I am suddenly reminded of a couple of bits of Doomiana.
One is from the Secret Wars miniseries. The art was not up to the writing, which was pretty good aside from the obligatory Tragic Death Of An Innocent scene.
Doom is dismantling Klaw, who is actually paying attention and says, "You narrate your life as you go along, don't you? Why? Are you being recorded?"
That in itself was gold, but the reply is even better!
"Of course! No utterance of Doom should be lost to posterity!"
Explains it all, really.
(It has occurred to me recently that this partly explains his lack of children. "And now Doom unhooks the brassiere!" "Yeah, uh, look, I just remembered an appointment." I suppose he _could_ set up a sperm bank....)
Another, non-canon, I suggested when I was on a Con panel about realism in comics. Someone asked, "Where the hell is Latveria supposed to be, anyway?"
I replied, "Formerly a border province between Ruritania and Graustark."
I was not expecting THE ENTIRE ROOM to crack up.
(I love the fen. They have just as much eclectic esoterica cluttering up their heads as I do.)
"Where the hell is Latveria supposed to be, anyway?"
I replied, "Formerly a border province between Ruritania and Graustark."
As for the much-debated location of Durmstrang (J. K. Rowling herself has been extremely coy on the subject, other than establishing that it serves a multinational student body and placing it vaguely in former Soviet-bloc/Universal Pictures horror-movie territory--what TV Tropes terms "Uberwald"), my own hypothesis is that the school's defenses include mobility: every so often, the building will hoist itself up on its chicken legs and go lurching off to new territory.
One is from the Secret Wars miniseries. The art was not up to the writing, which was pretty good aside from the obligatory Tragic Death Of An Innocent scene.
Doom is dismantling Klaw, who is actually paying attention and says, "You narrate your life as you go along, don't you? Why? Are you being recorded?"
That in itself was gold, but the reply is even better!
"Of course! No utterance of Doom should be lost to posterity!"
Explains it all, really.
(It has occurred to me recently that this partly explains his lack of children. "And now Doom unhooks the brassiere!" "Yeah, uh, look, I just remembered an appointment." I suppose he _could_ set up a sperm bank....)
Another, non-canon, I suggested when I was on a Con panel about realism in comics. Someone asked, "Where the hell is Latveria supposed to be, anyway?"
I replied, "Formerly a border province between Ruritania and Graustark."
I was not expecting THE ENTIRE ROOM to crack up.
(I love the fen. They have just as much eclectic esoterica cluttering up their heads as I do.)
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I replied, "Formerly a border province between Ruritania and Graustark."
As for the much-debated location of Durmstrang (J. K. Rowling herself has been extremely coy on the subject, other than establishing that it serves a multinational student body and placing it vaguely in former Soviet-bloc/Universal Pictures horror-movie territory--what TV Tropes terms "Uberwald"), my own hypothesis is that the school's defenses include mobility: every so often, the building will hoist itself up on its chicken legs and go lurching off to new territory.
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