June 8, 2013
FFF Results Post #338—Eric Holder’s Request
On Friday,
CR readers were asked to "Name Your Five Favorite Comics-Related Terrorists Or Terrorist Organizations." This is how they responded.
Tom Spurgeon
1. The Brotherhood Of Mutants
2. Alan Cavenaugh
3. Nasir Abas
4. Ahmed
5. Hydra
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Buzz Dixon
1. The Marinus Van Der Lubbe International Firebombing Society
2. The Monkey Wrench Gang (R. Crumb illustrated edition)
3. Advanced Idea Mechanics
4. S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything)
5. Cobra
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Tom Bondurant
1. Ra's al-Ghul
2. Kobra
3. AIM
4. Sons of the Serpent
5. The HIVE
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Don MacPherson
1. Flag-Smasher and ULTIMATUM
2. Advanced Idea Mechanics
3. The Hierarchy of International Vengeance and Extermination
4. Kobra
5. Homer Spalding (anti-Democrat terrorist from Ambush Bug #1 -- "I always wanted to hit a homer." "I usually get more life out of a Spalding.")
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Dave Knott
* Advanced Idea Mechanics
* Ra's Al Ghul
* The Friend
* Madame Hydra
* V
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Cole Moore Odell
1. Ra's al Ghul and the League of Assassins
2. Black Zero
3. A.I.M.
4. The Jihad (Suicide Squad)
5. The Serpent Society
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Kenneth Graves
1) A.I.M.
2) The Brotherhood of Dada
3) H.A.T.E/Beyond Corporation
4) The Devoes (from Zot!)
5) Pluto
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Douglas Wolk
1. Plastique
2. Total War
3. Bill Savage
4. Ra's Al Ghul
5. V
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David Brothers
1. Moses Magnum
2. Magneto
3. Batman
4. Mutant Liberation Front
5. Newman Xeno
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Des Devlin
1. The Joker (dumping chemicals into the water, in Detective #475)
2. The Red Basher (destroying, in Destroy! #1)
3. Ozymandius (catastrophic squid bombs, Watchmen #12)
4. Meatball (random attacks on citizens, Zap #0)
5. Alfred E. Neuman (suicide bombing, MAD #80)
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Oliver Ristau
1. Baroness (Cobra)
2. Black Spectre
3. Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker (A.I.M., Hydra)
4. (Cult Of) Kobra
5. H.I.V.E.
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Steve Murphy
1. The Serpent Society
2. Zodiac
3. Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime
4. A.I.M.
5. Hydra
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Sean Kleefeld
1. The Commission for Superhuman Activities from Captain America
2. Control from Conspiracy
3. The U.S Government from The One
4. MI-5 from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
5. HATE from Nextwave
(I trust I don't need to spell out the social commentary in these choices, right?)
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Jeffrey O. Gustafson
1. The Punisher
2. The Guild of Calamitous Intent
3. A.I.M.
4. God (from any number of comics)
5. Nexus
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Chris Keels
* Junior Musto (Denny O'Neil's Question)
* War Head ("Make War Some More" guy from Mark Gruenwald's Captain America)
* Living Bombs (Steve Englehart's Avengers)
* Flag-Smasher & ULTIMATUM (also Mark Gruenwald's Cap)
* The ASLC (American Survivalist Labor Committee; American Flagg!)
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Mark Waid
1. Hydra
2. The Serpent Society
3. A.I.M.
4. Kobra
5. DC Editorial
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topic suggested by Douglas Wolk, whose address I have on file if anyone out there is interested
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