# Take Me Out To The Uniball Game - 2nd Round: The Comic Book Quiz **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2000, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286 "2000-12-06T09:54:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/1 "2000-12-06T09:54:22Z")
Take Me Out To The Uniball Game - 2nd Round: The Comic Book Quiz Guess the Quote 1. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. 2. Welcome, young man. I trust you are recovered quite from your ordeal? As for your question… we are in the Shadow Gallery. This is my home. 3. The wind rises, tearing dead leaves free. Frogs croak like a cartoon car alarm. Crickets pick up the chorus. A wolf howls. I know how he feels. 4. There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum… 5. Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You’ve eaten (\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*) wealth. It’s spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on… none of you are safe. 6. I see Ragnarok at last unfold. And worst of all, I see the desperate hope of the one man who might yet stop it turned to ash and cinders by a single bolt of lightning. Armageddon has arrived. ---
**Author:** ![Booker57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Booker57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Booker57)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/2 "2000-12-06T11:02:37Z")
#1 Watchman? ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/3 "2000-12-06T11:27:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Booker57 \* > \*\*#1 Watchman? \*\* Watchm **E** n. But it’s correct. One point for you. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/4 "2000-12-06T12:06:17Z")
Damn, I knew number 1 also. I’m willing to bet #3 is from Swamp Thing. #4 is from the Killing Joke I believe. #6 is probably Kingdom Come. How’d I do? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/5 "2000-12-06T12:25:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Uniball \* > \*\*Take Me Out To The Uniball Game - 2nd Round: The Comic Book Quiz \*\* 1. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. Watchmen 1. Welcome, young man. I trust you are recovered quite from your ordeal? As for your question… we are in the Shadow Gallery. This is my home. Aargh! This one’s familar…Shadow Gallery…Um…The Invisibles?? 1. There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum… Killing Joke? 6. I see Ragnarok at last unfold. And worst of all, I see the desperate hope of the one man who might yet stop it turned to ash and cinders by a single bolt of lightning. Armageddon has arrived. Kingdom Come Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/6 "2000-12-06T14:06:41Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Welcome, young man. I trust you are recovered quite from your ordeal? As for your question… we are in the Shadow Gallery. This is my home. This is in the last episode of _V for Vendetta_ by Alan Moore. Simply the greatest single acheivement of the medium. Here’s a few then: “Rich people are usually rich first and anything else second.” “They’d probably heal if you stopped wearing the chain mail bikini.” “Don’t get mad at an elf. Don’t get mad at an elf.” ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/7 "2000-12-06T14:12:37Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Here’s a few then: > > “Rich people are usually rich first and anything else second.” > > “They’d probably heal if you stopped wearing the chain mail bikini.” > > “Don’t get mad at an elf. Don’t get mad at an elf.” > > \*\* #1) Cerebus, during the High Society Arc, talking to the Elf, after his ransom’s been paid. Maybe issue #35? #2) Cerebus, to Red Sophia, issue 9 or so? #3) Cerebus, again during the High Society thing, but just before the election. She’s about to make the words “Cerebus wee-wee’s in the sink” appear on the wall and over the gates to the city. Cerebus is _such_ a good book! Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/8 "2000-12-06T14:46:58Z")
I like a man who knows his Aardvarks! Hi Fenris! How the hell are you? Looks like we should be pals! ---
**Author:** ![Indysloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b77776/32.png) [@Indysloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indysloth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/9 "2000-12-06T15:39:33Z")
It looks like folks have 1,2,4 &6 I think 3 is Dark Knight Returns 5 is definitely a Batman story - the \*\*\*\*\*\*\* is Gotham, I’m thinking Long Halloween or Year 1 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/10 "2000-12-06T16:37:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*I like a man who knows his Aardvarks! > > Hi Fenris! How the hell are you? Looks like we should be pals! \*\* “And a “Puncheminnaface” to you too! (Fenris just _loves_ these colorful local greetings.”) 😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/11 "2000-12-06T18:15:43Z")
What’s that by your side? WOW! I’ve never known a sword so rusted that it actually turned black! One more, not from Cerebus… “ONE PUNCH!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA” ---
**Author:** ![Balduran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cc9497/32.png) [@Balduran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balduran)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/12 "2000-12-06T18:24:10Z")
> [@](#): > > “ONE PUNCH!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA” Is this from JLA? I think it is where Batman smoked Guy Gardner in the melon. Blue Beetle was the one laughing, don’t know if that’s the correct name? ---
**Author:** ![Indysloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b77776/32.png) [@Indysloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indysloth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/13 "2000-12-06T18:40:33Z")
Mr. Chance - C’mon anything with Bwahahahahaha is from the Giffen Justice League, pweetman is right about the situation - Here are a few “This is where the overpeople live” “Live Fast, Love Hard, and Die With Your Mask On” “A man without hope, is a man without fear” And boy do I wish I could remember a Sonny Sumo quote about now ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2000, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/14 "2000-12-06T20:17:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Uniball \* > \*\*Take Me Out To The Uniball Game - 2nd Round: The Comic Book Quiz > Guess the Quote > > 1. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. > > 2. Welcome, young man. I trust you are recovered quite from your ordeal? As for your question… we are in the Shadow Gallery. This is my home. > > 3. The wind rises, tearing dead leaves free. Frogs croak like a cartoon car alarm. Crickets pick up the chorus. A wolf howls. I know how he feels. > > 4. There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum… > > 5. Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You’ve eaten (\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*) wealth. It’s spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on… none of you are safe. > > 6. I see Ragnarok at last unfold. And worst of all, I see the desperate hope of the one man who might yet stop it turned to ash and cinders by a single bolt of lightning. Armageddon has arrived. \*\* 1. Roschach, from Watchmen The rest, I’ve got inklings but no firm response. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/15 "2000-12-07T01:21:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Indysloth \* > \*\*Mr. Chance - C’mon anything with Bwahahahahaha is from the Giffen Justice League, pweetman is right about the situation - > > Here are a few > > “This is where the overpeople live” > > “Live Fast, Love Hard, and Die With Your Mask On” > > “A man without hope, is a man without fear” > And boy do I wish I could remember a Sonny Sumo quote about now \*\* The first one isn’t quite right: “There is a house above the world where the Overpeople live.” (parphrase from here on-\>)“There is a man who can wring diamonds from anthracite, there is a man who is so fast that life is an endless gallery of statues…and here, they listen to the cool green whisper of earthdeath” This is maybe my single favorite comic line ever, and it’s from Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing #24 or so, refering to the Justice League Number two is from that Rick Veitch series about kid sidekicks… I’m guessing that #3 is from Miller’s Daredevil, but I’m not sure. * * * Let me offer one: “If you intend to die, you can do anything” Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/16 "2000-12-07T02:05:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Trion \* > \*\*Damn, I knew number 1 also. > > I’m willing to bet #3 is from Swamp Thing. > > #4 is from the Killing Joke I believe. > > #6 is probably Kingdom Come. > > How’d I do? > \*\* Killing Joke and Kingdom Come, correct. Swamp Thing? Not even close!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/17 "2000-12-07T02:06:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > 1. Welcome, young man. I trust you are recovered quite from your ordeal? As for your question… we are in the Shadow Gallery. This is my home. > > This is in the last episode of _V for Vendetta_ by Alan Moore. Simply the greatest single acheivement of the medium. > > \*\* V for Vendetta is is. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/18 "2000-12-07T02:08:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Indysloth \* > \*\*It looks like folks have 1,2,4 &6 > > I think 3 is Dark Knight Returns > > 5 is definitely a Batman story - the \*\*\*\*\*\*\* is Gotham, I’m thinking Long Halloween or Year 1 \*\* Right. 3 is Dark Knight Returns, 5 is Batman: Year One. ---
**Author:** ![wevets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9a140/32.png) [@wevets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wevets)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/19 "2000-12-07T02:09:31Z")
I’m surprised nobody got #5 yet… it’s Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One. … Oops, sorry, Indysloth got it. ---
**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286/20 "2000-12-07T02:11:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Indysloth \* > \*\* > “This is where the overpeople live” > > “Live Fast, Love Hard, and Die With Your Mask On” > > “A man without hope, is a man without fear” > \*\* First one must be Swamp Thing, the description of the JLA satellite. Belongs to the Anatomy Lesson arc, with the Floronic Man, right? Second one must be Rick Veitch’s… Brat Pack? Name escapes me now. Third one is from Daredevil’s arc ‘Born Again’. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/take-me-out-to-the-uniball-game-2nd-round-the-comic-book-quiz/44286.md?page=2)