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Post by Cei-U! on May 2, 2021 15:30:52 GMT -5
I've been pronouncing it "Moan-El" for as long as I can remember, though I'd long forgotten why. Maybe I saw that letters page blurb as a tyke, remembered the fact but forgot the source?
Also, I've always pronounced "Dormammu" the way they did in the movie, with the third syllable stressed. Dunno why, just that it always felt right
Cei-U! And its "KAY-sar," dammit!
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Post by codystarbuck on May 2, 2021 15:43:43 GMT -5
I've been pronouncing it "Moan-El" for as long as I can remember, though I'd long forgotten why. Maybe I saw that letters page blurb as a tyke, remembered the fact but forgot the source? Also, I've always pronounced "Dormammu" the way they did in the movie, with the third syllable stressed. Dunno why, just that it always felt right Cei-U! And its "KAY-sar," dammit! No, no; it's pronounced Tar-zan.... Tarrrrr-zannn...... Or, sometimes...Mow-glee...
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Post by profh0011 on May 2, 2021 15:45:25 GMT -5
Essentials and Showcase were a blessing for they allowed me reading much of early Marvel and DC that I would never been capable of enjoying. I remember, in the late 80s, when Marvel Masterworks and DC Archives began, my feeling wasn't so much, "What a great idea", as, "What the HELL took them SO LONG???"
Later, when I started getting some of the Essential books, I felt they were a wonderful way to get that many comics of a run, for so CHEAP. It was also nice when there were crossovers, that both sides of a crossover were in the same book. And then you had something like the ESSENTIAL MARVEL HORROR books, which collected short-run series that had, insanely, jumped from magazine to magazine to magazine in their short lifespans. The Essential book allowed to you get ALL the episodes and appearances, in one neat place.
I wonder how much more popular some Marvel or DC series might have been, decades back, if, instead of doing those random reprint series, which later got reduced to just single reprint series running parallel with the new issues, they'd done "proper" collections of EVERY episode starting from the beginning.
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Post by berkley on May 2, 2021 15:45:59 GMT -5
I've been pronouncing it "Moan-El" for as long as I can remember, though I'd long forgotten why. Maybe I saw that letters page blurb as a tyke, remembered the fact but forgot the source? Also, I've always pronounced "Dormammu" the way they did in the movie, with the third syllable stressed. Dunno why, just that it always felt right Cei-U! And its "KAY-sar," dammit! No, no; it's pronounced Tar-zan.... Tarrrrr-zannn...... Or, sometimes...Mow-glee... Or En-kee-doo ...
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Post by profh0011 on May 2, 2021 15:48:49 GMT -5
The MANDRAKE movie serial absurdly had a Hawaiian sidekick whose name was pronounced "Luh-THARR".
A decade later, the unsold TV pilot had a BLACK sidekick, named "LOW-thar." Right and double-right.
The serial got the girlfriend wrong, too. I forget her name, but she was blonde. The TV pilot had Narda, who had jet-black hair.
How difficult is it to get the small details right?
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Post by badwolf on May 2, 2021 19:08:47 GMT -5
It's pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove. Tony Stark had a luxury yacht called Throatwarbler Mangrove in Iron Man #140. And a letter writer picked up on it. I hadn't discovered Monty Python yet, so both the reference and the response passed me by.
When I did finally see the sketch I thought "hang on a moment..." and scrambled for the comics box.
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 2, 2021 19:43:21 GMT -5
Did anyone figure out Bicycle Repairman’s secret identity?
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Post by kirby101 on May 2, 2021 20:42:59 GMT -5
Did anyone figure out Bicycle Repairman’s secret identity? No, but you should see him use a spanner.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 4, 2021 11:13:48 GMT -5
Oh, 'a's alright. It's all in a day's work for Bicycle Repairman.
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Post by commond on May 6, 2021 6:09:52 GMT -5
Howard the Duck #16 may be the worst comic book I've ever read.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 6, 2021 8:48:56 GMT -5
I spent almost my whole comic-life not knowing the J in Red Sonja is pronounced like a Y....and I prefer the J sound so I'll stick with that.
There, hooked-on-phonics for comics is required as well.
In Conan #23, it is said that the J in Sonja's name is a Hyrkanian semi-vowel. Conan pronounces Son-ya, and she corrects him... so our common American way of pronouncing her name is incorrect too. (Heck, I personally mispronounce "Conan" by putting an equal emphasis on both syllables. Like you, I prefer it that way and will stick with it). And it's KAH-Zar, dammit, no matter what Stan Lee himself says!!!
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Post by kirby101 on May 6, 2021 8:51:26 GMT -5
Howard the Duck #16 may be the worst comic book I've ever read. I thought that comic was wonderful. Such a brilliant, meta essay on comics. With beautiful two page illustrations from a wide array of artists. I loved how Gerber was pushing boundaries.
A welcome relief from the dreaded deadline doom.
And these two pages later became a mini series at Vertigo/DC.
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Post by badwolf on May 6, 2021 9:18:59 GMT -5
I hated that issue too.
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Post by Prince Hal on May 6, 2021 10:05:47 GMT -5
I spent almost my whole comic-life not knowing the J in Red Sonja is pronounced like a Y....and I prefer the J sound so I'll stick with that.
There, hooked-on-phonics for comics is required as well.
In Conan #23, it is said that the J in Sonja's name is a Hyrkanian semi-vowel. Conan pronounces Son-ya, and she corrects him... so our common American way of pronouncing her name is incorrect too. (Heck, I personally mispronounce "Conan" by putting an equal emphasis on both syllables. Like you, I prefer it that way and will stick with it). And it's KAH-Zar, dammit, no matter what Stan Lee himself says!!! Apparently, these guys know how to pronounce it. And is it CO-nan, co- NAN or co-nan? I go with the third, though I've heard the first. Never have heard the second.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 6, 2021 10:29:08 GMT -5
In Conan #23, it is said that the J in Sonja's name is a Hyrkanian semi-vowel. Conan pronounces Son-ya, and she corrects him... so our common American way of pronouncing her name is incorrect too. (Heck, I personally mispronounce "Conan" by putting an equal emphasis on both syllables. Like you, I prefer it that way and will stick with it). And it's KAH-Zar, dammit, no matter what Stan Lee himself says!!! Apparently, these guys know how to pronounce it. And is it CO-nan, co- NAN or co-nan? I go with the third, though I've heard the first. Never have heard the second. As I recall, it's pronounced as in Arthur Conan Doyle. I was however influenced by the trailer for the John Milius movie in 1982! Another thing from that movie that isn't canon! (Although the real pronounciation must surely be the French one, par Crom!!!)
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