Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION Spaceopoly The Non-Legion Comics Trivia Thread Pt 5

Nope.

Hint: This is a current, ongoing comic book

Shows how much attention I'm paying to the current solits. I'm not getting this one.

Since googling is zero fun, I sneakily went off to the pull list thread. Not much there. Then I thought, if only there was a thread where someone talked about all their trades. It turns out there's a gazillion on there. But just above that, some nice poster has posted something that might fit the name. So, since I'm Sneak Lad I'll give others some time to guess...

I am impressed by your detective work, Sneak Lad!

Something is Killing the Children?

That would be the comic! This book is wildly popular and buzzworthy, so I thought it would at least be on many of your radars, even if you've not personally read it. Guess I was worng.

Over to stile....

with me, it's more that I just don't follow comics news much anymore

Nor I.

I went for Luthor's Plot Is Foiled By Superman Once Again, as my on the nose title for my pull list.

Sorry about the delay. Away from home with some internet connection issues.

I haven't read Something is Killing the Children but have heard some buzz suggesting that it is quite liked by some readers.

Dr Doom once attempted to trap the Avengers to use as bait to trap the Fantastic Four, but it doesn't work (Surprise!). Why doesn't it work (the Avengers escape of course but even if they hadn't it would have failed)?

Bonus question: Any idea how he came to trick the Avengers in the first place? (Hint: this is fairly early in their history.)

The FF were unavailable anyway?

Wanda hexes his controls, opening the dome he'd used to cover all of his country?

No they were available and willing.
Aha! A man who remembers the adventure!
It was actually Quicksilver who found the lever to open the dome, and the Scarlet Witch who hexed Doom's controls preventing him from closing it again.

However that is not why he failed to trap the FF. Even if Cap's Kooky Quartet had not escaped, the FF would not have been trapped.

Mr. Fantastic had a device that would have let them escape the trap anyway?

For a minute, I thought that this would be another of those ones where I'm close, but not close enough ones. But stile rephrasing the question made me remember. The FF wanted to go and help, but we're denied clearance to do so. Probably by the US gov, to avoid an international incident.

Thoth has it exactly. Thus no matter what happened to the Avengers the FF would not have been trapped.

Bonus fact: How Dr Doom tricked the Avengers in the first place was by sending a letter under an alias to Wanda and Pietro that he had information that might reveal who their parents were. (This was before even the very first of the many retconned "facts" of their ancestry.) So all the Avengers supported the twins by trooping off to ... Latveria! Only when they get off the train do they suddenly remember that the ruler of the nation is Dr Doom, whereupon they are promptly arrested. Real smooth work there team.

Your turn Thoth.

They never were a team showed a lot of detective prowess. Perhaps they all really knew, but had all just squabbled and weren't talking to each other to share the information. These were the "I could beat a dozen of the likes of you from my rocking chair."issues of Cap's leadership.

I read these only in the last couple of years thanks to a massive discount on masterworks on comixology.

New Q soon...

I am reading them at the moment which is why they were on my mind.

While DC was crunching down on multiple version of characters during the Crisis, the alternate universe versions of the cast of one book came over from their universe, and therefore presumably survived Crisis. Which book was it?

Zoo Crew?

Good question. No idea but good question.

Not zoo crew, but the title has a light tone.


This is where taking a punt and getting tips narrows it down.

Sugar and Spike?

Yeah, sorry about that. Just tired and traveling.

How about Blue Devil?

Hope you get some good rest tonight stile no need to be sorry!