The Professor’s been focused on school work (instead of the important stuff, like comics trivia questions), and the submissions have piled up alarmingly, so let start with the earliest, and do a few a day until they’re current. The first question is from, embarrassingly, Jan. 21:
In Green Lantern when Kyle Rayner was still in the main title, before they brough back Hal Jordan, he was in space and defeating the Black Circle Syndicate. After he defeated Amon Sur the Femail Guardian appears behind him and stabs Kyle Rayner. She leaves his to die but he telports himself out of there and i guess heals himself as well. Why did the femail guardian stab him? Why did Ganthet allow this? It was never shown why this occured.
Thanks
This one actually shows the benefits of procrastination: the Professor went back and poked around the Black Circle stuff, but reading about Kyle Raynor usually gives him a headache, and nothing was clear anyway, so he stopped. Now, though, that female Guardian (at least, the Professor assumes it’s the same one) is back; she’s got that whole emo black-eyeliner thing going, and she’s hosting the little “Origins and Omens” back-up stories in most of the DC books (the Professor finds them terrible, by the way: too short for a decent origin, and all featuring the same “… but they’re all be sorry when Blackest Night gets them, bwah-ha-ha” conclusion. Bore-ing).
Anyway, the Professor’s assumption is that the story was picked up at some point during the Sinestro War crossover, and that the Guardian was corrupted by Parallax or one of the creepy aliens on the creepy Prophecy Prison Planet, or Mongul’s kid, or whatever; he’s too lazy to go find out for sure, but bets it’s in there somewhere.
Whew! OK, the logjam’s broken (Although the Professor is kind of hoping no one notices he didn’t, exactly, answer that last question), so let’s tackle another, this one considerably more recent, from Feb. 20:
I want to create comic which include the following themes, romance,horror, adventure, comedy briefly may you please explain each for me. Again at the end of knowing all about them I am supposed to choose one of them and write about it.,i would like you to help me with the view thinking methods,story line including characters,situations and scripts,pictures and presentation of ideas for each of the theme.
The Professor, being an academic, is not one for calling people “dude,” but:
Dude. You want the Professor to do all your work for you, including demonstrating all those comic styles, and planning your story, and coming up with characters, plots, and pictures? What exactly are you contributing to this endeavor?
No way, kid; the “I am supposed” in the question makes it sound like this is homework, and the Professor,, being an actual Professor with actual students and everything, is not going to do your homework for you.
Well, that was easy: it’s not that hard to burn through these questions when the Professor isn’t actually answering them, is it? Let’s do the next one, from Feb. 22:
Wher can i find list of all Marvel comics that has ewer been published. would like to know date of the firs and last ishue of all marvel comics.
Thanks!
p.s. sorry for bad spelling
The Professor was about to say something snarky about this one, too, but fortunately there are a couple of actual answers to it, and it’s not really that silly a question for a newbie, so let’s just go to those instead: As a written source, the Overstreet Price Guide is still considered the book of record for comics published in the US, so it’s a good bet, either to purchase or to read in a library. Another (in some ways even better) text reference is the Comics Buyer’s Guide’s Standard Catalogue of Comic Books.
If you’re too cheap too buy either book, and too lazy to get to the library, a good online alternative is the Grand Comic Book Database (a favorite reference of the Professor’s, as longtime readers know): check it out at http://www.comics.org/ ; just type in the title for any series you’re interested in via the search function, and you’ll get info on every issue, including cover shots and story credits. Be careful, though: it’s easy to lose hours browsing around in there….
