Monday, April 16, 2007

ANSWERS REVEALED! Spot the Celebrity: Madman Edition!

UPDATE: See the bottom of the post for the answers!

Nobody responded the last time I tried this, but I'll try it again anyway. I was thinking about doing a theme week about Madman in celebration of the release of Madman Atomic Comics #1, but I never got the time to do it. I've been too busy. But here's one that didn't take me too long to put together; name the celebrity being caricatured in each of these images from various Madman comics:

1 (appearing as himself, as far as I can tell):



2 (these two work(ed) together, both in the comic and real life):



3 (kind of tough, but here are some hints: the character's name is Stewie Stompero, and his girlfriend/wife in the comic is named Avalon):



4 (this is actually an appearance by a character that the actor played):



It's kind of hard to tell, so here he is in context:



Bonus! from the pages of X-Statix (ignore the gills):



If you know the answer(s) to any of these, please leave a comment. The prize for winning is my undying respect. Oh, and you could leave a comment on the original post as well, since I was kind of bummed that nobody responded (I'm going for pity here).
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That's all I have for today, unless inspiration strikes me later tonight. I might do more Madman-themed posts if I feel the urge. Stay tuned and find out!
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ANSWERS:

Everything except #3 was answered by commenters, but here are the official answers:

1: Clint Eastwood
2: Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter
3: Robert Rodriguez (I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be him; he's friends with Mike Allred, his wife is named Elizabeth Avellan, and his initials are R.R. (which comes before S.S. for Stewie Stompero). Here's a picture for reference:

And another one for a similar angle as in the panel)
4: Steve Buscemi (as Mr. Pink!)
Bonus: Brian Posehn (not Greg, but close enough)

Thanks for the answers, everybody!

7 comments:

  1. I'm pretty sure the first one is Mark Waid, and the last one is that guy who used to be on Mr. Show who I keep seeing in VH1 metal documentaries. I think he might read comics too?

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  2. Ah, Dick, you always crack me up. You did make me look up a picture of Mark Waid though (and check out Alex Ross in that pic; apparently he's quite the metal fan).

    And you're right about the last one, but I won't spoil his name if anyone else wants to guess.

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  3. 1 Clint Eastwood

    4 Steve Buscemi

    I hope you will answer for the others...

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  4. You are correct! I'll wait a couple more days to reveal answers if nobody else guesses. However, I will note that not only is #4 Steve Buscemi, it is his character Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs! In a scene from The Superman/Madman Hullaballoo, he actually gains a portion of Superman's powers. Fun!

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  5. We got Eastwood, Conan and Andy, Greg Posehn, Buscemi, but NO IDEA about the Stewie Stompero cat!

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  6. I knew all of those srom seeing them the first time, except for Robbie/Stewie. The only reason I knew him was because it says so in the back of the trade paperback containing that issue.

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  7. Also, clint eastwood isn't playing himself, he's one of the three neophytes.

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