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(energetic music) - this video was broughtto you by loot crate, the monthly subscriptionservice for epic geek and gamer items and pop culture gear. comic book artists sometimeshide little secrets in the isssues they are drawing. sometimes it could befunny cameos, hidden games, or even insults to their bossesor fellow comic creators. sometimes, it can even reference
really cool youtube channels. welcome to comic misconceptions. i'm scott, and the comicthat references our channel is a real comic book called suicide 5 and is just one of the seven secret things we will be talking about today that artists have hidden inside of comics. obviously, there are endlessexamples of these things, but i simply wanted to sharewith you some of my favorites,
and how could i not start with that one? though, honestly, i don'tthink we'll ever have a video that has as many views asthe one in the comic did, which is a bit discouraging. (dinging) so, continuing with ourlist, let's talk about sex. this is one of the more well-known ones, but i think it bears repeatingbecause of how funny it is. new x-men number 118 from 2001 sneaks in
over a dozen instances of the word 'sex' hidden in the background art of the story. many people have speculated onthe significance behind this. there are lots of theories about what it means in terms of the story. was emma frost using her mind powers to break the fourth wall and influence the creativeteam behind the comic? was a character who appeared in the story,
named john sublime,supposed to be a reference for these hidden subliminal messages? was it intended to hint at cyclops having cheated on jeangrey with emma frost? the answer is none of these. none of them. none. nope. while at first the artist ofthe issue, ethan van sciver, claimed that is was never intentional and people were just seeing things,
he later revealed that the instances of the word 'sex' wereobviously deliberate, but it had nothing to do with the story. he was simply upset with marvelat the time for some reason and decided to have a little fun. quote, "it had nothing todo with anything at all." it's also been speculatedthat it was an effort by the entire creativeteam, including the inkers, colorists, and possibly eventhe writer, grant morrison,
for making the storyinclude sexual undertones. this would not be the onlyinstance where an artist would rebel a little andpoke fun at the higher-ups. enter al milgrom, a prolificpenciler, inker, writer, and editer for tons of marvel comics before leaving to become a freelancer. you may recognize milgrom'sname from ant-man, where scott lang and his crew were staying at the milgrom hotel, a nod to the legend,
even though ne never actually worked on any ant-man comics as far as i could find. milgrom apparently really despised marvel's former editor-in-chief, and dc's current editor-in-chief, at least at the time ofthis video, bob harras. and really, that's prettyunderstandable when you realize that harras oversaw the clone saga. now, the clone saga wasa mess for many reasons;
i'm sure we'll tackleit in a video someday, but let's get back on track. so, for some reason thatescapes the history books, milgrom hated harras. so when harras left marvel andwas replaced by joe quesada, milgrom was ecstatic about this, and his excitement showed in his work. literally. milgrom was hired as a freelance artist
to work on a marvel comiccalled universe x spidey, which sounds like the most 90s title you can give a spider-man comic even though it cameout in the early 2000s. hidden in a bookshelf in the background of one of the panels from the story, al milgrom left a secret message regarding harras having left marvel. and if it's a bit hard to read,
allow me to help out withthe power of editing. it says, quote, "bobharras. ha, ha. he's gone. good riddance to bad rubbish. he was a nasty s.o.b." end quote. not the subtlest of people,that milgrom fellow. unfortunately, the secret was found and edited out for themain run of the comic, but the unedited version with the insult was sent out to retailers beforeit officially hit shelves,
meaning there are a few thousand copies of the recalled comics stillfloating around out there. and if you have one of these, let me know. i kinda want one. let's move on to a lighter topic. like trolling. artist leinil yu is known for such works as superman: birthright, supercrooks, one of my personalfavorite mark millar books,
but mostly lots and lots of marvel books, including lots ofavengers and x-men titles. and yu, this yu, not you you. well this is gonna get confusing. anyway, yu loves to tease marvel about one of theircreations, howard the duck. when he gets an opportunity, he sneaks howard into thecomics that he's working on. usually it's whenever there'sa big crowd of characters,
like in new avengers. you can see him right there. in the comic book event secret invasion, yu drew up some promotional art that also doubled as thecover for the lead-up issue, a big crowd of characters, andone of them: howard the duck. marvel editor-in-chief joequesada even had to come out and clarify that howard wasn't actually going to be in secret invasion.
yu was just messing with him. additionally, the writer ofthe secret invasion event, brian michael bendis, reportedly explained that he specificly toldleinil yu not to sneak in a howard cameo into the actual story, but, of course, yu couldn't resist. this yu. well, you couldn't probably resist either. i couldn't.
in secret invasion number six, we once again have a large crowd of hereos and can you spot the hidden howard? i'll give you a moment. he is right there. he also makes an appearancein issue number seven, but that one issignificantly easier to find. turns out the reason why yu keeps throwing howard the duck into his comicsis because he wants marvel
to stop pretending like he doesn't exist. he reportedly said, quote, "i'm making marvel pay for creating him and, if he's not dead,they need to use him." this really isn't a problem these days. howard has seen a surge in popularity since his appearance inguardians of the galaxy, and he's even featured backin the comic book universe even though we all know that
the real howard was stolen from marvel and the one that remainsis a soulless clone. and for a bit more trolling,we turn to the art of swipes. swiping in comics justmeans that one artist is intentionally copying covers,panels, character stances, or even entire pages of anotherartist, or artists', work. there are whole websitesdedicated to finding these swipes. many artists have been guilty of this, so i don't mean to callattention to one guy
as if he's the onlyperson who's ever done it, but this one certainly doeshave a pretty funny ending. when comic book artist roger cruz was starting out in theindustry, he often swiped art from popular artists likejim lee, which to be fair, he was not the only one to do so. there are countlessinstances of artists swiping from jim lee, but cruz also swiped from a then up-and-comingartist named joe madureira.
not a particularly smartmove on cruz's part. you see, madureira hadonly been penciling comics for maybe a year at this point, therefore, he didn't have that wide of a library to swipe from. so when cruz startedswiping art, like this one, and this one, and even this one, twice, it was pretty obvious that he was getting those images from madureira.
to retaliate, mad includeda little easter egg in uncanny x-men number325 since he figured that cruz would be readingevery comic he drew. on the surface, itdoesn't look like anything out of the ordinary, butif you look a little closer at the newspaper headline,you'll see the phrase, "cruz swipes again." brilliant. and apparently there's no bad blood
between the two these days. no. it's good. this next one is one ofmy personal favorites. todd mcfarlane is famous for a few things, including his work on spider-man comics. on almost every cover of a spidey comic mcfarlane worked on, starting with amazing spider-man number 303,he would draw hidden spiders, like this, and this, and this.
he would even hide multiplespiders on a single image and would write a numbernext to his signature to clue everyone in tohow many to look out for. if there was no number, therewould only be one spider, but some covers would havetwo, three, four, or even more. on the cover of spider-man number 1, a comic that mcfarlaneboth penciled and wrote, he had drawn so many little spiders that he sincerely lost count
and just threw up a questionmark by his signature. i was too lazy to count howmany there actually are, so if you have that kind of patience, let me know in the comments. jim balent did a similarthing with catwoman. he hid cats on every cover of the series, but they weren't always assubtle as mcfarlane's spiders. some were very obvious,like these cats on a car, or on this trash can.
they'd eventually get more tricky, like a cat on a handle of aknife, or in catwoman's hair, but the best one, the bestone, has to be the time that balent drew a catfish on the cover. amazing! speaking of mark millar,which would have been a great segue a fewminutes ago when i actually was talking about mark millar, he wrote a comic calledchrononauts that has
a really interesting secret onthe cover of the first issue. so secret, in fact, thataccording to the artist, sean gordon murphy, somewherearound 93 to 99% of people will never be able to see it. now, i want to try something. i don't want to influence you by telling you what to look for, however, i will tell youwhere to look for it. right here, inside of this clock face.
we should all be able to seethe cracks and the tickmarks and the yellow dot in the middle, but according to millar andmurphy, a very small percentage of you should be ableto see a hidden image overlaid on top of the entire clock face. a symbol of some kind. most people believe this to be a hoax and, honestly, their scientificexplanation of how it works is based in science that merely sounds
like it could be true,but is total nonsense stating that artistic peoplewho are right-brain dominant are more likely to seeit, even though the whole left-brain/right-brain argument is a completely false understanding how the brain actuallyworks in the description. this also came out not too long after the dress phenomenon, soit's possible that the comic was simply trying to ride thatwave of one group of people
seeing one thing and anothergroup seeing something else. regardless, i want to knowif this is really true. if you see it, write it in the comments, but if you don't see it, but know what's supposed to be there,don't spoil it for anyone. i'll reveal what the hiddenimage is on monday's video. so make sure you subscribeso you don't miss it. and what did i miss? what other easter eggs haveartists sneaked into comics?
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