31 thoughts on “Pop Quiz!”

  1. I see you’re even further behind on reading your Showcases than I am. I just finished up reading Justice League vol. 3 so I moved back to try to finish up Metal Men, leaving Adam Strange to pick up after that.

    My biggest problem is that while I’m in the middle of reading one, a new one will come out that I’m more excited about that will take precedence. For example, I just KNOW that Superman Family vol 2 will come out soon and take the top of the pile.

    Anyway, to be fair, I realize you’re buying all of the Showcases while I’m being pretty selective. How many have you actually made it through? Like all the way through?

  2. Regretfully, this sentence is only a GREAT sentence. Here’s why – the GREATEST sentence would have included the word “ninja”, “pirate”, “robot” or “alien” in it as well.

    For instance:

    “I’ve wrestled everything from alien crocodiles to robot grizzly bears! Now it looks like I take on a NINJA Shark!”

  3. All the way through? Superman v.1, 2 and 3, Superman Family v.1, Legion of Super-Heroes v.1 (although I read it as Archives), Teen Titans v.1 and 2, and Metamorpho v.1.

    I’ve read about half each of Wonder Woman v.1, Haunted Tank v.1, The Atom v.1 and Metal Men v.1 (again, as Archives with both of those). And then scattered bits on the rest.

    Edit: Oh, and half of Supergirl, too.

  4. It’s pretty close to the greatest sentence, just because of the “everything from crocodiles to grizzly bears” part. What is between crocodiles and grizzly bears? On what spectrum do they both appear? If you say “I’ve wrestled everything from aardvarks to zebras” (which would be awesome), you get a pretty clear idea of what he’s saying, but what Jeopardy category are these animals on besides “Things you shouldn’t wrestle unless you are a Chall!?” And if that is the only connection, has Rocky wrestled a dump truck travelling at 50mph? That would be in that group. And if he has (which is safe to assume), shouldn’t that have been today’s post? As always, Kirby’s genius is like the sun, not to be stared at directly.

  5. Chris, I hate to disappoint you, but my friend says shark wrestling is fixed. Robot Ninja wrestling is fixed. Pirate mutant wrestling is also fixed.

    Grizzly bear wrestling, however, is legit.

  7. Maybe the other greatest sentence would be:
    “I’ve kicked Robots, Ninja and Pirates in the face…Now it looks like I have to face-kick this 30 foot tall mecha!”
    (Holy crap. I must draw that comic)

  8. Me, I’ve read all the Essentials and Showcases _except_ the OHOTMUs, Werewolf by Night v2, X-Men v8, Power Man and Iron Fist v1, Supergirl v1, JLA v3, Robin v1, Brave and the Bold v2, and Doctor Strange v3. And most of those are on their way to me now via Amazon.

    Because I loves me the black-and-white reprint volumes. :)

  11. Shouldn’t the panel have an asterisk with a little box from the editors reminding us which past issue he wrestled the grizzly bear in?

  12. Tim C. — I think perhaps the category is strictly *animals* you shouldn’t wrestle, and they are ranged on a scale from least to most mammalian. Now, by wrestling a shark, Rocky is extending the spectrum into the fish kingdom.

    Also falling outside the range “crocodile to grizzly bear” would be gorillas, on the grizzly bear side. So presumably that is something he’ll have to check off his list next week.

  16. I find that canned grizzly bear lacks that tangy, zesty flavor you found in your grocer’s deli section grizzly.

    PS I think Rocky’s wrestled a T-Rex, too. Maybe he was just being modest.

  17. I just love how he’s so matter of fact, yet keen.

    “Tomorrow, I think I’ll tie all three together and wrestle them that way!”

  18. Ah, the dreaded King Grizzly sharkagator. Way to make the rest of us feel like wusses Rocky.

    So, Rocky of the Chals or Ben Grimm. Who Ya got?

  19. “Shouldn’t the panel have an asterisk with a little box from the editors reminding us which past issue he wrestled the grizzly bear in?”

    It’s not like they throw up an issue number for us when Superman mentions he has heatvision.

  21. Tim C:

    The spectrum on which your animals appear is, of course, the “animals someone has made chili out of at least once” scale.

    THE MORE YOU KNOW!

  22. The great thing about Golden and Silver Age dialog, until Stan Lee dominated the field, the men of comics did not reason or question…they just DID.

  23. The post-Stan Lee version: “Now it looks like I take on a shark! But what was my therapist saying about such things? Think, Rocky! Must think!”

  24. Because everyone is thinking it, but nobody else here is going to say it…

    “Crikey!”

  25. I’ve made it all the way through.
    Challengers, Unknown Soldier, and Superman (1 and 2) I’ve read twice.

    In my defence, I don’t get a lot of other comics.

  26. 2KDBryan Says:

    Regretfully, this sentence is only a GREAT sentence. Here’s why – the GREATEST sentence would have included the word “ninja”, “pirate”, “robot” or “alien” in it as well.

    For instance:

    “I’ve wrestled everything from alien crocodiles to robot grizzly bears! Now it looks like I take on a NINJA Shark!”
    ———
    Where as a ninja shark would be a dangerous foe, it would not be as “you are now freaking out” inducing as a NINJA ZOMBIE!!

  28. I’ve wrestled and kicked in the faces of everything from ninja zombie crocadiles to ninja zombie grizzley Bears! Now it looks like I take on a face-kicking, torso-eating, 20-ton ninja zombie great white shark!

  30. Point taken. I believe even Batman’s chair has wrestled zombie ninja great white sharks.

    He’s learned to delegate.

  31. Aw come on, Chris. Everyone here knows that if this is your dying quote, it’s only because you’re throwing the fight.