Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucsfcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!kscott From: kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Kevin Scott%Kuntz) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Quick bet Message-ID: <659@ucsfcgl.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 23:25:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.659 Posted: Sun Sep 29 23:25:29 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 2-Oct-85 05:38:57 EDT References: <2680@vax4.fluke.UUCP> <494@tektools.UUCP> Reply-To: kscott@ucsfcgl.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: net Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab Lines: 20 In article <494@tektools.UUCP> lizv@tektools.UUCP (Liz Vaughan) writes: >>Just noticed that "'Mazing Man's two married friends" are named Brenda and >>Eddie. How much you want to bet that they're named after the characters in >>Billy Joel's excellent song "Scenes from an Italian Resteraunt", off of his >>"Strangers" album? If anyone runs into Rokazis at a convention, I'd >>appreciate someone asking him. >Along the same lines, I seem to recall an X-Men in years past (160s?) that had >in a crowd scene a bearded reporter named Rick hollering to a blonde, older >woman named "Joanie" -- Doonsebury creeps into everything !! :-) And in John Byrne's Fantastic Four we have the Macy's thanksgiving parade with a blimp of Skywise, a scene where the Human Torch watches a rehersal of a play based on elfquest (#3?), and the nightcrawler mini-series has little petalwing-preserver types named Pini's (The Pini's put out elfqest) as well as the occasional appearance of elfquest t-shirts on marvel charachters. Like rock and roll, comics tends to be an art form where self adulation is encouraged. -- two to the power of five thousand against and falling ... Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com