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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:49 pm
by Disembodied
Dang! I thought my clue was more subtle than that.
However, it's not strictly speaking from Marvelman ... although that was his name when he first appeared in the 1950s, legal snarlups with Marvel comics following his 1980s revival (and total re-imagining) resulted in a name-change to Miracleman.
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:04 pm
by Cody
Disembodied wrote:
Can anyone get the evil genius without using Google?
Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:25 pm
by Disembodied
El Viejo wrote:Only if I were to travel forty odd miles and visit a friend who still has all the old comics.
What, he doesn't have a phone?
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:38 pm
by Cody
Disembodied wrote:
What, he doesn't have a phone?
Imaginary phone conversation:
Me:
“Hi… could you struggle up to your loft, fight your way through a lifetimes junk, find those boxes with the old superhero comics in,
dig out the Marvelman comics and tell me the name of the evil genius, please.”
Reply:
“Why don’t you Google it?”
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:16 pm
by Disembodied
Hmm, yes, it would sound a little insane. But you never know, he might know it without having to look in the loft.
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:10 am
by Disembodied
OK, expecting people to remember villains from comic books from the 1980s is obviously a bit much. Google if you want to! (Of course, you could always use Wikipedia instead.)
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:18 am
by Cody
Is it Dr. Gargunza?
Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:45 pm
by Disembodied
Yup! El Viejo scores (as in only right and proper, since he was the first to crack the Blondie clue).
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:53 am
by Cody
To continue with the musical theme:
Which classic sci-fi novel links Papua New Guinea with Pink Floyd?
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:35 pm
by Commander McLane
Hmmm. Arthur C. Clarke's The Fountains of Paradise (sort of) features Sri Lanka, but I don't remember Papua New Guinea, nor Pink Floyd, for that matter...
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:58 pm
by Cody
Ah… ‘The Fountains of Paradise’… a really good book.
But it’s not the answer.
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 2:24 pm
by snork
I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to
Equatorial Guinea.
(The Dogs of War)
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:29 pm
by Commander McLane
snork wrote:I tried, but all I could come up with is a non-SF novel linking a Pink Floyd song to
Equatorial Guinea.
(The Dogs of War)
Oh, there's more...
Look
here for a debate about whether it was
Pink Floyd or a single by
FSOL named
Papua New Guinea accidentally invented Techno.
And then there is the track
Mudmen on
Obscured By Clouds, which
seems to have something to do with Papua New Guinea.
Unfortunately none of this so far has anything to do with a classic SF-novel.
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:53 am
by Cody
Another musical clue:
The final scenes of the novel inspired the cover art for one of Led Zeppelin’s albums.
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:34 am
by Disembodied
Ah! Could it be Arthur C Clark's Childhood's End?