FFF Results Post #152—Pagi-Nation

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Describe Five Specific Pages Or Two-Page Sequences You Like." Here are their responses.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. A grief-stricken Sock Monkey runs away from the dead bird
2. That page in Murmur where the lead is spying on his mother
3. Speedy Ortiz visits his various loved ones
4. Bat creatures break in, Kamandi #10
5. David B. changes his first name

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Andrew Mansell

1. The triumphant moment from Amazing Spider-man #33
2. The arrival of the Celestial's ship from Eternals #2
3. The final page of League of Extra-Ordinary Gentlemen Vol 1, #6
4. The Spirit-- First two page of Beagle's Second Chance-- Perfection
5. Green Lantern tripping his brains out by Neal Adams

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Kiel Phegley

1. The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #3, pages 10 - 11, the knife-throwing sequence featuring "Her name was Ruby. She'd been giving me the eye..." At the same time the sexiest and one of the saddest little scenes in comics.
2. Grickle, the two silent pages in "photo opportunity" where the Poloroid-taking "hero" turns from gentle lecturer on anti-smoking to a cigarette-slapping madman. Probably the funniest comic I've ever read.
3. Amazing Screw-On Head #1, the bit that goes like this:

"But what sort of punishment? Poison Frogs? Plague rats? Giant Fire-breathing robot?"
"Why not all three?"
"Marry me."
Probably the second funniest comic I've ever read.

4. Any Kirby photo-collage spread. The most recent one I've bought is in Thor #162, a two-pager featuring the Thunder God, the Recorder, planets, some wild satellites and what I think is a disco ball.
5. JLA #7, Electric Blue Superman wrestles and angel

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Scott Dunbier

* GL/GA 87
From the Green Arrow solo story, by Elliot S! Maggin and Neal Adams (much of the story was shot from Adams' beautiful pencils). The sequence where Green Arrow lands in the middle of a riot in an inner city neighborhood. A little boy is shot in the back, and GA tries to save his life. Incredibly powerful, and the first time I ever read anything remotely like it in a comic book.

* Manhunter
Tough choice--I was going to go with Chapter 6, page 6 from Detective 442, Where Manhunter fights his teacher, Asano Nitobe. Now this was dynamic storytelling at its best, what a great team Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson were. But I had to go with the last two pages from the final story, in Detective 443. Paul Kirk making the ultimate sacrifice--God I loved this series.

* Detective #439
My favorite Batman story, written by Steve Englehart, and drawn by Sal Amendola (Did Dick Giordano ink it? Think so). The last two pages. After Batman ruthlessly tracks down the bank robbers who left a little boy orphaned on the street, he comes to terms with his own overwhelming grief. Could have been maudlin, instead it was beautifully handled and poignant. God, did Archie Goodwin edit the Hell out of his brief run on those Detective Comics issues or what?

* The Spirit in Outer-space, chapter 1, pages 4 & 5, by Jules Feiffer and Wally Wood.
My all-time favorite two page sequence. The Spirit is asked to lead a mission to the moon and gives every reason why he isn't the man to do it, but he finally relents. The Spirit's speech about settling down and raising a family, with Ellen looking on, and the strobe effect Wood used to convey her sorrow as she buries her face in her father's chest is heartbreaking.

* Swamp Thing Special #2, by Alan Moore, Stephen Bissette and John Totleben.
The last two pages--Swamp Thing goes to the depths of Hell for his true love, Abbey -- and brings her back. The best moment in Moore's groundbreaking series.

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Marc Arsenault

1. The last page of Krigstein's story "Key Chain" with all those damn keys.
2. The Last page of Mazzuchelli's Discovering America where the guy starts working on the damn globe again
3. A couple pages before the last of Paul Pope's Escapo where dude just escaped and is on his hands and knees all wet
4. The last page of Kirby's Glory Boat (New Gods 6) where guy is stuck on the damn raft
5. The last 2 page spread of Jimbo Adventures in Paradise where Jimbo is all melty after the nuclear blast with the damn dead horse

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Douglas Wolk

1. Zatanna reaches out to the Seven Unknown Men.
2. The assassin in "I Killed Adolf Hitler" enters the time machine.
3. The two-page establishing shot of Funniopolis near the end of "Fox Bunny Funny."
4. Swifty Frisko reports the news as we see the Clara Pandy and the Hoop for the first time.
5. The final page of Chester Brown's "The Eyelid Burial" (in Yummy Fur #2): "a way out of the blood and sand."

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Ramon De Veyra

* Buddy Baker looking at the reader exclaiming "I Can SEE YOU!" that nearly made me drop the book. (Animal Man)
* William Gull seeing Jah-bul-on on the hill from From Hell.
* The final fate of Ampersand from Y The Last Man # 60 (I don't want to describe it for fear of spoiling.)
* That two-page spread in the prison riot from All-Star Superman.
* That page in Swamp Thing where his face is the background, the landscape the characters were walking through.

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Gary Usher

1. "Tear It Up, Terry Downe" page 3 (Love and Rockets V9, 1988) Jaime Hernandez's evolution of Hopey in one page, still amazing!
2. "Ninety-three Million Miles From the Sun...and Counting" page 3 (Love and Rockets V9, 1988) Maggie wanders by burned down Mad Dogs
3. "Penny is Found" page 91 (Love and Rockets: New Stores 1, 2008) great supergal action scene by Jaime, also
4. "The Return of Ray D." page 4 (Love and Rockets 20?, 1986) page 1 first page of first L&R I bought, Jaime at one of his peaks
5. "Rocky's Birthday Suprise" page 14 (Love and Rockets V4, 1985) Rocky and Fumble in a very poignant ending to one of Jaime's other series

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Mark Coale

1. Animal Man -- "I can see you"
2. American Flagg -- Schieskopf strapped to the rocket
3. Sasndman -- When the Faeries come through to Earth in issue 19
4. Starman -- jack seeing him mom on the shore in the pirate issue
5. Spider-Man -- the "lifting the machinery" page

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John Vest

1. Howard The Duck's car ride with Dreyfus Gulch and Beverly in Howard The Duck #7
2. The quiet beginning of "Red Nails" in Savage Tales #2 with Valeria walking around by herself
3. Reuben Flagg in bed with Titania Weis in American Flagg #7 pages 22-23
4. Thor talking to the hippies in Thor #154
5. The wordless sequence with Nick Fury and Val on page 5 of Nick Fury #2

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Michael Aushenker

1. Taking care of office paperwork, patronizing personal secretaries in the opening of "T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents" # 2
2. Porpoise-hater Phillips hunting dolphins in "Ghost Rider" # 16, the most savage shocker of all!
3. Not one...not two....but THREE Don Perlin lycanthropes running around in a spread in "Werewolf By Night" # 21
4. Lee Elias splash page in "Human Fly" # 11 where he's playing rock star, strumming a guitar and crooning
5. David Chelsea in love sex montage

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Tom Bondurant

1. Orion and Lightray ride the "Life Cube" into battle, page 25 of "The Glory Boat!" from New Gods #6 (December 1971). Written and penciled by Jack Kirby, inked by Vince Colletta.
2. Letitia tries to get baby Clark off the roof, page 7 of "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter!" reprinted in the Bizarro Comics collection. Written by Kyle Baker and Elizabeth Glass, drawn by Baker.
3. Batman pays Silver St. Cloud a subtext-rich visit, page 2 of "The Laughing Fish!" from Detective Comics #475 (February 1978). Written by Steve Englehart, penciled by Marshall Rogers, inked by Terry Austin.
4. Reed Richards enters a photo-collaged Negative Zone, page 14 of "This Man ... This Monster!" from Fantastic Four #51 (June 1966). By Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, inked by Joe Sinnott.
5. Machine Man laments that "even an android can cry," but Arishem the Celestial still flashes the "loser" sign at him, page 9 of the untitled Nextwave #5 (July 2006). Written by Warren Ellis, penciled by Stuart Immonen, inked by Wade von Grawbadger.

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Michael Grabowski

1. Curtains, then the legs of slaughtered bodies of what turn out to be Errata Stigmata's parents, then the infant Errata herself, wide-eyed in the crib, as reprised in the middle of Human Diastrophism.
2. Everybody takes a turn slapping Maggie in the face.
3. The Big Tex page where the story progresses backwards in time as the reader's eye climbs down the tree. Best seen at the ACME Novelty Library #7 size.
4. "Later , out on bail, Al [Ledicker Jr.] lights up one of his father's Pinky Perfectos" and fantasizes about the theme park of Rana Poona.
5. Shep-Shep's vision of himself becoming a sphinx, "worshiped as a god."

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Andrew Wales

1. Alec Longstreth explains to his psychiatrist why his comic book is stressing him out. Phase 7 #10, page 2.
2. Tales of Suspense 84 by Jack Kirby. Captain America kicks Batrocs butt with nary a word said by either of them. http://i25.tinypic.com/vy60ep.jpg
3. Catfoot Crogan swordfights on the stairs. Crogan's Vengeance p. 172
4. The possum babies give Fone Bone a run for his money. Bone Book 1, p. 31.
5. Lynda Barry explains why everybody doodles. What it Is, page 103.

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Andrei Molotiu

* Silent page where the grandfather buries the demonic doll, Kirby & Simon's Sandman no. 1
* Uncle Gabby goes nuts, breaks the window of the store where they sell Sock Monkey merchandise and sets the merchandise on fire
* Jimbo sees the Smoggmonsters play at the club, in "Jimbo's House is Gigantic but Condemned"
* Dr. Strange enters some weird dimension in search of Eternity, second page of Dr. Strange story in Strange Tales no. 138
* Warren Craghead's take on Charlie Brown trying to fly his kite, in Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions

*****

Russell Lissau

1. Batman cradles Tim Drake over the body of Tim's dad (Identity Crisis)
2. The Crow kills his first victim, then ties a spent shell casing into his hair (The Crow)
3. Alan Scott/Green Lantern cries after murdering millions in a dream (All-Star Squadron)
4. Meredith Van Zeyl makes her debut (Batman Allies Secret Files and Origins 2005)
5. The first iconic page of Superman For All Seasons

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Ali T. Kokmen

* Jack Knight eulogizes his father in a beautiful nine-panel grid in Starman #73 ("I miss him. That's all.")
* King Arthur confronts Morded in the final issue of Camelot 3000, in a powerful Brian Bolland layout where Arthur straddles the lower panels. ("Aye...'tis fitting you would be here, too, Morded.")
* Dr. Manhattan explains his realization about thermodynamic miracles as the "camera" angle pulls further back with each panel in the final pages of Watchmen #9. ("You are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg...")
* Off-panel, Superman punches a shape-shifting alien so hard that it reverts to its original form while Green Lantern watches in amazement in DC Comics Presents #26 ("You're that strong?")
* Superman (super-intelligent but sometimes not too bright) finally figures out where Batman has been buried alive, races to the site, unearths the coffin,and rips into it to save his friend...only to find the coffin empty because Batman has escaped and is standing right behind him, in World's Finest #269.

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Michael Dooley

1. The final page of the "3-dimensions!" Mad comic story by Kurtzman/Wood, after the pursuit of material things has led to disaster.
2. The last page of Spiegelman's "As the Mind Reels," which doesn't quite make it to the bottom but which nevertheless advises us to stand by.
3. The page toward the beginning of chapter two of Sienkiewicz's "Stray Toasters," in which "the electric kid" realizes, but only for a brief moment before his brain short-circuits, how and why his cat swallowed a light bulb.
4. The black and white page toward the end of Mack's "Kabuki/Metamorphosis," in which Buddha and Akemi share their thoughts on creation, all the way down one side of the page and up the other side.
5. The Ware fold-out spread that serves as the outside dust jacket of the McSweeney's Quarterly Concern hardcover book, which includes many strips about God and creation.

*****

Danny Ceballos

* OSAMU TEZUKA'S "PHOENIX": VOLUME 4 -- Page 320 -- Two rival artists have been ordered to create gargoyles to adorn the temple. The gargoyles are revealed and there is one clear winner. You can almost hear the clay scream.
* JOHN PORCELLINO'S "PERFECT EXAMPLE" -- FRONTISPIECE -- Husker Du or Venom? Satan will decide who is the better band.
* MILT GROSS' "HE DONE HER WRONG" -- PAGE 4 -- She sings her little ditty about hearts and flowers so sweetly that a roomful of smelly, bearded 49ers burst into tears.
* BOB KANE AND JERRY ROBINSON'S BATMAN #1 -- PAGE 2 -- The best page of the best origin story EVER. The vivid horror captured in young Bruce's eyes says it all. Who wouldn't become a bat to avenge their parents murder?
* LYNDA BARRY'S "ONE HUNDRED DEMONS" -- LOST AND FOUND -- PAGE 211 -- The girl who lives to read the classified ads is killed by a sneaky vampire. No one believed her and now she is dead. They will cover her coffin with fill dirt, very clean. The party pianist can't hold back his tears as he sings at her funeral "Cherish is the word I use to dis-cri-ibe..."

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Marc Sobel

1. Opening page of Flies on the Ceiling
2. Opening page of Watchmen #1
3. Opening page of The Spirit -- "Bring in Sand Saref"
4. Dust jacket for McSweeney's #13
5. Inside cover illustration for Abandoned Cars

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Lane Milburn

1. Tetsuo frees Akira from cryo-chamber
2. Arzach snares man with lasso (pterodactyl in center of page)
3. "The Hairstyle Report" from Julius Knipl
4. Mine cart rides through giant skull in Multiforce
5. World's Fair spread from Jimmy Corrigan

*****

Adam Casey

1. Superman dressing Perry White in various humiliating outfits and taking pictures of him from Superman #135
2. The "seduction" page featuring the former opera singer in Will Eisner's "The Street Singer".
3. The detonation of the nuclear bombs in Captain Marvel Adventures #66.
4. The two-page spread right before Caprice and Sherman kiss in "Box Office Poison".
5. The ghost of Wagner playing music in Sohei's dream in the first volume of Tezuka's "Adolf".

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Dave Knott

* Matt Murdock descends the stairs through multiple levels of his brownstone in Elektra Lives Again
* The final page of Lewis Trondheim's Mister O, wherein the protagonist finally crosses the gap, with decidedly mixed results
* DOOM!!! Beyond the fields we know... a mysterious entity (Surtur) begins forging a sword in Thor #337
* Carl Reissman boards the subway in "Master Race"
* Pope Cerebus blesses a woman's baby in his own inimitable manner

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William Burns

1. The struggle between Christian Promethea and Muslim Promethea, intercut with the struggle between two modern Prometheas
2. "Ladies, Gentlemen, you have eaten well" from Batman: Year One
3. The last page of the "Derrida" sequence from Action Philosophers
4. The Chorus girl, lampshade, ostrich and duck spread from Howard the Duck # 16
5. Kyle Baker's Plastic Man gets caught in the gears of the haunted house

*****

Richard Pachter

1. Final page of "Whatever Happened to the Man of Steel" (Part one)
2. Death of Guardian in Alpha Flight 12
3. "Breaking through" sequence in Amazing Spider-Man 33 (pp. 4&5?)
4. The conclusion of Lee and Ditko's "Worm Man" in Strange Tales 78
5. Final Crisis 7 p. 37

*****

Grant Goggans

1. "Lisa Leavenworth - Crazy and PROUD of it!" I don't know where this one-page gag strip originally appeared, but it's reprinted in Buddy Does Seattle and it's my favorite moment of the whole series.
2. That wonderful two-page spread in Scott Pilgrim 4 after a streetcar passes in front of the fellow with the samurai sword.
3. The page in Robo-Hunter where Sam's slowly sinking into the polluted East River. He's gagged and trying to shout for help, while his idiot assistants debate what he might be trying to say.
4. There's a Steve Yeowell page in the last Invisibles arc where Gideon's in a phone booth talking to his ex-girlfriend and he start babbling about an old kid's show as we realize he's delirious from blood loss.
5. About nine months into Charley's War, the page where Charley is forced by an officer to reveal that the bag he's dragging contains the remains of his mate, Ginger.

*****

Brian Moore

1. Two-pager: Maxim Glory gets out of Mr. Fix-It's cab, and Fix-It picks up a doomed android lady, as the El thunders by overhead
2. Batman and Two-Face fight as the helicopter dwindles in the distance
3. Hunter Rose takes his mask off to relax with a snifter of brandy in his Art Deco penthouse
4. No. 26 tries to drop a water tower on Kaneda and his buddies
5. Eddie Campbell serves up a Viennese street scene, with Chatting Clerics, Minding the Store, Mozart and Schobert

*****

Sean T. Collins

1. Keith meets Eliza (Black Hole)
2. "If we must die, let New Genesis live!" (New Gods)
3. The giant hot dog (Boy's Club)
4. Mister Miracle lives again (Seven Soldiers of Victory)
5. That fascist death squad assaults Ophelia and her friends (Poison River)

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thanks to all that participated. a particular thank you to all that participated but provided additional answers or riffed on the questions rather than answering them. I enjoyed your e-mail, but I can't run items obviously out of the box here, as experience tells me that soon leads to other people demanding "the right" to do the same thing and eventually I take a baseball bat to my computer. Also, anyone that expected me to find this much specific interior art and makes a complaint on that basis will be banned for life. Also, I haven't checked all my e-mail accounts this morning, so if you didn't use the main one (the one provided in the original post) and sent it some personal e-mail account of mine, a) sorry, and b) stop that.

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