to a wall by ONE ARM, still wearing his utility belt, and waiting around hoping to be rescued, which he eventually is, by Wonder Woman, who picks the lock of his manacle with a “bobby-pin”. As a child, this did not bother me at all, but as an adult, it took some of the shine away from the memory of the enjoyment I’d had remembering the story. Oh, well, it was just a “funnybook”, right? Who cares about character consistency, continuity, and logic when one is reading something as disposable as the daily paper?

Well, I guess I did….silly me.

By: Grico

Grico — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:15:03 +0000

Ha, I have that Teen Titans 33 issue. and yeah the explanation, makes no sense really. The 60s titans had a lot of bizarre elements, the caveman being just one of them.

By: Theo

Theo — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:51:15 +0000

Yeah, what sanctum said…
it totally checks in with that return of MJ arc, too.

By: RedEyedJedi

RedEyedJedi — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:41:15 +0000

The blown up word balloon was a hoax right? So, (In the issue) What DOES it say? Anything on that?

By: John

John — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:01:29 +0000

Congrats on #200… I’m looking for forward to the next 200! Keep up the good work.

As for the OMD tiny-print word-balloon: I agree with the other posters- if that word balloon was meant to be blank, the letterer wouldn’t have spent the time putting tiny letters into the balloon. I think the tiny print was designed to be tiny on purpose so all the readers would try to figure out what was said, what the meaning was, and how this “whisper” is referenced in later issues.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:34:48 +0000

You’d think Starfire would be in the Star Riders. Hmm.

Here to 200 more!

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:00:28 +0000

“By the way, who the hell is Mal Duncan and whatever happened to him?”

Come on, man. Go to Wikipedia. I did, and now I know.

By: Da Fug

Da Fug — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:45:35 +0000

Congrats on 200, Brian! Thanks for all your hard work and for the extra long installment this week.

And I believe I actually have that Wonder Woman mini-comic. The comic was very small and could fit in the palm of your hand. I had a Flash one, too. I know I had the Star Riders comic at one point (that was some damn good cereal) and it’s probably still ’round here somewheres.

By: coconutphone

coconutphone — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:31:32 +0000

Congrats on 200! I love reading this column every week. I’m going to check my OMD finale to see about tat word balloon. I REALLY can’t imagine that they would actually put anything like that in there since there’s no way they’d want anyone to be able to find it. Why put it in for someone to find when clealry they can just go back and reveal later if they want to.