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Firstly I apologize for making new thread for Jodi Name! As early there were less people active.Now I find many of them here so made a new and organized one as last voting poll was not organized and many of you were against it!
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Gerry O'Hara is a charter member of Romance Writers of America and has taught writing for publication seminars at Bay Area community colleges. She has penned several contemporary romance novels, including Emerald Sky and Race Against Love, and has also contributed articles relating to travel, adventure, and camping to publications such as Trailer Travel, Trailer Life, and California Camper. For over two decades she has taught writing to residents of a Silicon Valley retirement community, and in 2009 they honored her with the first annual Sunny View Volunteer of the Year Award. She and her husband divide their time between Monterey Bay and Lake Tahoe. In addition to enjoying the nature and scenery of both locales, O'Hara's hobbies include photography, reading, crafting, and spending time with her children and grandchildren.

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I am wondering if you can point me where should I look if I want to modify your theme. For example change the width and make the header into one line. I have look at the style.css, header.php, and function.php, it seems i could not figure it out.
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So if I'm not using the_content in my theme, and just the_post_thumbnail, this plugin wouldn't work for me, right?
So if I'm not using the_content in my theme, and just the_post_thumbnail, this plugin wouldn't work for me, right?
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Short answer, no... or rather, you are correct in your assumption. The plugin wont look through images outside
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Longer answer, soon. Hooking and structuring the plugin to be easily extended by theme authors is the major goal of the next feature release. I will certainly take your question into account when thinking about extension use cases.
Longest answer yes. Even though the current stable version of the plugin is not well hooked, you can still take advantage of some of it's functions in your theme.
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If you are so inclined, give that a shot and let me know if it works for you. If not, I have another idea that we could try that target the post_thumbnails more directly, but I'd like to try it out myself before I post it as a possible solution.
I'm going to mark this issue as resolved with version 1.2.0
See the [Extending Picturefill.WP](https://github.com/kylereicks/picturefill.js.wp#extending-picturefillwp) subsection of the GitHub repository for an example of how to extend the plugin and add additional image sizes if desired.
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Aside from that minor gaff, this is not a bad tape. Ostensibly a Cheers parody (given the milleu and character names), Soaked! gets things moving quickly with a bartop boffing with waitress Shelly Rey and perennial customer Ron Jeremy. Rey also turns up in the "obligatory lesbian scene" with Rachel Ryan that's well-handled, as is the scene with Trinity (who, amazingly enough, doesn't win the contest) and Shane Hunter (who makes it difficult not to laugh because of his vocal similarity to the Monkees' Davi Jones). No award-winning scenes here, but the cast knows what's expected of them and get some real heal in what they do. Next time, director, get some water on those shirts.


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Five years after a BP oil rig explosion spewed millions of oil barrels into the Gulf of Mexico, key questions remain
Researchers in China have made a new type of membrane that can separate oil from water and could potentially be used in oil spills, such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico. The membrane works by interacting differently with the substances as it is both superhydrophobic and superoleophilic, so that it repels water but attracts oil. This means that the oil is absorbed through the membrane, but the water can't penetrate.
The membrane is made from a polymerised fluorinated polybenzoxazine (F-PBZ) layer on top of cellulose acetate nanofibres. The scientists used an electrospinning technique (in which a viscous liquid is passed through a conducting needle to form a thread) to create a porous structure that makes the membrane even better at absorbing the oil.
Oil and water separation using the membrane. The water and oil were dyed by methyl blue and oil red, respectively
Bin Ding from Donghua University leads the team that developed this technology. He explains that one of the best things about their membranes is that they are stable and can be used over a wide pH range, making them suitable for use in a variety of challenging environments. The complex surface of the membrane gives it a surface area of 58.96m2/g. Ding comments that 'currently, there are no other membranes with such a high surface area for oil spill clean-up'.
John Howarter, an expert in polymer membranes from Purdue University, US, thinks this research is a significant achievement. 'The performance of their materials is remarkable with the extreme contact angle difference between the oil (at 3 degrees) and water (161 degrees),' he says. 'Technology such as this is useful for dealing with large scale environmental problems, but could also be used in a manufacturing setting.'
Ding's team's use of simple techniques will make it possible for them to produce their membranes on a larger, industrial sized, scale in the future, but first they will be improving the structure of the membranes to fine tune their performance. They are also working on other F-PBZ hybrid fibrous membranes to see what else they can do with them.
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County officials in northwestern North Dakota are discussing the possibility of building a regional jail to keep up with a growing inmate population.
People have been flocking to the oil patch as business there has boomed in recent years, and crime has been on the rise. A new jail that was built in Williams County in 2008 was supposed to handle inmate growth for 50 years, but the 131-bed facility that handles prisoners from throughout the region filled up shortly after it opened, Sheriff Scott Busching said.
Busching and Williams County Commissioner Dan Kalil have talked about the issue with officials from Burke, Divide, Mountrail and McKenzie counties, the Williston Herald reported. They're discussing the possibility of a regional jail managed by a single county, or two smaller regional facilities.
The ICON Architectural Group has estimated the potential cost at more than $11 million.
Commissioners are working to determine the number of beds needed in a new facility.
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Former Rep. Ron Paul, (R-Texas), weighs in on which presidential candidate is best for the markets, and shares his thoughts on upcoming headwinds for the U.S. And CNBC's Jackie DeAngelis and the Futures Now traders have an e-mini trade on the S&P 500 that could yield a $1,500 reward. » Read More
As of midday Tuesday, all major indices are up 4 percent or greater. If the rally holds, the S&P 500, Dow, and NASDAQ Composite would be poised for their biggest percent increase since late November of last year.
The Dow Jones Transport Index, widely believed to be a predictor of where US markets are going, shows signs of bottoming out, Roelof van den Akker from ING Wholesale Banking told CNBC.
US stock index futures pointed to a higher open for Wall Street after Monday's selloff and with some good news emerging from the banking sector.
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Every generation searches for an identity. There were the Baby Boomers, followed by slacker Gens. X and Y. It took a 50% drop in the Dow and more than 3 million jobs lost to figure it out. This is nothing to LOL about: It's Generation OMG!
Stock index futures pointed to a lower open for Wall Street, but were off the day's lows as Dow component Merck announced it will merge with Schering-Plough in a cash and stock deal.
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On a week that saw a late-day rally for the Dow & S&P Friday, managing to close in positive territory for the day, following a dismal jobs report, increased concerns over GM's viability and another bailout for AIG, the markets fell 6% or greater for the week.
The latest overall job loss numbers showed a loss of 651,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate climbed to 8.1%. This is the highest unemployment rate since 1983. The January and December numbers were revised to a loss of 655,000 and 681,000 respectively. 4.4 million jobs have now been lost since this recession began. Here is a breakdown of where the job losses were as well as which sectors were adding jobs.
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Peppers at 10, which seems low.
offensive line
A Pit At The Bottom Of The World
Bryan Fuller
This isn't actually a column, though it is titled like one. I just, I mean, you know… Bill Connelly at Football Study Hall has these metrics that attempt to rate offensive lines by massaging the available stats in a way that attempts to remove outside influences.
It's difficult, of course, to evaluate the coordination and strength of five to seven guys with crude tools like rushing yards. It's like bashing your XBox with a rock in the hopes it will interpret that as a desire to open Netflix. But no matter how crude the tool, Michigan's 2013 offensive line stands out as the pinnacle of inky blackness.
The stats:
A yards per carry mark modified to hack out long runs and emphasize getting across the LOS. Yards 0-4 are counted 100%, 5-10 50%, and yards past eleven dropped; TFLs are magnified by a factor of 1.2. So a four yard run is worth four points, a ten yard run is worth seven points, a twenty yard run is worth seven points, and TFLs are all 20% worse than they are in the normal stats.
MICHIGAN'S RANK: 118th of 126.
WAIT, THERE WERE WORSE SAD SACKS? Yes. Miami (Not That Miami), SDSU, Cal, FIU, CMU, Akron, Sothern Miss, and UMass. Just above Michigan were WMU and Buffalo. This is the company we are keeping. If you look further and further up you find West Virginia, Virginia Tech, South Florida, and Purdue. Looking up at Purdue.
IE, not passing downs. Hold on to your butts.
GREAT GOOGLY MOOGLY. Michigan acquired 2.19 yards per attempt in this metric. #125, Florida International, was at 2.25.
Give up and punts.
THAT SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD! They had a lot more practice at this activity than other teams.
A stat with a dumb name that is a straight percentage of carries going for at least five yards. Ohio State was #1 with 56%. That sounds impossible.
MICHIGAN'S RANK: 111th.
ARE ANY OF THESE GETTING OUT OF TRIPLE DIGITS? Nope. And here's the thing. I am about to give you the number here. 34.5%
THERE IS NO GODDAMN WAY OVER A THIRD OF MICHIGAN'S CARRIES WENT FOR FIVE YARDS. I remember three, myself.
Third/fourth and short conversion rate on runs. "Short" == one or two yards. Includes goal line carries.
MICHIGAN'S RANK: 120th.
ARE YOU TELLING ME MICHIGAN MADE IT MORE THAN HALF THE TIME WHEN THEY RAN ON THIRD AND NOTHING. Yes.
LIES. Probably.
Percentage of runs going for zero or fewer yards.
DON'T EVEN BOTHER TELLING ME. 126th.
I TOLD YOU NOT TO TELL ME. 30% of Michigan's runs didn't get past the line of scrimmage.
This one is rather complicated. From Football Outsiders:
Sack Rate represents sacks divided by pass plays, which include passes, sacks, and aborted snaps. It is a better measure of pass blocking than total sacks because it takes into account how often an offense passes the ball. Adjusted Sack Rate adds adjustments for opponent quality, as well as down and distance (sacks are more common on third down, especially third-and-long). More here.
MICHIGAN'S RANK: 112th. With two tackles about to be drafted.
You knew the above things in your heart. The above things are a gremlin sitting on your heart, giving it noogies when your thoughts turn to football. I should not have brought them up without a reason.
Here it is: unless Al Borges was as incompetent as Greg Robinson running a 3-3-5 defense he didn't know anything about, there isn't much chance that Michigan gets into a place that would allow them to have a definitively positive season next year unless the defense is capital-E elite. I took Connelly's data dump and looked for big shifts in adjusted line yards to the positive.
It's not a good look. There are approximately 842 year-to-year transitions in the document; 70 of them are leaps of 50 or more spots. (One of them is a hundred-spot leap from 119th to 19th at… sigh, Arizona in 2012.) Amongst the truly weak, improvement is expected… barely. Teams ranked 80th or worse from 2005 to 2011 saw an average increase of 7.3 points in this metric. That would take Michigan from 118th all the way to 101st.
While this is still bashing something with a rock that is a pretty grim baseline to attempt to deviate from. Michigan's particular circumstances do not scream deviation, meanwhile. They lose two really good tackles. The depth chart at that spot is now flat-out scary, and the interior line looks like it will still be composed entirely of underclassmen and a former walk-on. In fact, Graham Glasgow is probably going to be the only upperclassman anywhere on the line.
So pray that every nasty thing said about Al Borges here was true, because it looks like the only hope for a Mattison-like bounce is an equal level of coaching malpractice from Doug Nussmeier's predecessor. Otherwise, digging out of this might take so long that Michigan changes coaches again.
First Look: Offense 2014
- LT Taylor Lewan. Four year starter took all kinds of heat for performance of Michigan OL as if he was able to play four positions at once or he had some sort of deficiency in his Leadership Aura and was not communicating enough Leadership to the rag-tag interior line. Was in fact the same player he was as a junior—a great one—and NFL draft slot in the first round will reflect this.
- WR Jeremy Gallon. Michigan's all-time single season receiving yards record is now his, so at least I was right about one thing in the preseason. Short, but good at fades; eviscerated Notre Dame; eviscerated Indiana; eviscerated Ohio State; best pound for pound WR in country not named Lockett.
- RT Michael Schofield. Overshadowed by Lewan his entire career but emerged into a complete run/pass tackle as a senior. I know there was so much pressure up the middle that there were fewer opportunities than normal for tackles to biff, but when's the last time you remember Schofield getting beat by a pass rusher? That one time he miscommunicated with Toussaint doesn't count. I mean straight-up beat. It's hard to remember. Will be missed; will be drafted.
- WR Drew Dileo. Sticky-fingered Louisiana gnome sort of epitomized 2013 with ill-time drops, but was a reliable chain-mover and special teams tool. Will miss calling him "sticky-fingered Louisiana gnome" because obviously.
- RB Fitzgerald Toussaint. Final game saw him receive two carries; entire career one long comedown from explosive junior season; horrible, horrible pass blocker. Had mostly been replaced by end of year.
- WRs Jeremy Jackson and Joe Reynolds. Little-used backups were good program guys but should be replaceable.
I may have reused these pictures. The numbers may be a give away.
- QB Devin Gardner. Chaos machine seemed to reduce interceptions as season went along, but how much that perception changes if some guys catch some passes in their guts is up for debate. Excellent YPA despite having most of his body ground into paste by year's end. Should take step forward as senior; still major X-factor.
- WR Devin Funchess. For the love of God, world, stop pretending this man is a tight end. Looking at you, Big Ten awards committee. Michigan's second-leading receiver with 49 catches for 748 yards and six TDs; works just fine as a jumbo WR, thanks. Hands issues late after fine start to career. Go-to WR next year.
- OL Graham Glasgow. Only returning OL to have and hold a job all year; had some struggles after move to center; has the size and athleticism for the major college level of competition, as ESPN is wont to say; will play somewhere but Michigan probably hoping Patrick Kugler bounces him out to guard.
- TE Jake Butt. Site tagline does not refer to him. Productive freshman season saw him add 45 pounds and catch 20 balls for 235 yards; was probably M's best blocker at the spot; 15 more pounds and he is the dual threat Borges has wanted from day one.
- OL Erik Magnuson. Entered on second line shuffle of year and stuck; now obviously moving out to tackle and must be quality, because options other than him are scanty indeed.
- OL Kyle Kalis. Recruiting sheen severely reduced after painful redshirt freshman season saw him benched, supposedly for an undisclosed ankle injury. Performance even before that was middling at best. But was FR OL.
- OL Kyle Bosch. True freshman showed some promise; showed a lot of true freshman business. Momentarily replaced Kalis but then lost his job to Kalis once again. Tentatively penciled in as a starter
- WR Jehu Chesson. Nominal starter hardly targeted in first few games and then saw Funchess eat his job; did grab 15 balls for 221 yards and crushed a few dudes, whether it was on special teams or after the catch. Probably still the #3 WR with Amara Darboh's return but a promising freshman year should see him eat up some of Gallon's targets.
- TE AJ Williams. Blocking TE seemed to regress after freshman year; could not block. Major issue needs repairing STAT.
- FB Joe Kerridge. Your primary blocking back. May be drafted as pass protector again, but hopefully not.
Kugler and Braden may step in
One or two or three guys on the offensive line. At this instant your leaders on the offensive line are probably Magnuson-Bosch-Glasgow-Kalis mentioned above and Ben Braden at RT, but that is the shakiest depth chart in the history of the concept. Magnuson is the only certainty, as Michigan isn't going to trust anyone else to be their left tackle a year after Braden went from sure starter to ghost because he didn't have the foot quickness to hack it at guard. Glasgow is also pretty safe, as he didn't get pulled from the lineup last year and can play any of the three interior spots.
Everyone else is 50/50 at best with Michigan getting five guys off redshirts and having a few veterans also competing. Will Patrick Kugler be the man from day one at center? Will Chris Bryant get it together? Will David Dawson beat someone out whether it's at guard or right tackle, where I've heard they expect him to compete? The answers to these questions will start trickling in during spring and not have a full resolution until Michigan's first offensive snap… if then.
A dang running back who can run the dang ball, again. I'm lumping Michigan's four returning tailbacks into the "new" category for reasons both obvious and hopeful:
- Drake Johnson tore his ACL covering a kick after two carries.
- Justice Hayes had two carries last year; De'Veon Smith had 26.
- Derrick Green did get 83 carries, normally enough to put him into the returning category, but with so many of those doomed by the OL in front of him and the hope that he goes from kind of plodding to the lean brute that impressed recruiting analysts, those 83 carries don't mean much.
For the third straight year Michigan will be looking for anything that works on the ground other than Denard Robinson, and what Michigan can expect from its tailbacks is still in doubt.
"The single greatest catch I've ever seen in person" –Devin Gardner
African refugee wide receivers, again. Amara Darboh's debut was delayed by a foot injury suffered late in fall camp; this year he should debut as something between an uninspiring chain mover and Jason Avant (but fast)! Darboh had buckets of practice hype after a series of spectacular catches put him on everyone's lips in press conferences. He was clearly ahead of Chesson at the time and probably still is after Chesson had a decent but not paradigm-shifting debut.
And we can throw in Chesson here, too: he figures to absorb a lot of snaps not just from Gallon but Dileo, Jackson, and Reynolds. With Gallon's targets spreading across the offense he'll get a shot to be an impact player he didn't this year.
Dennis Norfleet, for pants' sake. I swear on this bible factory that if Michigan can't find a productive role for Dennis Norfleet in this offense I am going to break every rule in the factory of bibles I have just sworn upon. This does not mean bringing him in motion every time he's on the field. It means looking at him as a slot receiver instead of a tiny bouncy freak show, which okay yeah he is but seriously people just imagine what West Virginia would do with the guy and do it.
More TE-ish guys. Khalid Hill and Wyatt Shallman come off redshirts and should bring blocky/catchy/runny aspects to the guys on the field who aren't WRs or RBs, whatever you'd like to call them. With Butt and Williams aging and hopefully improving, Michigan might have some options here to do tricky things, particularly in the redzone. If any of them can block.
Gardner to Funchess. This was Gardner to Gallon last year. This year it is pretty obvious what replaces that: Devin Funchess blew up after his move to WR, taking end-arounds and leaping over people both before and after he acquired the ball. They even threw him a couple fades late in the year when it occurred to them that maybe that was a good idea.
Unfortunately, after a very strong start to his career in the catching department drops became an issue around the Michigan State game. The overall picture is still a guy with very good hands and a huge catching radius, though.
He's already the Big Ten's second-leading returning receiver, behind only Hoosier Cody Latimer, and Latimer plays in a light-speed offense that inflates basic counting stats. With a full season at WR and Gallon off to the NFL, a thousand-yard season is a certainty. The only question is at what point television accepts the fact that he's a wideout.
What happens if Gardner gets injured, at least relative to usual. Michigan seems to have itself a legit backup QB in Shane Morris for the first time in forever.
Passing weapons writ large. There is some projection in saying this, but it doesn't seem like Gallon's departure is going to leave Gardner bereft of options. He's got a #1 guy ready to step into that role and then you've got Darboh, Chesson, Butt, Norfleet, and possibly contributors from either the three-man 2013 class or Drake Harris/Moe Ways/Freddy Canteen in 2014. Five veterans plus six young options looks like a lot of options to me.
Pass protection. This was horrendous and doesn't figure to get a lot better with both tackles out the door. Magnuson still needs to add 15-20 pounds to hold up against bull rushes and the question mark at right tackle is highly ominous. Maybe I'm making too much of Braden's swift disappearance from the two deep in fall, but… man, to swiftly disappear from that two-deep would seem to bode unwell. If it's not Braden then it seems like Michigan is trying to shoehorn a guy who would be better at guard into the RT spot, whether it's Dan Samuelson or David Dawson or even Bosch. Add to that continuing uncertainty on the interior and it's easy to see Michigan QBs get harassed as much as they were this year.
The seeming certainty that there will be three (or more!) brutal clunkers from this unit. Three years in and Borges's crew has thrown up at least three horrendous games a year, every year, as whatever mad scientist stuff Borges throws at the wall backfires spectacularly when his team can't execute the new stuff and can't execute anything else because the offense is a chameleon from game to game with the exception of throwback screens.
How far they have to go and how much time they have to do it in. Discussed more in the next section, but it seems like the best case scenario next year is improvement by default that gives us little insight into what Michigan should do going forward. Regression to the mean should see Michigan uptick in many categories in which they set dubious records. Hooray, but if Michigan is 70th in TFLs allowed in year four that just puts us in an uncertain netherworld. Your options here:
- Michigan has a near repeat of last year. PRO: No uncertainty here as everyone is put on a donkey and ridden out of town. CON: Michigan has a near repeat of last year.
- Michigan is below mediocre on the line, but not a completely unwatchable tire fire. PRO: Manage to avoid stabbing other eye out. CON: No idea whether to stay the course and hope for further improvement in year five or move on after third consecutive mediocre at best season.
- Michigan is good! PRO: Michigan is good. CON: Drugs are expensive.
It's hard to see anything definitively good happening next year.
The offensive line can't be worse, right? This is a repeat from last year, because the offensive line was worse and now the offensive line is losing two NFL tackles. This year… they literally cannot be worse. Michigan finished 123rd of 123 in tackles for loss allowed and turned Devin Gardner into hamburger. So we've got that going for us. The offensive line can't be worse, because they're already at the bottom.
Okay but can they be massively better? That is the real question here. Michigan has to be vastly better on the offensive line next year or it's firing time: for Funk definitely, for Borges definitely, and after (hypothetically) three straight years of non-Denard utter incompetence on the ground probably Hoke.
And… yikes. Frankly, writing this bit makes me think they should just throw everyone over right now because how can you go from that to average in one year while losing your two best guys? These kind of reclamation projects are two-year deals, usually, and that's if they get reclaimed at all.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN ANYONE OTHER THAN DENARD ROBINSON PICK UP THREE FEET ON THE GROUND? This is also a repeat from last year, because the answer was NO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NO. For perspective, Michigan rushed for 3.9 yards a carry in 2008, with Brandon Minor leading the way at 5.2 yards a pop. Last year, Michigan had 3.3. This rushing offense was tons worse than the 2008 outfit despite having some very threatening weapons on the outside. No offense to Nick Sheridan, Steven Threet, Greg Mathews or Martavious Odoms, but in terms of loosening up a defense… uh… does this sentence need to continue? Nope. It ended right there.
Michigan must have a function running back for the first time in three years or it's head-lopping time.
Can Gardner get his interceptions down to a reasonable rate? You'd think this would improve what with experience and not getting annihilated all the time, but 1) he might get annihilated all the time, and 2) we saw with Denard that sometimes guys just don't get better at taking care of the ball as they acquire experience. This is pretty much another do or die here for Borges: have one of your quarterback show major improvement or GTFO.
Oh hell, I don't know. Things should get better on the ground and the pass protection won't be great… could be just as bad. Gardner's experience and a lot of options in the passing game should result in something more tolerable than 2013. How much and how much impact that has on the wins and losses I just don't know anymore man.
Dear Diary and Borgesian Strategy Part II
Selfie: Go save Christmas again.
Kids! Gandalf the Maize's follow-up on which factors seem to be the most predictive of offensive line play compared the r-squareds of 19 things, from o-line experience as a whole, to their recruiting stars, to the left tackle individually, depth, QB talent, how much the team goes long, etc., and found the ONLY factor with relatively high significance is…
Interior. Offensive. Line. Experience!
Let's get a DotW to the wizard, and tell Funk to put some years on his charges, RIGHT NOW.
Ron Utah followed up by showing the relative age of Michigan's whole roster versus teams of significance.
Part II by dnak438 on Michigan's offensive regression this week went back and added 2011-12 to the study of YPP versus opponents, tracking it by dividing Michigan's yards per play each game versus the average that team gave up. The results are charts that really show the history of Al Borges's various offensive strategies:
Here's the progression:
[after the jump]
Dear Diary Can't Name Ten Good Plays Against Iowa
Drkboarder's genius.
This 'Merritt's Mention: How much punning has David Merritt had to put up with? Not enough that he balked at calling his fashion-brand-for-a-cause "Merit." The store donates a fifth of its revenues to college scholarships and educational enrichment programs, and he just opened one in Ann Arbor.
We Start Up Front. In 2009 Michigan started off pretty strong, including an encouraging win over Notre Dame. Maybe the shaky backfield got a little beat up for want of a safety or two but hey: Golden Tate and Michael Floyd. Then it got worse. Then it got worser. Then it got awful. And then there were lots of diaries (myself among them) blaming attrition and poor recruiting on the old coaches and all sorts of things that could explain it other than "this is what will get our coaches fired."
So…offensive line diaries.
A Single Unified Theory of Offensive Lineptidute? Provided by Yeoman and bumped early last week, "Short Ride in a Broken-Down Machine" is the definitive study relating Michigan's offensive issues to young starters on the interior OL. As to the small correlation he had a great answer:
Given those enormous differences in baseline levels of the various FBS teams it's amazing to me that we could see anything like 5-8% of a performance difference being credited to any one team demographic, especially when the difference is measured using an SOS-adjusted metric like Fremeau.
The rubber really hits the pavement when he thought to compare teams to their historical norm, which is a quite elegant stand-in for expectations (including recruiting). Ultimately he found teams that have significant depth and start freshmen are just fine because the freshmen are just that good, but teams in Michigan's situation typically have very large systemic problems. Because fans tend to overstate, there's a reactionary tendency from the more rational among us to think "it's probably not as bad as it looks." Reality check: it's as bad as if we had Idaho's recruiting problems. Yeoman did throw some hope for next year in the comments:
(1) [OTs Do Matter Theory] The Bust Index for the entire line will improve from 75% to 65%, which would improve oFEI by about .06 and move us (all else being equal which of course it isn't) up about ten spots, or
(2) [OTs Don't Matter Theory] The Bust index for the interior will improve from 69% to 46%, which would improve oFEI by about .175 and move us up about about 20 spots.
He followed up with a Kalis-centric study that tracks every (non-juco) 5-star offensive lineman since 2003 and what contributions that player made in Year X. Findings are the good ones mostly started by Year 2, but that there's no cause to worry until they're not starting in Year 3. Actually the biggest thing to worry about is how few actually make good on their promise, not that Kalis hasn't yet. Diarist of the Month, this guy.
Third Down and Guh. The guy in the running with Yeoman is reshp1, who had a great OL diary two weeks ago, and this week decided to get into all those failed 3rd downs. It's UFR-long, so if you promise to read it (okay if you promise to skim through it) I'll share the money table here. Promise. PROMISE! You know what, fine, I'll put it after the jump, so you still have to click on something you lazy straw man of a dear diary reader.
This Week's Obsession: Ingredients for Suck Pie
- 2013 indiana
- 2013 nebraska
- 2013 northwestern
- al borges devin gardner prostyle cuisine
- al borges hates clarity
- al borges hates real bubble screens
- charts
- dan ferrigno
- fred jackson
- jerry kill
- kevin wilson
- michigan man bler
- offensive line
- pie charts
- rich rodriguez firing whatever
- rich rodriguez maybe isn't in the past after all
- tackle over
- tackle over is the battle of the somme
- the process
- this week's obsession
- you're just a line you have no power in this place
Peter Frampton:Michigan's offense::Let's stop this analogy right now.
It's nearing Thanksgiving; which means it's time to make pie! Who likes pie? Everyone likes pie! Unless it's a "why our offense sucks so much" pie. Alas, you have all been sampling lots of "Why our offense sucks so much" pie these last few weeks, and we've identified most of the ingredients in this suck pie. What we haven't done yet is say how much any one ingredient is contributing relative to any other. This seems important.
So, I'm going to give you a list of identified ingredients in this suck pie, and you're going to tell me--pie chart like (i.e. adds up to 100%)--how much each suck factor, in your estimated opinion, has gone into our pie:
Fans demand Michigan Manliness. Thus putting the previous regime on not-firm ground and necessitating another transition and talk of MANBALL for stupid political reasons. Rosenberg/Snyder go here.
- Rich Rod! One OL in 2010 and his own suck pie of defense that necessitated another transition. GERG goes here. Zero RS juniors goes here.
- The Process. Which helped doom the 2011 offensive line class. "Just two OL, both of them fliers, in two classes!" goes here. "None of our tight ends are old enough to buy beer!" goes here. "We're stuck running high school blocking schemes because interior OL are too young!" goes here.
If you believe this is a result of Nebraska's defense having a sudden aneurism of competence (hence all the blood), please answer #10 "Universe" on your cards. [Fuller]
- Hoke demands MANBALL! Only if you think there's an executive order from Hoke that forced Borges to use more "big"--ie TEs and FBs instead of WRs--formations and man-blocking.
- Borges can't cook fusion cuisine. Incoherent playcalling and gameplanning, players constantly put in bad positions and asked to do more than their skills suggest they're good at. RPS minuses go here.
- Dithered on MANBALL transition for Denard. Spent 2011 and 2012 trying to be all things; decision not to sacrifice those years to transition is costing us in 2013. "Older guys can't MANBALL" goes here.
- Dithering in 2013. Personnel switches, gimmick offenses, acts of desperation burned practice time, retarded player development, and contributed to snowballing effect. "Tackle over" goes here.
- Funk/OL and execution. Offensive linemen not doing the things that should reasonably be expected of them given their talent/experience levels. "Schofield is missing slide protections" goes here.
- Ferrigno/Jackson and execution. Backs and tight ends who can't block or run routes (if you think this is just on them being too young, that goes elsewhere; if you think Funchess ought to be able to crack down and Toussaint get under a guy by now it goes here)
- Bloodymindedness of Universe. IE anything else: Spain, Monkey Rodeo, MSU broke Devin, opponents are just that good, etc.
[After the jump, the lede, buried]
Mailbag: More Sad Football Things, All Caps Sad Football Section
Bryan Fuller
Hi Brian,
I don't pretend to know the intricacies of football but during the Nebraska game it seemed that Toussaint, in pass protection, would wait for his blocking assignment to come to him before engaging the player. Seeing as Toussaint is significantly smaller then the LB or lineman he's been assigned to block this usually resulted in Toussaint getting pushed backwards (physics and all). Is this how RBs are typically coached to play pass protection?
Jack C.
I mostly stay away from the how of any particular technique failing; more of a "what" guy since I didn't play the game, etc. But to me Toussaint's blocking issues stem from three problems:
- Michigan's line has to resort to slide protections that often expose him to a pass-rushing DE. This is a bad matchup for anyone.
- He's part of that need to resort to slide protections since his recognition isn't good; when he is tasked with identifying guys to pick up he often catches them. Vincent Smith and Mike Hart would find guys and then get some momentum before making contact.
- He hits guys too high sometimes, which makes it easy for them to shed him and attack. Smith and Hart got low, or in Smith's case existed in a perpetual state of low-ness.
3 is his problem, 2 is part his and part a holistic inability to pick up blitzes, and 1 is not his fault.
What's different about this year?
Greetings –
Regarding the offensive line, I saw some comments that intrigued me that intrigued me the other day and I'm curious your perspective.
Borges indicated that another variable in the mix this year is that it's "the first year in the scheme we've wanted to move to." Based on your work therefore, do you conclude that:
1) There is a significant difference this year in scheme, protections, and what the offense is asking of the o'line?
2) That experienced lines would be impacted by such a scheme change?
3) That inexperienced players would unimpacted (i.e. just as inexperienced)?
4) That therefore the years experience/games experience would also be negatively impacted from a production standpoint.
So that in conclusion – there's actually hope bc the ones that are young are young and the ones that are supposed to have experience have less experience than one would otherwise understand to be true.
And – that next year or the year after really will be better!
Keep up the good work.
Unfortunately, I'm not seeing a whole lot of evidence for that rationale.
Borges's comments make no sense. This year started out with Michigan running a bunch of stretch plays, which was a departure from what they'd done the first two years… and a staple of the Rodriguez offense. If that's what he meant, he could have just, you know, kept running the stretch.
Instead Michigan was almost exclusively an inside zone and power team their first two years here, and the differences between running those things from under center versus the shotgun are minimal. There has been a more concerted effort to run plays from under center, but that shift was even more pronounced late last year after Gardner took the helm of the offense.
If anything's changed this year from last year in terms of blocking it's that Denard isn't around to bail it out. Borges trying to use him to cover his ass by claiming he somehow couldn't run the schemes he wanted to be cause the guy running behind them was also the one taking the snap is a weak excuse that throws Denard (of all people!) under the bus.
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Breeja is seeded a close third going into the final, but she's behind 2008 Olympian Rebecca Soni and current 100 breast world record holder Jessica Hardy.
Larson is attempting to become just the second Aggie to make the U.S. Olympic team, joining Christine Marshall who made the 2008 US team with the 800 free relay (won the bronze medal).
During the spring, Breeja broke the NCAA record twice, and won the NCAA title in the race. While winning the NCAA crown, she also broke the American and US Open record in the 100-yard breaststroke at the short course yards distance (which is basically only contested by US collegians).
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BMI View : Changes to price structures in the pharmaceutical supply chain threaten to bankrupt domestic wholesalers and pharmacies, and significantly impact the revenues of Croatian drugmakers. At the same time, spending on innovative drugs is set to increase as savings from the new measure are directly passed into this sub-sector of the market. These measures will potentially exacerbate liquidity and supply chain issues within the Croatian healthcare system.
In January 2014, the Croatian government published amendments to the mandated profit margins that wholesalers could realise from the sales of pharmaceuticals within its official gazette. The amendments introduced differentiated margins based on the ex-manufacturer price. The new wholesaler margins are outlined as below:
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|Source: Croatian Chamber Of Pharmacists
Effectively, these amount to a drug price reduction on the consumer end, lightening the impact of new co-payment fees and effectively pushing pharmacies and hospitals to stock up on much cheaper generics instead of branded equivalents. The old provisions provided wholesalers a margin ceiling of 8.5% regardless of the ex-manufacturer price. Now, the most expensive drugs are limited to a 1% margin. Considering that these expensive drugs make up almost 85% of the trade between wholesalers and hospitals, hospitals are effectively being handed a large discount on their purchases, while wholesalers face the prospect of subsisting on meagre returns.
The new provisions effectively reduce the revenues of wholesalers, and as a result the Croatian Chamber of Pharmacists has entered the debate and indicated that these new profit margins are insufficient to cover operating costs for wholesalers and that many pharmacists now fear that their supply chains will be disrupted as business between retailers and wholesalers may not be enough to provide solvency for the wholesale side. There may be some respite over the near-term, with the Croatian Chamber of Commerce stating it had directly spoken to the Ministry of Health on the 1% margin issue; the Chamber of Commerce was confident that there would be considerable amendments to the margins set within the year.
Given that the Croatian healthcare system still has issues of liquidity and timely payments (hospitals have been granted 600 days to make outstanding payments) and there are still unresolved debts owed by hospitals to suppliers, this could potentially exacerbate supply chain concerns within the entire healthcare system, especially as wholesalers have been forced to raise loans against these outstanding payments to ensure business continuity. With margins decreasing, interest and debt will become more difficult to service. Pharmacies are also expected to face pressure from these changes, with many expected to go out of business.
These new changes to pricing structures, as well as the health minister's goal of saving HRK135mn (US$ mn) through price cuts, will undoubtedly impact generic drug companies but especially local companies, who are already laying off workers as revenues decline. Local company Farmalu has made 40 workers redundant, Belupo has closed its plant in Ludbregu and shut down local production of antibiotics. Companies such as Pliva, which are geared towards export markets in Europe, Russia and the US, have fared much better, although the local industry association believes that heavy-handed regulatory measures will effectively decimate Croatian pharmaceutical companies, as the burden of pharmaceutical price cuts are primarily borne by them. Indeed, the HZZO has directly stated that the savings gained would be used to fund the purchase of expensive medicines, benefitting innovative drugmakers at the cost of generic companies.
Some local pharmaceutical companies have argued that the HZZO has been acting unfairly in cutting prices unilaterally without allowing them the right of reply. Indeed, companies are normally granted 30 days from the publication of the new reference prices to challenge the decision; drugmaker representatives are complaining that appeals against price changes are being met with a company's products being moved off the full reimbursement list and onto the supplementary list. As such, some drugmakers are considering launching administrative proceedings against the HZZO's decisions.
We expect generic drug sales to decline by 3.2% in local currency terms to HRK2.88bn (US$470mn) in 2014, owing to the continual revising of drug prices. Over the medium term, we expect growth to return, albeit from a low base. By 2018, we expect generic drug sales to have risen to HRK3.58bn (US$570mn), posting a 5-year, compound annual growth rate of 3.7% in local currency terms.
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Now it is DC's turn….
25. Green Lantern (Guy Gardner) – 303 points (4 first place votes)
Created by John Broome and Gil Kane, Guy Gardner could have been the greatest Green Lantern of them all…except Hal Jordan was closer.
That right there should basically explain to you Guy's basic outlook on life, as he was among a number of Earthlings who would have qualified to be Green Lantern, but Hal Jordan was the closest to qualify, and thereby becoming the most famous Green Lantern of all time. Guy eventually became his alternative.
And, for a time, Guy was pretty much the default Green Lantern on Earth, when Guy ended up joining the newly reformed Justice League after the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths.
It was on the Justice League that Guy grew to his greatest prominence, eventually becoming popular enough to support his own title for a significant run (almost four years!).
Guy was stripped of his Green Lantern ring for a time, leading him to first use Sinestro's yellow ring, and later, discover that he secretly had been part-alien all this time, and had access to alien abilities to turn his body into weapons.
Recently, Guy lost his alien powers, and once again became a Green Lantern. Now, Guy is one of the highest-ranking Green Lanterns, and with Hal Jordan and John Stewart assigned to Earth, Guy is basically the number one Green Lantern in space. Finally – Guy actually is the tops.
Except, of course, if you consider Kyle Rayner higher…
Here is Matt Bloom explaining why he had Guy at #1 (note – Matt uses a few cuss words):
Your average superhero, particularly in the DC Universe, is the world's nicest guy. People say Superman is the world's biggest boy scout, but let's face it – the JLA is pretty much the rest of the troop. Sure, you get the occasional Batman who takes a darker and meaner approach to fighting evil, but beneath the exterior he's still someone you wouldn't mind hanging out with (you know, as part of a group. In daytime). But then there's Guy Gardner. Guy's an asshole. Invite him to a party and he'll show up drunk, grope your sister, and then probably set fire to your garage. Guy is the person in your group of friends that everybody hates but who refuses to take the hint and leave. That is why I love Guy Gardner.
Guy started off as a generic Silver Age boy scout, and it wasn't until the mid-80s that he became a character worth noting. Giffen and DeMatteis ran with Guy's recent portrayal in the Green Lantern book, casting him as the JLI's resident antagonist. He was arrogant, obnoxious, loud, boorish, and seemingly dedicated to pissing off every single person he met. He was the
ultimate personification of the character that you love to hate, and it was always a blast to see what kind of mess he'd create next.
It's hard to say what Guy's best moment was with the JLI. His disastrous handling of post-Invasion clean-up duty was a riot, his ultra-PC "Nice Guy" period was hilarious, and the "one punch" is a classic. Personally, I always loved the development of Guy and Ice's relationship. Ice, the sweetest and kindest woman in the DCU and the bombastic jerk Guy were by all appearances a terrible match, and it didn't help matters that Guy's idea of a date was catching a skin flick. Their second date with the giant ice-skating mascot version of Guy was even more hilarious, as was the version of their future together shown in Armageddon 2001. Somehow Ice brought out the sensitive side of Guy, allowing the genuinely decent person buried inside to come out on occasion. These moments were rare, but they added a lot of dimension to the character.
Guy went through a bad period during most of the 90s and faded into obscurity for awhile. If Rebirth did at least one thing right, it was bringing Guy back to the DCU's main stage. He's more prominent now than he has been since the JLI days. He's mellowed since his JLI days, but the
arrogance and obnoxiousness are still there (who else would moon the JLA from outside their Watchtower?).
Guy Gardner is an asshole, yes, but he's an endearing asshole.
Thanks, Matt!
24. Zatanna – 307 points (3 first place votes)
Created by Gardner Fox and artist Murphy Anderson, Zatanna first appeared in a cool storyline where she visited a number of DC books looking for her lost father, Zatara. Zatara was a famous magician, and his daughter followed suit.
Zatanna is a world famous stage magician, but that belies her real power, which is as one of the most powerful magicians on Earth. She casts spells by saying words backwards.
Zatanna spent most of her time in this state – doing stage work and occasionally doing some hero work, but that changed when she joined the Justice League for a long stretch (almost 100 issues worth!).
After she left the League, Zatanna basically went back to relative obscurity, which is where she exists now, although recently, due to revelations that Zatanna had mind-wiped some bad guys years ago, she shows up a lot more frequently than she used to, as that storyline gets referenced a LOT nowadays.
She was also one of the Seven Soldiers in Grant Morrison's awesome Seven Soldiers crossover!
Here is Stephen DeMent, with his thoughts on why he had Zatanna at the top of his list…
There are very few characters that I get absolutely fanboy irrational over – Zatanna is one of them. Growing up, I was really big on all things occult and mysterious. There was this place down the street from us that hosted magic acts (It's called the Magic Island – it's still there in Houston, but not nearly as cool as it used to be), and as a teenager I worked there as a waiter. I was reading the Vertigo series The Books of Magic, and when Zatanna showed up, she immediately connected with me. She was part of the world of magic and mystery that I got such of a kick out of, and I started looking for more and more of her. I started getting sketches of her whenever I went to conventions, and I've been slowly building an entire sketchbook of Zatanna themed artwork. I even have the little DC bust that Adam Hughes did of her. I really dig that one of the most powerful characters in the DC Universe is this unassuming, beautiful brunette in a top hat and fishnets.
I can't stand that weird purple outfit she wore in JLA for so long. I much prefer her in the top hat and tails.
My favourite stories of her are the Zatanna Seven Soldiers mini, the appearances in Books Of Magic, and her recent appearance in Catwoman. I am currently trying to get my hands on the Paul Dini graphic novel (Everyday Magic) from a couple of years ago. Not sure how I missed that, but I'm kicking myself trying to win it for a decent price on E-Bay.
Thanks, Stephen!
23. Dream/Morpheus – 322 points (2 first place votes)
Dream or Morpheus, of the comic series, Sandman, was created by Neil Gaiman and artists Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg. He is one of the Endless, a group of powerful siblings who are personifications of aspects of the universe. Dream is the lord of, what else, but dreams (and stories, for that matter).
Dream lives in a castle at the heart of his world, which is called the Dreaming.
He basically busies himself with the world of the Dreaming.
At the end of the Sandman series, Morpheus "dies" and is replaced by a new Dream – Daniel.
Here is why my pal Jed had him high on his list…
Why do I love the character of Morpheus? The Sandman. The lord of the Dreaming.
Because he's a bit of all of us. He's noble. He's vengeful. He's tragic. He's thoughtful. He's loyal. He's awkward. He's fair. He's Cruel. He's sad. He's stuck. He's flawed. He's all of us and none of us. He's powerful and he's weak. He loves and hates his family. He loves and hates his lot in life. He loves and hates his responsibilities. He's admirable and he's detestable and all that's in between.
From the moment my eyes touched on his strange alien mask, I knew I was in for a wild ride. Morpheus's tale is epic. I am just grateful for having been on the trip.
Inevitably, he's undone by his inability to change. And who can't relate to that?
Thanks, Jed!
21 (tie). Hawkman (Katar Hol – 47 (2), Carter Hall – 278 (4)) – 325 points (6 first place votes)
Hawkman is a tricky one. I have decided to treat votes for Katar Hol as the same for votes for Carter Hall, especially as the current stance at DC is that they're the same person, basically.
Carter Hall was created by Gardner Fox and Dennis Neville, while Katar was created by Fox and Joe Kubert.
The former was an archaeologist who discovered an ancient metal that allowed him to fly, and discovered that he was the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian prince. Hall used weapons from his museum to help fight bad guys. He was in the Justice Society of America, but later also became a member of the Justice League, as a sort of senior advisor.
Katar Hol was a tough space cop from Thanagar, a world where people fly around with fake wings using basically the same metal. Hol was a member of the Justice League of America.
After some confusing continuity, Carter and Katar merged together – forming one Hawkman.
But this was kinda weird, so he literally went into limbo at the end of his series.
When he returned, in the pages of JSA, Hawkman was just Carter Hall. Katar was dead, and it was just Carter Hall controlling the body (while sharing the memories of Katar and Carter). So Hawkman is now back to basics – archeology, flying, museums, and big maces.
Here is why Hawkman was tops on Wayne Vermeire's list…
Hawkman is just pure heart and passion. He's got a few powers from the Nth metal, but even without them his passion for justice would make him a hero anyway. He gets the job done in the quickest most effective way he can. And he's not a pussy like Batman and will kill his enemy if it's for the greater good. Plus he hits people with a big ass mace. I only wish I could get away with that.
Thanks, Wayne!
21 (tie). Animal Man – 325 points (7 first place votes)
Due to some alien visitors, Buddy Baker gained the ability to borrow the abilities of animals, like flying like a nearby bird, running like a nearby cheetah, etc. This led to Buddy becoming the hero, Animal Man (created by Dave Wood and Carmine Infantino).
Eventually, Buddy grew tired of the hero game, and settled down with his wife and his two young children. He popped up occasionally with a few other mostly retired heroes in the Forgotten Heroes. After Crisis, though, he was back to being retired. However, eventually he got restless and became Animal Man again, even joining the Justice League!!
It was during this time that Grant Morrison wrote Buddy's first (and only, so far) ongoing title, where Morrison used Buddy to explore both animal rights and also metafictive concepts about comic books, like acknowledging Crisis and how the series had changed "continuity." Morrison even appeared in the comic, as "The Writer."
After Morrison's departure, Buddy's book became more and more surreal, until its cancellation when, after being absent for a few years, Buddy just basically went back to the way he was at the end of Morrison's run.
Recently, he has made a bit of a return to comics, as one of the stars of DC's year-long series, 52, and also now co-starring in the new mini-series, Countdown to Adventure.
That's it for today! More tomorrow!
suddenly 3 of my top 10 make it onto the list- Zatanna, Hawkman and Morpheus. I thought Morpheus would have been higher, though. However my main comment on this selection is OH MY GOD!!! I forgot Animal Man!
Its good to see that a lot of people have an affection for him.
Glad to see Guy Gardner, although I would have put him at number one of course. But still, he's in darned good company!
I have Hawkman at #5.
The Joe Kubert work, to this day, is some of the best comics illustration I've ever gazed upon.
Hawkman has one of the greatest masks and costumes in the business. It's elemental. It's scary. All of the other trappings, the flight, medieval weapons, and museum settings, are like mana from art heaven.
I had Sandman at 4 and the Ostrander run on Hawkman at 8.
Guy is a great antoginist hero. He's good enough to have him on your team, but not good enough to be really outstanding. He gets the job done, and he'll remind you, so you don't want him around, but you can't cut him loose because he DOES get the job done. He's one of those guys (no pun intended) that you love to hate.
No green lantern's better than Guy.
That's just the way it is.
That's just the way it should be.
That's just the way it always has been.
Okay, Brainiac Five cracked the top twenty? Because I simply refuse to believe he didn't make top fifty.
I think we're out of luck with Brainiac 5. I've been comparing this list to the Great Curve's list of a few years ago, and Brainy was at #75 on that list. We've got twenty slots to go here, and we still haven't seen:
Wonder Woman
Wally West
Green Arrow
Lois Lane
J'onn J'onzz
Hal Jordan
Black Canary
Blue Beetle
Commissioner Gordon
Booster Gold
John Constantine
Adam Strange
Ray Palmer
Phantom Stranger
Mr. Terrific
Dr. Fate
Harley Quinn
Donna Troy
Amanda Waller
Ra's al Ghul
Sgt. Rock
Mary Marvel
Jimmy Olsen
… all forty of which placed ahead of Brainy on that list. And that's not counting whichever Vertigo characters muscle their way in.
So, continuing to look at the numbers, we see that DC hits a plateau around 325 while Marvel passed them with Emma Frost and Punisher. In fact, over the last 10 positions while DC's rate of increase has been about 5.5 points per position, Marvel has gone up to 15 points! Marvel went from 60 points behind to 35 points ahead in those same 10 positions.
Don't forget that of the roughly 30,000 points available, DC has only used 6,700 and Marvel only 5,800, so we should see some much higher scores yet to come.
Guy gets props from me for the beating he took at Doomsday's hand in the "death of superman" arc. Boorish and brash, he still wanted to fight the good fight, even when he was beaten and bloodied.
Interesting list, Matthew E. I hadn't thought of who we have yet to see.
It is a shame that the Legion doesn't have ONE stand out character; it is an ensemble, so it was hard for me to pick one to vote for out of my Legion love. I think that the entire concept deserves a Top 50 spot, possibly Top 10.
"Their second date with the giant ice-skating mascot version of Guy was even more hilarious"
…one of the funniest, laugh out loud comics I've ever read. I think it might have been the *first* comic I ever laughed out loud at, actually.
Damn you DC, collect these issues so I don't have to keep ruining the originals already!
Damn. There's 3 of mine right there. I only had one before this.
I had Guy Gardner at #2. Zatanna and Dream were on there somewhere fairly low. I actually wasn't really expecting to see any of them on the list.
If Dream is on here Death better be too.
I think Death was already on the list.
Finally, one of mine makes it. I'm happy that Zatanna is this high, because she's interesting and fun, but sad because this means that half my other picks almost certainly didn't make it. I didn't even think I was being particularly obscure.
Awesome. With Animal Man on the list, I can cross off another one of my choices that made it.
Full agreement with the Matt's summation of Guy, especially how endearing his relationship with Ice is. They're one of my favorite DC couples, and I plan on picking up the most recently solicited issue of GL Corps just to see their reunion.
Animal Man? Really?
And I would've bet Dream was a top-tenner for sure. But no. Beat by Animal Man.
It's a pitty to see the Sandman so low on the list… oh well….
Guy…? Ugh.
P.S. "An endearing asshole"? It sounds… wrong.
I suspect that Dream and Death would have ranked at least a few ranks higher if this poll had been taken ten years ago (ditto Jesse Custer). Sandman does have an enduring popularity that not many comics can match, but it hasn't been as much in the public eye recently.
I'll be curious to see who makes the top fifty with the fewest actual appearances in a comic book. I'm guessing it's Death. How many issues has she been in total? Fifteen? Twenty? Or am I missing something?
Might be Ambush Bug.
I think Ambush Bug beats Death in fewer appearances. He seems to have about 30, while she seems to have about 40
Dang. Well I can't see my top fav making the list now I must admit I'm pretty surpised by that, I certainly thought he would have been more popular then some of the earlier chioces. Oh well, at least Zatanna isthere, I'm hoping some of my other fav's make it.
How is Dream not amongst the top 3 in the DC pantheon. After Batman (1) and then Superman (who I think sucks but deserves to be 2) then it has to be Dream. All else pales compared to him.
Personally, I prefer Lucifer to Dream. At least when he screws you over you know he means it.
Also, Mazikeen is right up there with Debbie Tiegel in the list of scary/awesome girlfriends.
I'm amazed that Hawkman finally managed to bounce back from the hopelessly muddled Zero Hour wreckcon to be a viable character for this list. Hooboy is that a story better forgotten for all time.
Another one of my picks – #7 (Hawkman). I'm a Silver / Bronze Age guy so my favorite Hawkman is Katar. Pre-Crisis of course. Hawkworld didn't really work for me.
And you're looking at the only person on Earth who preferred Zatanna in the one piece silvery-blue costume with the red cape and elf boots she wore when she first joined the JLoA.
I think it's the pony-tail. I'm a pony-tail fan.
Regardless, she almost made my list. Defintely woulda made my top 20.
All else pales compared to him.
So to speak.
There better be some Legion love on this list. I'd hate to think my vote for Matter-Eater Lad was wasted.
We still Havent seen Nightwing or Hitman!!
That sure was a large gap between Green Lanturns. And we probably won't see Hal pop up until we reach the top 10.
Whoo! Buddy!
OTOH, that Baker finally showed up greatly lessens the chance that Grant Morrison made the list all, seeing as how people would likely vote for them in tandem.
Ben, any chance of seeing Morrison's vote total if he didn't make it into the top 20?
As for one Legionnaire worth voting for, there is, arguably, one– Rokk Krinn. He ranges from the idealistic heart of the Legion to a scholar of the 20th Century to a powerless but brilliant tactitian to being the Time Trapper. I love a lot of the Legion characters but Krinn, especially pre-reboot, stands out.
Is Animal Man really a great character? He's okay. Grant Morrison and Peter Milligan's runs on the title were phenomenal, but I always put that purely down to the quality of the writing rather than him being a particularly good character.
Ah well. I still like the guy. Hawkman surprises me. I never thought anyone particularly liked him.
Guy Gardner's great though. I thought he might be top 10 (even though he just missed my list)
I think its fascinating that the work of essentially one writer, most of which was years ago, can single handedly bring a character like Animal Man into such a high position.
I liked that JLA Zatanna costume. It's in the flashbacks in Identity Crisis, too.
Animal Man is a result of great writing. When I first became a comic collector as a teenager Animal Man was one of the first books I picked up. Issue #1 gave me such a rush that I read the whole run of Morrisson and then some. Then I started to grow tired of the comic industry in general and "got out" selling ny whole collection. When I got "back in" a couple of years ago I immediately e-bayed the entire Morrisson run. However, when a character exhibits the potential that was displayed (for example Peter David and Jamie Madrox) the publishers are at fault for not giving a character the proper support. The potential for Animal Man and story possibilities are endless. Basically everyone looks to memorable runs instead of longer less impactful (is that a word) runs.
Dan, yes, Buddy Baker is that good a character. He's one of the few superheroes written well with a wife and kid, and he's far more thoughtful and contemplative than most.
Actually Patent Dragon, the costume in the Identity Crisis flashbacks was designed by George Perez to replace the costume I'm talking about. When Zee joined the JLoA they changed her fishnet stage magician garb to the costume I prefer. I can only speculate that DC wanted to make Zee visually distinct from Black Canary who was already a member of the League. Since Dinah wore a dark costume with fishnets, Zee received a new costume that was sort of a light blue / silvery one piece accented by a red cape, elf boots, and vaguely arcane looking jewelry. And that pony-tail. Yum …
Sorry, lost my train of thought there. After Dick Dilon's untimely death, George Perez became the penciller on JLoA. I guess Perez thought Zee's then current garb lacked something and he designed the costume you see in IC. Here's the cover to the issue where Zee originally joined the League:
See, much different
That should read "Dick Dillin". The guy was a great artist and deserves better than some internet putz misspelling his name.
Yikes, that's half my DC list right there…
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