Fff Results Post #99—Bent, Not Bowed

Five For Friday #99 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Senior Citizen-ish Comics Characters You Like." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Uncle Sam, master of the pre-asskicking sleeve roll-up
2. Gorgo
3. Mr. Natural
4. Lacey Davenport
5. Doctor Thaddeus Bodog Sivana

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James Langdell

For once I'm at a computer and have a minute to respond during your brief window of time for Five For Friday. Glad I have something to say about this topic...

1. Bacchus (Eddie Campbell's)
2. Jay Garrick (as written by William Messner-Loebs)
3. Alfred (in The Dark Knight Returns)
4. Dusty (in The Elderberries)
5. Julius Schwartz (in Superman #411)

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Jones

5. The Vulture, (the apotheosis of the Freudian subtext in the Ditko/Lee Spider-Man)
4. Aunt May (solely because she almost married Doctor Octopus that one time)
3. Crotchety old Cerebus (alone, unmourned and unloved, just as predicted)
2. Abe "Grampa" Simpson (he's in the Bongo comics, so he counts)
1. Poopdeck Pappy (because I share the Segar-love)

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David Jones

1. Cusick the Tuscarora (Timespirits)
2. The Ancient One, of course
3. Jenette Miller, from Marvel Graphic Novel #7: Killraven -- Last Dreams Broken (Thanks to Gordon!)
4. The Spider (Jack Staff)
5. The Incredible I-Ching from the Diana Prince-Wonder Woman days

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Tony Collett

1. Aunt May
2. Grandma Rose from Bone
3. Uncle Scrooge
4. Wolverine
5. Archie's Grandfather -- okay, I only saw him in the first Archie story, but he provided a balance between Archie and his father, plus offered friendly advice to Archie as needed.

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Scott Dunbier

Walt from Gasoline Alley
Grandpa in Heaven from Family Circus
Alfred the Butler from Dark Knight
Shazam
Uncle Scrooge

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Fred Hembeck

1. Peter Parker's Aunt May (Ditko version)
2. Veronica's dad, Mr. Lodge (DeCarlo version)
3. Commissioner Dolan
4. Iggy's Granpa Feeb (now THERE'S a name you couldn't get away with nowadays, even if you were John Stanley!...)
5. Jay Garrick, the original Flash (who may hardly seem like a senior citizen, but ever since I first came across him when I was a kid back in 1961's FLASH #123, those greying temples marked him as a real oldie in my mind from that point on! After all, only ancient duffers wear hats, right?...)

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Brian Moore

1. Uncle Sam (I don't think I've ever even read a story featuring him; I just like the idea of the character)
2. Old Bruce Wayne (Batman Beyond animated series). Clothes don't make the Batman.
3. Sam'l Perkins (Polly and Her Pals). Stoic in the face of a hostile, well-designed world
4. Yupa Miralda (Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind). Not only is he a world-renowned swordsman/adventurer, but he's got an awesome mohawk.
5. The Guardian (Donjon: Zenith). He has traps into which Grimtooth himself would fall, you know.

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Jason Michelitch

Grandma Ben from BONE
Lucius from BONE
Grandma from PREACHER
Max Mercury from the Mark Waid/Humberto Ramos IMPULSE series
Uncle Scrooge!

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Tom Bondurant

1. Bruce Wayne's Aunt Agatha
2. The Flash (Jay Garrick)
3. Nick Fury
4. The Old-Timer
5. George Stacy

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Dave Knott

* The Vulture
* Highfather
* The Ancient One
* Alfred Pennyworth
* Uncle Dudley Marvel

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Family Hook

1. Nick Fury, Agent of Shield (the Kirby/Steranko version)
2. Uncle Elby
3. Agatha Harkness
4. Uncle Scrooge McDuck
5. Doc Ledicker

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Matt Wiegle

Roughly in the order I thought of them:

1. Michael Kupperman's version of Pablo Picasso
2. Uncle Scrooge
3. Ma and Pa Bradley from Hate, etc.
4. Septimus Crisp, the guy in the bag from The Chuckling Whatsit
5. Barney Banks from Banks/Eubanks

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Daniel Mata

1: Jay Garrick -- JSA
2: Alan Scott -- JSA
3: Jeff -- Mutt & Jeff
4: Uncle Sam -- Uncle Sam & the Freedom Fighters
5: Ganthet -- Green Lantern

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Evan Dorkin

1. Uncle Scrooge
2. Captain Stacy from Amazing Spider-Man
3. The Sea Hag
4. The Crypt Keeper
5. Commissioner Dolan from the Spirit

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J Schwind

Gabby Hayes
Henry Tremblechin
Don Quixote
Shazam
Tubby's Grandpa Feeb

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Marc Arsenault

1. 'Kremlin' from Ex Machina
2. weird alternate universe time traveller guy -- also Ex Machina
3. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s equivalent of James Bond's Q... Sidney "Gaffer" Levine... although they also had a Boothroyd...
4. The High Evolutionary
5. Mother Fucking Magneto, bitch!

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Thanks to all that participated!

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