Do You Know How Santa Gets Around?
The 2013 Christmas Quiz. Or, As I like to Call it:
HAPPY QUIZmas!
So, something a bit different as a seasonal treat this year. To help you in your post turkey haze I have put together a list of most fiendish (though not that fiendish) questions covering all the material featured in Transformation in 2013. That’s from issue 34 through to 85 (though like a maverick I’ve gone slightly beyond that frame for question 12). The astute of you will have noticed that includes a few issues I haven’t yet reached at the time of this post going up: That’s how fiendish this is.
It’s not all just for fun though, there are prizes as well! But marginally rubbish prizes. First up: A complete set of the 8 Marvel UK Christmas cards I’ve made this year using the Christmas covers, and one bit of interior art, from the comic (as seen on the left). Second: the two issues of IDW’s Chaos Theory two parter (featuring, amongst other things, Emirate Xaaron and the VVH) signed by James Roberts!
Now, that actually sounds like a good prize, but they’re signed “To Stuart”, so unless your name is Stuart, that is indeed a bit rubbish. Though the comics themselves are great, I’m only moving them on as I have the trade (also signed) now.
Third however, is a Good Prize: IDW colourist and Lou Scannon writer/artist Kris Carter’s collection of his fan fiction comics (orders HERE if you missed it/can't wait to win, it is for charity) which I’ve promoted before (this isn’t published until late January and as such may be sent later than the other prizes).
The competition is open from now until December 31st, with the winner announced between then and the end of January. All entries should be sent via email to [email protected] and include an address to post the prizes to if you win. In the event of multiple people getting the same top score I shall pull the final winner’s name out of a hat.
I will add a link to a blog post to the end of the quiz with the winner’s name and the correct answers, for those reading in the future you can still play along and see how well you’ve done even if you don’t win anything.
My decisions are final; in the event of anything turning out to be wrong it is always reality that is in error.
The 12 Questions of Christmas!
Question 1: Which long standing contributor to the UK comic turns out to run his own engineering company in the Ladybird book Laserbeak’s Fury?
Question 2: What was significant about the name of Matt’s little robot friend in Matt and the Cat?
Question 3: During the period I’ve covered this year Geoff Senior art technically made its first appearance within an American created story, how and where?
Question 4: Rocket Raccoon has a spaceship with a name that almost certainly influenced something in Target: 2006, what was it?
Question 5: Which real life band was playing in Portland the week after Rock and Roll Out!?
Question 6: According to Grimlock, which popular hit of 1986 did Soundwave contribute vocals to?
Question 7: For how many days straight had Bomber Bill been in the saddle for when he had his truck stolen by Constructicons?
Question 8: Which Marvel characters can be seen in I, Robot Master! (but not the IDW version)?
Question 9: Which two Autobots definitely have wall plaques alongside Optimus Prime in the Resistance Autobase in The Smelting Pool! (bonus points if you can convince me of the identities of the two further away along the back wall)?
Question 10: Of the four locations the Autobots went hunting for Dinbots in Dinobot Hunt!, which was the only one to be a real world location?
Question 11: Which two Autobots lose their heads to Shockwave in Buster’s first dream in Second Generation?
Question 12: What do The Icarus Theory, In the National Interest, Target: 2006 (though not some of the individual issues) and The Gift all have in common that none of the other main comic stories in 1986 do?
GOOD LUCK!
ISSUE 82
1986
RESULTS
It’s not all just for fun though, there are prizes as well! But marginally rubbish prizes. First up: A complete set of the 8 Marvel UK Christmas cards I’ve made this year using the Christmas covers, and one bit of interior art, from the comic (as seen on the left). Second: the two issues of IDW’s Chaos Theory two parter (featuring, amongst other things, Emirate Xaaron and the VVH) signed by James Roberts!
Now, that actually sounds like a good prize, but they’re signed “To Stuart”, so unless your name is Stuart, that is indeed a bit rubbish. Though the comics themselves are great, I’m only moving them on as I have the trade (also signed) now.
Third however, is a Good Prize: IDW colourist and Lou Scannon writer/artist Kris Carter’s collection of his fan fiction comics (orders HERE if you missed it/can't wait to win, it is for charity) which I’ve promoted before (this isn’t published until late January and as such may be sent later than the other prizes).
The competition is open from now until December 31st, with the winner announced between then and the end of January. All entries should be sent via email to [email protected] and include an address to post the prizes to if you win. In the event of multiple people getting the same top score I shall pull the final winner’s name out of a hat.
I will add a link to a blog post to the end of the quiz with the winner’s name and the correct answers, for those reading in the future you can still play along and see how well you’ve done even if you don’t win anything.
My decisions are final; in the event of anything turning out to be wrong it is always reality that is in error.
The 12 Questions of Christmas!
Question 1: Which long standing contributor to the UK comic turns out to run his own engineering company in the Ladybird book Laserbeak’s Fury?
Question 2: What was significant about the name of Matt’s little robot friend in Matt and the Cat?
Question 3: During the period I’ve covered this year Geoff Senior art technically made its first appearance within an American created story, how and where?
Question 4: Rocket Raccoon has a spaceship with a name that almost certainly influenced something in Target: 2006, what was it?
Question 5: Which real life band was playing in Portland the week after Rock and Roll Out!?
Question 6: According to Grimlock, which popular hit of 1986 did Soundwave contribute vocals to?
Question 7: For how many days straight had Bomber Bill been in the saddle for when he had his truck stolen by Constructicons?
Question 8: Which Marvel characters can be seen in I, Robot Master! (but not the IDW version)?
Question 9: Which two Autobots definitely have wall plaques alongside Optimus Prime in the Resistance Autobase in The Smelting Pool! (bonus points if you can convince me of the identities of the two further away along the back wall)?
Question 10: Of the four locations the Autobots went hunting for Dinbots in Dinobot Hunt!, which was the only one to be a real world location?
Question 11: Which two Autobots lose their heads to Shockwave in Buster’s first dream in Second Generation?
Question 12: What do The Icarus Theory, In the National Interest, Target: 2006 (though not some of the individual issues) and The Gift all have in common that none of the other main comic stories in 1986 do?
GOOD LUCK!
ISSUE 82
1986
RESULTS
