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Brian Bolland, an Uncommon card
Brian John Bolland is a British comics artist.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 20,000
Power 182 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Brian Bolland quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Brian Bolland card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He gradually shifted to working primarily as a cover artist, producing the ______ of his work for DC Comics.
Answer
majority. He gradually shifted to working primarily as a cover artist, producing the majority of his work for DC Comics. From the Brian Bolland article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Bolland illustrated the critically acclaimed ____ graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, an origin story for Batman supervillain the Joker, with writer Alan Moore.
Answer
1980s. Bolland illustrated the critically acclaimed 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, an origin story for Batman supervillain the Joker, with writer Alan Moore. From the Brian Bolland article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Nebular hypothesis. Nebular hypothesis 57,000 · Iranian architecture 36,000 · Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater 26,000 · Brian Bolland 20,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Best known in the United Kingdom as one of the Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the 'British Invasion' of the American comics industry, and in 1982 produced the artwork alongside author Mike W. Barr on Camelot 3000, which was DC Comics's first 12-issue comicbook maxiseries created for the direct market.
- Bolland illustrated the critically acclaimed 1988 graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke, an origin story for Batman supervillain the Joker, with writer Alan Moore.
- He gradually shifted to working primarily as a cover artist, producing the majority of his work for DC Comics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Brian Bolland article was read about 20,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 85 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Brian Bolland
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Brian Bolland (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Luigi Novi, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
