Picture Quiz
April 30th, 2006
Filed under: Comics
An easy one here — nobody better miss this!
Scene from Annihilation Prologue
Words by Giffen, Art by Kolins
(Edited by Lazer, Sitterson, and Schmidt)
| Hint One: Calling it a “Picture Quiz” is really a misnomer |
| Hint Two: I listed the editors. I wonder why? |
| Hint Three: Look here. |
All nit-picking aside, I’m really enjoung the Annihilation storyline, and I’m not usually much on Marvel’s cosmic-level stories. Looks better than Civil War, that’s for sure.
April 30th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
This is fucking unbelievable.
I’m having a hard time getting into the highly-lauded Rocketo. Why? Because in issue #0 (which starts the TPB I wasted my money on), there are numerous mistakes like this. I’ve sticky-noted a bunch. Did that issue have an editor? It looks like issue #1 is better, but I don’t care. Issue #0 was awful on so many levels, one of which was grammar. Why do people love it so much.
Great post.
April 30th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Haven’t checked the hints, but “cede over you’re“? Hello, grammar check in aisle 3 please.
April 30th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
Official Comment
That’s half right…
April 30th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
“your coming in”…
They used a possesive noun where they should have used a subject-verb contraction.
They used a subject-verb contraction (”cede over you’re”) where a possessive noun was apropriate.
They switched “your” and “you’re”. Did I get the technicalities right?
April 30th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Official Comment
Bingo.
YourYou’re correct.May 1st, 2006 at 1:44 am
While we’re at it:
“cede over your…” should probably be “cede your…”, or better, “cede control of your…”, or better still, “yield control of your…”.
“three…two…MARK” should be “three…two…one…MARK”.
Sigh. Kids these days.
May 1st, 2006 at 2:53 am
This isn’t the only recent example:
Green Arrow #61: story Page 7, third caption:
“I know. Unfortunately, it’s demolition will cost more than it’s creation.”
Aaaaaaargh! Must… find… small… furry… animals… to… kick… to… death…
May 1st, 2006 at 1:49 pm
With editing, your guaranteed an easy job, because its not important to know everything, so you just need to look like your doing a job good.
Idiots.
May 1st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
*snicks like a little school girl if the seeming typos above weren’t an intentional mistake*
May 1st, 2006 at 3:56 pm
I’m actually amused that they got it exactly backwards. Two different uses of you’re/your in one word balloon and they’re BOTH wrong. I’d say that at least they’re consistent, but in the very next word balloon they get it right with “you’re in control”.
Hmmm - they sit right above each other in the panel - if the letterer got the right version of the script, and accidentally exchanged the words, I could see how the editor might glance right over and miss it in the final version. Annoying that it might slip by, but I can see how it might happen here.
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