CSBG Archive
Drawing Crazy Patterns Archive
Here are all of the installments of Drawing Crazy Patterns that we have published so far. They each feature five comic book moments/scenes that coincide with a particular theme or topic.
1. Times Hal Jordan received blunt head trauma during the Silver Age.
2. Times Juggernaut’s helmet was removed
3. Times a character “Bwah Ha Ha”ed.
4. Patriotic Comic Book Moments About the United States
5. The SHIELD Helicarrier Crashing
7. Psylocke telling everyone that her psychic knife is the “focused totality of her telepathic powers”
8. Superboy telling everyone he has tactile telekinesis
9. The Hulk complaining about why humans never leave Hulk alone.
10. The X-Men Playing Baseball
11. Times Someone Other Than Colossus Has Done a “Fastball Special” With Wolverine
12. Failed attempts by Mister Fantastic to cure The Thing of his cosmic mutation
13. The Joker falling to his “death”
14. Dramatic Last Page Reveals of Magneto
16. Wolverine Threatening to “Pop” His Middle Claw
17. People Learning Batman’s Secret Identity Right Before Dying
18. Avengers Announcing a New Roster With a Press Conference
19. People Who Look Exactly Like Superman/Clark Kent
20. Fastball Specials Without Colossus OR Wolverine!
21. Batman Using Special Costumes
22. Doctor Doom Seemingly Being Killed
23. Flash Stories Ending With Iris West Complaining ABout Barry Allen
25. Green Arrow Copying Batman
26. Hawkeye Quitting the Avengers
27. Grant Morrison-Penned Characters Threatening to Inflict or Actually Inflicting Brain Trauma
28. Green Arrow(s) Quitting the Justice League(s)
29. Women Who Just Look Exactly Like Lois Lane
30. Lois Lane Trying to Learn Superman’s Secret Identity
31. Spider-Man Lifting Heavy Objects
32. Cannonball Explaining How He is Near Invulnerable WHen He is “Blastin’”
33. Batman Vanishing on Commissioner Gordon
34. The Watcher Interfering While Noting That He Cannot Interfere
35. Steve Rogers is Captain America No More!
36. Peter Parker is Spider-Man No More!
37. Other Characters Lifting Thor’s Hammer
39. Wolverine and Colossus Execute the Fastball Special!
40. Captain America; Unbreakable Shield Breaks!
If you have suggestions for future installments, please e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com! Don’t post your suggestions in the comments section (this way, they remain a surprise).
25 Comments
Superman
July 16, 2011 at 10:15 am
You forgot the number of times Superman said “It tickles!” or a variation thereof after being blasted or shot.
buttler
July 16, 2011 at 10:31 am
You forgot to count the times a comic blog commenter started a comment with “You forgot.”
mostlyharmless
July 16, 2011 at 12:11 pm
How many times have we have someone exclaim, “Impossible! Something that big moving that fast!”
Lyle Dodd
July 16, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Some really cool scenes here….even if some of them may have become cliche.
angry fan
July 16, 2011 at 10:59 pm
I got a better list:
How many times DICK GRAYSON became BATMAN. ( twice)
How many times Hal Jordan stopped being Green Lantern. ( 3 times)
How many times Steve Rogers stopped being Captain America. ( 4 times)
How many times the JLA disbanded. (7 times since early 80s)
How many times Hakman died. ( 4 times since 1990)
How many times the HULK was split from banner. ( 3 or 4 times)
How many times the avengers were forced to exile HULK from the earth. (twice)
How many times Aunt May died or was in the hospitol. ( died 1, Hospitol endless amounts)
How many times Krypton/ Supermans origin was rebooted/revamped since 2001 alone. (4 times)
How many times the DC UNIVERSE has been rebooted: ( technically 4 times– 1985 Crisis–1994 Zero hour–2006 One month later—2011 September Halfarse Reboot)
All of the above things DO NOT make comics fun— they are reasons why Superheroes from the BIG TWO are no different than ARCHIE.
TomerS
July 16, 2011 at 11:27 pm
@angry fan: Call me crazy, but I have a feeling you didn’t really get this feature.
Rob
July 17, 2011 at 7:39 am
The number of times the Avengers held a press conference to announce a new line up.
Kid Kyoto
July 17, 2011 at 10:29 am
Just 5 of each? Someone should do a wiki or tumblr and try to get all incidents of a given cliche.
Anonymous
July 30, 2011 at 10:30 am
Probably not a character worthy of such treatment, but:
Number of times Venom threatened/expressed desire to consume someone’s brain and/or spleen without ever actually eating any part of anybody.
Mac Jackson
July 30, 2011 at 1:19 pm
How about one for every time Batman tells another hero that Gotham is his City and to stay out:)
Mac Jackson
Singer/Songwriter for
“Harmony Constant”
Theflashcomix
July 31, 2011 at 12:09 pm
How about the number of times some one said ” to quote Mark Twain, the reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”
Star Saber
September 3, 2011 at 8:56 am
I’ve got a suggestion
How many times Marvel characters have said that they’ve been trained in hand to hand combat by Captain America
Wait, what?
August 18, 2012 at 2:16 pm
Huh? I came here from the home page because there was supposed to be something about the Joker, and all I see is some really long list.
fokakais77
August 18, 2012 at 5:08 pm
@Star Saber
I like this suggestion : )
Travis Pelkie
August 18, 2012 at 5:13 pm
Yeah, Brian, WTH is with this “makin’ a list that I gotta read” crap? I came here for the Joker!!!
Number 13, buddy.
Ivan
August 19, 2012 at 9:44 am
Can you please do the number of times the Watcher says “I’ve sworn never to interfere”, but then decides to interfere anyways?
Daryl
August 19, 2012 at 3:06 pm
How many times has Mr. Fantastic streched himself around the Thing in order to stop him from “going to far” when clobbering a villian? To many to count if you include the Human Torch.
Simon77
August 20, 2012 at 5:49 pm
How many times Wolverine killed/maimed a bear?
Jerry
October 27, 2012 at 9:42 am
How many times is Dr. Doom revealed to be a Doombot?
b2quared
October 27, 2012 at 11:02 am
How many times post-JLI that Beetle or Booster say Bwa-ha-ha in a sarcastic manner.
Brian Cronin
October 27, 2012 at 11:47 am
The suggestions are great, folks. But please e-mail me your suggestions at bcronin@comicbookresources.com. Thanks!
Nick
December 15, 2012 at 5:45 pm
It is enormously annoying that the RSS feed always leads to your index page rather than the actual story itself. Bang my head against the wall until my eyeballs explode annoying.
OT
January 27, 2013 at 3:48 pm
How about one with the number times that Batman has been under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug?
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