FFF Results Post #109—Rides

Five For Friday #109 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Vehicles From Comics You Like." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. The Saturn Stiletto
2. Batmobile
3. The White Cord Coupe drawn by Alex Toth
4. The Toyota AE86 from Initial D
5. Cave Carson's Mole Machine

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Buzz Dixon

1 - Captain Harlock's Arcadia
2 - Space Cruiser Yamato
3 - Galaxy Express 999
4 - Archie's red Model-T
5 - The Spider-Mobile

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Christopher Cilla

1. The Newsboy Legion's Whiz Wagon (only one Kirby vehicle per list, please)
2. Doofus's little "kar"
3. Archie's Jalopy
4. The Bubble Truck from Marc Bell's Monsieur Moustache & Friends
5. The Phutney-Creech Land Yacht owned & operated by the Fabulous Furry Freak Bros.

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Joe Schwind

Tantor
Mr. Natural's Automobile
Oat Willie's Wheels
Paul Revere's Ride
Time Machine

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Don MacPherson

1. The Spider-Buggy
2. The US1 truck
3. Space Cabby's taxi
4. The Forever People's Super-Cycle
5. The Batmobile, of course. I'm partial to the Breyfogle design.

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Ben Schwartz

1. Legion Time Bubbles
2. The Joker's Ho-Ho-Home on Wheels mobile home
3. The SHIELD Heli-Carrier
4. Buddy Bradley's monster truck
5. Any cardboard box Calvin uses as Spaceman Spiff's flying saucer

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Eric Reynolds

1. Crumb girls.
2. Those flying vespas from Jaime's "Mechanix" strips.
3. Modok's flying little rascal.
4. The Silver Surfer's board. Way cool.
5. It's really hard not to pick all Kirby, right? I mean, come on! (See Above)

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Walter Hudsick

1. The Whirly-Bat
2. Edsel's Edsel (Mage)
3. Ironwolf's Limerick Rake
4. Enemy Ace's Crimson Fokker
5. The Whirly-Bat (because it's that cool)

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Evan Dorkin

1. The post "bathtub" modular Kirby Fantasticar
2. Judge Dredd's Lawmaster motorcyle
3. Green Arrow's Arrowcar
4. The puppy dog head police cars from Astro Boy
5. Tintin's shark submarine from Red Rackham's Treasure

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Fred Hembeck

1. The original Fantasticar (aka the Flying Bathtub)
2. Archie's thirties'era jalopy (which he drove well into the seventies at least...)
3. Blue Beetle's Bug
4. TV's Batmobile, the one totally cool thing about that otherwise often dubious program
5. Nick Fury (and SHIELD's) flying sportscar

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Scott Dunbier

The Fantasticar
The Batmobile from 1950 (as drawn by Dick Sprang)
The rocket that carried Superbaby to Earth (as drawn by Curt Swan)
The Cord from Hot Wheels #5 (The Case of the Curious Classic)
Skeezix's baby buggy

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Mark Coale

1. LSH Time Bubble
2. Avengers Quinjet
3. The Arrow Car
4. Fantasti-Car
5. Enemy Ace's Fokker

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Jamie Coville

1. Punishers Battle Van
2. Captain America's Motorcycle
3. The Black Knight's Steed
4. Avengers Quinjet
5. Nite Owl's Archie

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Michael Grabowski

Donald Duck's 1934 Belchfire Runabout ("313")
Rand Race's hovercar
Cerebus' campaign carriage
Jake Lockley's cab
Rerun's mom's bicycle

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Jones

5. The big airships in Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
4. The Haunted Tank
3. Thor's wicked awesome goat-drawn chariot
2. The various ships sailed on by Drinky Crow and Uncle Gabby
1. Metron's Mobius chair

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John Vest

1. The Fantastic Four's Fantasticar
2. The car that Mr. Natural is driving on the cover of Zap #1
3. The Thing's jet cycle
4. Flakey Foont's bathtubmobile
5. El Borbah's muscle car

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Randall Ragsdale

* Breakworld's gigantic bullet -- Astonishing X-Men 24. Probably not a vehicle, but Kitty is currently riding in it so I think it counts.
* Ghost Rider's motorcycle
* Wonder Woman's invisible Jet
* Sidekick's Shitmobile
* The S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier

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Bob Temuka

1. Judge Dredd's Lawmaster bike: Death on two very big wheels.
2. The dragon-powered train that Excalibur used to cross between timelines during the original Claremont/Davis run.
3. Albert Hoffman's bicycle, which the Brotherhood of Dada used to spread peace, love and hallucinations, until the US Government beat them up while the Doom Patrol watched.
4. The baby-cart from Lone Wolf and Cub.
5. Superman. Who needs a car when he can just wrap you up in his cape and get you to the other side of the world in a second?

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Jim Wheelock

* The Haunted Tank (the M3 Jeb Stuart version)
* The classic Cord automobile Alex Toth drew in Hot Wheels (and also in 77 Sunset Strip, years before)
* Russ Manning's teardrop-shaped starship from the Aliens back-up feature in Magnus Robot Fighter
* The Kirby/Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli-Carrier
* Rip Hunter's Time Sphere.

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Johnny Bacardi

* The wetwired Rolls-Royce driven by Freddie (Data) Martin in THRILLER
* The Whiz Wagon from JIMMY OLSEN
* Doc Savage's Roadster, complete with running board in case I felt like standing on it as someone else drives...
* Black Mariah from Chaykin's TIMES SQUARED
* Nick Fury's HOVERCAR, I'm assuming a Porsche, designed by Steranko...

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Scott Cederlund

1) The X-Men's Blackbird
2) Edsel's Edsel from Mage: The Hero Discovered
3) Batmobile from the TV show
4) Original Fantasticar
5) Mego Toys' Green Arrow Car

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Corey Blake

1. Night Thrasher's skateboard from New Warriors volume 1
2. Omega the Unknown's ice cream truck
3. themselves (Transformers)
4. The Great Machine's jet pack in Ex Machina
5. Silver in The Lone Ranger

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Danny Fingeroth

1. The original Fantasti-Car
2. Rip Hunter's Time Machine
3. Galactus's spheroid ship
4. Kal-el's mini-rocket
5. Space Ranger's ship, The Solar King

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Timothy Callahan

1. The Legion of Super-Heroes' Time Bubble
2. Ghost Rider's Chopper
3. 1980s Batmobile
4. Brainiac's Skull Ship
5. The Supermobile (with fists)

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Steven Stwalley

1. Felix the Cat's Magic Carpet
2. Mr. O' Malley's Magic Wand
3. Anything drawn by Big Daddy Roth
4. Donald Duck's car with the rumble seat and the 313 license plate
5. Andy Gump's Old 348 (sold to him by Old Doc Yak)

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Dave Knott

Mort Grim's old-skool police motorcycle
The moon rocket from Tintin
The Fantasticar
Buddy Bradley's truck from the cover of Hate #1
Rip Hunter's time sphere

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Chris Randle

1. Buddy Bradley's monster truck
2. The lysergic bicycle of Albert Hofmann from Doom Patrol
3. Dick Sprang's Batmobile
4. The Haunted Tank
5. Ghost Rider's flaming motorcycle

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Russell Lissau

1. The Tumbler Batmobile (especially the vr-vr-vr noise the engine makes)
2. Vigilante's 1980s-era motorcycle
3. The Millenium Falcon
4. Virtually any car from Sin City
5. Baby Kal-El's crystaline escape craft

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Jamil Thomas

1) Paul Pope's Bat-cycle from Batman Year 100
2) Forever People's Super-Cycle
3) S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
4) S.H.I.E.L.D. Flying Car
5) Johnny Storm's customized Fosse "Road-Wrecker"(as drawn by Paul Pope in Fantastic Four # 543)

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Russ Maheras

1.) The Batmobile (What kid didn't want to drive that sucker?)
2.) The S.H.I.E.L.D. Heli-carrier
3.) Ghost Rider's motocycle
4.) The Fantasti-car
5.) The Haunted Tank

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Chris Arrant

1. Tetsuo's bike from AKIRA
2. The Carrier from THE AUTHORITY
3. The Green Goblin's Goblin Glider
4. Captain America's Bike
5. The Haunted Tank from THE HAUNTED TANK

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Sean T. Collins

1. The Bat-tank from The Dark Knight Returns
2. The Glory Boat from New Gods
3. Nite Owl's blimp from Watchmen
4. That big cruise ship that's a microcosm of the world from The Filth
5. That hover-scooter that Maggie kept falling off of from Love & Rockets

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Jim Dougan

1. Kaneda's sweet red motorcycle from AKIRA
2. The X-Men's Blackbird (when it was still an SR-71)
3. Whatever that thing is that NEXTWAVE flies around in
4. STREET ANGEL's skateboard
5. THOR's chariot - the one pulled by the giant goats. Simonson always made it (and everything else in the comic) look so cool

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J. Caleb Mozzocco

1.) Superman's Supermobile
He's Superman! He can fly! Why is he flying in a ship?
2.) The Joker's Jokermobile
(the one with the bubble top and big, huge Joker face)
3.) Daigoro's baby cart
4.) The Bat-Cycle from Paul Pope's Batman: Year 100
(which was folded up into a bat-shape and hung upside down in a net to look like a giant bat).
5.) The Whirly-Bat

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Tucker Stone

1. The Saint of Killers dead horse from Preacher
2. The Fantasticar
3. The Newsboy Legion's Whiz Wagon
4. The Authority's Carrier
5. that huge limousine from Peter Milligan's Skreemer, the one with the delorean style doors.

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Richard Krauss

Blue Beetle's Beetle
Supercar
Rat Fink's hotrod
Spacehawk's spaceship
Reid Fleming's Milk Truck

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James Langdell

1. Reid Fleming's milk truck
2. The motorcycle with sidecar in Mad's "Bat Boy and Rubin"
3. The Ford Edsel in "Mage"
4. Smokey Stover's fire truck
5. The World's Greatest Flying Ace's doghouse

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David King

1. Time Bubble
2. Doc Yak's / Andy Gump's 348
3. The Whiz Wagon
4. Mobius Chair
5. Archie's Jalopy

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Stuart Immonen

1) Rocket Racer's rollerskates
2) Snoopy's doghouse Sopwith Camel
3) Bonaparte the tank from Dominion
4) Tintin's moon rocket
5) Archie's jalopy

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Thanks to all that participated. Everyone got a pass this week, but those who don't answer the question directly in future Five For Fridays will be left out -- please, no letters of complaint for this week's inclusions. Check out the site next Friday for another episode.

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