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King Mob

06:01 / 10.01.08

Wasn't there a short INVISIBLES story called "I AM A POLICEMAN" in some vertigo special back in the day?

_Boboss

06:45 / 10.01.08

yes.

Spaniel

07:31 / 10.01.08

KM, I know you've been gone a long time and quite possibly haven't posted to the forum since the introduction of topic summaries so I'm not going to get all shouty, but for future reference we pretty much demand a summary these days. Secondly, I appreciate that things were often a little laxer back in ye olden days, but at present we kinda like topics to have some substance, and this one really doesn't in that it's not really a topic at all - more of a question, really. A question which could've been answered with a very quick Google search.

So, happy to have you back, but please note how things have changed.

Spaniel

07:44 / 10.01.08

Unless someone wants to flesh this thread out - and I don't - I'm going to move for a deletion.

King Mob

08:10 / 10.01.08

i appreciate your restraint and please forgive the potentential misspellings. i searched for the bomb, but it came up with a wiki type thing that didn't seem to work. Feel free to delete this thread with my humble apologies. Again, thank you all for your kindness and understanding.

Spaniel

08:29 / 10.01.08

Hey, don't worry about it. As a moderator I just thought I should spell out current board policy. And please, please don't feel self-conscious about spelling mistakes. They're part of what makes us human.

King Mob

08:36 / 10.01.08

thanks man, that's awfully friendly of you - i take back all my bitter sarcasm - you guys are alright!

King Mob

08:50 / 10.01.08

hey,sorry if responding to yourself is against policy,i swear i'll find the barbelith bible and read it cover to cover before i make too many more mistakes. But,i just wanted to share that i googled "i am a policeman" and "grant morrison" and got the amazon.com review of lovely biscuits which turned me on to the fact that his short story "i am a policeman" was first published in that disco 2000 book. which i have in a box that's slowly moving towards me, so i must have read it. can't say i remember what it's about,but i'll know soon enough,eh?

Automatic

09:18 / 10.01.08

Don't forget to check out the appropriately titled 'We're all Policemen Now' if you're looking for another Invisibles addendum.

Spaniel

09:55 / 10.01.08

Responding to moderators certainly isn't against policy. As long as you're not spouting gibberish, trolling or using hate speech (most definitely a bannable offense) we want to hear people's voices here, not shut them down. It's just that in order to keep the board at a certain standard we all need to work at it a little.

Benny the Ball

10:54 / 10.01.08

Perhaps this could be turned into a rough stupid-question guide for a) invisibles, b) Morrison's work or c) comics in general - although there are Marvel and DC universe question threads already aren't there...

Spaniel

11:38 / 10.01.08

We don't have "stupid comics question" thread, do we? Yeah, perhaps this one could be repurposed. All in favour?

Yes, please!

Sounds like a Bat-Plan.

Spaniel

14:06 / 10.01.08

KM, I gonna push to rename this thread "Stupid Comics Questions". Please don't feel this is a reaction to you or your post; There is grand tradition of 'stupid questions' threads on Barbelith - we currently have one in most of the other fora.

Evil Scientist

14:44 / 10.01.08

I've got one actually. Was there ever any legal shenanigans over the similarities between Harry Potter and that kid from the Books of Magic? If so what was the result?

Grady Hendrix

14:52 / 10.01.08

Folks used Tim Hunter as an excuse to accuse J.K. Rowling of plagiarism...and Neil Gaiman rushed to the defense. His Tim Hunter comics came out well before Rowling's Harry Potter hit the stands and he says it's all a coincidence and that people are nummies for stating otherwise in this interview.

Next!

ONLY NICE THINGS

14:58 / 10.01.08

Obviously, it is much easier to draw connections between the work of J K Rowling and the work of Diana Wynne Jones, much as people did (here's the comics connection, sort of) between Neil Gaiman's American Gods and DWJ's Eight Days of Luke - although Archer's Goon might be a decent fit as well.

Benny the Ball

15:53 / 10.01.08

See also Shelia K MCCullagh's TIm and Tobias series of books, which were used to help teaching reading when I was at primary school back in the 80's.

This Sunday

18:31 / 07.04.08

Where was the first use of the trope where someone fires a gun and the soundFX are stacked vertically, like so:

BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM
BLAM

and who was responsible?

This seems to've been invented in the past fifteen years, but maybe that's just when i started to notice it. The Invisibles and King Mob with his target shirt seems to be my earliest memory of the technique. No idea what he was shooting, but I'm sure they deserved it.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

02:00 / 08.04.08

First time I ever saw it was in Howard Chaykin's American Flagg. When that gets reprinted a lot of people are going to be shocked that stuff they thought they were lifting from Alan Moore and Frank Miller, they were really lifting from Howard Chaykin.

Jack Fear

09:54 / 08.04.08

Chaykin may have used it, but I reckon he probably stole it in turn from Walt Simonson.

Essential Dazzler

21:13 / 08.04.08

Re-reading Shade #50 on the toilet has got me wondering. When will Peter Milligan write the best comic ever again?

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

22:47 / 08.04.08

I miss Shade. I should really reread the beast again.

I miss Peter Milligan, actually -- the Peter Milligan who wrote about weird shit rather than forced, in-continuity superheroics. I don't know. He hasn't been sparking. Was The Programme any good? I read the first issue and it did nothing, nothing, nothing. A bit like having accidental sex with an ex-lover and finding something has gone missing.

Alex's Grandma

23:54 / 08.04.08

I wonder if The Programme wasn't let down a bit by the art? It's still worth reading, but only just.

Agreed that Milligan's heart isn't really in this any more. His stuff reads like the work of someone who's expecting it to get cancelled any day, and doesn't care.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

00:39 / 09.04.08

I remember being a bit icked by the art in the first issue, which was part of the reason I dropped it almost right away. But I'm of the school that Milligan and Fegredo should be chained together for all time.

But this might be a better discussion for one of the Milligan threads...

COG

10:53 / 07.06.08

Can anybody help me identifying a comic I read as a child, featuring 2 jet fighter pilots in the pacific during the 60s. It was French I think, or the characters were French. All I remember is that the jets were Mirages and one pilot was blonde and the other had dark hair. It was in colour. HELP! Did I just dream this artefact?

Mario

12:28 / 07.06.08

These guys?

COG

14:10 / 07.06.08

Yup, that's the one. Thanks.

Ah, sweet aeronautical nostalgia.

My dad worked in the aviation business for a while so I guess he must have bought this for me with hopes of me getting hooked on planes and forging a stellar career in the airforce. Unfortunately I got hooked on comics instead.

Triplets

13:02 / 13.06.08

I've just been trying to list a, well, list of super-scientists from comics and it's struck me that they've all got sausage.

Are their any female super-scientists or eggheads in Marvel or DC... and (not essentially but I'm interested) do any of these gals also hero or villain in a cossie? Curious.

grant

13:15 / 13.06.08

Poison Ivy's a scientist, isn't she?

Triplets

13:54 / 13.06.08

Aye. This request is more that I've drawn a blank than anything else.

grant

14:02 / 13.06.08

I think Oracle would also qualify as "egghead," although no longer out in the world in costume. Interesting. Moira McTaggart, ditto.

It seems like I'm forgetting some Kirby creation, too. Oh, does Sue Richards count? No, wait, Wikipedia says she was "studying to be an actress."

She-Hulk does something intellectual, though, doesn't she? Ah, a lawyer in regular continuity. Not quite the same, although she's a top scholar. In Ultimates (again, all from Wikipedia), she's a researcher for SHIELD.

And I'd never heard of Sage before, but there she is.

Axolotl

14:31 / 13.06.08

A quick trawl through wikipedia gives these examples:

Alyssa Moy, most recently seen in Millar's Fantastic Four.
Ann O'Brien from Monkeyman & O'Brien, but I'm not sure if she counts.
Doctor Biggles-Jones from the Marvel Transformers/GI Joe universe.
Cassandra Lang is an entomologist in the MC2 continuity, but I don't think this is reflected in the main continuity.
Wasn't Superman's mum an astronaut at some point in her history?
Lady Octopus, was a scientist, but merely a gender switched Doc Ock and a bit lame.
Kavita Rao from Astonishing X-men, though iirc she was just a scientist specialising in mutant genetics rather than a super scientist.

Oh, and not from comics (and not superpowered) but the one I immediately thought of: Dr Susan Calvin from Asimov's Robot series.

Mario

14:38 / 13.06.08

On the heroic side, there's Gina Diggers (and her rival Penny Pincer) from GOLD DIGGER. The hard part is finding ones that wear costumes.

(WW had Paula Von Gunther and Veronica Cale, for example)

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