I wouldn’t call comic books “prose”, but…
Over fifty years since I quit reading comic books, so somebody can have mine, too.
I’m not a comics person, but I’ll ask the question I thought of just after asked ng the ones I did this morning
Does the author’s last name begin with A-L?
Ah, that’s a brilliant choice. I know who this is, but really can’t play.
SCA’s DQ: Portrayed on TV by Stephen Fry?
F
- Fictional
- From prose
- Sexless, but occasionally presents as male
- Not human
- First name starts with F
- Created after 1960
- Not from science fiction
- Not originally from a novel
- Not American creator
- Not an animal
- From fantasy
- Not from horror
- Created before 1990
- Not originally from a short story
- British author
- Not in a work meant for children
- Could be the author’s best-known work, but not IMO, and YMMV
- Considered to be good
- Created after 1975
- Has appeared in TV or film
- Could be considered a ghost or spirit, in some ways, but not a form of undead (this is a tricky question to answer)
- From comics
- First name starts with Fa-Fi
- Last name starts with A-L
- First appeared in a series published by DC Comics, then published under DC Vertigo
- Author’s last name begins with A-L
- Portrayed on TV by Stephen Fry
I’ll begin accepting FirstName / LastName queries.
I get that you can’t play, but I hope you’ll come guess for the illusory bragging rights.
(Good luck with the eye thing).
Are you Fiddler’s Green, the sailors’ paradise who leaves the Dreaming and takes the form of a person to visit the waking world in The Sandman?
Yes!! I am Fiddler’s Green! I am the personification of a lush meadow from the graphic novels of The Sandman.
I have also appeared in the guise of “Gilbert” when dealing with humans. Stephen Fry portrayed me in the TV series.
Good job, DLR (and a nod to Prof P for guessing correctly as well).
Ok, I have heard of the Sandman, but would not have known enough about it to guess anything.
Good for those of you who did recognize it.
Yeah. What he said. I’ve heard of the place, but never as a person.
(And I wouldn’t know Stephen Fry if he came up and bit me on the ankle, though there’s a slight chance that I might recognise Hugh Laurie.)
OK:
I am D.
Didn’t know of that character, but well done, DLR!
D it is.
IQs:
Did your subordinates secretly create a crude spacecraft so that your world would be better treated?
Were you Det. Lije Bailey’s android partner?
Were you an officer of the Mad Scientists’ Club?
Nice guess, DLR! I’ve heard of the place, but never that it was personified.
On to D.
IQs:
- Did your signature song help Moonstruck be seen as a comedy?
- Were your comics well known for their creative sound effects?
- Were you the highest ranking black officer in the United States Colored Troops?
IQs:
- Did you beg your father not to get drunk this Christmas?
- Did you play both the Marquis the Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson?
- Did you write a poem with the line “Hope is the thing with feathers”?
Respectively:
I am not King David.
I am not Daneel Olivaw.
Take a DQ.
1. Take a DQ.
2. I am not Don Martin.
3. Take a DQ.
1. Take a DQ.
2. Take a DQ.
3. I am not Emily Dickinson.
IQ1: Were you the second admiral in the US Navy?
IQ2: Were you #1’s adoptive brother, the first admiral in the US Navy?
IQ3: Did all the lassies ask where your troosers were?
IQs:
- Were you so impressed by Holden Caulfield , protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye, that led to you being incarcerated for life?
- Did you provide many of the off-screen voices in the TV series you co-created?
- Did you host a late-night TV show called “Freeze-Dried Movies”?
#1 was Dean Martin (Once “That’s Amore” was added to Moonstruck’s opening credits, test audiences liked the film better).
Correct on #2.
#3 was Martin Delany.
Martin x3 !!
DQs:
Fictional?
Female?
IQ1: Take a DQ.
IQ2: Take a DQ.
IQ3: I am not Donald.
1. I am not Mark David Chapman.
2. I am not Larry David.
3. I an not David Letterman?
DQs:
1. thought by some people to be real, by others to be imaginary
2. usually male, sometimes portrayed as female
David Dixon Porter
David Farragut
correct
Three DQs reserved.