"I've had it. NO MORE."

[Valiant_1]

Hey! I don't know if anyone's touched on this before, but I was flipping through my ACCLAIM comics last published issues, and came across something weird.

On the inside cover to V3 Shadow Man # 6, V2 Armorines # 4, Quantum and Woody # 21, and UNITY 2000 # 3, at the bottom left of the page where they keep the publishing information, there is a little half-sentence blurb written by Walter Black (?), Acclaim's former publisher. Each book says the following:

V3 Shadowman # 6 = "Let me see that TH****!!!"

Quantum and Woody # 21 = "I just drank a glass of Shut-Up juice. Yum."

V2 Armorines # 4 = "No more late books if it kills me...and only me."

Unity 2000 # 3 = "I've had it. NO MORE."

I was curious about the last one. Was this Acclaim's way of saying they were through w/ comics? Or was this another reference to publishing late books? Something altogether different?

Any thoughts?

[Todd Luck]

Hey! I don't know if anyone's touched on this before, but I was flipping through my ACCLAIM comics last published issues, and came across something weird.

On the inside cover to V3 Shadow Man # 6, V2 Armorines # 4, Quantum and Woody # 21, and UNITY 2000 # 3, at the bottom left of the page where they keep the publishing information, there is a little half-sentence blurb written by Walter Black (?), Acclaim's former publisher. Each book says the following:

V3 Shadowman # 6 = "Let me see that TH****!!!"

Quantum and Woody # 21 = "I just drank a glass of Shut-Up juice. Yum."

V2 Armorines # 4 = "No more late books if it kills me...and only me."

Unity 2000 # 3 = "I've had it. NO MORE."

I was curious about the last one. Was this Acclaim's way of saying they were through w/ comics? Or was this another reference to publishing late books? Something altogether different?

Any thoughts?

If I'm remembering correctly he put little strange things like that in the legal type just for fun (not the only guy I've seen do that). From what I remember, Walter Black got booted well after he could've wrote anything in those issues. Remember Unity 2000 3 (not to mention the others) were VERY late. Actually U2000 was so late that it had to be reshipped to the distributor after Diamond sent it back because all the original orders had been canceled (that delayed the book another month or so)! By the time it came out Black had been replaced by Perham who was there as those last issues hit the shops and gave a futile attempt to publish more Acclaim comics before the higher ups at Acclaim axed the comic line.

[depluto]

Regardless of why he wrote it, it sure as heck was appropriate.

[Daniel Jackson]

I just got the Unity 2000 #3 book out and seen the phrase "I've had it. NO MORE."you are talking about. I would have probably never caught that in a million years had you not pointed it out, but this sort of thing goes on all of the time. I can't think of all the different cases right now but I remember Disney had some artists putting in background objects that some looked at and thought they resembled certain body parts. The other one I remember is KFC had some Santa and his reindeer Pepsi cups and if you looked at one part of the drawing it looked like Santa bumped into one of his reindeer from behind and you could clearly see a shocked expression on the deers face.

[andrew]

When Wizard used to have contests, they would add stuff into the legal mumbo jumbo.