Fff Results Post #96—Sort Of, Kind Of

Five For Friday #96 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Near-Versions of a Character You Like, At Least a Little Bit." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Wonder Tot
2. Bizarro
3. Calvin's Clones
4. Sand Superman
5. Fat Marvel, Tall Marvel, and Hill Marvel

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Sean T. Collins

1. Chief Man-of-Bats
2. The Sinestro Corps
3. Pushpaw
4. Zibarro
5. This new red Hulk thing they're doing, simply because a red-colored Hulk is awesome.

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Austin Mayor



1. U.S. Agent aka Captain America VI
2. Flexo - the non-evil version of Futurama's Bender
3. Kon-El - He's not Superboy... or is he?!?
4. Overman - Grant Morrison's syphilitic Superman of Earth-17
5. Hex - Jonah Hex of the 21st Century

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Tom Bondurant

1. The John Henry Irons Superman
2. The Donna Troy Wonder Woman
3. Owlwoman of Justice Legion A, who in origin is almost Owlman of the Crime Syndicate, and in costume is almost Nite Owl from Watchmen
4. Jill St. John in the Robin costume, from the first episode of the '60s "Batman" TV show
5. Supreme (Alan Moore edition)

Honorable mention to Dr. Kate Pulaski (almost Dr. Leonard McCoy).

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Dave Knott

* Beta Ray Bill (Thor)
* G'Nort (Green Lantern)
* Spike (Snoopy)
* Death (Dream from The Sandman)
* Mini-Duke (Duke from Doonesbury)

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Jason Michelitch

1. Lil' Hellboy -- I like the Bill Wray grossout-in-hell stories, but Mignola's "Pancakes" is really what I'm thinking of here.
2. Sexually Uninhibited Nudist Tom Strong from The Many Worlds of Tesla Strong.
3. for that matter, the funny-animal fox version of Paul Saveen from the same book.
4. The modified resurrection of The Corinthian in Sandman.
5. The Maestro version of the Hulk from Peter David's run.

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Alan David Doane

1. Ben Reilly -- Under all the truly lousy comics the Spider-Man Clone Saga produced was a fascinating nugget of a good idea -- what if the "evil twin" of genre fiction got to stick around and grow into his own character? I still find Dan Jurgens's Sensational Spider-Man to be seven issues of the most readable and fun Spider-Man comics since Gil Kane stopped drawing the title, no small accomplishment given they mostly intersect with crossovers with other Spider-titles. Klaus Janson's crunchy, noirish inking was a huge boon to the title, too. I'm looking forward to seeing how Andrew Goletz and Glenn Greenberg's upcoming Life of Reilly book does, because I know a lot of people still remember Ben with fondness.
2. Beta Ray Thor -- This variant came along at just the right time for me, as I was old enough to appreciate Walter Simonson's vital, energetic cartooning but young enough to wonder if Thor had really been succeeded permanently by an equine-looking alien with a goofy but somehow perfect name.
3. Mike Murdock -- I read the MM saga, such as it was, in '70s Marvel reprints. It was silly but somehow really grabbed my young mind, the idea of Matt Murdock introducing a third secret identity into his very, very complicated relationship with his supporting cast.
4. Supreme -- Alan Moore's run on this Superman variant remains the most interesting and entertaining comment ever made on Siegel and Shuster's creation.
5. John Stewart -- The animated Green Lantern of the Justice League cartoon by Dini, Timm, McDuffie et al is the best iteration of the idea ever seen, and certainly the best-defined. I wish the series had never ended, but I wish that about all the DC animated series from Batman through Teen Titans.

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Joe Schwind

* Popeye and his Robot Twin
* Frankenstein and Frankenstein
* Tomahawk and the Man Who Posed as Tomahawk
* Tarzan and the Lion Man\
* Classics Illustrated 6: A Tale of Two Cities -- Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay

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Thanks to all that participated!
 
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