November 16, 2008
FFF Results Post #142—Gut Check
On Friday,
CR readers were asked to "Name Five Of Your Favorite Overweight Characters From The Comics." This was how they responded.
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Tom Spurgeon
1. Tubby
2. Chunk
3. Bouncing Boy
4. Texas
5. Wimpy
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Evan Dorkin
1 - Wimpy
2 - Tubby
3 - Herbie Popnecker
4 - Ma Hunkel
5 - Walt Wallet
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Tom Brevoort
* Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer
* Nite-Owl
* The Kingpin ("It's not fat, it's all muscle, I tells ya -- ALL MUSCLE!")
* Herbie Popnecker
* Adam West's Batman (Sorry, Adam...)
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Justin Colussy-Estes
1. Bouncing Boy
2. Little Lotta
3. Herbie
4. Nancy (You know, thinking about it, I never thought of her as overweight, but she's always struggling with eating too much, right? Or her aunt Fritzi is trying to get her to cut out sweets or cookies, or overeating? That bitch)
5. Does Fat Albert count? If not, I'll fess up to a strange attraction to Errata Stigmata's mother...
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Dave Carter
1. Bouncing Boy
2. Amanda Waller
3. J. Wellington Wimpy
4. Despair
5. Olaf (Snoopy’s brother)
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Stephen Leach
1. Little Lotta
2. Herbie Popnecker
3. Maggie Chascarrillo
4. The Blob
5. Miss Wormwood
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Ben Towle
* The Blob
* Herbie
* Pogeybait
* Sergeant 1st Class Orville P. Snorkel
* Garfield
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Randall Kirby
* Tubby
* Zodon (holographic),
* Homer Simpson
* Eric Cartman (He may in fact only be "big boned")
* The Scarlet Mortimer
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Johnny Bacardi
1. Herbie Popnecker (of course)
2. Freddie "Data" Martin (Thriller)
3. Volstagg
4. Woozy Winks
5. Maggie Chascarrillo
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Don MacPherson
1) Bouncing Boy
2) The Blob
3) Fat Cobra (from The Immortal Iron Fist)
4) Volstagg
5) Big Bertha
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Uriel A. Duran
1) Maggie Chascarrillo
2) Natt the Hat
3) El Panda from Lucha Libre
4) Obelix
5) Santa Claus from Jingle Belle
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Grant Goggans
1. Quinch
2. Wimpy
3. Wulf Sternhammer
4. That kid from the Far Side
5. Herbie the Fat Fury
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Ben Schwartz
1) Fat Jimmy Olsen
2) Fat Lois Lane
3) Fat Superman
4) Fat Superboy
5) Any Superman by Wayne Boring is fat, or at least beefy, by 2008 anorexic standards.
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Stergios Botzakis
1. The Blob
2. Herbie
3. Maggie
4. Volcana (the Marvel version)
5. Francine (from SIP)
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Cris Skokna
1. Volstagg
2. Obelix
3. Maggie
4. Wimbledon Green
5. Granny Goodness
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Michael Aushenker
1) Herbie
2) Tubby
3) The Blob from the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
4) Foggy Nelson
5) Baby Huey
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Buzz Dixon
1 - Herbie Popinecker
2 - Fat Freddy Freak
3 - Baby Huey
4 - Maggie (post-Mechanix)
5 - Etta Candy
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Dave Knott
* Obelix
* Volstagg the Voluminous
* Walt Wallet
* Uncle Dudley
* Despair
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Russell Lissau
1. Clayface
2. The Blob (x-villain)
3. Kingpin
4. Nite-Owl
5. Comic-Book Store Guy (from the Simpsons)
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Mike Lynch
1. Woozy Winks
2. The Captain (The Katzenjammer Kids)
3. Mr. O'Malley
4. Gomez Addams
5. Rusty Brown
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John McCorkle
1.
The Shaolin Cowboy
2. Obelix
3.
Bianca Castafiore
4.
Jeff Albertson, aka Comic Book Guy
5. Herbie Popnecker
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Richard Bensam
1. Van Crawford a.k.a. Fatman, the Human Flying Saucer
2. Etta Candy of Beeta Lambda sorority, Holliday College (original
version)
3. Herman Cramer a.k.a. the Blimp
4. Volstagg, the Falstaff of Asgard
5. Dan Dreiberg a.k.a. Nite Owl II
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Harold Sipe
1. Fat Marvel
2. Uncle Marvel
3. Herbie Popnecker, The Fat Fury
4. Fatman (Mr. America's partner)
5. Foggy Nelson
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Sean Kleefeld
1. J. Wellington Wimpy
2. Ma Hunkel, the original Red Tornado
3. The Flash circa issue #115
4. Volstagg
5. Any of the many pot-bellied characters drawn by Don Martin
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John Vest
1. Volstagg
2. Uncle Marvel
3. Foggy Nelson
4. The Sarge in Sad Sack comics
5. Axus The Great
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Richard Pachter
1. Chunk
2. Bouncing Boy
3. Herbie Popnecker
4. Stumbo The Giant
5. Moose Mason
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Josh Fitzpatrick
1) Kingpin
2) Herbie
3) Pellon Cross in his bloated vampire phase
4) The Blob
5) Blue Beetle, when he had his beer gut.
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