Saturday and Sunday, April 21-22, 2012
Noted
• Writer Chris Roberson announced via Twitter that he was quitting DC over the company’s treatment of other creators. His plan was to do so after completing his current assignments, including iZombie and an arc for Fairest, however, his public announcements have led DC to cancel his Fairest assignment.
• Disney Studios head Rich Ross has been removed from his post just two weeks before the opening of The Avengers.
• And it’s a big weekend in Stevens Point, Wis., as The World’s Largest Trivia Contest continues until midnight Sunday night. Trivia 43: Trivia Grit has nearly 400 teams competing for 54 hours straight in an event which benefits the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s campus radio station. How is Yaargh! I Like Big Grits and I Cannot Lie, the team that CBG Editor Brent Frankenhoff plays on, doing? Check back and see!
Yesterday’s Panel Quiz Answer
Taranto’s first lines in comics were, “Hey, Groo! Join us for an evening of brews, bawdy women and cheese dip!” He said them (in a flashback) in Groo the Wanderer #1 (Dec 82).
This Weekend’s Panel Quiz
Whose first line in comics was “Thank you, Beetle!”? (Answer Monday.)
Born April 21
Teri Wood (1965), comics writer and artist
Born April 22
Steve Englehart (1947), comics writer
Larry Mahlstedt (1956), comics writer
Timothy Dzon (1965), science-fiction writer
Birthdays 2 Weeks from Saturday (May 5)
Stan Goldberg (1932), comics writer and artist
Moebius (Jean Giraud) (1938), comics writer and artist
Free Comic Book Day (2002), major comics event
Birthdays 2 Weeks from Sunday (May 6)
David Michelinie (1948), comics writer
Rob Carosella (1951), comics colorist
Dennis Jensen (1952), comics inker
This Weekend’s Flashbacks
70 yrs Apr 21, 1942 Underground comix cartoonist Dan O’Neill is born. He creates Odd Bodkins and organizes the Air Pirates comics collective.
40 yrs Apr 21, 1972 Marvel comics prices are ordered rolled back. President Nixon’s Wage-Price Control Board rules that 14 Marvel titles must reduce price from 20¢ to 15¢. Marvel later appeals the ruling.
65 yrs Apr 22, 1947 writer Steve Englehart is born. His creations include Coyote, and he writes for Captain America, Avengers, Doctor Strange, Justice League of America, and Batman.
Every Wed. and Sat. California: City of Industry. Comic Book & Collectible Show.
Apr 20-22 Pennsylvania: Monroeville. Pittsburgh Comicon.
Apr 21-22 Massachusetts: Boston. Boston Comic Con.
Apr 21-22 Ohio: Columbus. Small Press & Alternative Comics Expo (SPACE).
Apr 22 Michigan: Livonia. X-trava Con.
Apr 27-29 Illinois: Lombard. Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention.
Apr 28 New Jersey: Manahawkin. Atomicon XXVI Comics Expo.
Apr 28 Wisconsin: Oak Creek. Milwaukee Comic Book Convention.
Apr 29 Delaware: Newark. Sports Card, Comic Book & Collectible Show.
Apr 29 Florida: Daytona Beach. Daytona Beach Comic & Toy Show.
Apr 29 Indiana: Indianapolis. Comic Book Show.
Apr 29 North Carolina: Raleigh. Comic Book Show.
Apr 29 Pennsylvania: Essington-Philadelphia. Comic Con.
Question of the Week
Which comics creator would you most like to meet and why?
Comics-Related Media
• DC Nation begins on Cartoon Network at 10 a.m. E.T. Saturday morning with “Fear Itself,” a new episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series. It’s followed at 10:30 by “Auld Acquaintance,” a new episode of Young Justice.
• At noon E.T. Saturday, Turner Classic Movies has Tarzan’s Revenge (1938).
• It’s science fiction night on TCM Saturday night beginning with Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) at 8 p.m. E.T. It’s followed by Rollerball (1975) at 10:30 and Logan’s Run (1976) at 12:45 a.m. The block winds down at 3 a.m. with Westworld (1973) and Soylent Green (1973) at 4:30.
• There is no animation block on Fox Sunday night as the network is marking its 25th anniversary with a retrospective show starting at 8 p.m. E.T.
The Magazine
After 12 hours of Trivia, Yaargh! is in 19th place with 1,210 points. The top team, Festivus for the Rest of Us, has 2,470, but it’s early, so it’s anyone’s ballgame.
Go, Yaargh!
We dropped a few more positions over the past six hours, but then began climbing again in the past couple. Now we’re at 24th with 1,845 after 18 hours of Trivia.
Twenty-two hours in and we’re holding in 25th with 2,420 points.
Another 13 hours of scores recorded and we’ve resumed a slow climb upward. After Hour 35 of the 54-hour contest, Yaargh! is in 22nd with 3,845 points. The team in 1st, Festivus for the Rest of Us, has a commanding lead with 7,495 points. There’s obviously been more points awarded in the hours since the online score sheet was updated, so we’ll have another update when that happens.
After a several-hour delay, we now have scores as of the end of Hour 42 and Yaargh! continues to stay in the 20s with 4,605 points putting us in 24th.
For comics-related fun, we’ve had a pair of Porky Pig questions from issues of Dell Four-Color. I had one of the two in my own collection and, was fortunately at home when it came up, so could look it up quickly.
Festivus for the Rest of Us continues to hold on to the top spot overall.
As Yaargh! heads into the final hours of Trivia 43: Trivia Grit and there are no more score updates posted, we’re in 19th. Hoping to improve that position by the end of the contest at midnight. We’ll see.