Comments on: New Comic Day BINGO

By: Blog@Newsarama » They punish Supergirl fans, don’t they?

Blog@Newsarama » They punish Supergirl fans, don’t they? — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:05:00 +0000

[...] Initially, I was going to link to Polite Dissent just for “New Comic Day BINGO,” but now Dr. Scott has announced he’s the proud father Aidan, born yesterday at 5:28 p.m. Congratulations, Polite Family! [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:43:08 +0000

Jayunderscorezero and Laura,
You’re right, it should be 5 squares. (And Jay, a “one-shot” counts only as a one-shot. A first or last issue requires a regular series or miniseries.)

Evan,
I used Macromedia Fireworks (which I think is now owned by Adobe)

By: Zaratustra

Zaratustra — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:45:57 +0000

Black Adam #1 fills pretty much half of that thing on its own.

By: Ken Lowery

Ken Lowery — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:42:14 +0000

It’s shit like this that makes you a doctor and the rest of us peasants.

By: Evan Waters

Evan Waters — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:30:08 +0000

Just out of curiosity, what software did you use to make the bingo board graphic? I’ve been working on something similar in Appleworks and am not completely satisfied.

By: Laura Gjovaag

Laura Gjovaag — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:25:29 +0000

Don’t you mean FIVE squares, as your description includes a zombie?

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:30:42 +0000

If you’re in need of the ‘anatomically impossible position’ square, may I suggest any comic drawn by Carmine Infantino?

By: Jayunderscorezero

Jayunderscorezero — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:53:53 +0000

I always used to get confused by these Bingo cards on people’s blogs because I didn’t realise until today – when I actually bothered to do some research (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo) – that there are in fact differing British and American versions of the game. D’oh! I’d stupidly always been trying to reconcile these cards with what I knew of the British version.

Also, wouldn’t your example count for at least five squares, as Soranik is fighting a zombie (square C2)? And (because I can see myself genuinely playing this in the future and actually getting concerned over the rules) do one-shots count as both first and last issues?

By: David Oakes

David Oakes — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:25:18 +0000

Well, I only got six comics this week:

JLA Classfied #41 – End of “Kid Amazo” Arc
BPRD: Killing Ground #1 – call it an ongoing laready!
Dynamo 5 #6 – penultimate arc
Annihilation: Conquest: Wraith #2 – whew!
Batman #667 – grim and gritty and gag
Incredible Hulk #109 – the other half of WWH #3

So this might be tough. I think I have:

O O X O X
X O X O X
X X F O O
O X O O X
X X X X O

Anyone got better?

(One week either way – BPRDs “Last” issue, or Rocket Racoon in Starlord, and I would have had it! Isn’t that always the way?)

By: sallyp

sallyp — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:46:49 +0000

Well, I must admit that the thought of a Green Lantern behind DOES fill me with delight. Your bingo card is delightful.