Jcheckel congrats on winning. Thanks to r2 for running the game. Youre still a douche but not nearly as big a douche as some of our other NCAA football douchebags.

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Amazing Spider-Man #5, way back in 1963. Spoiler Alert: Flash winds up getting kidnapped by Dr. Doom and Spidey has to rescue him.

Oh, I know it didn't really matter. I was just wondering why "Flash" was considered a good answer when all game long we've been making fun of people for not knowing the difference between Marvel and DC.

LONG LIVE THE LEGION!

I would put that point with Animal Man, not Doom Patrol, but yeah -- there ain't nothing oblique about X-Men or Batman compared to Doom Patrol or Animal Man.


My real answer, BTW, was Invisibles, but I knew that would get zero Sheep matches.

Thanks. I'll take a #6 finish, considering I haven't read comics since the 90s. Saving your slams to the end can be depressing (seeing your name at the bottom the whole game).

Congratulations, jcheckel! Your much wiser use of slam ducks allowed you to thrash me soundly. Well done!

Good job running things, ivelostr2, and thanks for doing so!

I always picked up those first issues of Animal Man because I loved Bolland's covers. But then you read the crazy shit in there especially issue 5. And I was really WTF?! all the time.

Yeah, the first four issues are relatively straightforward superhero stuff, then he hits you with the Coyote Gospel and from there the book is nuts.

BTW, there's an Omnibus coming out in August that collects the entire Grant Morrison Animal Man run. Well worth picking up if you don't already have it in your collection.

Yeah, I'll give you Animal Man is a good answer for that question too. I read Morrison's Doom Patrol run first so that's the one that stuck with me more. I love how with AM and DP they both had a history of just being conventional superhero stories. Then GM turns it upside-down. The Invisibles was out there from issue 1 ... readers should've known what they were getting into. And the thing I really liked about Doom Patrol was that it wasn't weird for weird's sake. There were stories and characters you cared about.

That era of comics got me back into things. Grant Morrison, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis. But it mostly lost me by the end of the 90s.

You guys really thought Animal Man and Batman RIP was more bizzarre/WTF/non-sensical than Arkham Asylum?

NO. Arkham Asylum was entertaining and had some coherence.
RIP made me realise Morrison is shitty for writing bullshit. RIP was bullshit.

Animal Man #1 is one of the handful of New 52 TPBs I've read, and I agree it's pretty messed up.

I recently bought #2.

I love what Jeff Lemire is doing with Animal Man in the New 52, but I was talking about Grant Morrison's run on the character from 20-25 years ago.

Right

Looking back at his work, Animal Man was the only book that I ever read of Morrison. That in itself was enough for me. I think I left after issue 11. The only Doom Patrol I knew was introduced to me by way of Marv Wolfman because of the Teen Titans.

I was more interested in the artist than the writer, but I was lucky enough to have been introduced to books that had both. Then it got to the point where I was collecting just to collect and I didn't read half the books of my monthly order. I would have been better off just staying with the titles I liked rather than jumping all over the place because I needed that stupid chromium variant cover. It was also the time where stories were written over several titles and it got to be too much so that's when I opted out of reading comic books altogether.