The No-Prize, back at Marvel.

[Darthphere]

http://www.newsarama.com/WW_Chicago_06/Marvel/cupojoe.html

Brevoort announced the return of the “No-Prize” to the Marvel reader landscape, and look for more details on that Saturday evening here at Newsarama.

I think this is Marvel's move to bring some tighter continuity.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

God, they won't be able to handle all the no prize mail

 

[Darthphere]

How they going to mail back the no-prize?

 

[Cyclops]

Maybe they won't send you an email as your no-prize.

 

[Darthphere]

Awesome.

 

[The Question]

As long as I can print it out and hold it in my hand, I'm solid.

 

[Cyclops]

As long as I can print it out and hold it in my hand, I'm solid.

How can you print an e-mail that they don't send you?

 

[Sentry2005]

How can you print an e-mail that they don't send you?

Magic powers?

 

[The Question]

How can you print an e-mail that they don't send you?

Hmmmm.....



Maybe they'll send you an E-Mail labled "No-Prize," and it'll be blank.

 

[sag002]

But that would be sending an email now, wouldnt it. Maybe they won't put your plaque onto a wall.

 

[The Question]

With the origional No-Prizes, they sent you an envelope in the mail. There was just nothing in it. Looked like this:

Could do the same with E-Mails.

 

[Darthphere]

They'd send the e-mail with an attachment and it opens a blank Word document.

 

[Vartha]

lol OMG is Marvel going to be pound by mail lol

 

[MyPokerShirt]

correct me if i'm wrong but don't you only get a no-prize for explaining how the mistake in continuity wasnt a mistake? seeing as there are very few good ways to save some of the bad continuity used recently i don't think marvel will be too overwhelmed with no-prize winners.

how do you explain pete thinking tony didnt know about his spider-sense? he just forgot?!?
or why a simple x-ray (which must have been done after the tests post the Other) couldn't pick up simple bone stingers in pete's arms, therefore giving tony a shock when pete used them on national television in FNSM? um... they were hidden within another bone?? this crap is too difficult to explain away.

 

[Darthphere]

My letters would all consist of, "Wanda did it" and "read bottom for clarification" then "Read this letter again knowing what you know about Wanda"

 

[The Question]

correct me if i'm wrong but don't you only get a no-prize for explaining how the mistake in continuity wasnt a mistake? seeing as there are very few good ways to save some of the bad continuity used recently i don't think marvel will be too overwhelmed with no-prize winners.

Not exactly. How it works is that you point out a continuity mistake, and then come up with a clever excuse. It can be rather absurd if you like.

 

[Fading]

Not exactly. How it works is that you point out a continuity mistake, and then come up with a clever excuse. It can be rather absurd if you like.

Like, how did Spiderman grow an eye back and have stingers come out of his wrist?

Answer: It was actually one of the thousands of Wolverine clones that spawns each time a drop of blood gets away from him, this also explains how he's in so many places at once.

 

[Harlekin]

Yes, a return to the days of old, something Marvel sorely needs.

 

[Doc Destruction]

HOLY CRAP.

Good. I hope this trend continues. I really do.

 

[The Geek Vault]

wait um can anyone explain what a no-prize is?

 

[hippy fascist]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-Prize

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Hopefully this'll help plug up the continuity leaks Marvel keeps springing. I doubt I'll ever be constructive enough to send them explanations for continuity f***-ups, but fans less jaded and cynical than I am could really help Marvel out.

 

[Darthphere]

Hopefully this'll help plug up the continuity leaks Marvel keeps springing. I doubt I'll ever be constructive enough to send them explanations for continuity f***-ups, but fans less jaded and cynical than I am could really help Marvel out.

They really needed this during New Avengers:Breakout and The Other.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Don't lie. They really needed this for just about every recent arc.

 

[Darthphere]

Probably.