FFF Results Post #104—Hooray, 2008!

Five For Friday #104 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics You Look Forward To Reading This Year." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Willie & Joe: The WWII Years, Bill Mauldin
2. Modern Swarte: Joost Comics, Joost Swarte
3. Haunted, Philippe Dupuy
4. All-Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder, Vol. 1, Frank Miller and Jim Lee
5. Alan's War, Emmanuel Guibert

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Matthew Maxwell

It's still Friday where I be.

1) Battling Boy -- Paul Pope (this one should be good)
2) Unnamed Original Graphic Novel -- Darwyn Cooke (this one may not come out this year)
3) RASL -- Jeff Smith (this one is very, very big)
4) The Unknown Soldier -- Josh Dysart and Alberto Ponticelli (this one probably doesn't appear on any other list)
5) Final Crisis -- Grant Morrison and others (this one with some trepidation)

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Robert Goodin

1. Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
2. Le Grand Autre by Ludovic Debeurme
3. Complete Peanuts 1967-1970
4. Popeye vol. 3
5. Bernie Krigstein Comics Vol. 2

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Cole Moore Odell

1. Ganges #2 by Kevin Huizenga
2. Popeye Vol. 3 by EC Segar
3. Final Crisis by Morrison and Jones
4. more Little Lulu volumes by Stanley and Tripp
5. The Education of Hopey Glass by Jamie Hernandez

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Will Pfeifer

1. The Complete Humbug (yeah!) by Harvey Kurtzman and Co.
2. The Nearly Complete Essential Hembeck Archive Omnibus by Fred Hembeck (who else?)
3. All-Star Superman by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
4. That Noel Sickles book due later this year
5. Does Al Columbia finally have a book coming out in '08? If so, I definitely want to read that

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Tony Collett:

1) Terry And The Pirates vols. 2-4
2) Zot! manga-style collection of all the black and white issues
3) Incredible Hulk Omnibus
4) Starman Omnibus vols. 1-2
5) The return of Crossfire and Journey in Many Happy Returns

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Stephen Frug

1) Lynda Barry, What It Is
2) Scott McCloud, Zot!: the Complete Black-and-White Stories
3) Art Spiegelman, Breakdowns
4) Brian K. Vaughan & Pia Guerra, Y the Last Man #60
5) The comic that will result from the script and vast files of as-yet-uncompleted art on my hard drive -- assuming (knock on wood!) I can finish it in 2008!

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Joe Schwind

* Humbug Two Volume Set
* Some New Kind of Slaughter
* Walt & Skeezix 1927-28
* Lobster Johnson: Iron Prometheus
* Al Capp's Complete Shmoo: The Comic Books

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John Vest

1. Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure #1, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
2. The Education Of Hopey Glass, Jaime Hernandez
3. Complete Little Orphan Annie Volume 1, Harold Gray
4. Captain American Annual, Ed Brubaker and Gene Colan (no release date yet but hopefully this year!)
5. Che: A Graphic Biography, Spain Rodriguez

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Patrick O. Watson

in no particular order,

1. RASL by Jeff Smith
2. Glamourpuss by Dave Sim
3. Mouse Guard Winter 1152 by David Petersen
4. Nexus #s 100-102 by Baron and Rude
5. Fantastic Four: The Lost Adventure by Lee and Kirby

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Jason Michelitch

1. RASL by Jeff Smith
2. 2 Cool 2 B 4 Gotten by Alex Robinson
3. Young Liars by David Lapham
4. Incognegro by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece
5. and if I'm honest with myself and extend "look forward to" so that it includes "perverse curiosity," Final Crisis by Grant Morrison and JG Jones

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Art Baxter

1. Baobab #3, Igort*
2. Interiorae #3, Gabriella Giandelli*
3. Chimera #2, Lorenzo Mattotti*
4. Love and Rockets Vol. III #1, Los Bros. Hernandez
5. Justice League: The New Frontier Special, Darwyn Cooke

* The comics of these three Italians have been stunning but the incredibly long periods of time between issues is just killin' me.

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Matthew Wave

You stole the Swarte collection, so my list would be:

* The Dairy Restaurant, by Ben Katchor
* Edison Steelhead's Lost Portfolio: Exploratory Studies of Girls and Rabbits, by Renee French (altho it's not really a comic book, more like an art book?)
* Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Vol. 4, by Jack Kirby and others
* The Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 4, by Arnold Drake, Bruno Premiani, Bob Brown and others
* That fabled, supposedly-on-the-horizon-sorta David Mazzucchelli graphic novel???

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Tim Broderick

* Against Pain, Ron Rege, Jr. (D&Q)
* Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka (Vertical)
* Kaput and Zosky, Lewis Trondheim (:01)
* Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby, Takashi Nemoto (PictureBox)
* Humbug, Harvey Kurtzman et al. (Fantagraphics)

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Josh Fitzpatrick

1. Love & Rockets Vol 3 by Los Bros Hernandez -- looking forward to the new format.
2. RASL by Jeff Smith, Echo by Terry Moore and Glamourpuss by Dave Sim -- I know it's three comics, but the idea of three brand new properties from these creators around the same time, is almost too good to resist.
3. The Bottomless Belly Button by Dash Shaw -- I have enjoyed what I have seen from Dash in the Meat Haus anthologies, hope this can live up the amount of hype it seems to be having heaped on it.
4. Final Crisis by Grant Morrison/J G Jones -- Have a strong dislike for what DC has been doing the past several years, but Grant Morrison writing what he promises to be his be all end all on the superhero genre makes this a must read.
5. Zot! The Complete Black and White Stories by Scott McCloud -- Just a little late getting around to this.

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David P. Welsh

The Rabbi's Cat Vol. 2, by Joann Sfar
Awabi, by Kan Takahama
RASL, by Jeff Smith
Life Sucks, Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece
Chiggers, by Hope Larson

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Evan Dorkin

* Blackjack vol 1-2 -- Tezuka
* Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles -- Noel Sickles
* Complete Little Orphan Annie vol 1 -- Harold Gray
* Popeye vol 3 -- Segar
* Walt and Skeezix vol 4 -- Frank King

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Dick Hyacinth

1. The Rabbi's Cat volume 2 by Johann Sfar
2. Three Shadows by Cyril Pedrosa
3. Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka
4. The Trouble Makers by Gilbert Hernandez
5. Delphine #3 by Richard Sala

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Sean Kleefeld

1. The Nearly Complete Essential Fred Hembeck Archives Omnibus
2. Captain Victory in hardcover
3. Jack Kirby's "lost" Fantastic Four #108
4. Scud: The Disposable Assassin Omnibus (or whatever it ends up getting called)
5. The Rainbow Orchid in hardcover

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Michael J. Grabowski

In order of anticipation:
1. Glamourpuss -- Dave Sim, Aardvark-Vanaheim
2. The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard -- Eddie Campbell, First Second
3. Ganges #2 -- Kevin Huizenga, Fantagraphics/Coconino
4. Crickets #2 -- Sammy Harkham, Drawn & Quarterly
5. Speak of the Devil #4-6 -- Gilbert Hernandez, Dark Horse

And a publication about comics I can't wait to read: Rebel Visions, 2nd edition -- Patrick Rosenkranz, Fantagraphics.

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Austin Kleon

1. lynda barry -- What It Is
2. joann sfar -- rabbi's cat 2
3. sammy harkham -- crickets #2
4. ray fenwick -- hall of best knowledge
5. whatever anders nilsen and kevin huizenga put out

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Frank Santoro

1. Goddess of War, Lauren Weinstein
2. Nexus, Mike Baron/Steve Rude
3. Special Forces, Kyle Baker
4. Real Madness Comics, Bobby Madness
5. Lynda Barry, What It Is

*****

Thanks to all that participated. Be on the lookout for the next Five For Friday.
 
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