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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 13, 2024 9:18:44 GMT -5
Thanks. There was only one picture of her on Wikipedia, so hadn’t made the link. Here are a couple from the Segar comic strip days…   |
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 15, 2024 18:39:12 GMT -5
Dick Tracy question for anyone who might know the answer (or just a question for anyone into word puns):
I'm currently reading The Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy collections reprinting the end of his run on the character and have been wondering what the punchline behind the name 'Vera Alldid' is supposed to be. I've looked online and come across this:
"As the book opens, readers meet cartoonist Vera Alldid, whose name is a groan-inducing pun based on his father’s broken English. The father exclaimed with relief after the birth of his sixth child, and first boy, “Ve’re All Did!” I find it hard to believe anyone aside from Gould finds it as funny as the Tracy gang do."
But still don't get what the play on words is meant to be.
Ideas?
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 15, 2024 18:43:05 GMT -5
Dick Tracy question for anyone who might know the answer (or just a question for anyone into word puns): I'm currently reading The Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy collections reprinting the end of his run on the character and have been wondering what the punchline behind the name 'Vera Alldid' is supposed to be. I've looked online and come across this: "As the book opens, readers meet cartoonist Vera Alldid, whose name is a groan-inducing pun based on his father’s broken English. The father exclaimed with relief after the birth of his sixth child, and first boy, “Ve’re All Did!” I find it hard to believe anyone aside from Gould finds it as funny as the Tracy gang do."But still don't get what the play on words is meant to be. Ideas? The natural reading of that is "we're all dead." But that doesn't seem to really fit the situation. |
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Post by nairb73 on Nov 15, 2024 19:34:48 GMT -5
Dick Tracy question for anyone who might know the answer (or just a question for anyone into word puns): I'm currently reading The Complete Chester Gould Dick Tracy collections reprinting the end of his run on the character and have been wondering what the punchline behind the name 'Vera Alldid' is supposed to be. I've looked online and come across this: "As the book opens, readers meet cartoonist Vera Alldid, whose name is a groan-inducing pun based on his father’s broken English. The father exclaimed with relief after the birth of his sixth child, and first boy, “Ve’re All Did!” I find it hard to believe anyone aside from Gould finds it as funny as the Tracy gang do."But still don't get what the play on words is meant to be. Ideas? The natural reading of that is "we're all dead." But that doesn't seem to really fit the situation. 'We're all did' = 'We're all done'(not having any more children). |
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Post by Ricky Jackson on Nov 15, 2024 21:06:25 GMT -5
I'm nowhere near as familiar with the late-Gould era of Tracy as I am with the 30s-mid 60s era, but I know the Vera Alldid character was another one of Gould's digs at modern cartoonists in the Schulz vein (see also the long-running, and much-despised, "Sawdust" strip within a strip that parodied what Gould negatively percieved as the "minimalist" strips influenced by Peanuts). And Gould loved his gimmick names, sometimes way more than his audience did
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 16, 2024 11:58:15 GMT -5
Thanks for the guesses - I'm glad that I'm not the only one this doesn't make any sense to. "We're all done" is probably the right answer, but Gould always had a habit of having his characters react in paroxysms of laughter at these gags that I always think, "It has to be funnier than that".
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 19, 2024 12:57:27 GMT -5
How did the High Evolutionary get the soul gem to give to Adam Warlock and why didn’t he know what it was ?
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Post by kirby101 on Nov 19, 2024 14:10:43 GMT -5
Because Jim Starlin hadn't invented the Infinity Stones yet. So no one knew what they were.
He got it at a Macy's sale.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 19, 2024 18:46:15 GMT -5
Because Jim Starlin hadn't invented the Infinity Stones yet. So no one knew what they were. He got it at a Macy's sale. The gem still had power. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 19, 2024 19:45:44 GMT -5
Because Jim Starlin hadn't invented the Infinity Stones yet. So no one knew what they were. He got it at a Macy's sale. The gem still had power. Indeed, but it wasn't part of a set yet. It was probably conceived as just one of the many gizmos in the High Evolutionary tool box, with no other initial attribute than looking cool. Adam could use it to revert ani-men to their original form, but apart from that the gem didn't contribute much; Warlock could already fly, shoot rays from his fists and throw tantrums with Kirby crackle surrounding him. Starlin turned it into Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer (or rather in its jewel-shaped counterpart, the one stuck in Dorian Hawkmoon's forehead). There was a lot of Moorcock in Starlin's work. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 19, 2024 22:22:58 GMT -5
Indeed, but it wasn't part of a set yet. It was probably conceived as just one of the many gizmos in the High Evolutionary tool box, with no other initial attribute than looking cool. Adam could use it to revert ani-men to their original form, but apart from that the gem didn't contribute much; Warlock could already fly, shoot rays from his fists and throw tantrums with Kirby crackle surrounding him. Starlin turned it into Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer (or rather in its jewel-shaped counterpart, the one stuck in Dorian Hawkmoon's forehead). There was a lot of Moorcock in Starlin's work. And Moore and Morrison, and a bit in Mike Grell's Warlord. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 20, 2024 6:01:51 GMT -5
Indeed, but it wasn't part of a set yet. It was probably conceived as just one of the many gizmos in the High Evolutionary tool box, with no other initial attribute than looking cool. Adam could use it to revert ani-men to their original form, but apart from that the gem didn't contribute much; Warlock could already fly, shoot rays from his fists and throw tantrums with Kirby crackle surrounding him. Starlin turned it into Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer (or rather in its jewel-shaped counterpart, the one stuck in Dorian Hawkmoon's forehead). There was a lot of Moorcock in Starlin's work. And Moore and Morrison, and a bit in Mike Grell's Warlord. And let's not forget the excellent Bryan Talbot! |
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Post by Calidore on Nov 20, 2024 16:52:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the guesses - I'm glad that I'm not the only one this doesn't make any sense to. "We're all done" is probably the right answer, but Gould always had a habit of having his characters react in paroxysms of laughter at these gags that I always think, "It has to be funnier than that". From what I've read, Gould always wanted to do bigfoot comedy strips, but just wasn't that good at it. His "comedy" bits in Tracy show both his high opinion of his humor and his actual skill.
Tracy made him rich and famous, but it has to be kind of a bummer being so much more talented at something other than what you really want to do.
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