MattBrady
03-17-2007, 08:16 PM
<img src="http://www.newsarama.com/WWLA_07/Marvel/sat/f_031707_12081.jpg" align="right">Marvel's "Prize or No Prize?" trivia contest will kick off a new season starting tomorrow at WizardWorld: LA. The panel will take place from noon to 1:00pm in the Dave Cockrum Room (515A), and will once again feature Editor Tom Brevoort and company in a trivia showdown with fans.
We asked Brevoort to explain it in a little more detail...
"Prize or No-Prize, now in its second year, is Marvel's trivia gameshow panel, in which we give out dozens or prizes ranging from the relatively good to the pretty damn good. And one of the prizes that's inevitably in the hopper is original sketches by some of Marvel's best artists. These are one-of-a-kind drawings done by our guys specifically to be given out during Prize or No-Prize, so the panel is the only place where you can find these.
"Typically, we do two or three games, depending on the time allotted--a preliminary game or two, and then Prize or No-Prize proper. The way PoNP works is that a multiple choice question is thrown out to the room. The person who answers it correctly wins an initial prize, and is invited up to sit in the "Hot Seat". From there, the contestant has the option of answering additional questions for additional prizes. The contestant can quit and take away whatever winnings they've accrued up to that point--but if they get a question wrong, they must return to their seat empty-handed, and the question goes out to the room as a whole--and the person who answers it correctly "inherits" whatever prizes have been stacked up so far. So the very good or the very lucky can wind up walking away with cartloads of stuff.
"Also, our standard warning: Prize or No-Prize is a full-contact sport, so if you're one of those people who likes to slink down in the last room and try to avoid attention, this is the wrong place for you."
And as for those prizes? How does some swanky original art sound? Below are images of the art that will be going up for grabs at Sunday's contest:
Spider-Man by Todd Nauck
Wolverine by Mike Mayhew
Captain America by Mike Perkins
and Captain America expressing shock and dismay - by Ed Brubaker.
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We asked Brevoort to explain it in a little more detail...
"Prize or No-Prize, now in its second year, is Marvel's trivia gameshow panel, in which we give out dozens or prizes ranging from the relatively good to the pretty damn good. And one of the prizes that's inevitably in the hopper is original sketches by some of Marvel's best artists. These are one-of-a-kind drawings done by our guys specifically to be given out during Prize or No-Prize, so the panel is the only place where you can find these.
"Typically, we do two or three games, depending on the time allotted--a preliminary game or two, and then Prize or No-Prize proper. The way PoNP works is that a multiple choice question is thrown out to the room. The person who answers it correctly wins an initial prize, and is invited up to sit in the "Hot Seat". From there, the contestant has the option of answering additional questions for additional prizes. The contestant can quit and take away whatever winnings they've accrued up to that point--but if they get a question wrong, they must return to their seat empty-handed, and the question goes out to the room as a whole--and the person who answers it correctly "inherits" whatever prizes have been stacked up so far. So the very good or the very lucky can wind up walking away with cartloads of stuff.
"Also, our standard warning: Prize or No-Prize is a full-contact sport, so if you're one of those people who likes to slink down in the last room and try to avoid attention, this is the wrong place for you."
And as for those prizes? How does some swanky original art sound? Below are images of the art that will be going up for grabs at Sunday's contest:
Spider-Man by Todd Nauck
Wolverine by Mike Mayhew
Captain America by Mike Perkins
and Captain America expressing shock and dismay - by Ed Brubaker.
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