In the interests of lightening things up a bit anybody interested in a bit of a quiz? If OKMan has no complaints I'll set a question a week about comics from any era. There's no prizes unless someone wants to keep a tally chart, but hopefully everybody will join in.
And I'll make the first one easy ~ (and X in no way should this be construed as baiting) NAME THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF ROGUE.
Well try Wiki for this one. Matt Murdock gained his powers when hit by a radioactive canister. What also happened just after that? (Hint: it's another origin).
err did the man he pushed aside to save get hit by a car on the other side of the road and thats the origin of flatman (dont know who flatman is shame on you go get a copy of GLA)
Nope, sorry TC but not even close. And OKMAN & Spinface are banned from answering this one. Even they didn't know the answer. No one gets it right by tomorrow evening I'll give you another clue.
Well, I kinda guessed at this one in the shop today after you chatted to OK & Spinface, and I think it's right, though Jared could have been pulling my leg. Is it the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
I used to read the collected books of the old series over and over as a wee kid, with guest stars like Cerebus the Aardvark, but I was wondering if a sneaky Daredevil was ever thrown in the backgrounds? that would have been great!
Well Popbot's right (even if he did cheat slightly). The canister that hit Murdock, bounced and smashed a fish bowl that a child was carrying. Both the canister and the contents of the bowl (4 young turtles) fell into a sewer where the canister split open causing the turtles to mutate into a independent comics boom. Don't believe me, pick up a copy of the reprint of the first four issues.
Next question. Which recurring X-Men character also made their debut at the same time as Rogue? (And Popbot if you heard the answer in the shop to this one please sit it out).
Let's see ~ Howard The Duck first appeared in Adventures Into Fear 19 Sabretooth first appeared in Iron Fist 14 Sinister first appeared in Uncanny X-Men 221. Sad aren't I.
C'mon, Rogue first appeared in Avengers Annual 10. Which other recurring X-Men character debuted with her?
go team!!!! i'm so very excited :) i can go to sleep after my 11 hours night shift with a clear mind now... i feel so nerdy! i only wish it weren't google that helped me answer
wow, I'm so proud Georgie! You are out geeking me, the master becomes the student, the student becomes the master... Hehe! Awesome!
Oh and Nimbus, there was no cheating with the turtles question, I just had Jared there to verify it. I didn't do any over hearing, I think I was on an incredibly dificult call from a broad belfast accented Quicksilver customer at the time you must have been in the shop! I couldn't even hear what he was saying! haha!
There was never a crossover or tie in with the Marvel Universe. Eastman & Laird cleverly just took the incident related in Daredevil 1 and used it as a springboard for their own characters and universe.
I have never seen the live action series they did tho, where they brought in a sister (wtf??) or if they did any spin off movies from that.
seen onlya bit of the new cartoon series though. i wasn't keen on it, very "too cool for school", they all look the same, with the same voices and having white eyes?? whats up with that??
Y'know what. People have been in and out of this shop all morning and only two people have actually commented on my attire. What's wrong with people? You just bought your comics from a fxxxing cowboy! Surely that deserves something...
I felt totally like Mr Ben this morning when I was putting my hat on in front of the mirror... I love Mr Ben. Tomorrow.... Hmmm... I think a Cave man.
Hey did you see the final ever episode of Lovejoy last night? It was the one where he nearly gets married and all the old characters came back. I cried for about 10 minutes, I couldn't even wash up.
Tinker was the old funny one, Chris was the young funny one ... Lovejoy was the accidentally funny, promiscuous, middle aged one - with a bad doo.
Lovejoy was great, i wanted to own an antiques trade for ages after that, based purely on the fact that i would get quirky funny friends and beautiful women hanging around me. For some reason i became a web developer and have quirky/nerdy guys and NO women hanging around me. D'oh!
i saw sexy beast when it came out in the pictures and i was hideously underage. i didn't like it so much. i have a problem with exposed obesity....defintely not sexy
I love Sexy Beast, one of my favorite movies about an argument. And McShane isn't homosexual in the film. It alludes to the fact that he slept with one man, once, to gain information. "What are you Staring at?" "The back of your head" "Well, stare at the back of your own head".
Lovejoy is not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that X.
No I wasn't saying Lovejoy was gay and nor is there owt wrong with it.
However, in Sexy Beast in th enear beginning of the film when they are talking about Black Magic (McShane) is at a swingers party and there are people shaggign all over., this older man sits near him and asks what he is into and then Black Magic gives him a look and says oh of course its..(or that the dialouge could be the other way round I am not sure) and then it cuts to Black Mgaic getting done from behind.
Plus in interviews about it they ask McShane what it wa slike playing a gay gangster and he never says "oh he's not gay". Tho he could be bisexual I guess.
I think you'll find that he was at that "swingers party" (it just looked like any regular party to me) to meet and influence contacts for his heist. And McShanes character is called Teddy. Where've you got this Black Magic from? Anyway, it's Ben Kingsley who steals the movie. His excuse for getting off the plane is awesome to the max. One of the best scenes in a movie ever...
x how come you never seem to get information right, it's always maybe this or maybe that or it could be the other way round, you should take some tips off of nimbus and do proper research.
I think Ben Kingsley is the scariest thing I have ever seen in that film. He just shimmers with violent insanity. I bet JMs like that when the new comics are delivered
Good film. What people of rare and distinctive taste we all be. Obviously.
