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Five For Friday #90—The Dishonor Roll
posted August 25, 2006
 

Five For Friday #90 -- Name Five Comics Characters For Whom You'd Have a Hard Time Defending Your Affection

1. Martinex (Guardians of the Galaxy)
2. Jack of Hearts (1970s Marvel Comics)
3. The Mimic (X-Men)
4. The Ringmaster (early Marvel Comics)
5. Uncle Max (Calvin and Hobbes)

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Pierce Askegren

Spurs Jackson and his Space Vigilantes
Captain Marvel (the Lightning Comics version)
Dracula (the Dell super-hero)
The Shadow (the Archie Comics version)
Blue Beetle (the Gill/Fraccio/Tallarico version)

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Cris Skokna

1. Man-Ape
2. Omaha, the Cat Dancer
3. Stilt-Man
4. Donatello (of TMNT)
5. Joe Matt

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Philip Smith

1. Reid Fleming
2. Beppo the Super-Monkey (who I believe was actually a chimp)
3. Milk
4. Cheese
5. Aquaman

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Don MacPherson

1. Air Wave
2. The Red Tornado (android version)
3. The Amazing Bruce
4. The Monitor
5. The Sino Supermen (Batman Family #19 -- my sincere apologies)

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Todd Strending

1. Dell's Dracula superhero character
2. Atlas' The Cougar
3. Arak (Son of Thunder?) Roy Thomas/Ernie Colon
4. Prez
5. Aqualad

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Fred Hembeck

1. Skull the Slayer
2. Cherry Poptart
3. Brain Boy
4. Gideon (Fantastic Four #34)
...and, of course,
5. Brother Voodoo

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Christopher Duffy

1. Ringmaster (I have a hard time explaining it to myself, actually)
2. The Jackal
3. Cyclops
4. Quality/Jack Cole's Midnight (A better character than the Spirit. There, I said it.)
5. Spike (from Peanuts)

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Andrew J. Mansell

1. Color Kid
2. Ultimate Tony Stark
3. Devil Dinosaur
4. Dondi
5. Wimbledon Green

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