View Full Version : Which comic book plot is fake? The game
For this game to work, I'm afraid there will be a limited number of slots. We'll have up to 8 people officially playing (though, of course, anyone may post comments and opinions as the game progresses).
The two people who most often participated in the Fake Comic Book plot threads I used to post were Ignatz Mouse and BudPalmer. If they want to play here, they have slots reserved for them.
In additon, the first six people who post that they want to play are in.
It works like this: Once every two days, I will post the summery of a comic book plot. It might be real. Or I might just be making it up. After I post the plot, all active players vote on whether the plot is real or fake.
After everyone votes, 1 player from among those who were wrong will be eliminated from the game. Then we go on to the next round. Last player remaining wins.
Please post if you're interested in playing. Remember--first come, first serve.
Sounds like fun, count me in! :)
Ignatz_Mouse
10/30/2007, 15:13
I am totally into this. Sign me up! It was also fun to do the contest, although a lot of work!
Antipathy
10/30/2007, 15:14
Sounds like fun!
So far, we've got three: Melkhor, Ignatz & Antipathy. Still room for 4 more random volunteers, plus Bud if he wants to play.
Bud PM'd me that he'll opt out of the game this time around because he's "busy" at "work." In all likelihood, he's frightened by going up against Ignatz Mouse in direct "Which Comic Book Plot is Fake" competition because of I.M.'s extraordinary win percentage in this game.
Anyway, that leaves room for up to five more players.
Ignatz_Mouse
10/30/2007, 15:30
Batfink was a fan of these as well.
I was just re-reading some, and I noticed that when I stood in for you a couple of times, I inadvertently re-used one of your real stories! (And still fooled people!)
Batfink was a fan of these as well.
He was, wasn't he? I'll reserve a spot for him. That still leaves room for 4 more random volunteers.
AlienFlanders
10/30/2007, 18:26
I'll sign up.
bigbro911
10/30/2007, 18:36
signup pls!! :p
charlesx
10/30/2007, 18:38
OK, count me in. Thanks!
Our players:
Melkhor
Ignatz Mouse
Antipathy
batfink
AlienFlanders
bigbro911
charlesx
We stil have room for one more if anyone else wants to play.
Here's the first plot:
A mad scientist uses his secret lab to produce robots armed with guns, bombs and grenades. He sends them out to attack a military unit, which they quickly destroy. Inza, Doctor Fate's companion, is nearby and narrowly escapes as her car is destroyed by a grenade. She transmits a telepathic call for help as a robot grabs her.
Fate saves Inza, but the robots are destroying the city and the populace flees in panic. Fate overpowers a robot and finds the radio controls inside, deducing that they are operated by remote control. He releases a burst of electrical energy from his body to disrupt the remote signal. Then he generates magnetism to force them to follow him into the ocean. Finally, he tracks down the mad scientist and zaps him with a burst of mystical flame, ending the robot threat forever.
Is this plot real, or is it fake? The deadline for voting is 4 pm Eastern time this Monday. Remember, if you vote incorrectly, you may be eliminated.
Ignatz_Mouse
10/31/2007, 11:50
I'm going to say real.
Interesting metagame... if correct, you'd want everyone ot vote the other way. but if wrong, you'd want them to vote with you.
Therefore, how much you try to sway or dissuade could belie your confidence level... and cause people to vote the other way. Unless people know that you might try this.... hmmmm.....
So be on the watch for dropped hints like "I know this is real, I vaguely remember reading it" or "that can't be real because Kelel misspelled Beppo's name."
So be on the watch for dropped hints like "I know this is real, I vaguely remember reading it" or "that can't be real because Kelel misspelled Beppo's name."
Oh, sure. Air my secret shame in public. :cry:
Ignatz_Mouse
10/31/2007, 12:00
And I misspell *your* name in doing so!
AlienFlanders
10/31/2007, 18:20
I too will say it is real.
Antipathy
10/31/2007, 18:22
I will say this plot is real.
I'm a little torn here, something about it seems wrong, but still... my initial gut feeling was that's genuine, so I'll stick with that.
Put me down for a "real" vote as well
Well, so far, I'm either not following anyone OR I'm fooling everyone.
Still waiting for the last three players to vote (no hurry, though. The deadline is still Monday.) Also, 1 more person can jump in to play anytime before the deadline.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/01/2007, 11:25
Will you have any provision for when the thread is full, and we all answer well before the deadline?
Just to be contrary, I'll say its fake.
Will you have any provision for when the thread is full, and we all answer well before the deadline?
Sure thing. If everyone answers early, I'll go ahead and post the real answer and we'll move on to the next round. I want to give fairly generous deadlines, though, so that no one feels rushed or misses a turn.
By the way, if you do miss a turn, it counts as being wrong. Two missed turns in a row automatically eliminates you.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/01/2007, 12:57
Brave move, Batfink.
Also brings up another aspect of the metagame-- if everyone is voting one way, voting against them is a much, much riskier proposition. If wrong, it means elimination!
This is a coward's game, for sure!
bigbro911
11/01/2007, 14:42
real...bizzare, but real :p
I think that just leaves charlesx to vote.
charlesx
11/01/2007, 15:15
Real weird, but real nonetheless. There it is and there you have it, gentlemen.
Brave move, Batfink.
Also brings up another aspect of the metagame-- if everyone is voting one way, voting against them is a much, much riskier proposition. If wrong, it means elimination!
This is a coward's game, for sure!
I'm going to have a good laugh if I'm right.
Well everyone has voted. batfink thinks it's fake, but the rest of you think it's real.
Sadly for batfink, being contrary was not productive this time around. The story IS real--it's an early Doctor Fate story from More Fun Comics #62 (December 1940).
So batfink is eliminated. But he can still vote each round just for fun if he wishes.
Remaining in the game are:
Melkhor
Ignatz Mouse
Antipathy
AlienFlanders
bigbro911
charlesx
I'll post the next plot in a few minutes.
Well everyone has voted. batfink thinks it's fake, but the rest of you think it's real.
Sadly for batfink, being contrary was not productive this time around. The story IS real--it's an early Doctor Fate story from More Fun Comics #62 (December 1940).
So batfink is eliminated. But he can still vote each round just for fun if he wishes.
Remaining in the game are:
Melkhor
Ignatz Mouse
Antipathy
AlienFlanders
bigbro911
charlesx
I'll post the next plot in a few minutes.
Here's the next comic book plot:
Sgt. Rock and the men from Easy Company, all very tired, go out on a rainy night to patrol "Graveyard Hill." After climbing to the top and taking out a German pillbox, they are cornered by a tank and captured.
They are taken to a German stalag, where the commandant tells Rock he's the senior non-com among the prisoners and shows him three men who have just been hanged. He explains this is the fate of all who attempt to escape.
A few days later, several of the prisoners are caught trying to escape. The commendant tells Rock to pick a firing squad from among the prisoners to execute them, telling Rock he'll slaughter everyone if he doesn't obey. Rock picks his own men, who are each given a rifle with one shot. Rock is given a Lugar to use to finish off the condemned men if they don't die instantly.
Rock then yells out for his men to pick off the machine gunners in the guard towers. He kills the commandant and the other prisoners riot at his command. They take over the camp. Armed with German weapons, they start back for their own lines.
Is it real, or is it fake?
Sorry, forgot to add:
We'll keep Monday, 4 pm Eastern as the deadline for this round.
charlesx
11/01/2007, 16:01
This time around I'll go for fake. Rock was a non-comm, but I'd have to bet that there were some comm officers in the German stalag (quite a few of them ex-Air Force, from Kal's B-17 game.... )
bigbro911
11/01/2007, 16:06
This time around I'll go for fake. Rock was a non-comm, but I'd have to bet that there were some comm officers in the German stalag (quite a few of them ex-Air Force, from Kal's B-17 game.... )
I know there were some camps of just officers, and some were mixed officers and enlisted. Was Sgt Rock THAT historicly accurate?? ;)
charlesx
11/01/2007, 16:10
I know there were some camps of just officers, and some were mixed officers and enlisted. Was Sgt Rock THAT historicly accurate?? ;)
OK, OK - you got me. This is a wild guess on my part. I made up my own rationale, but it still feels fake to me. Geez! :p
I've read quite a bit of Segeant Rock and the Easy Company, and I don't recall that particular story of course that doesn't mean it isn't real, but for the purpose of this game, I'm willing to bet it's a fake. :)
Ignatz_Mouse
11/01/2007, 17:06
Before I read the new one, I want to talk about the last one a little. I kwpt mum due to the game aspect.
What maed me think it was real was that it was full of touches that seem completely off to a post-60's Dr Fate character. I figured Kalel21 was trying to use the strangeness of the adventure and Fate's powers to make it seem fake.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/01/2007, 17:13
Fake.
My reasons are multiple:
1) I seem to remember another Fake Sgt Rock/Firing Squad story in a past Fakes thread
2) The non-com thing sounds like a made-up detail. I imagine in the story, it'd just say "ranking prisoner" or somesuch. Kal's a stickler for militray terminolgy in a way that Rock comics weren't in my experience. Of course, Kal may have altered the wording is his recounting. Still, sounds off.
3) It's a weird ending. Being far behind enemy lines isn't really the end of the story, is it? Were Rock's adventures semi-serial? I seem to recall them having more pat endings.
Antipathy
11/01/2007, 17:15
It seems too unrealistic for me. It's fake.
I figured Kalel21 was trying to use the strangeness of the adventure and Fate's powers to make it seem fake.
That was my motivation for picking that story exactly. GET OUTA MY HEAD, MAN!!!!! GET OUTA MY HEAD!!!!
AlienFlanders
11/01/2007, 18:18
Sheep, sheep, I go along with the sheep and say it is Fake.
Five out of six vote for fake.
bigbro911, was your comment a Real vote? I'm not sure.
bigbro911
11/04/2007, 10:32
I will say real!
even though it was prob fake!! :p
Rokk_Krinn
11/04/2007, 10:49
I know there were some camps of just officers, and some were mixed officers and enlisted. Was Sgt Rock THAT historicly accurate?? ;)
Not saying this in regards to the legitimacy of the story but, yeah, Sgt. Rock was pretty darn accurate historically. The people involved in it had not only put in their time with the military but were fairly fanatical about accuracy on such things. Sure, they had to fudge a little here and there on whether or not something could be achieved but that was more "anti-science-accuracy" than "anti-historical-accuracy".
Not saying this in regards to the legitimacy of the story but, yeah, Sgt. Rock was pretty darn accurate historically. The people involved in it had not only put in their time with the military but were fairly fanatical about accuracy on such things. Sure, they had to fudge a little here and there on whether or not something could be achieved but that was more "anti-science-accuracy" than "anti-historical-accuracy".
You could say that, just how many German airplanes did Rock manage to shoot down with his Tommy gun again?
Rokk_Krinn
11/04/2007, 11:50
You could say that, just how many German airplanes did Rock manage to shoot down with his Tommy gun again?
But they were historically accurate German airplanes for whichever year the story was taking place. ;)
But they were historically accurate German airplanes for whichever year the story was taking place. ;)
And we won't even talk about those weird stories about the "guns of Easy Company" with the stories told from the perspective of the, apparently sentient, weapons of Rock and his boys... :confused:
Rokk_Krinn
11/04/2007, 11:55
And we won't even talk about those weird stories about the "guns of Easy Company" with the stories told from the perspective of the, apparently sentient, weapons of Rock and his boys... :confused:
But they were historically accurate guns. :cheeky:
(Anyone else remember the story where there was a ventriloquist dummy that everyone felt was a jinx?)
Truthfully though, the story of a "sentient gun" has been done by plenty of fine writers. Will Eisner wrote one particularly fun and touching story in "The Spirit" about a sentient toy tommy gun called Rat-a-tat-tat.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/04/2007, 14:47
"The Dummy" was one of the first Rock stories I read, if not the first.
Rokk_Krinn
11/04/2007, 15:12
"The Dummy" was one of the first Rock stories I read, if not the first.
Random guess: was it one of the "Best of the Year" DC Blue Ribbon digests? :) I've ran across a lot of people that first encountered Easy Co. via that reprint.
The Sgt. Rock story IS real. Only bigbro911 was correct. The rest of you were wrong, wrong, wrong. (Ironically, batfink would also have been correct if he were still in the game.)
The story is from Our Army at War #263 (1974). It actually was the first part of a rare two-parter (most Rock issues were self-contained in one issue, though a multi-part epic involving Rock being temporarily assigned to the Pacific Theater had recently run.) The interesting thing is that it wasn't identified as a two-parter. The ending had enough closure to keep the issue self-contained and there was no detailed "Next Issue" blurb. But OAAW #264 picked up with the Easy Company guys still making their way back to their own lines.
Ignatz Mouse: Yes, I did use another Easy Company as firing squad story in one of the old "Which Plot is Fake" threads, but that one was real as well.
Writer Bob Kanigher and artist Russ Heath WERE very good at depicting the weapons, uniforms and vehicles accurately. On the other hand, the action (such as Rock shooting down countless German planes with his Tommy gun) was very comic-bookish. What makes the stories so good is a combination of Heath's impossibly perfect art and the sense of real humanity that Kanigher would inject into the stories.
See post #10 in the Classic Comics review thread for a more detailed analysis of this:
http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151572
Anyway, a random pick from the five of you who were wrong cuts charlesx from the herd. The remaining players are:
Melkhor
Ignatz Mouse
Antipathy
AlienFlanders
bigbro911
I'll post the plot for round 3 Monday morning. I've done 2 real plots in a row. Will the next one be fake? Or will I toss in another real one?
bigbro911
11/04/2007, 21:25
Wow...I didn't see THAT comming! :p
Rokk_Krinn
11/04/2007, 21:30
I wanted so much to tell people and was worried I said too much (so I'll be quiet for future rounds - sorry Kal). :)
Ignatz_Mouse
11/05/2007, 00:42
Random guess: was it one of the "Best of the Year" DC Blue Ribbon digests? :) I've ran across a lot of people that first encountered Easy Co. via that reprint.
Yep.
I don't know if it was actually my first or just an early one, but I did not usually buy war comics.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/05/2007, 00:45
Wow! That ending (which turns out to be an unusal aspect, and was a major part of my reasoning) was part of the ploy! Are you baiting me, Kalel? Who's in whose head!?
The next plot:
Supergirl and the Legion of Super Pets are protecting an alien world from a meteor storm. One of the meteors contains red kryptonite. The effect on the native Kryptonians (Supergirl, Krypto and Beppo) is to reduce them to microscopic size.
Once shrunk, they encounter a microscopic city existing on a proton. They learn that the city was on the losing side of a civil war that was fought on the planet centuries ago and had shrunk themselves down to escape destruction. But now the proton they exist on is decaying.
A scientist has rediscovered the lost secret of enlarging/reducing (though the rare material it uses will be inert after one try--so the same device can't later be taken to Earth to enlarge Kandor.) The device has been stolen by a crime lord, who uses it to hold the entire city for ransom.
Supergirl and the pets locate the crime lord's secret lair. While Krypto and Beppo fight the giant (from their perspective) trained killer microbes the criminal uses as guard beasts, Supergirl tunnels into the lair. Defeating a legion of guard robots, she captures the crime lord and recovers the device. The city is enlarged and saved--centuries have gone by since the civil war, so they are accepted back into society by the other inhabitents.
After 24 hours, Supergirl and the pets enlarge to normal size as well and return home.
It it real or is it fake? We'll set 4 pm Eastern on Wednesday for the deadline to give your answer.
The Sgt. Rock story IS real. Only bigbro911 was correct. The rest of you were wrong, wrong, wrong. (Ironically, batfink would also have been correct if he were still in the game.)
May I retcon it, so I'm still in the game?
May I retcon it, so I'm still in the game?
I think next time I run this game (if enough people still want to play) I'll do a double elimination so that someone isn't knocked out after just one wrong answer.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/05/2007, 10:46
That story has to be fake.
Reasoning:
1) Red K generally wears off after 48 hours, not 24
2) It would be very unusual for the Pets to be helping on a mission like that, and odder still to leave out Comet and Streaky by choice of Plot Device
3) The civil war thing seems too sophisticated for a Pets story
4) the particle "decaying" is likewaised a bit too advanced
The real problem here is the level of sophistication vs. the Pets involvement. Unless this is not a Weisenger-era story and the Pets involvement is retro, I think it's fake.
charlesx
11/05/2007, 10:48
Darn! Lynched in the fake comic book plot game! Bummer!
Oh well.... :laugh:
That story has to be fake.
Reasoning:
1) Red K generally wears off after 48 hours, not 24
2) It would be very unusual for the Pets to be helping on a mission like that, and odder still to leave out Comet and Streaky by choice of Plot Device
3) The civil war thing seems too sophisticated for a Pets story
4) the particle "decaying" is likewaised a bit too advanced
The real problem here is the level of sophistication vs. the Pets involvement. Unless this is not a Weisenger-era story and the Pets involvement is retro, I think it's fake.
I'm with the brick tosser on this one, all my insticts screams "FAKE" at me here! (Though in all fairness Red-K has lasted from anywhere to 24-72 hours depending on the writer).
The Super-pets just seem to out of place in a story that actually includes particle decay (Mon-El being vulnerable to lead *radiation* anyone?). I'm going with an official vote of fake here.
Mon-El being vulnerable to lead poisoning has always bothered me.
If that were the case, then how come someone just didn't shoot him?
Mon-El being vulnerable to lead poisoning has always bothered me.
If that were the case, then how come someone just didn't shoot him?
Had it only been just lead poisoning, at least that's physically possible, but Mon-El was deadly allergic to lead *radiation*! Anyone with even the most rudimentary knowledge of elementary physics should know how horribly absurd that notion is :laugh:
Mon-El being vulnerable to lead poisoning has always bothered me.
If that were the case, then how come someone just didn't shoot him?
He used Braniac 5's anti-lead poisoning serum to survive outside the Phantom Zone. I would presume that this made it impossible to just shoot him with lead bullets as well.
Beside, who in the 30th Century still used bullets. Everybody in the future has lasers.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.WhereDidTheyGetLasers
Ignatz_Mouse
11/05/2007, 11:25
I'm with the brick tosser on this one, all my insticts screams "FAKE" at me here! (Though in all fairness Red-K has lasted from anywhere to 24-72 hours depending on the writer).
The Super-pets just seem to out of place in a story that actually includes particle decay (Mon-El being vulnerable to lead *radiation* anyone?). I'm going with an official vote of fake here.
I'm aware of the inconsistency of Red K, but it was just one more detail that seemed amiss.
As to the particle thing, seems far more likely it was about to explode from "internal pressures" ala Krypton than to decay.
I'd think it was possible it was a later story, except both the Pets *and* Supergirl get far, far less exposure after 1970 or so. Supergirl had a couple of running titles over time, and a run in Superman Family, but the tone of thoise was to distance as far as possible from silver-age silliness.
AlienFlanders
11/05/2007, 18:49
I'll go real.
That's one real vote and two fake votes. Still waiting on bigbro911 and Antipathy. The deadline is tomorrow by 4 pm Eastern.
Only about 6 hours left for the remaining two players to submit their "real" or "fake" vote. Otherwise, they are automatically counted as being wrong.
Antipathy
11/07/2007, 10:08
I'm going to say this story is real.
Well, the story WAS fake. Gee whiz, you caught it because my mention of particle decay was too "sophisticated." You guys are geekier than I am. (And I'm not sure if I should take comfort in that or work harder to myself become geekier.)
And here I was so proud of myself for remembering details like Comet and Streaky not being affected by kryptonite or mentioning Kandor (plot points that the Silver Age writers were normally very good at keeping track of.
Anyways, Ignatz and Melkhor were right. AlienFlanders and Antipathy were wrong. bigbro911 didn't come out to play this time, so he gets credited with "wrong" as well.
A random selection from those who were wrong picks bigbro911 for lynching. Remaining in the game are:
Ignatz Mouse
Melkhor
AlienFlanders
Antipathy
Here's the next plot:
Turok and Andar are looking for a way out of the Lost Valley. They see a young caveman who is trying to ride a Styracosaurus bare-backed. His loin cloth is caught on one of the Styrac's frill horns and he can't jump off. The two Indians save him by killing the Styrac with poison arrows. They learn that riding a dinosaur is a rite of passage for the caveman's tribe.
They also learn that there's a narrow path leading through the cliff nearby. It is rumored to be a way out of the valley, but it's guarded by a T-Rex. Turok and Andar kill the T-Rex, but run into a large pack of more T-Rex's farther along. They retreat, then start a brush fire to drive the Styracosaurus herd through the path. This leads to a massive T-Rex vs. Styrac battle, allowing Turok and Andar to determine that the path deadends in a large clearing that still offers no way out of the valley.
When the Styracosaurs begin to retreat back up the path, Turok and Andar are forced to jump aboard two of them and ride them out to avoid being trampled. They then resume their search for a way out of the valley.
Is it real or is it fake? Your vote is due by Monday 4 pm Eastern.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/08/2007, 11:01
I say Fake.
I don't think a story would have a character get their loincloth caught on a dinosaur.
However, I have zero exposure to Turok, so I could be wrong. I don't have anything else to go on.
Antipathy
11/08/2007, 11:13
I don't think a story would have a character get their loincloth caught on a dinosaur.
That's what I was thinking. Plus, in the middle of the battle how would they determine the path was a dead end? I say fake.
If I could vote, I'd also say Fake.
I know next to nothing about Turok (only played the N64 games a couple of times), but I'll go with fake as well, for the reasons stated above.
Antipathy
11/08/2007, 15:25
I dunno ; I'm having second thoughts. If it really was fake, wouldn't Kale have them escape the Valley since the dinosaurs were distracted?
I dunno ; I'm having second thoughts. If it really was fake, wouldn't Kale have them escape the Valley since the dinosaurs were distracted?
Is that a change to "Real?" Or are you staying with "Fake?"
Still waiting for AlienFlanders to vote and for Antipathy to confirm his vote one way or the other. Plenty of time, though. The deadline is still Monday afternoon.
AlienFlanders
11/09/2007, 16:59
I'll vote fake.
I think that means all four of you are voting fake. I'm afraid I'm still not sure if Antipathy was changing his vote in his last post.
bigbro911
11/10/2007, 01:08
Guys, I just wanted to apologize for not posting. I got called out of town for 4 days, and had zero computer access. Sorry...
Guys, I just wanted to apologize for not posting. I got called out of town for 4 days, and had zero computer access. Sorry...
Don't worry about it. That darned old Real Life gets in the way of important stuff for all of us from time to time.
Antipathy
11/10/2007, 23:47
I'll stay fake. Probably thinking about it too hard.
Fooled you all!!! Fooled you all!!! NEENER--NEENER--NEENER!!!
It's from Turok #79, from 1973. Shame on you all for not being familiar with Turok. Shame on you all.
See Post #23 on the Classic Comics review thread for a brilliant analysis of why Turok was so much fun.
http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=151572
The randomly chosen victim is, I'm afraid, Melkhor. That leaves just three of you remaining:
Ignatz Mouse
AlienFlanders
Antipathy
Here's the next plot:
The son of a recently deceased Nazi war criminal is a famous blind violinist, currently performing in Rome. He's a nice person, nothing like his father. But what he doesn't know is that his dad had a map tatooed on son's back when he was a baby. Showing up only under special X-rays, the map shows the location of a vast hoard of Nazi loot.
SHIELD agents find the father's diary and learn of the map, but Hydra agents steal the diary soon after. Hydra is low on funds and needs the treasure. Nick Fury goes to Rome, just in time to arrive at the violinit's hotel room and save him from a Hydra kidnap team. The two men are forced to retreat to the hotel basement, where they find an ancient passage into the pitch dark catacombs.
Hydra agents with infra-red goggles follow them. But the violinist has very sharp hearing and is able to whisper the position of the agents to Nick, who then tosses a stun grenade into their mists. Reinforcements arrive and the violinist is saved. The treasure is recovered by SHIELD and returned to its rightful owners.
Is it real or is it fake? The deadline for answering is 4 pm Wednesday.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/12/2007, 11:41
Faker than fake.
Faker than fake.
Is that the opposite of "realer than real?"
Ignatz_Mouse
11/12/2007, 12:19
Is that the opposite of "realer than real?"
Nopety nope no.
(padded for length)
In case you hadn't guessed, I think that story is a fake. But the other survivors ought to vote "real" just so we have the bases covered! ;)
AlienFlanders
11/12/2007, 16:02
But there is three of us, one doesn't have to vote at all.:laugh:
I'll go fake as well.
Still waiting on a vote from Antipathy. The deadline is 4 pm Eastern.
tick--tick--tick--tick--tick
Antipathy
11/14/2007, 10:11
I don't think a violinist could be that sharp-eared. I say fake.
Faker than Pamala Anderson.
Nothing is faker than Pamela Anderson, but yes, this plot was fake. I didn't fool anyone with that one, did I? {hangs head in shame} :disappoin :( :cry:
So Ignatz Mouse, AlienFlanders and Antipathy are still in the game.
Here's the next plot:
A young Scrooge McDuck, still seeking his fortune, is riding a train in the Old West when the James boys try to rob the passengers. McDuck, enraged that what little he has is being taken, chases off the James brothers, but in the confusion he's left behind by the train as well.
He finds a nearby ranch and gets a job punching cattle. Not long after, rustlers steal the prize bull from the herd. Scrooge was on guard at the time and feels responsible, so he pursues them alone. He meets a young Theodore Roosevelt along the way. They find the rustlers in a gorge lined with dinosaur fossils.
A confused chase scene ensues, involving the good guys, the bad guys, the bull and some stray buffalo (one of which is wearing a dinosaur skull that fell on top of him.) In the end, Scrooge and Teddy catch the rustlers and save the bull. Scrooge, impressed with Teddy's oratorical skills, suggests he go into politics. Then, having saved a little money, Scrooge rides off the the Black Hills to try his hand at prospecting.
Is it real or is it fake? Deadline for guessing it 4 pm Friday.
Can I still vote, just for fun, after being eliminated?
Can I still vote, just for fun, after being eliminated?
Yes, anyone can vote. Only the three remaining players are in contention for the $15,000,000,000 first prize, though.
In that case I can only curse my rotten luck for being eliminated by a Turok plot of all things (I didn't even like the video game series!), because I know this one is as real as they come. Vintage Don Rosa :)
Rokk_Krinn
11/14/2007, 11:40
In that case I can only curse my rotten luck for being eliminated by a Turok plot of all things (I didn't even like the video game series!), because I know this one is as real as they come. Vintage Don Rosa :)
This is precisely why I was waiting for the players to vote before I did. ;)
Ignatz_Mouse
11/14/2007, 11:53
I say real because that one is too weird for even the feverish imagination of Kalel21 to conceive.
I was going to say fake at the appearance of Teddy Rooseveldt, but when it gotr weirder still, well...
Ignatz_Mouse
11/14/2007, 13:44
Here's a suggestion--
If you do vote but aren't a player, keep it to a simple "fake" or "real" vote.
I can attest that writing these takes a little bit of work, and if you say your reasoning, you kinda undermine the effort that goes in on Kalel21's part.
AlienFlanders
11/14/2007, 16:02
Scrooge had several run-ins with Teddy in the flashback series.
I'll go real.
charlesx
11/14/2007, 16:24
From beyond the grave, I vote "real" (in memory of Carl Barks.)
Antipathy
11/14/2007, 20:53
R-R-R-Real!
Yes, that one was real. It's one issue from the 12-part "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck" series by Don Rosa. It is, by the way, the single best comic book series to have been published in the last couple of decades.
Ignatz Mouse, Antipathy, and AlienFlanders all remain in the game.
Next plot:
Superman is trying yet another experiment to try to enlarge the city of Kandor, but the enlarging ray he built short-circuits and a wave of strange energy washes over him. It throws him into an alternate universe, where a normal sized city of Kandor is located in the same spot that the Fortress of Solitude is in Superman's world, with its glass dome protects it from the elements.
In this universe, Superman successfully enlarged Kandor, but only at the cost of reducing himself. Now he lives in a tiny Fortress of Solitude inside Kandor while Kandorian scientists try to figure out how to re-enlarge him.
But tiny Superman seems to be missing. Our Superman volunteers to be temporarily shrunk to search for him. He discovers that one of the extraterrestrial animals in the Fortress zoo has used previously unknown mental powers to turn alternate Superman into a double of one of the zoo animals.
Our Superman discovers this when the alternate Superman animal scractches a message on the floor of his cave. Our Superman builds a shielding device to block off the mental energy of the zoo animal and alternate Superman turns back to normal.
Our Superman learns that alternate Superman is content with his lot--the Kandorians make sure Earth is kept safe and he is free to do research and thus better mankind in that regard. But the energies that allowed him to enlarge his Kandor are unique to his dimension, so our Superman can't repeat the process. Our Superman re-enlarges, then flies back through the dimensional to home, vowing to never give up his quest to save his version of Kandor.
Is it real or fake? Deadline is Monday by 4 pm.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/15/2007, 11:25
I'm going to gamble on Fake.
It certainly sounds real, and has a lot of touches that mark the Weisenger era, but something seems off. Maybe it's the dome over the city-- I'd expect the Kandorians to have built a weather-changing machine or to have drilled down to magma to heat the area making a little paradise, rather than to stay in a bottle.
AlienFlanders
11/15/2007, 16:11
I'll go real
Still waiting for a vote from Antipathy. The deadline is 4 pm today.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 11:55
You said above that the deadline was Monday. Mistake?
You said above that the deadline was Monday. Mistake?
Yes, it is Monday. Sorry, my mistake in thinking it was today. Antipathy still has plenty of time.
{The mind of true genius runs must faster than those of the common riff-raff. The side effect of this is to occassionally lose track of time.}
Antipathy
11/16/2007, 11:59
Gut feeling is fake.
Oh, the heck with Monday. All the current players have voted.
It is a fake plot. Sorry, AlienFlanders, but that knocks you out of the game.
Remaining players are Ignatz Mouse and Antipathy.
I'll post the next plot a little later today.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 12:16
Magma-drilling enlarged Kryptonians for the win!
By the way, any of you reading All-Star Superman? The latest issue was genius.
Magma-drilling enlarged Kryptonians for the win!
By the way, any of you reading All-Star Superman? The latest issue was genius.
Yes--I'm loving the Silver Age-y feel of the series. Great stuff.
"You've.. you've broken the moon!"
"wouldn't keep the dome because they'd drill down to the magma", my foot. They were used to the dome;)
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 12:36
Was I right or not? ;)
Of all the usual repositories for fake stories, Weisenberg-era Superman is the one I am most familiar with. Even then, they sometimes get so wigged out that they're hard to believe. I'm a big fan of "Superman's New Power" (which Morrison also cites as a favorite) in which Superman's new power is a tiny Superman that shoots out of his hand. The story revolves around the jealousy he feels toward the tiny Superman. As Morrison said, people think he's wierd, they ought to go read the old stuff.
Here's the next plot:
Two-Gun Kid trails John Baker and his Unlucky Thirteen gang to a rocky area called the Devil's Cauldren. Charging in with guns blazing, he manages to pick off the entire gang except for Baker, who is captured.
The Kid must lead Baker across the desert to the nearest town, holding both guns on him the whole time. At one point, Baker manages to toss sand in the Kid's eyes, then knock him down and take away his guns. But, though Baker has him covered, Two-Gun Kid doesn't hesitate to throw a punch that puts the outlaw flat on his back. The Kid picks up his guns and continues to force Baker to trek across the desert.
It's only after they reach town and Baker is safely locked in jail that Two-Gun reveals he used all twelve shots from his two revolvers to get the other 12 members of the gang. He had forced Baker to walk to jail with two empty pistols.
Is it real or is it fake? Will someone walk home with the $15,000,000,000 in prize money after this round? The Deadline for answering is still Monday by 4 pm Eastern.
Antipathy
11/16/2007, 14:34
I say it is real.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 15:17
And I sake fake. It's ON!
AND THE WINNER IS:
Antipathy.
Sorry, brick-tosser, this last one WAS real. It's a back-up story, drawn by Gil Kane, from Marvel Comics Presents #116 (1992).
The $15,000,000,000 in prize money will be sent to you in the form of a debit card. It's in Earth 2 money, good only in that universe, so please don't attempt to use it in any Earth Prime ATM.
Thanks everyone for playing. This was fun for me, at least, so I'll do it again soon.
Antipathy
11/16/2007, 15:59
AND THE WINNER IS:
Antipathy.
Sorry, brick-tosser, this last one WAS real. It's a back-up story, drawn by Gil Kane, from Marvel Comics Presents #116 (1992).
The $15,000,000,000 in prize money will be sent to you in the form of a debit card. It's in Earth 2 money, good only in that universe, so please don't attempt to use it in any Earth Prime ATM.
Thanks everyone for playing. This was fun for me, at least, so I'll do it again soon.
Huzzah! :a-fist:
Sign me up for the next one.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 16:01
I'm game for another as well.
Well done, Antipathy!
And here I figured the misspelling of "cauldron" and the ommission of how he got captured were signs that this was a fabrication, perhaps inspired by a recent viewing of 3:10 to Yuma!
Congratulations! I had great fun as well, so I'll definately be onboard for the next one too! :)
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 16:04
Hey Kalel21, if you want a break, I'd be glad to run one of these myself. But I don't want to step on toes if you're planning to start up again.
Hey Kalel21, if you want a break, I'd be glad to run one of these myself. But I don't want to step on toes if you're planning to start up again.
I'd be happy to take a turn as player. I wouldn't start up as mod. for another few weeks at least (I've really got to get a few chapters of my next book written), so you can jump in if you'd like.
Ignatz_Mouse
11/16/2007, 17:00
I've started a thread, go and sign up, everybody!
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