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Two people claim to know everything about something, but only one knows anything.
I'm a historian, an astronaut or driver's allorian.
But if you ask me why can you trust the answer?
From Wakanda, Illinois. This is the Big Fab.
Really? And now, here's your host. Deborah Gold!
Welcome to the Big 5. The game show where kids choose between the glossy, heroic continuity of truth? and the graphic omnibus of floppy lives.
I'm your host, Deborah Goldstein, and in the studio today is our sound effects robot, Lisa, whose name stands for live in studio audience.
That's not gonna, we had to also, I just, and something else.
Pardon me, Lisa? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're pardoned. No, no, I mean, I overheard you saying something.
Yeah, that's because I'm trying to remember what I'm supposed to tell you.
I gotta tell you in the listening or something.
Well, wasn't. Maybe it's something about a listener question?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, that's not it.
But it might be something about a listener question.
Okay, I just never mind. So you do have a listener question?
Oh yeah, here it is. Hi Lisa, I was wondering, since you're a robot, do you have like laser eyes or something?
Well listener, I have a totes amazing vision of course, but my eyes are not lasers, so I guess the answer to your question would be or something.
The question was, do you have laser eyes or something?
And given that I do not have laser eyes, then the answer must be by process of elimination the answer that is not laser eyes but indeed or something okay but do you have some sort of device or technology that allows you to have your A4 mentioned Toad's amazing vision.
No clue. I see. But I see better. because of, you know, something.
Okay, I guess that's as much as we're going to learn about your eyes, but perhaps you can go into more detail about another topic. such as how our game works.
Oh, I know a little something about that, and it involves laser.
Every week we bring on two grown-ups one is an expert the other A liar.
And it's the job of a human child to help us figure out who is who.
There's no one can spot a liar better than a kid.
That's why they call them kids. What are we lying about today, Deborah?
We are lying about comic books, books with pictures that tell a story.
And we're going to learn all about comic books along with our contestant today.
Who might that be, Lisa? Our human child contestant is an 11-year-old who has a bossy bunny named Oreo.
Capri, Joelle! Hi, Capri, Joelle! Hi! How are you?
I'm doing good, how are you? Oh, also good.
Thank you very much. We must learn about your bossy bunny Oreo.
What makes your bunny bossy? Well, he just stops.
He stops when he doesn't have food, and he stops when he doesn't have any water, so he's just very bossy, because it's like he's just stomping.
I see. We actually have audio of that, Deborah.
This is the real audio of the money, Oreo.
Hey, give me a carrot, c'mon! C'mon, come preach well, give me some carrot!
C'mon! I don't think that's actual. That's the real audience.
I see, I see. But you love him, right? I mean, he's bossy, but sweet, I'm guessing.
Yeah. Yeah. He's pretty sweet. Pretty sweet.
Okay. And his name is Oreo. Is there a story behind his name?
So his name is already Oreo. And we had Oreo like listed up on what we were gonna name him.
So he just went ahead and went with Oreo.
He's also black and white bunny. So makes sense.
Totally makes sense. Love it. Well, I hope he's going to be listening into the show.
You bet I am. And by the way, my name is Ralph, not Oreo.
I tried to tell them, but nobody listens.
No, it isn't. It's Oreo. Well, we do want to learn some more fun facts about you Caprijo out, but we're going to do it playing our game to choose and a lie.
You, Caprijo, are going to tell us three things about yourself.
Two of those things will be true. One will be a lie, and we have to figure out which is which.
So in no particular order, Please tell us your two truths and a lie.
I'm an only child. I'm a ballerina and I am a model.
Model. Okay. Let's see. I have a feeling that Lisa has some thoughts about which of those is the lie.
Don't you, Lisa? She's clever. I'll give her that, Deborah.
But there's one that's a glaring lie. yes she comes to us today saying she's an only child yes but I was on a walk yesterday yeah what did I say Deborah a child you saw a child I saw another child and then I walk by a playground.
Yeah. Lots of children. I walk by a local school.
Lots of children. She thinks she's the only child?
How dare she come in with that lie. That one is so clearly a lie and I just can't even believe she would try it.
I think she means when somebody says they're an only child, that means in their house, like they have no siblings, brothers or sisters.
That's what that means. Oh, well, I don't know.
I've never been to her house. You're going to stick with that anyway.
Oh, yeah, I mean. Okay, fine. Yeah, I'll tell us which of those things is actually a lie.
Okay, Lisa, you were correct. I'm not an only child.
I have a brother. I told you because there's lots of children.
That is not why she has a brother. What is your brother's name, Caprijo L?
Caleb. Caleb. Shout out, Caleb. So in fact, you are a model and a ballerina.
That's amazing. Do you perform ballet in front of people? so i'm actually a training ballerina right now so i'm just working on grace and stuff like that beautiful lovely and i understand that this might be a fact also Is it true, Capri Joelle, that you have a YouTube channel?
I do have a YouTube channel called Capri Joelle.
It's called Capri Joelle. People, everybody go check her out.
Very good. Well... You didn't fool Lisa, but only because of strange logic that Lisa used.
Well, now we know that there are two children in the world.
Exactly, but I do think you are going to do very well at this game.
So I think we need to get on with it and talk about comic books.
Have you ever read a comic book, Capri Joelle?
Yes, I have like a few of them because I like reading comic books.
I do make comic books sometimes too. I love it.
Wow, so you probably will know a thing or two.
That's exciting. All right, let's meet our experts.
Lisa, can you please play some welcome music for our comic book experts?
Boom! How! Oh! Ow! This is the song of comic books!
And here they come. They might like pizza, but everyone knows the best comic book hero is Lisa.
Oh, nice one! Very good. Okay, our first expert is Van Jensen.
Van, please introduce yourself to Caprijo L.
Hi, Caprijo Elle. My name is Van Jensen and I am an author of Comic Books.
Thank you very much. Now let's meet our second expert, Thea Cook.
Thea, please introduce yourself to Capri Joelle.
Hello, Capri Joelle. My name is Thea Cook, and I am a comic book collector.
Thank you very much. Tell us about those hot-off-the-press sounds, Lisa.
They're hot-off-the-press! Look as it's hot tea time!
Yay, it's hot seat time. That's when we put our experts on the hot seat while they answer Caprijoel's questions.
Lisa, whom should we put on the hot seat first?
Wow, uh, Denver is a really hard one because both experts have super fun names to say.
We of course have... And we also have theater court.
Ultimately, I'm gonna go with Van Jensen.
Okay, great. So, Caprijoelle, you're going to ask Van your first question, and then after that, you get to decide.
So, Caprijoelle, what is your first question for Van?
What is a day like doing your job? So I kind of get to be a professional kid.
I sit around and I imagine what different superheroes or wild characters might do.
I just tried to be as creative as possible and so I've written characters like Superman and The Flash and Green Lantern and I think about What would be an interesting challenge for them to face?
And then once I have an idea, I write it into what's called a script.
And so it sort of says page by page what's going to happen.
And then I'm working with the artists that draw the comics and bring them to life.
And so that's Kind of the regular day to day and then I have special days where I get to go to comic book conventions and that's like doing signings and meeting fans.
So really it's a dream job, a lot of fun.
Very cool. I wouldn't be able to answer the same question as well.
I wish that I could spend all day reading comics or looking for comics, but I actually am a teacher as well. as a comic book collector.
What I like to do every day is dial into some of my favorite YouTube channels like comic tom or key collector comics.
I like to watch those guys and see what's happening on there.
I also like to check for issues that I'm looking for on websites like Mile High Comics or one that we call Tifa.
That's called things from another world.
And then on let's say a Wednesday, that's when comic books come out.
So I go to my local comic book shop and I pick up the issues that have been pulled for me that I've been waiting for. actually except for during the pandemic, DC changed to Tuesdays and that's when their issues dropped.
So then I go in on Tuesdays and get my DC issues.
So Those are kind of like what a week looks like or what a day looks like for me.
Thank you very much. See you. Why are comic books popular?
Well, look at a book and look at a comic book like side by side.
And immediately, all of that color and all of that excitement just jumps out at you. and anything that you get into as a kid like that is like deep in your core right and you can carry that on for the rest of your life so you see that as a child you see all that color you see all that excitement and.
It just speaks to you. And then you get into the stories and oh my gosh, you're just sucked in forever.
Like you just can't put them down. I just think they're the most exciting thing ever.
I like the boxes. The boxes? Yeah, they got lots of little boxes in them.
Oh, right. Where each illustration is. Is that what you mean?
Yeah. The illustrations are whatever, but I like the boxes.
Or the actual boxes, like the frames. I'm a big box fan, yeah.
I see. I guess there's something for everybody.
Yeah, exactly. So I don't want to get on Lisa's bad side, but I would like to say that the boxes on a comic book page are actually called panels.
So if you want to be cool in the comic book crowd Better come in saying panels, not boxes.
Hey, Deborah, let me just correct myself.
You've probably heard me say boxes. I was just trying to make it easier for people to understand.
I'm a big panel fan. I see. Yeah, pan fan.
It's great to know there's a fellow pan fan out there.
I love them. Thrilled to know. So this one is for van.
How do you feel about comics being made into movies? the superhero comics that go into movies like all the big Marvel movies and DC movies, but there are also a lot of independent comics books that you might not know that you watch a movie and it actually was originally a comic book or a graphic novel and obviously i love it if you know something i wrote makes a movie or a tv show that i get to see my work up on the screen and also get some extra money which is not a bad thing But I think it also just it brings more and more people to the actual comic books.
And so I'm all about like anything that gets someone to start reading is great.
See, what makes a comic book valuable? Well, I think there are a couple of answers to this question.
Obviously, the value can be monetary value, right?
So if a comic book is in really good condition, we call it mint condition, and there's a key issue in it meaning like something big happens in that issue like Superman is introduced or Batman is introduced for the first time.
And it's old. That can be worth a lot of money.
And there's actually a company called the Comics Guarantee Company.
We call it CGC for short. and they give a rating to comic books.
And if you receive a good rating for a comic book that's rare, it can be worth a lot of money.
But the other side of that coin is sometimes it's of a lot of value to you personally.
Like in my dad's collection, I have a number one of the very first X men.
And that is a beautiful comic and it's worth a lot to me because it was his, but it's not worth anything monetarily because it's so beat up.
But to me, it has a very high value. So those are kind of like the two ways you can value comic books.
The other one is if it has a lot of panels in it.
Pan fans are like, this is great. I mean, just to speak to the whole pan thing, actually a comic book collector is called a panopictographist.
So that just adds a little more to the pan fan situation.
That's what I am, Deborah. I finally know.
I know who I am. It's good to have an identity.
I like it. Very good. All right, well done.
Those are great questions. Thank you very much, Caprijua.
I hope you got some good intel from that.
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Lisa will set a timer for the first expert, and then Caprijo L will ask questions until Lisa's timer sounds.
Then Lisa resets the timer for our next expert to do the same.
Experts answer quickly as we run through these questions.
All right, Caprijo L, let's start with Van.
Ask your shorts on fire questions now. Which country first published comic books?
The United States. Why is the word for a single issue comic book? floppies because they're thin and they kind of flop around when you read them.
What was Wonder Woman's secret identity name?
That would be Diana Prince. Which comic book was the largest comic ever made?
An issue of Attack on Titan. What do you call a comic book page that has only one panel that fills up the whole page?
A splash page boring. No. Why is the word for comic book in Japan?
That would be manga. Which comic is the only one to win a National Book Award?
March by John Lewis. What do you call the sound effects in comic books like Wham and Pow?
Onomatopoeia. What is the term for the white space between the panels of a comic book strip?
Those are called gutters. and time. That's all the time.
Very good. Okay. We are going to reset the timer.
Aren't we, Lisa? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, great.
All right, and that means Caprijoelle can ask Thea your shorts on fire questions now.
What is the only comic to win a Pulitzer Prize?
Here comes Daredevil, the man without fear.
Which comic book is the most valuable? Detective Comics number 27, that's the first appearance of Batman.
Which country sales the highest number of comic books?
Japan. What do you call a comic book that is as long as a book?
A graphic novel. Which font was inspired by the lettering and comic books?
Annie Mae Ace 2. Who was the first female superhero in comic books?
Wonder Woman? What would you use to stop valuable comic books from bending or getting damaged? a panel plank.
What do you call the ovals with dialogue inside?
The Habble Bubbles. Factor 5, the incredible hawk was purple before he was green.
Fact, Marvel or DC. I'm gonna go with Marvel with the exception of Batman.
And time. That's all the time. That is it.
Very good. Well done experts and very well done, Caprijo L.
All right, it's decision time in the imaginary speech bubble over her head.
Capricio L is considering her answer. Caprijo L. Who is our big comic book Fiverr?
I'm gonna go with Thea Cook. Because I'm not sure about the first female to be in a comic.
I thought it was Miss Marvel. Miss Marvel, okay.
Let's see will the actual comic book expert please say I am the comic book expert.
I am the comic book expert. You got it right.
You did it. That is correct. Van Jensen is a comic book author who has written characters including Superman the Flash and Wonder Woman.
Fantastic, very good job, Caprijo L. Okay, let's do some fact checking here.
Van, read your captions behind Thea's lies, would you?
Thea did an incredible job just dropping like mile high comics and T5 and she really was nailing it.
One thing, CGC, and this would be hard for anyone to know, it actually stands for Certified Guarantee Company.
Oh, okay. The only comic to win a Pulitzer Prize is Mouse.
The most valuable comic ever was actually amazing fantasy number 15, which was the first appearance of Spider-Man or 3.6 million.
Wow! I wish I had a copy. I know, yeah.
Put it on your Christmas list, okay? The font inspired by comics was Comic Sans.
Let's see the ovals with dialogue in them are called balloons and Hulk was originally gray.
That's interesting. And what about the first female superhero?
Was that Ms. Marvel? I can't say for sure.
In the 1930s there were like... thousands of superheroes, and so it's a bit hard to know exactly, but I do think that Ms.
Marvel debuted before Wonder Woman. What about Fantoma?
Do you know this? Oh, yeah. Fantoma came about in the 1930s. in amazing fantasy number one created by Fletcher Hanks who is like a mad genius of early comics.
I'm a little bit obsessed with them. So yeah, Fantoma is like a skull-faced woman that protects the jungle.
She's fabulous. Wow, how cool. And would you agree with Thea?
She went with Marvel as her choice over DC.
Would you concur? You know, if you're reading comics, I'm happy with it all the way around.
These are people I work with. I can't make enemies here on the big fib.
I do it all the time. No, you don't. Everybody loves you.
There's no ramifications, believe me. Okay, well, we've got to finish her up now.
So thanks to our contestant, Caprijo L, our super heroic back finder. and thank you to our expert and liar, Van and Thea, and thanks to Lisa for the anthology of sounds.
And of course many thanks to our listeners tuning in to the big fib. where we incur pain with every lie and we take a page out of the great omnibus of truth.
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