djplaeskool
Member
Ahh. Was about to call him Bevo, but I think that's the actual live longhorn mascot.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Marvel releases 'covers' to mark the start of the college football season
- Thread starter FelixOrion
- Start date
- Status
Ahh. Was about to call him Bevo, but I think that's the actual live longhorn mascot.
Yep. Bevo is the live mascot and Hook 'Em is the costumed mascot.
ConfusingJazz
Member
Right, it is Hook 'em, the costume mascot, as opposed to Bevo, the regular mascot.
But on Hook 'em's bandana is a Tennessee T. The Texas T is made up of straight lines, like the one in your image, while the Tennessee T has inverted curves, like the one in the marvel poster.
It's a pretty stupid mistake.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Hey man, some of us are decent people and support teams with human mascots
Elwood Blues
Member
UGA hasn't been relevant since Herschel Walker.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
I want a cover of a yellowjacket blowing out a bulldog's knees
hodayathink
Member
I don't know that I'd say the West Coast doesn't care for it. Stanford, Cal, USC, and UCLA are all pretty big programs with pretty big fan bases. And the only reason Chicago doesn't care for it is because they don't really have a team (no matter how much Northwestern and U of I would like to claim otherwise).
Zantetsuken
Member
The Tennessee mascot reminded me of this.
EDIT:
EDIT:
perfectchaos007
Member
The Tennessee mascot reminded me of this.
It reminds me of a broken image too
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Sho_Nuff82
Member
The Auburn/Clemson one is a classic Spiderman/Venom cover, no?
Edit: found it. Kinda close
Edit: found it. Kinda close
LizardKing
Member
Yeah I agree. The only region of the US it's really not that popular compared to other sports is the North East. Obviously because they don't have any traditional powers and have been in lesser conferences.
Nah, first off Chicago has a team (its Notre Dame), and Notre Dame is the default team for a lot of the fans in the North East (we have a lot of Irish and Italians up here). And even after that awful scandal, PSU fans still pack Beaver Stadium.
We also had more posters in this thread than Cal had for its spring game. Stanford's attendance isn't nearly as good as it should be for a team as good as it is, and Cal has had a rough spot from that they're recovering, its nothing like the SEC and the Midwest in popularity.
Otoh, USC/UCLA/Oregon/Washington fill those seats.
hodayathink
Member
Notre Dame has about as much of a claim to Chicago as Northwestern does, which is barely any. I might have said they were Chicago's team back during the Holtz era (when everyone else in the state sucked and they were basically a national team instead of a regional one), but everything past that has basically lost them whatever small grip on the actual city that they had.
And I say that as U of I alum that has watched them flail in their attempts to claim the city and arguably not even be as popular as Northwestern for the past 10-15 years.
Edit: Which reminds me of the time I went to the Nike store on the Magnificent Mile in downtown Chicago and couldn't find any Illini gear outside of a hat.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
The Auburn/Clemson one is a classic Spiderman/Venom cover, no?
Edit: found it. Kinda close
yeah that's pretty blatant homage. Wonder if they others are too.
EDIT: actually, yeah i think they are! If you look at the signatures they all say [artist] after [McFarlane/Kirby/etc]. They gotta be referencing famous covers or pages.
VenomousCoffee
Member
The Bama/ USC one is good--it's the right level of cartoony. But that Clemson/ Auburn looks like two sexually confused kittens rolling around.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
LSU/Wisconsin is the original appearance of Wolverine incredible Hulk cover.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
LSU/Wisconsin is the original appearance of Wolverine incredible Hulk cover.
hell, it even has a football player in the background in the place of Wendigo, lol
These two guys went to every game in red and gold glitter. They're basically unofficial mascots.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
Now that we're at the end of the season and it's playoff time for the FBS, they've released a monstrosity of a cover for the semifinal games.
bama-sama kawaii desu
bama-sama kawaii desu
Frozenprince
Banned
That's a fucking awful cover.
FelixOrion
Poet Centuriate
New season, new Marvel covers!
- Status