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June 10, 2012


FFF Results Post #297—Can I Have Some More?

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Sequels/Follow-Ups To Well-Respected Comics Efforts That You Genuinely Like." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Leslie Turner's Wash Tubbs/Captain Easy.
2. Dick Moores' Gasoline Alley.
3. The John Romita Sr. run on Amazing Spider-Man.
4. The Dark Knight Strikes Again.
5. Trump.

*****

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Danny Ceballos

1. Kyle Baker's Plastic Man.
2. Ivan Brunetti's Nancy tryouts.
3. Ann Nocenti's run on Daredevil.
4. Don Martin's Captain Klutz 2.
5. Chester Brown's Underwater.

*****

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Buzz Dixon

1. Dan DeCarlo's Archie.
2. Jerry Scott's Nancy.
3. Ted White era Heavy Metal.
4. Flex Mentallo.
5. Jim Steranko's Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

*****

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Justin J. Major

1. Rachel Pollack's Doom Patrol.
2. Dick Tracy by Joe Staton and Mike Curtis.
3. Amazing Spider-Man by John Romita Sr.
4. Berkeley Breathed's Outland .
5. Little Annie Fanny by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder. (sorry mom.)

*****

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Dave Knott

* Multiforce
* Partie de Chase (The Hunting Party)
* Willie & Joe: Back Home
* Biomega
* The Roy Thomas / Gene Colan run on Doctor Strange

*****

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Charles Brownstein

1) Jaime Hernandez's Love & Rockets/Penny Century
2) Peter Bagge's Neat Stuff/Hate
3) Miller & Mazzuchelli's Daredevil: Born Again
4) Tom Hart's Hutch Owen: Unmarketable (Tonally and aesthetically I think this behaves as a sequel to and departure from the 1990s Hutch Owen work, as opposed to a continuation of a larger body of work ala Eddie Campbell's Alec oeuvre. I also think it's the best comic to emerge from that wave of comics about 9/11.)
5) Don Simpson's Megaton Man/Bizarre Heroes

*****

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Adam Casey

1. Marvelman/Miracleman
2. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
3. Watchmen
4. Lost Girls
5. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

*****

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Justin Colussy-Estes

Grant Morrison's "Dan Dare"
Rick Veitch's "Swamp Thing"
Bud Sagendorf's "Popeye"
William Van Horn/Don Rosa duck stories from the late 80's--mid-nineties
Naomi Urasawa's "Pluto"

*****

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Jason Green

1. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2. Dominion: Conflict 1 -- No More Noise
3. Squee
4. Jeffrey Brown's Be a Man
5. Waid & Garney's post Heroes Reborn return to Captain America

*****

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Mark Mayerson

Noel Sickles' Scorchy Smith
Dick Moores' Gasoline Alley
Simon and Kirby's Sandman
Joe Kubert's Tarzan
Owen Fitzgerald's Dennis the Menace (in comic books)

*****

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman
2. Alan Davis' Another Nail
3. Giffen & Dematteis' Formerly Known as the Justice League
4. Peter Kuper's Spy vs. Spy
5. Max Allan Collins and Dick Locher on Dick Tracy

*****

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M. Emery

1. Ron Smith's Judge Dredd
2. Barry Windsor Smith's Machine Man
3. Carmine Infantino's Star Wars
4. Frank Bellamy's Dan Dare
5. Neville Colvin's Modesty Blaise

*****

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Douglas Wolk

1. Pat Mills, Charlie Adlard and Patrick Goddard's Savage.
2. Gilbert Hernandez's New Tales of Old Palomar.
3. Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham's Miracleman.
4. Don Rosa's Uncle $crooge.
5. Roger Langridge et al.'s Popeye.

*****

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Tom Bondurant

1. The New Teen Titans: Games
2. Formerly Known As The Justice League
3. The current Shade miniseries
4. Walt Simonson's Orion
5. Mark Waid, Howard Porter, and Bryan Hitch's JLA

*****

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Kenneth Graves

1) Heart of Empire
2) Phil Foglio's Angel and the Ape
3) Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
4) Neil Gaiman's Miracleman
5) the Read or Die manga

*****

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Chris Mautner

1. The new Popeye series Roger Landridge is writing for IDW
2. Jerry Scott's run on Nancy
3. Batman by Jiro Kurwata
4. The Hunger Dogs by Jack Kirby
5. Top 10 the 49ers by Alan Moore and Gene Ha

*****

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Patrick Ford

1. John Stanley's Nancy
2. John Stanley's Little Lulu
3. Carl Barks' Donald Duck
4. Dick Moore's Gasoline Alley
5. Noel Sickles Scorchy Smith

*****

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John Platt

1. Doctor Fate (the J.M. DeMatties / Shawn McMannus run)
2. I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League
3. Amazing Spider-Man: Soul of the Hunter
4. Spectacular Spider-Man issues 178-184 ("The Child Within")
5. Abadazad (the short-lived novel series)

*****

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Chris Duffy

1. Skeats/Albano/Fradon/Smith's Plastic Man
2. Rick Veitch and company's Swamp Thing
3. Al Feldstein and Gang of Idiots' MAD
4. Nelson Bridwell and Don Newton's Shazam!
5. Gerber and Winslade's Howard the Duck miniseries

*****

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Michael Grabowski

1. Dave Sim's glamourpuss
2. Gilbert Hernandez's New Love
3. Pete Bagge's Hate Annual
4. former EC artists' work on Blazing Combat
5. Al Feldstein's Mad Magazine

*****

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Marc Arsenault

1. Mister Miracle 19-25
2. Al Williamson's Flash Gordon
3. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
4. Heart of Empire
5. Humbug

*****

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Niel Jacoby

1. DKSA
2. Heart Of Empire: the Legacy of Luther Arkwright
3. Brubaker and Lark's Daredevil run, as a follow-up to Brian Michael "Big Money" Bendis and Alex "Armbar" Maleev's generally acclaimed run on the same title.
4. Will Pfeiffer's Catwoman, yadda yadda Brubaker's run.
5. The heartbreakingly little-known Andrew Helfer/Bill Sienkiewicz/Kyle Baker Shadow series that came after the Howard Chaykin miniseries

*****

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Johnny Bacardi

1. Rachel Pollack & Ted McKeever's Doom Patrol
2. Duane Swierczynski, Travel Foreman & various' Immortal Iron Fist
3. Zander Cannon & Gene Ha's Top 10: Season 2
4. Howard Chaykin, Mike Mignola & Craig Russell's Ironwolf: Fires of the Revolution
5. Don McGregor & Craig Russell's Marvel Graphic Novel #7: Killraven: Last Dreams Broken

*****

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Mark Coale

1. Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham's Miracleman
2. Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing
3. Karl kesel/cary nord's Daredevil
4. Steve Englehart/marshall rogers' Detective Comics
5. Roger Stern/various artists' Avengers

*****
*****
 
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