FFF Results Post #171—Land Of The Free, Home Of The Brave

On Friday, CR fans were asked to "List Five Things About Comics That Make You Feel Patriotic." Here is how they responded:



Tom Spurgeon

1. Quality's Uncle Sam
2. Combat Veteran Jack Kirby Makes Great War Comics AND Great Anti-War Comics
3. Modern Industry Built By Dozens Upon Dozens of World War II Veterans
4. The JN Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge
5. Cartoonists Giving Their Strips Free To Military Publications

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Gary Usher

1. Joe Simon and Jack Kirby's cover to Captain America Comics #1.
2. Superman -- the embodiment of early 20th century immigrants coming to America and through their collective efforts helping our/their adopted country become a superpower. That's definitely what I thought when I started reading Superman comics when I was five.
3. Snoopy D-Day "Peanuts" strips from 6/6/93 and 6/5/94-6/10/94, also the best drawing in the later years of the strip.
4. Jack Kirby's "The Losers" and the dichotomy between the title and the perpetual heroism that rocketed through all of his work.
5. Hydrogen Bomb and Biochemical Warfare Funnies #1 (1970). One of many examples from the underground, where freedom means being able to draw the President with a xxxx for a nose.


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Stergios George Botzakis

1. The original "Cap becomes Nomad" storyline
2. George Perez's explanation for how Wonder Woman ended up wearing American colors even though she's Greek
3. The cover to Superman #14
4. The "Buy War Bonds" blurbs on Golden Age covers
5. The fact that artists like Kirby, Eisner, and Everett spent a number of their prime years as enlisted men

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Tom Bondurant

1. The fact that two kids from Cleveland invented not just the superhero, but one of the most recognizable symbols of goodness, hope, etc., in the world
2. That spread with Cap and all the kids, from Captain America's Bicentennial Battles
3. Sgt. Rock, especially under Kanigher and Kubert
4. This one might be a little twisted, but I always liked that in Batman/Captain America, the Joker was loyal enough not to betray his country to the Red Skull
5. Darwyn Cooke's use of the JFK speech in The New Frontier

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Andrew Mansell

1. Reading about the on-going saga of the Danish cartoonists.
2. The Underground Comics of the 60s -- although we are challenged at every turn, we still have freedom of speech.
3. Re-reading all of Kirby's books and seeing a hurt and brave WWII vet underneath all the action
4. Two-Fisted Tales and Front-line Combat -- stories about war by recent vets-- makes you feel scared and grateful at the same time
5. Terry and the Pirates/Male Call -- I didn't live through it, these strips help me to "get" it

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Christopher Duffy

1. The way Marvel heroes upon meeting Captain America are always inspired to be better than themselves.
2. Kirby's Fourth World and the way it feels like the synthesis of a WW II veteran's experiences.
3. Doonesbury's Iraq soldier-centered comics
4. Bill Mauldin
5. Ding Darling refuge, too!

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James Langdell

1. Front cover bar codes that remind me of the stripes in our flag's stars and stripes.
2. Ceasing to be a British colony is a big-time retcon.
3. The bald eagle perched on Superman's arm doesn't even need a cape to look awesome.
4. Young Bruce Wayne traveled around the world to hone his skills, but he decided to return to the good old U.S.A.
5. Yankee Poodle

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Adam Casey

1. Harvey Kurtzman's war comics telling it like it is.
2. Comics declaring war on Hitler first.
3. Comics dealing with social issues when they aren't being addressed elsewhere.
4. Old comics, by virtue of their ads, letter columns, etc. being a time capsule from a past age.
5. The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

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Robin McConnell

Here are five reasons i am proud to be a Canadian.

1. Poutine
2. Chester Brown
3. Being able to let cartoonists swear on radio interviews. I would like to see NPR have Scott McCloud calling Wertham an asshole on air!
4. We actually have freedom
5. Health Care

editor's note: this failed miserably at the comics-related part of the thing, and usually i'd dump it, but it took me forever to find Chester Brown art I like before I noticed this

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Jamie Coville

1. Joe Shuster and the Canadian connection to Superman.
2. John Byrne's Alpha Flight.
3. Wolverine every time he says "I'm Canadian Bub."
4. Gene Day, Harry Kremer and Dave Sim's influence on the comic industry.
5. The Canadian focused Joe Shuster and Doug Wright Awards.

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Buzz Dixon

1 - Will Eisner's PM Monthly mag for the U.S. Army
2 - U.S. Navy using comic books as a recruiting tool
3 - Milt Caniff's Miss Lace
4 - Milt Caniff's Terry & the Pirates Sunday page on what it means to be a fighter pilot (http://www.silent-warriors.com/terry_pirates.htm)
5 - Stan Lee's "VD? Not For Me!" health poster in WWII

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Mark Coale

1. The Englehart Captain America run
2. war comics done by veterans like Sam Glanzman
3. WWII-era Propaganda covers, like Superman riding a bomb
4. Comics characters pained on the nose of airplanes
5. the prescience of 21st century American culture in American Flagg

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Michael Dooley

1. Thomas Nast
2. Kurtzman war comics
3. Brought to Light
4. In the Shadow of No Towers
5. A People's History of the American Empire

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Leigh Walton

1) "By the book" from The Killing Joke
2) The idea that Thomas Nast brought down the biggest man in New York with cartoons
3) Preacher
4) The story about Jack Kirby chasing the towel mobster out of Eisner & Iger
5) Mark Gruenwald's comfortingly paternal Captain America

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