20 Questions For You All For the 1/11 Comic Week
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. What team do you think Ares will end up a member of?
2. How odd is it that Ares is going to become a major Marvel character?
3. How, exactly, was Green Arrow #58 part ONE of a story? That made no sense to me at all. #57 ends with an explosion and Green Arrow captured by Dr. Light. #58 deals with the explosion, and Green Arrow is still captive by Dr. Light. Yet #57 is an ending and #58 is a beginning?! Huh?!
4. As mentioned in Captain Atom: Armageddon #4, what kind of superhero names do you like best? Punchy one word names, like Voodoo, Maul, Grifter, Zealot, etc. or dramatic, two word names, like Captain Atom, Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, etc.?
5. I guessed Swordsman's identity! What comic "mysteries" have you figured out well before they were eventually revealed?
6. Who did you think the Hobgoblin was when Roger Stern was writing the title?
7. I want the Green Cross founder (from the latest She-Hulk)'s mother to show up one issue, and say, "I gave birth to the person who challenged Rick Jones to run out to the testing field, leading Bruce Banner to run out to save him....I'M responsible for the Hulk!!!" Who do you want to feel as though they are responsible for the Hulk?
8. In addition, do you buy that the Hulk has not led to any deaths? What a weird retcon THAT was.
9. Let's say that you're Bruce Banner, and you learn that the Hulk DID do something that leads to someone's death, like he throws a tank that kills a soldier, or something. Would you try to kill yourself when you transform from Hulk to Bruce?
10. The Veronicas appeared in the latest issue of Veronica! What other bands should make appearances in Riverdale?
11. Greg Burgas mentioned this, too...how weird was the ending of the latest Fables?
12. Asking this without sarcasm...what's the point of the current JLA storyline?
13. Have you seen a tradepaperback with better value than the $20 Stories of Alan Moore TPB out from DC this week?
14. If you read this week's Exiles, how much of the 2099 universe do you even still REMEMBER? I remember everyone saying "Shock" as a curse, but I forgot, like, every other plot point.
15. What normal word would you turn into a curse in 93 years? I pick "Chomp." "Chomp you, buddy!" "Go chomp yourself, pal!!"
LIGHTNING ROUND!!!
16. Who's your favorite current New X-Men?
17. New Spider-Man costume - Yay or nay?
18. What do you like better? Star Wars stories set BEFORE "New Hope" or after?
19. Who would win in a fight? Polaris (with powers) or Dr. Polaris?
20. Do you think Monica Rambeau will be handled well in Nextwave, or are you worried about her in that series?
posted by Brian Cronin @ 10:06 PM
7 Comments:
"6. Who did you think the Hobgoblin was when Roger Stern was writing the title?"
At the time, I was dead certain that it was Dr. Jonas Harrow, a minor mad scientist type who fought Spidey a few times over the years. He hadn't been seen in a while, and he fit the profile. I was crushed when it didn't turn out to be him.
Had it turned out to be Kingsley initially, as Stern intended, what would you have thought about it then?
Worse or better than it being Leeds?
It's ridiculous that in all the mayhem the Hulk never killed anyone. There is an infamous scene from way back where the Hulk throws two hunters with such force they skip across the surface of a lake like a stone and slam head first into trees.
Several writers also revealed that the Hulk persona won't let Banner suicide. In the few instances where he tried he transformed to escape injury or had a psychotic breakdown, preventing him from carrying it out.
And...
It isn't a retcon so much as wishful thinking on the part of Jennifer Walters. Like the mother who insists her son is a "good boy" even while being shown on video robbing banks.
Fair enough!
I'll accept that it wasn't meant to be true, but just Jennifer deluding herself a bit.
5. I totally guessed who Onslaught was! My prize was Rob Liefeld's Captain America.
8. Did he ever actually kill anyone? If we never saw a body, then it's not a retcon - it's just chickenshit writing. Although I do seem to remember a David-era comic in which a smart-Hulk rampages through the Leader's hidden city-place and ends up accidentally killing a benevolent superpowered priest character.
14. All of Ellis's run on Doom 2099, still the best depiction of Dr. Doom. And Peter David's Spiderman 2099 was probably the last readable iteration of the character Marvel had until the first year or so of Bendis's Ultimate run.
15. "Micturate." "Go micturate yourself, buddy!" "No, micturate you!" Either that or "fuck." The Saxons thought it was a normal word.
16. Does Quentin Quire count, or is he still dead?
17. A classic for the ages. I'm sure it'll be as fondly remembered as the Spider-Armor.
19. I believe their combined suckage would overload each others' suckification fields, causing a complete and total suck implosion which would form a quantum suckical singularity from which no suck could escape.
20. She's teamed with Machine Man and fighting Fin Fang Foom. All that matters is that it will rock.
1. New Avengers, which would be neato.
2. I know Mike Oeming a bit, and he told me he was doing an Ares miniseries before it was announced. I looked at him and said, "Marvel HAS an Ares???"
3. What I wanna know is, why couldn't Calafiore had drawn it too?
And why isn't he drawing a popular title, instead of still being stuck on Exiles?
5. I guessed that Jesse Custer's mother was alive long before Ennis started hinting at it after "War in the Sun."
8. Er... I choose to ignore that. Was that in this week's She-Hulk? Thank god I was so offended by Slott's GLA and SH #12 shenanigans that I don't read both books. ;-)
12. For Brad Meltzer to feel better about liking hackwork.
13. Nope.
16. X-23, not because I wanna fuck Wolverine, as some assholes like to snark but because she's actually interesting.
17. Thank you, Axel Alonso, for your commitment to excellence in storytelling since you took over the Spider-books at Marvel.
18. How about "none at all"?
19. Dr. Polaris. If it's written by Gail Simone, though, we all win.
20. He's going to destroy her, because he hates the audience he's writing it for in the first place and his wfh and creator owned work has been hackwork the past five years for audience he just can't be bothered to respect anymore.
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