20 Questions For You All for 11/23
I am sure there are some spoilers involved in the following 20 questions. Feel free to answer or not - some of them ARE rhetorical, after all...
1. Ever notice that Captain America and Lost have the same plot structure? A lot of our time passes while very little happens in the story (plot-wise), there are flashbacks interspersed liberally, and the stories are both good. If not, you are now on notice.
2. Why, oh why, did they make THIS?!?!
3. In addition, there is a print run of only 1,500 made. Could you describe for me, please, the profile of one of those 1,500 presumed customers?
4. How freaking awesome is the cover to New X-Men #181?
5. What scares you more? Terrorism or the fact that there is a Director's Cut of Howling Commandos #1 out?
6. So, we're now seven issues into what is now apparently an ONGOING title...is there a sympathetic character in Girls yet?
7. Has there been a lamer thing to KEEP in an Ultimate version of a character than the whole "Cyclops and Havok cannot hurt each other with their powers" thing? If yes, then what?
8. Do you think drawing a man on the cover of She-Hulk #2 drove Greg Horn kinda insane?
9. So I read Young Avengers, and the guy's mom dies. Am I the only one who is sick and tired of heroes not having parents? I mean, what is so wrong about having parents?!?!
10. After seeing the results of such a union in Amazing Joy Buzzards #2, would you have sex with a Yeti?
11. So, are all the names in the Off Road graphic novel fictional?
12. Anyone know exactly why Zatanna #4 took so long to come out?
13. Which was dorkier? The ending of Walking Dead #24, or the scene in American Beauty where the freaky guy is all, "There is so much beauty in the world"?
14. How bizarre is it that Robin now has a freaking ROLL CALL at the beginning!? It is a SOLO BOOK!!!
15. Talking about his new Kyle Rayner ongoing series called Ion, Ron Marz said, "One overall thing, though. I find it interesting that people automatically assume that Kyle will...become the god-like Ion again." Am I wrong, or does that sound silly? I mean, IF people automatically assume that, it would be because the last time he used the name Ion was when he was the god-like Ion, so how is that "interesting" that people would think, when he changes his name from Green Lantern to Ion that he is going to become like Ion again?
LIGHTNING ROUND!!!
16. Is Silver Sable's first name actually Silver?
17. Did you buy Aquaman's reasoning for not wanting a new hand after it got bitten off?
18. Where is Lyja?
19. If Uncle Ben lives, does Peter become a super hero ANYways?
20. Why doesn't Doom get a Latverian university to give him an honorary doctorate just so he doesn't sound so silly?
posted by Brian Cronin @ 6:26 AM
12 Comments:
1. Captain America has a better likelihood of paying off than Lost, though I'm not surprised; a lot of Brubaker's superhero work is simply his favorite Tom Fontana shows Xeroxed.
2. The HELL??
3. Mark Waid. The other 1,499? You got me.
4. I keep telling people Milligan on X-Men rocks. Bizarre Love Triangle was great.
5. Hmmm. The latter. Such a great concept; such a good writer; such a phenomenal disaster.
8. Not as insane as the dippy meta-musings of issue #1 drove me.
11. Murphy better hope so.
12. I've heard two things: Sook tried to get ahead on X-Factor and fell behind. Or Morrison was asked to rewrite, either to make it less meta or less overtly critical of Brad Meltzer.
15. Well, with Ron Marz, I assume that the series will be hackwork of the highest order, with passionless plot turns that feel like they were written by computer. And yet, Johanna Carlson will like it anyway.
16. She was created by Tom DeFalco. You figure it out.
17. Dude, under PAD is probably the only time Aquaman was ever readable.
18. Hmmm, good point. I liked her. Well, I didn't like the suprise plot twist, but as a character? I liked her.
19. I guess so, if all the What If?s are to be believed.
20. Doctorate? DOCTORATE? DOOM Needs no DOCTORATE, Cronin!
Quote: 13. Which was dorkier? The ending of Walking Dead #24, or the scene in American Beauty where the freaky guy is all, "There is so much beauty in the world"?
Answer: Trick question, they're both too dorky to register on any known scale... the only thing 'dorkier' would be if the end of Walking dead contained the phrase 'There is so much beauty in the world'.
9. Superman still has his parents.
2. Sadly that's the most creative use of Batman coming out of DC these days.
5. They're too closely related.
10. That's like wishing to expose yourself to radiation in the hopes of superpowers. It's unique, don't kill yourself trying to replicate something unique.
12. They had to cut down the trees by hand before they could make the paper, then had to mix the inks by hand.
13. I can't think of anything more lame than American Beauty. I hated that movie.
16. Why not?
17. I've never bought Auquaman.
19. No he becomes Ultimate New Male where he spends pages and pages talking about his problems because he's a sensitive guy who wants to work things out with the people he loves instead of bottling them up until he explodes....what?
20. If I became a bad guy who could give myself titles like Dr. I'd have to go with either The Right Honourable or The Very Reverend.
"16. Why not?"
Because her hair was not silver until she was a young lady, so that would be an awfully freakish coincidence, no?
1. Don't really follow either, but thanks for the story tip.
2. Because every little boy dreams of making Batman do the Batusi!
3. Someone who was once a little boy who wanted to make Batman do the Batusi.
4. 80% as awesome as sex.
5. The second one.
6. I stopped reading at issue 3 or so, but I kinda liked the fat kid.
7. Rogue and Gambit being all fuzzy for each other. But at least Remy's dead now!
8. It's entirely possible.
9. Yeah, it's just you. The orphan/foster thing's a powerful archetype. Besides, Billy's parents just love the boy to death anyway.
10. Haven't read it, but fuck no.
12. I was behind on my sacrifices to Satan. Sorry about that.
13. Fuck you, I liked that scene.
14. You pick this as stupid and not the idea that he's being wooed by the government for covert ops and hefting automatics on the covers?
15. Because anyone who actually thought about the story would realize that would be a dumb, regressive idea, and as a writer, Marz assumes people will realize that and figure it must be something else. Then again, Green Lantern fans seem to be all about the dumb, regressive ideas.
16. I think so, yes.
17. Didn't read it.
18. Crap, I used to know this.
19. Eventually, but the universe probably teaches him that lesson by killing someone else.
20. How do you know he hasn't?
2. Because it's damn great!!
3. C'mon don't we all want a Bat-marionette to pull out the anti-shark-bat-marionnette spray?
4. Very awesome, but I don't like Larocca's Doop, he looks too ... shiny.
7. I don't know. Without that we wouldn't have had ULTIMATE LEAD PIPE!!
8. He probably outfitted Hawkeye with manboobs to keep his sanity intact.
16. I bet it really is Silvagor Sablagon.
20. Who says he didn't?
19. That is one of my grips with House of M. If Hawkeye... who was dead is still alive because of House of M, why not everyone else who was alive then? I mean "no more mutants" is not equal to "everything else like was before except that thre is no more mutants that can't carry a book on its own and Hawkeye is alive"
1. No, I don't watch LOST, sorry.
2. Haha, that's great! I wouldn't spend money on it mind you, but I think it's hilarious.
3. Someone who thinks it's funny and has way too much money on their hands.
4. It's okay. I liked some of Milligan's X-Force and X-Statix run but those neither of the issues focused on Doop, so I'm pretty much ambivalent about his reappearance.
5. Pass.
6. Um. Pass, I never read it.
7. No. That is the lamest.
8. No.
9. I agree with you. I think teen heroes especially should all have parents who play some kind of role in their kid's lives. It opens up a whole other level of stories that you can do. I thought killing off Jack Drake was the second worst thing in Identity Crisis, maybe even a tie for first. Just awful and lazy on the writer's part.
10. I have not seen the results. I am practicing Yeti abstinence.
11. No idea.
12. Seriously? No.
13. American Beauty. I loathe that movie. It wasn't terrible, just lamely average, but the fact that it got such rave reviews intensified my indifference to an active dislike.
14. It's not so much bizarre as wrong.
15. Eh, it's not interesting. Move along.
16. I hope so.
17. Haha, no. I left that issue at the store.
18. Who?
19. I don't know, maybe. If Uncle Ben gets superpowers they can be partners.
20. An honour granted by someone else is meaningless. Doom takes what he wants by his own authority. Fool.
Yo, at least spell Kyle's last name correctly. It's RAYNER. He's saved the universe a bunch of times.
1. Huh. Maybe that's why I loves 'em both.
2. Dude! Who wouldn't want that?!
3. Impulse shoppers.
4. I never read X-STATIX, but it's certainly got my curiosity up.
5. Terrorism. The other just makes me shake my head sadly.
9. I blame Disney, but other than that, I don't particularly care.
15. This is one of those rhetorical questions you were talking about isn't it?
1. What's even more weird is that, as old-time fans know, Bucky's social security number was 481-51-62342. Think about that one.
2. People buy stupid shit. At least it isn't a Furbie.
3. Someone who owns a Furbie.
4. Pretty freakin' awesome. Doop is the man.
5. I want to thank Marvel for providing a preview of Howling Commandos in every single comic they published this year. Was that promotion or a courtesy warning? Whatever, I'm just glad they got the word out that this comic was going to blow.
6. I wish all horror stories were about beautiful naked chicks wanting to have sex with random guys. It's better than being attacked by zombies or vampires, anyway.
8. Just because a guy washes a few windows, it doesn't make him a window washer, y'know?
10. I'd rather go for an alien naked chick.
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