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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 7, 2020 11:38:10 GMT -5
I don't know if this has been done here before or not, but I was thinking it might be nice to have a thread where people can post Easter eggs. As most of you probably know, Easter eggs are some kind of a "hidden" message, word, or image in a comic, which somebody "in the know" would understand the significance of. So, here are a few: Fantastic Four #112Note the General Forbush statue. Irving Forbush was a fictional Marvel employee. The Brave and the Bold #149The "Levitz Arms Service Entrance" sign which of course refers to Paul Levitz Giant-Size Defenders #5The "Verpoorten's Meat Market" sign referring to artist John Verpoorten Detective Comics #493The boxing poster. One of the combatants is "K.O. Levitz" The Flash (1987) #17Newspaper headline says "Mahlstedt Goes Bald" referring to inker Larry Mahstedt.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 7, 2020 12:32:24 GMT -5
Oooh, I always think of those as 'potzrebies' which was coined when E.C. artists like Elder and Wood would sneak things into backgrounds. My more modern favorite is Terry Austin sneaking Popeye into X-Men backgrounds. There was a lot of such stuff in the graffiti on the walls in X-Men #122, again mostly down to Austin I think. Easter Eggs I think of DVDs, like the stuff hidden in the one for the first Iron Man movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 12:36:00 GMT -5
Hey people....just in case I haven't had my coffee yet...can you point out what the Easter egg is? Just in case it remains 'hidden' to the masses
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 7, 2020 13:15:22 GMT -5
Hey people....just in case I haven't had my coffee yet...can you point out what the Easter egg is? Just in case it remains 'hidden' to the masses Like Beccabear says, it's mostly used in movies to refer to some hidden message or image in the picture, something that most people won't even notice but somebody very observant (and knowledgeable about whatever the Easter egg happens to be referring to) or someone who can watch it over and over on DVD will catch. In comics, it's something sort of hidden in the art, like an image (as Beccabear mentions Popeye being hidden in the background) or perhaps a sign or newspaper headline in the background which might have the name of a comic book creator, for example. The one I've posted, for example, have the names of comic book creators (Levitz appears in two of my Easter eggs) and Forbush appears in one of them (Irving Forbush was a fictional Marvel employee). I don't know if my explanation was helpful or not, but if not, someone else can take a crack at it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 13:27:14 GMT -5
Hey people....just in case I haven't had my coffee yet...can you point out what the Easter egg is? Just in case it remains 'hidden' to the masses Like Beccabear says, it's mostly used in movies to refer to some hidden message or image in the picture, something that most people won't even notice but somebody very observant (and knowledgeable about whatever the Easter egg happens to be referring to) or someone who can watch it over and over on DVD will catch. In comics, it's something sort of hidden in the art, like an image (as Beccabear mentions Popeye being hidden in the background) or perhaps a sign or newspaper headline in the background which might have the name of a comic book creator, for example. The one I've posted, for example, have the names of comic book creators (Levitz appears in two of my Easter eggs) and Forbush appears in one of them (Irving Forbush was a fictional Marvel employee). I don't know if my explanation was helpful or not, but if not, someone else can take a crack at it. I think she meant the specific Easter Egg in the example you posted. It's not always that obvious.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 13:31:25 GMT -5
Top Ten and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are filled with 'em, to the point that people (Jess Nevins) started annotating them. Mt favorite on that page is bottom center; the mouse with an eye patch. It's Danger Mouse!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 7, 2020 13:36:17 GMT -5
ps Note that the Hercules mouse is drawn in the costuming of the 1970s DC series, with Walt Simonson, since DC was publishing this.
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 13:43:58 GMT -5
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 13:48:43 GMT -5
Alex Ross' work on Marvels and Kingdom Come was pretty much a nonstop "Where's Waldo?" of Easter Eggs in the background of every crowd scene. Way too many to list them all here, so I'll give one example where the foreground is a gone-to-seed drunken Marvin from Super-Friends, and the background is a superhero Village People.
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 13:52:34 GMT -5
Top Ten and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are filled with 'em, to the point that people (Jess Nevins) started annotating them. I had to read that series with a magnifying glass to try to catch all the Easter Eggs. It needs a treasury-sized Absolute release. Here's our thread on the series, which enumerates some of the Easter Eggs.
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Post by The Cheat on Jun 7, 2020 13:53:24 GMT -5
I really hate the "name something after an old creator" trope, it's so overdone at this point. Pulls me out of the story every time. Citizens in Gotham must get really confused since there's about 8 "Finger Streets", 5 "Kane Avenues", 6 "Conway Hotels", e.t.c.
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 13:55:25 GMT -5
Lots of Easter Eggs in the first series of The Ultimates too. Here's Black Widow and Hawkeye strolling past Rick Jones' diner.
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 14:04:14 GMT -5
I really hate the "name something after an old creator" trope, it's so overdone at this point. Pulls me out of the story every time. Citizens in Gotham must get really confused since there's about 8 "Finger Streets", 5 "Kane Avenues", 6 "Conway Hotels", e.t.c. That nukes Kurt Busiek's Astro City, which was rife with those sorts of tributes. But even if you ignore "Binderbeck Plaza" and "Fox-Broome University" and "Mount Kirby," and even if you take out every single hero and villain which homages a classic character, there's still all kinds of eye candy in the background, like this trophy room full of Kirbyesque souvenirs like Sentinels, New Genesis-style gloves and weapons, an Ant-Man helmet, etc.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jun 7, 2020 14:11:33 GMT -5
Like Beccabear says, it's mostly used in movies to refer to some hidden message or image in the picture, something that most people won't even notice but somebody very observant (and knowledgeable about whatever the Easter egg happens to be referring to) or someone who can watch it over and over on DVD will catch. In comics, it's something sort of hidden in the art, like an image (as Beccabear mentions Popeye being hidden in the background) or perhaps a sign or newspaper headline in the background which might have the name of a comic book creator, for example. The one I've posted, for example, have the names of comic book creators (Levitz appears in two of my Easter eggs) and Forbush appears in one of them (Irving Forbush was a fictional Marvel employee). I don't know if my explanation was helpful or not, but if not, someone else can take a crack at it. I think she meant the specific Easter Egg in the example you posted. It's not always that obvious. Oh, duh! Thanks. First one, as I said in my reply to Rags, is the General Forbush statue. Irving Forbush was a fictional Marvel employee. Second one is the "Levitz Arms Service Entrance" sign which of course refers to Paul Levitz. Third one is the "Verpoorten's Meat Market" sign referring to artist John Verpoorten. Fourth one is the boxing poster. One of the combatants is "K.O. Levitz". Fifth one - Newspaper headline says "Mahlstedt Goes Bald" referring to inker Larry Mahstedt. Maybe I'll update my initial post to add that info.
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Post by rberman on Jun 7, 2020 14:29:30 GMT -5
Like Kurt Busiek's Astro City and Alan Moore's Top Ten, Grant Morrison's Multiversity was a nonstop avalanche of deep-dive comic book references, perhaps nowhere moreso than in the issue entitled The Just, which re-imagined a zillion superheroes and villains as figures in a TV teen show like "Beverly Hills 90210," gossiping and scheming about each other.
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