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May 25, 2008


FFF Results Post #121—Plus One

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five of Your Favorite Comics Families." Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. The Van Pelts
2. The Storms
3. George, Peggy and Josephine Bungle
4. The Riches
5. The Bradleys

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Don Sticksel

1) The Lockhorns
2) The Capps
3) The Strongs
4) The Lodges
5) The pre-Quesada fuck up Parkers

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Mark D. Ashworth

1. The Sienna-Fontaines (married just last week!)
2. The Dewclaws
3. The Breedens
4. The Browns
5. The Ducks/McDucks

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Lisa Drake

1. Maybonne, Marlys and Freddy Mullens
2. The Freak Brothers
3. James, Amy, Eli and Oliver Kochalka
4. The Wertzes (fart humour runs in the family, according to Julia's latest)
5. Marjane Satrapi's parents and grandmother

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Jamie Coville

1. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
2. Bradleys
3. Fantastic Four
4. The Inhumans
5. Lone Wolf and Cub

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Russell Lissau

1. The Waynes (Don't forget, both Tim Drake and Dick Grayson have been adopted by Bruce)
2. The Osborns
3. The Doonesburys
4. The Foxes (from Foxtrot, of course)
5. The Summers clan

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Evan Dorkin

1. The Royal Family of The Inhumans
2. Moon, Kayo, Willie and Mamie Mullins
3. The Moomintrolls
4. The Wallets
5. Astro Boy's family

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Don MacPherson

1) The Bumsteads
2) The Batman Family
3) The Pattersons (For Better or For Worse)
4) The Marvel Family
5) Wally West and family

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Jones

1. The family upstairs
2. The Campbells
3. Popeye, Poopdeck, Swee'pea and the Jeep
4. The hopeless Savages
5. Odin, Thor and Loki (by Kirby/Lee, natch)

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Eric Knisley

1. Luba's clan (who can keep up with it?)
2. Mickey Mouse's family (who are his brothers?)
3. Bruce, Dick and Alfred
4. The New Gods (they must all be related, right?)
5. Walt Wallet's family from "Gasoline Alley"

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Mark Coale

1. the Van Pelts (Linus and Lucy)
2. the Inhuman Royal Family
3. the Knights (Starman)
4. the Bumsteads
5. the Bakers (Animal Man)

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Tom Bondurant

1. Calvin and his parents (Calvin and Hobbes)
2. The Knights (Starman)
3. The Endless
4. The extended Allen family (Barry, Iris, Iris' nephew Wally West, et al.)
5. The Doonesburys

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Randolph Hoppe

The Storm-Richards
The Boop/A/Doop-Bumsteads
The Van Pelts
Goom and Googam
The Inhuman Royals

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James Langdell

1. The Berrys (from their comic strip)
2. The Weavers (from Zot!)
3. The Freaks (Fabulous, Furry)
4. The Poirier-Brownes (Lawrence and Nicholas from FBOFW)
5. The Fixxes (from 'Mazing Man)

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Michael Grabowski

1. The MacGarry/Campbells
2. Luba's family--including mom, first husband, half-sisters, cousin, all her kids and all their dads
3. The McDuck/Ducks--Scrooge, Donald & the boys
4. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
5. The McGrews (Dirty Fleagle and Dirty Drew)

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