FFF Results Post #110—Huh?

Five For Friday #110 Results

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Things In Comics That Confused You At One Time Or Perhaps Still Do -- Just The Source of Confusion, Not An Explanation Of Why You Were Confused Or What Turned Out To Be The Answer (Unless You're Fred Hembeck)." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Sand Superman
2. Ditko's Killjoy comics
3. Was that a vision of Maggie's Mom as a young person that stops by the picnic in Chester Square?
4. An egg in a FOOM parody saying "I Am The Walrus"
5. What was that tuning fork on Black Bolt's head for?

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Don Sticksel

1) Earth 2?
2) No one in the Marvel Universe smokes?
3) You can breathe in the Blue Area of the Moon?
4) The first time I read Eightball in the middle of Like a Velvet Glove and never having read an indy title before.
5) We don't have to explain it, it's magic.

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James Langdell

1. Bluto or Brutus?
2. Was the Our Boarding House panel really the same one every day?
3. How did the Puzz Fundles pages connect to the main story in The One?
4. Who was Junior a junior of in Dick Tracy?
5. Why didn't Perry White also have his own comic book?

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Eric Reynolds

1. "Captain Marvel"
2. Al Milgrom's inking
3. A really only semi-invisible jet
4. Every time travel comic I ever read (e.g., Superboy in the Legion)
5. How Spider-Man stuck to walls through his costume

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L Drake

1. I had to think about what Maybonne Mullen meant by an "F.U." and an "Elvis."
2. Huh? Jack Kalo is made up? My whole world is upside-down!
3. Why John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes, Bill Watterson?
4. Why have I never seen a graphic novel by Scott McCloud before?
5. I used to think Kramer's Ergot was pronounced like escargot.

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Corey Blake

1. Infinite Crisis
2. The rules of the Superhuman Registration Act from Civil War
3. Keeping track of the cast of Berlin
4. Why everything below Nova's belt seems to vanish when he flies
5. How Spider-Man's wall-crawling works through his costume

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Paul Sloboda

1. Tintin calling on the Sun God Pachacamac to "display his power" in Prisoners Of The Sun.
2. The Umbra Sprite portraying himself to Rashem as the Gros Bon Ange in Mage Volume 1
3. Rick's "casting of a container spell" on Cerebus in Rick's Story.
4. Suenteus Po's brief appearance in the trial at the end of Church & State (Cerebus again).
5. Karen Breughel's temporal lobe seizure / "falling into the floor" experience in Promethea Book Five.

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Jason Michelitch

1. The word "Corps."
2. Charles Burns
3. The Marvel Trading card where Spider-Man interviews the Punisher and asks him if his name is "Frank" and the Punisher says "I prefer Francis". (Wow, I actually just found it online after one little google search)
4. The nun flasher in the Cerebus storyline "Guys".
5. Quasar.

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Evan Dorkin

1. Alternate Earth U.S. President Nelson Rockefeller
2. The last panel of the EC story "Shoe Button Eyes"
3. Howard the Duck #16, the "Dreaded Deadline Doom" issue
4. Jimbo: A Raw One Shot
5. Potrzebie

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Philip Smith

1. Continuity
2. Composite Superman
3. The Spider Mobile
4. Jack Kirby
5. Any hero who didn't wear long pants

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Jamie Coville

1. Fantastic Four #319 -- A long continuity mind twister about Doom jumping minds and through time during Secret Wars. Sudoku on HARD is easier to figure out than this.
2. Why all of Barefoot Gen hasn't been published in English yet.
3. DP7 #2. Lenore "froze" people when she took off her mask. Before and after that she would put them to sleep.
4. DP7 #9. The Non-Linear dream issues. What was real, what was fake and how did the story go chronologically?
5. Where Doomsday (from Death of Superman) came from and why did he go on a rampage?

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Russell Lissau

1. Crisis on Infinite Earths
2. Multi-colored kryptonite having different effects on Superman
3. Why the original Earth-2 Hakwman went from having that awesome hawk headress to a dorky yellow mask.
4. How Peter Parker's spidey powers allow him to walk on walls -- but his feet and hands don't stick to other things.
5. The Fantastic Four -- how did they each get different powers from the same cosmic rays?

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Tucker Stone

1. The Invisibles
2. The Black Freighter stuff in Watchmen
3. Whether or not the main character in Loveless was dead or not.
4. Why did Craig Thompson and his brother piss on each other in Blankets?
5. What was the actual problem in Crisis on Infinite Earths?

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Shannon Smith

1) Everything about the whole Clark Kent being a baby, then Superboy then Superman without ever having been Superboy or without people in Superman's adult life remembering Superboy.
2) How come the other characters that got costumes and accessories from the same machine as Spider-Man in Secret War did not also have the Venom problem.
3) If Spider-Man was in the (I think) 3rd issue of the Transformers comic then doesn't that make them part of the Marvel continuity?
4) Why can't James Kochalka drive a car?
5) If Connor isn't the kid Green Arrow had with Shado, then what happened to that kid?

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Fred Hembeck

At the outset of my comics buying days, apparently I was VERY confused. Here's only five examples...

1. The lead story in the first issue of Our Army At War I ever bought was titled "Meet Lt. Rock." I knew what a sergeant was, but had NO idea what an "el tee" was...
2. The backup story in the first issue of Superman I bought had the Man of Steel going back through the time barrier and changing several historical tragedies, such as stopping Lincoln's assassination, which confused the big guy himself, since he'd never previously been able to accomplish such feats. At the tale's end, it turned out that he'd accidentally slipped into a parallel universe, which satisfied Superman, but still left eight year old me asking, "WHAT'S a parallel universe??"
3. Looking at the cover of my first Marvel comic -- Fantastic Four #4 -- I wondered why the good looking guy in the red bathing suit carrying off the girl was being chased by two other heroes along with a bad-guy monster.
4. Reading my first issue of Betty and Veronica, I caught on pretty quick that Archie dug both Betty and Veronica, but who was this third girl he'd talk about with Reggie named "Ronnie"?
5. The origin of Wonder Woman included in the 1961 Secret Origins Giant: let me see if I understand this -- she was made from CLAY? Huh? Actually, pretty much the entire run of Robert Kanigher's take on the Amazon Princess made me scratch my head--and unlike the previous four entries, still does to this very day...

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Dave Knott

Thomson and Thompson - Are they or are they not brothers?
Bizarro loves Lois Lane instead of hating her
Huey, Dewey, and Louie - Which is which?
What happened to the parents of Terry Lee (of Terry and the Pirates)?
Any comic cover depicting a scene that has no connection to the actual contents of the comic

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Frank Santoro

* Peter Parker's clothes stashed in web-bundle, wouldn't they be gooey?
* wings on Namor's feet
* does The Thing get a "hard on"?
* Crisis on Infinite Earths, period.
* the ending to Mazzucchelli's "Discovering America" in Rubber Blanket #2

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Paul Dwyer

1. The sequence in Tantrum where Leo visits his sister-in-law.
2. The long text passages in Cerebus.
3. Reinventing Comics.
4. Maggie and Hopey's relationship.
5. Any DC or Marvel "event."

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Thanks to all that participated. Check out the site next Friday for another episode.

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