Ralph Dibny: Not quite the world's greatest detective.

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

Or, "That's no paraplegic, that's a MAN, baby!" (Yes, my sense of humor is just a wee bit dark. Why do you ask?)

4 scans from 52, Week 41. I found a bunch of 52s and 52: World War issues at a book sale this weekend, and may be posting more from them as time goes on and I find more crack contained therein.




Apparently Dewhurst took the bet, because Ralph gets in to see his pigeon. I can't decide if this is a cap the dude's wearing or just a really Moe Howard haircut.





BUSTED!



I want Dr. Fate to whoosh me away from my embarrassing situations too...

(Apologies for the poor scan quality. I don't know what happened between scans 1 and 2.)

Comments

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Professor Milo does indeed have a Moe Howard hairdo.

Check B:TAS.

[filbypott.insanejournal.com]

First scan, fifth panel: Ralph's nose is wiggling.

I never noticed that until this moment.

Foreshadowing!

[kingrockwell]

Forth panel, actually.
Also, third scan, first panel!

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

Shouldn't the chair have fallen the other way?

[(Anonymous)]

If it had fallen instead of being pushed.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Not necessarily, most likely Ralph lifted the chair up on it's left wheel to remove the right, enchanted wheel and then just kept lifting until toppled over the other way, to stop Milo falling on top of him.

[tanetris.insanejournal.com]

I'm not sure I buy that. I'm looking at the last panel of the second scan, and what I'm seeing is Ralph pulling the wheel off with both hands, and it seems to be coming pretty much straight off, with no visual hints that the wheelchair is at a different angle (unless there's an intervening page that shows otherwise). If he's pushing the wheelchair over and snapping off the wheel, we shouldn't be seeing the fingers of his left hand, and also he should really still be gripping the wheel at the top, instead of switching his grip to the sides.

On a sidenote, good to see you around again. When the suspended message popped up on s_d, yours was the only username I could remember (I'm fairly new, only been around a month or so), so I checked your LJ to see if you had posted anything about it or if there were any names on your flist I recognized. Fortunately, after that I thought to check the google cache of the scans_daily profile for admins and found schmevil's LJ.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Glad to be here! Unfortnately the "Great Disaster" coincided with my home PC being in for repairs so it took me a while to sort things out and get set up for posting here! Glad you found your way over! :)

[thanekos.insanejournal.com]

http://dibnydiary.blogspot.com/2007/02/im-fat-packed-with-decency-mr-bitch.html

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

So, Milo was crippled, but ALSO stole the wheel?

[perletwo.insanejournal.com]

"Bartered Heavily" for it, according to Ralph; that's how he tracked him. Whether he was crippled at the time or not is unclear.