Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. NUMB3RS is a show I watch every week. Tonight's episode was called "Graphic", about the theft of a rare comic book.
The theft happens at "ALT CON" in Los Angeles (sign-age done to resemble SDCC's). And in one of the display cases I spotted the WANTED graphic novel. Later on there was a big, glaring poster on the back side of a booth that happened to be one of Andy Park's 10th Muse #6 cover (from the Image run of the series). And I believe I spotted a whole bunch of other indy comics too -- the first one to leap out at me was QUANTUM: Rock Of Ages on a spin rack!!! They've been using panels from various well known titles to make scene transitions too -- the first one was a panel from the Witchblade issue where she's attending her partner's funeral in one of last year's issues. It's very interesting to see.
As well there's guest stars like the Wil Wheaton (Star Trek), Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Future) and others. And that was only 20 minutes into the episode. They even named the "original creator" character (Lloyd) ROSS MOORE. That made me think of Alex Ross and Alan Moore for some random reason.
The story is a bit confusing to follow but its really neat as they have different characters explain aspects of the comic book industry from collecting value, ownership of copyrights, forgeries, etc. They even compare art from the various "artists" in the episode to try to find the forger (like a copycat artist).
Did anyone else watch it?
Last edited by Mechangel; 11-24-2007 at 12:32 AM.
It was cool plot idea for Numb3rs, I thought the story was ok overall, and I liked as Wheaton as the McFarlane of the tv version comic world. It was hilarious to hear about his career path described by the Marlowe guy, who was such a tool as the "historian" of comic knowledge by the way. As of fan of the show, it wasn't a great one, but as i said, it was ok.
Several people have mentioned the McFarlane thing to me now and I really don't see it XD
I thought the ending was kinda lame, but I loved what they said about hiding things in the art -- it made me mention what Ottley did in Invincible to my parents who were watching the show with me lol.
I caught this on Veoh. Pretty cool. I've caught numbers, before and it looked interesting, but the shows formula just seemed too repetitive to me.
Does Ottley really hide stuff in his art? I never noticed.
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It does get repetitive if you're not that into science and math
Hehe I believe I recall a story where he hid a phrase about Kirkman on a wall in some foreign language in an issue.
Is he really the great great great etc etc great grand daughter of jesus and he is hinting at it in his drawerings!?!?Originally Posted by Mechangel
It does get repetitive if you're not that into science and math
Hehe I believe I recall a story where he hid a phrase about Kirkman on a wall in some foreign language in an issue.
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