September 21, 2014
FFF Results Post #394—Fictional Places (Non-Capes Edition)
On Friday,
CR readers were asked to "Name Five Town/Cities/Villages You Like In Comics That Don't Exist In The Real World... And Don't Involve Superheroes." This is how they responded.
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Ryan Sands
1. Treasure Town (Tekkon Kinkreet)
2. Barrelhaven (Bone)
3. Scrapyard & Tiphares (Battle Angel Alita)
4. "Stacyface" town, Ontario (Lose #4)
5. Kurozu-cho (Uzumaki)
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Radiant City
2. Mingo City
3. Dogpatch, Arkansas
4. Sorrow's End
5. Riverdale
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Jean-Paul Jennequin
1. Hicksville
2. The village of Astérix (that's all the naming it gets)
3. La Siesta, the Zoolande city where Chaminou et le Khrompire by Raymond Macherot, takes place
4. The Smurf village
5. Champignac-en-Cambrousse from the adventures of Spirou by Franquin
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Danny Ceballos
1. Palomar
2. Fort Thunder
3. Hicksville
4. The Dreaming
5. The Unifactor
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Michael May
1. Barrelhaven (Bone)
2. Hillsborough (Courtney Crumrin)
3. Iest (Cerebus)
4. Tagakka Uchi (Okko)
5. The Farm (Fables)
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Michael Buntag
1. Yu Dao
2. Barrelhaven
3. Roanapur
4. Burden Hill
5. Palomar
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Justin Colussy-Estes
1. Riverdale (Archie comics)
2. Grimy Gulch (Tumbleweeds)
3. Beanworld (wouldn't you call that a town of sorts?)
4. Camelot (Prince Valiant, among others)
5. Duckburg (Uncle Scrooge, et al)
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Sean Kleefeld
1. The unnamed village in Gaul that Julius Ceasar was never able to conquer (Asterix)
2. Hicksville, New Zealand (Hicksville)
3. The Valley outside Boneville (Bone)
4. Okefenokee Swamp (Pogo)
5. Oniaka City Station (Runners)
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Don MacPherson
1. Devil's Echo (Leave It to Chance)
2. The Valley (Bone)
3. The Hilltop (The Walking Dead)
4. Kapupu Lagoon (Sherman's Lagoon)
5. Angelville (Preacher)
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George Pfromm
* Ice Haven
* Terminal City
* Central City
* King City
* Arcopolis
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RJ Casey
1. Barrelhaven
2. Hicksville
3. Palomar
4. Snap City
5. Duckburg
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Johnny Bacardi
1. Terminal City
2. Tanelorn
3. Lankhmar
4. Central City (The Spirit)
5. Midnight, Mass.
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Philippe Leblanc
1- X, from Dash Shaw's New School
2- Lockhaven, from Mouse Guard
3- Acropolis, from Paul Pope's Battling Boy
4- New Texas, from Joe Harris & Martin Morrazo's Great Pacific
5- Armillia, from Benoit Peeters The Road to Armillia
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Andrew Mansell
1. Conniption
2. Palnu
3. Duckburg
4. Trff City, Berzerkistan
5. Pretzelburg
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Buzz Dixon
1. Duckburg
2. Deadbone (Vaughn Bode)
3. Iest
4. Sin City
5. Triton (Daniel Torres)
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Dave Knott
* The village of indomitable Gauls
* Toonerville
* Central City
* Palomar
* Terminal City
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James Moore
1. The City (Transmetropolitan)
2. King City
3. Iest
4. Volcano Park
5. Tackleford, England
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Randy Clark
1. Grimy Gulch
2. Terminal City
3. Toonerville
4. Elkhorn
5. Kokonino Kounty
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Oliver Ristau
1.
Moomins: Moominvalley
2.
Rick O'Shay:: Conniption
3.
Donald Duck: Duckburg
4.
Valerian: Galaxity
5.
Tarzan: Opar
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