FFF Results Post #131—Armed, Dangerous

On Friday afternoon, participating CR readers were asked to "Name Five Weapons From Comics You Wouldn't Mind Using In An Emergency, Or Just Otherwise Think Are Cool" Here are the results.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Gigantor
2. Mjolnir
3. The Black Knight's Ebony Blade
4. Jon Sable's broom-handle Mauser
5. Green Arrow's Boxing Glove Arrow

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Gil Roth

1. Daredevil's billyclub
2. Ultimate Nullifier

Well, that pretty much runs the gamut, sad to say.

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Eric Knisley

1. The ultimate nullifier
2. Captain Boomerang's... boomerangs
3. Paste Pot Pete's paste gun
4. Cap's shield
5. Orion's Astro-Force harness

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Dave Knott

* Magic Potion of Getafix
* Big Barda's Mega-Rod
* Herbert the Duck's Sword of Destiny
* Eye of Agamotto
* Joker Gas

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Mark D. Ashworth

1. Pottsylvania Creepers
2. An Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator
3. The Dupe-o-matic
4. Green Kryptonite
5. The Damascus blade

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Jim Wheelock

1. Elric's sword Stormbringer
2. The Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter's teched-up Mauser broomhandle pistol
3. The Marquis' pepper-mill flintlock revolvers
4. The Shadow's twin .45 automatics
5. Sarge Steel's stainless steel Luger

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Evan Dorkin

1. The Green Goblin's Pumpkin Bombs
2. Hellboy's Right Hand of Doom (Someone else had it first, so I think it qualifies as a kind of sort of weapon. I think.)
3. Ronan the Accuser's hammer-thing
4. The Trapster's paste guns (god help me)
5. Herbie Popnecker's lollipops

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Nat Gertler

1. This here lollipop
2. Wolverine, as occasionally used ballistically by Colossus (yes, of course I could throw him. He's short. And Canadian.)
3. Fleegle's Evil Eye
4. The ass-kicking boot of a Rube Goldberg machine
5. The Phantom's ring - the one he punches the jaw of bad people with to leave them with a mark that gets them shunned by everyone (not the one he punches the jaw of good people with to get them treated kindly.)

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Grant Goggans

1. Johnny Alpha's variable cartridge Westinghouse blaster
2. The Space-Boomerang Trap from The Flash # 124
3. Charles Fort's cricket bat from Necronauts
4. The Painting That Ate Paris
5. Mjolnir

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Wirt "Erik" Salthouse

1 Calvin's transmorgofier gun
2 Motherbox
3 Green Lantern's Power Ring
4 Ignatz's Brick
5 Schmoos

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Buzz Dixon

1. The Arcadia
2. The Cosmic Cube
3. The Batarang
4. Ultra-rare Cinnanom Flavored Lollipop
5. Kona's M-60 machine gun

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Jason Michelitch

1. Madman's Yo-Yo
2. Batarang
3. Any one of the Mandarin's rings
4. The Ultimate Nullifier
5. Any one of Herbie Popnecker's lollipops

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Marc Arsenault

1. The Wave Motion Gun
2. Batarangs
3. Mother Box
4. The Zodiac Key
5. A Green Lantern Ring

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Sean Kleefeld

1. The Ultimate Nullifier
2. Linus Van Pelt's blanket
3. A Lawgiver
4. Dr. Doom's gauntlets
5. Moon Knight's short-lived, wrist-mounted, crescent blade launcher

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Russell Lissau

1. Spaceman Spiff's raygun
2. Wolverine's claws
3. Batarangs (the tiny dart kinds)
4. The Crow's sword
5. Green Arrow's longbow

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Frank Santoro

* pumpkin bombs
* repulsor rays
* sword from Berserk
* cosmic cube
* doomsday machine (from that one famous Charlton comic)

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Matthew Craig

* Judge Dredd's Lawgiver
* Captain Marvel's Soul-Gun (NextWave)
* Batarang - Oh, I'm sorry: "The" Batarang
* Megatron (or possibly just Megatron's Fusion Cannon - which, for an asexual robot tyrant, is still pretty overcompensatory)
* Paste-Pot Pete's Pastey-Hose

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Michael Grabowski

1. Web shooters!
2. Bat-arang
3. Ultimate Nullifier
4. collapsible cane billy club
5. lollipop!

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John McCorkle

* Judge Dredd's Lawgiver
* Ken Parker's Kentucky Long Rifle
* The Punisher's entire armory
* Dylan Dog's Italian Bodeo 1889 revolver
* Galactus' Ultimate Nullifier

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Gerry Alanguilan

1. Ronin's "Tachi"
2. Wolverine's Claws
3. Daredevil's Billy Club
4. Batarangs
5. Ultimate Nullifier

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Fred Hembeck

1. The Batarang
2. Spider-Man's Web-shooter
3. Pinky Pinkerton's Umbrella
4. Lulu Moppet's Water Pistol filled with purple-staining Beebleberry juice ... and when all else fails,
5. The Cosmic Cube

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Tom Bondurant



Three from American Flagg!:

1. BuzzKnucks (TM) -- brass knuckles with built-in electro-shock
2. The Snowball 99 (a/k/a Caligari's Equalizer) -- fires frozen globes of industrial-strength Somnambutol (TM) and puts miscreants to sleep to the distinctive sounds of PAPAPAOOOO MOW MOW
3. The .666 Magrum Automatic ("The Mark Of The Beast")

And, what the heck, I'll be unoriginal:

4. Captain America's shield
5. A Green Lantern power ring

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Jacob Goddard

1. Linus' blanket
2. Prince Valiant's Singing Sword
3. Dennis the Menace's slingshot
4. Batarangs (mainly because they're fun to say)
5. Iron Man's armor

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Vito Delsante

1. Captain America's shield (the real one, not the energy one...in fact, I'd rather have the WW2 one over the round one)
2. Batarangs (hell, I'll take the entire utility belt)
3. The Ultimate Nullifier (I'm sure everyone picked this one)
4. Daredevil's billy club(s)
5. A Green Lantern power ring

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Matthew Maxwell

1. The Ultimate Nullifier - Sometimes the job just needs to be done.
2. Batarangs - Oh come on, like you wouldn't.
3. Dr. Doom's Mauser - WHO DARES MANHANDLE THE SIDEARM OF DOOM?
4. The Painting That Ate Paris - The colors the colors the colors!
5. Dr. Bong's bell - Bong, just bong.

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James Langdell

1. Orb of Agamotto
2. Cat juice
3. Max the Bunny (used as a projectile)
4. The (banana-enabled) Sun Gun
5. This here lollipop

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complaining about the art is fine; I only have time to delete the entry, though

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