I haven’t seen a lot of discussion online about the comic book convention episode of Numb3rs that aired last Friday (esp. compared to the talk about the Simpsons comic store epsiode), so I thought I’d see if anyone was able to turn away from football or shopping long enough to check it out. What did you think?
If you missed it, CBS has the full episode up on their website. Click “Full Episode” at the top and select Numb3rs.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Made of win. Christopher Lloyd, Joe Morton and Wil Wheaton as guest stars. A legendary comic book creator named about two comics legends. Random fandom shoutouts.
In a word: nerdtopia.
November 29th, 2007 at 5:00 am
Nah, I never make time for Numb3rs, but I was at an obscure little con in Hayward, CA a few weeks ago, where they were handing out the props that were created for this episode.
The producers of the show hired some professional comic book artists to create “fake” comics, which were basically fake covers glued to the fronts of real comics.
I thought it was kind of funny that the real comics that they desecrated with all that glue were a bunch of Rob Liefeld-related titles, like Youngblood and Cable. You can check out photos of the props, here:
http://www.greatwhitesnark.com/2007/11/05/hayward-comic-con-2007-round-up/