02 May 2020

Saturday Solutions On Saturday

Our recent quiz might have been Close Enough to Friday, but i figured an extra day wouldn't hurt and so we're back on track for our answers.


01) Camp Comics
Not familiar? Perhaps if you were stationed on a military base in 1942 you'd have been more likely to see them.



02) Christine Baranski played the evil warlord in Fake Purse Ninjas -


03) In Orbit working to keep the planet from being blown apart while the Avengers were busy with Thanos -


04) Transylvania 6-5000


05) Viy


06)Need another hint? Maybe a closer look at the couple in the skybox...?


Did it help?

Here's where you can find Jeff Goldblum playing a lecherous disco owner -


And you get The Commodores, too!

07) Archer & Armstrong.


The picture came from Ninjak Vs. The Valiant Universe.

08) This -


Look - I told you to watch Harley Quinn.
Second season has already reached the midpoint.

09) Luke, Jessica, Matt, and Danny -


Y'know...  these guys -


10) Nikopol and Horus.


11) John.
While this first poster may be more visually striking, the second one features both Bark Lee and Clancy Brown, so it is clearly superior -


12) At the Toronto International Battle Of The Bands -


While scoring fewer points, this is also an acceptable answer -


13) Smoking Grass, obviously -


14) Jack Kirby's hand was on the sketchpad -


He was an anonymous Police Sketch Artist on The Hulk -


15) Cyborg on Doom Patrol chastised -


How does that make Literal Sense?
Jane's Silvertongue manifests her own words to use as weapons...


...so one can literally be impaled by them.

16) These celebrities...



...briefly. 


17) This Guy-


If you really want to appreciate the gravitas Peter Dinklage brings to his role in Game Of Thrones, watch him toss it all out in Knights Of Badassdom. The contrast highlights his skills. (Though you couldn't tell it from that shot above)

18) Kekko Kamen


19) Red Hat


Both of our silhouetted superheroes can only be fully revealed in our Adult Content back room. You can see them here.

20) Brodie...


...in the movie (and the band of the same name) Deathgasm -


21) Robot Bastard!


screens from the vids in which they originated

01 May 2020

Feature Feature - Once Upon A Rainbow

Well, if anyone is curious, i won't be stimulating the economy this week. Trekked out to the bank to make my monthly pull before next week's supply run - no sign of any stimulus was to be seen.

What we do have to see today is a new feature, with a logo and everything -


ONES Upon A Time is dedicated to the comic book equivalent of One-Hit Wonders - characters who appeared only a single time though planned for longer. So stand-alone stories are naturally ineligible. 

Today we feature The Rainbow.

Jim Travis made his single heroic appearance in The Arrow #3 in 1941. Written by Ed Herron (Bat Masterson, Captain Midnight, Challengers Of The Unknown, Green Arrow, and many others) and drawn by Al Plastino (Ferd'Nand, Superman, Superboy, Two Decades of DC Covers, among Many others), The Rainbow had a more-than-solid creative team. And  he sported one the more uniquely designed costumes with a very odd hood & cape combination. 

What The Rainbow did not have was a home. The third issue of The Arrow was its last, and the Rainbow dissipated into the limbo of lost comics.

Note that at this early time, he used the full Alfredo Plastino, later almost always seen as 'Al' Plastino.


Hmm...
Even that next issue blurb seems to know The Rainbow would not be returning. They left where he would be appearing blank.

page art by Al Plastino from The Arrow #3 (1941)

30 April 2020

Close Enough To Friday

We haven't done one of my home-made quizzes in about two and a half possum's ages. I seem to be in the mood, so i guess it's time.

Here's a set of 21 questions - some quite simple, some ... not so  much.

01) This comic book had only three issues published. Name it.


02) Christine Baranski is often great, but her most legendary role went largely unseen. What was the title of this movie?


03) Place this Infinity War scene -


04) In what venue did this comedy team perform together?


05) Name this demon -


06) Before what movie did the Columbia Hold-The-Torch Lady break down and boogie?

Need another hint...?

07) Identify this comic book couple -

(Bonus points for identifying the source of this pic)

08) What needed to be explained?


09) Who had their first dinner together here?


10) Identify this comic book couple -

(Likewise)

11) In whose place did Bark Lee die?


12) This erg ape battled these energy dragons where?


13) What is this boy doing?


14) Whose hand is that?


15) Explain how this quote makes literal sense -


16) Name these celebrity heroes -


17) Who delivered this line where?


18) Identify this hero silhouette -


19) Yeah, okay. That one was too easy. So identify this hero silhouette -


20) Who discovered this effective anti-zombie weapon?


21) Identify this leading 'man' -


Y'know, i think of this guy every time i see JJ Abram's Bad Robot production company logo. (That's NOT a hint)

Answers to a few of these should be extra easy for folks who've been reading along for a while and have real good memories. As for the rest (both answers and folkses), the solutions will be along directly.

stills from the answers, so forget it!