*hangs head in shame for not remembering Captain America*

I read your first post and I thought "Well, if he didn't use Google, odds are he was one of the jillions of people who went with Captain America." Then I checked the roster and saw your actual answer.

At least Sergeant Slaughter did make it into a comic, so he's not an incorrect answer.

I say yes, since the question was "name a character." It's still Nick Fury in both cases.

EDIT: Although it could be argued that neither is really his "superhero" name!

God damn it to hell. I only sporadically read comics these days, but just finished going through everything on the Civil War dvd. Somehow Captain America completely eluded me as having a rank in his name and I could only think of Fury. Oh well.

Same here. How the heck did I forget Captain America?

That's a good point. Allright, you've convinced me. maxfisher and brianluvdvd get 2 points each for matching on Nick Fury

Then again, neither is Sgt. Slaughter or Sgt. Rock. I'm still counting them -- the people who picked those answers have already been punished enough for not picking Superman Captain America.

Standings


Hokeyboy - 160
dvdhook - 154
fumanstan - 151
Meatwad's Ghost - 151
Rockmjd23 - 143
Trevor - 140
CaptainMarvel - 135
Nick Danger - 134
The Bus - 131
Palaver - 126
JasonF - 125
Prepper - 125
Lokimok - 122
Mordred - 122
davidh777 - 121
Bandit03 - 120
maxfisher - 118
MBoyd - 117
fujishig - 117
MHepburn20 - 116
brianluvdvd - 116
RKilgore - 111
burnside986 - 92
reverie - 91
ivelostr2 - 91
dadaluholla - 80

Question 11: Name a comic set somewhere other than Earth



If you think about it, "Not Earth" is so much larger than "Earth."

Question 11


Star Wars (6): Meatwad's Ghost, dadaluholla, Nick Danger, brianluvdvd, Palaver, Lokimok


Green Lantern Corps (4): JasonF, MBoyd, Prepper, fumanstan


Bone (2): MHepburn20, CaptainMarvel


Silver Surfer (2): ivelostr2, Mordred


All the Rest (0 points each): The New Gods (davidh777), Guardians of the Galaxy (fujishig), Sandman (reverie), Adam Strange (Trevor), Secret Wars (Rockmjd23), Aliens vs. Predator (dvdhook), Quasar (The Bus), Planet Hulk (maxfisher), Elfquest (Hokeyboy), Starjammers (burnside986), Nexus (RKilgore), No answer (Bandit03)

And Hokeyboy stumbles! Will he fall from first place!?

Standings

Hokeyboy - 160
Meatwad's Ghost - 157
fumanstan - 155
dvdhook - 154
Rockmjd23 - 143
Trevor - 140
Nick Danger - 140
CaptainMarvel - 137
Palaver - 132
The Bus - 131
JasonF - 129
Prepper - 129
Lokimok - 128
Mordred - 124
brianluvdvd - 122
davidh777 - 121
MBoyd - 121
Bandit03 - 120
fujishig - 117
MHepburn20 - 118
maxfisher - 118
RKilgore - 111
ivelostr2 - 93
burnside986 - 92
reverie - 91
dadaluholla - 86

Hokeyboy holds on to first place ... for the time being

Question 12: Other than Marvel, DC, Image, or Dark Horse, name a company that published comics in the 80s or 90s



So many choices. Do you remember all of these companies?

Yeah man, that was the first one I knew was gonna throw me off kilter. "Elfquest"... what was I *THINKING*??

Question 12

Valiant (9): dadaluholla, ivelostr2, fujishig, reverie, dvdhook, CaptainMarvel, The Bus, Mordred, Hokeyboy

Eclipse (3) JasonF, Trevor, Nick Danger

Mirage (2): Rockmjd23, Lokimok

Comico (2): MBoyd, Prepper

First (2): RKilgore, burnside986

Unique Answers (0): Chaos! (Meatwad's Ghost), Cartoon Books (MHepburn20), Epic (davidh777), Archie Comics (brianluvdvd), Vertigo (Palaver), Blackthorne (maxfisher), Dark Horse (Bandit03), Wildstorm (fumanstan)

Dvdhook and maxfisher each get a one-point penalty for Googling, and Bandit03 gets the special reading comprehension award for his answer.

My dad bought me the first issue of this comic which he saw at the grocery store one night because he thought a #1 might be valuable. It was the only time he ever bought me a comic book without me being there and asking for it. It was one of those incredibly nice things he would occasionally do that I still think about fondly when I remember him.

All that to say, if this had been a reverse sheep game I would have answered Quasar because I didn't think there'd be anybody who would have remembered it. Boy did that comic suck.

Darnit, does nobody read Guardians of the Galaxy? It's got Rocket Raccoon, the old Guardians of the Galaxy, Adam Warlock, Quasar, a living tree, a former member of the Micronauts, Star Lord, and Cosmo the talking dog, with their base as the decapitated head of a Celestial.

About 2 minutes after I submitted my answer, though, I knew I should've put GL Corps. Didn't even think of Star Wars, let alone Bone.

I liked Quasar. Mark Gruenwald was one of those under-rated writers who, if he's remembered at all these days, is really only remembered for Saquadron Supreme and the fact that he died so young. But his Quasar and Captain America (especially the first 3 or 4 years of his run) were usually pretty good.

(Not always, though. One time, he turned Captain America into a werewolf. That was weird).

Standings

Hokeyboy - 169
dvdhook - 162
Meatwad's Ghost - 157
fumanstan - 155
CaptainMarvel - 146
Rockmjd23 - 145
Trevor - 143
Nick Danger - 143
The Bus - 140
Mordred - 133
Palaver - 132
JasonF - 132
Prepper - 131
Lokimok - 130
fujishig - 126
MBoyd - 123
brianluvdvd - 122
davidh777 - 121
Bandit03 - 120
MHepburn20 - 118
maxfisher - 117
RKilgore - 113
ivelostr2 - 102
reverie - 100
dadaluholla - 95
burnside986 - 94

Damn Indie comics.

Valiant was actually pretty mainstream back in the day. Before they imploded, Valiant -- along with the four I exempted from the question -- were considered the Big Five publishers.

I actually got into Valiant on the ground floor with MAGNUS: ROBOT FIGHTER #1 in 1990. I loved the retro art and storyline, and basically collected everything Valiant had to offer afterwards. Even scored a "Gold" Archer & Armstrong #0 for sending them a Valiant comics database I built for them.

Two years later, the company EXPLODED and many of my back issues were worth dozens of dollars apiece, some well over $100. In the summer of 1993, at the height of the speculator boom, I sold the entire collection for over $400 and spent 2 amazing weeks on vacation in Chicago. Was totally worth it =) Especially considering how the company, quality-wise, completely fell to pieces after Shooter was shoved out.

Should have figured that most people here are younger and would have gone Valiant. when I think of the big companies outside of DC/Marvel, my first thoughts are still Comico, Eclipse, and First.

Valiant was big because they somehow became the hot collectible publisher and a few month old back issues were going for $20-50. Once they started ramped up production to meet the new demand I think everybody quickly lost interest.

Edit: I forgot about the whole Shooter thing as well.

Me too. To be honest, I had completely forgotten about Valiant when I wrote the question.

Time for ...

Question 13: Name a comic that was published in black and white (black and white reprints don't count)



This one even had "Black and White" in the title, but nobody gave it as an answer.

Question 13

Sin City (7): ivelostr2, davidh777, Nick Danger, Palaver, maxfisher, Bandit03, fumanstan

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (6): reverie, Trevor, Rockmjd23, Captain Marvel, brianluvdvd, Lokimok

Cerebus (5): JasonF, RKilgore, Mordred, Hokeyboy, burnside986

Walking Dead (3): dadaluholla, fujishig, MBoyd

Bone (2): MHepburn20, The Bus

The Tick (0): dvdhook

Vampirella (0): Prepper

Flaming Carrot (0): Meatwad's Ghost