FFF Results Post #172—Mulligan

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Really Difficult If Not Impossible Five For Fridays." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. Name Five Readable Image Comics, 1991-1993
2. Name Five Comics Creators From The Golden Age Era With Multiple Copyrights Still In Their Name
3. Name Five Excellent Superhero Annual Summer Crossovers, 1990-1998
4. Name Five JSA Members Left At Headquarters Other Than Wonder Woman
5. Name Five Comics Industry Award Winners, What They Won And The Year They Won, Five Years Ago Or Older

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Name Five Comic Book Distributors Still In Existence
2. List Five Really Excellent Comic Book Shops You've Personally Been To
3. Name Five Colorists Who Worked at Marvel Prior to 1970
4. List Five Comic Book Publishers Who Did Not Have Patriotically-Themed Characters or Titles in 1942
5. List Five Times Jack Kirby Was Given More Credit Than He Really Deserved

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Christopher Duffy

1. Name 5 great supervillains created after 1980.
2. Name 5 comic strips that got better after the original creator died or left the strip.
3. Name 5 Stan Lee collaborators who get even half as much press as "the Man."
4. Name 5 comic book stores where the staff doesn't feel obliged to let you know what they think of your purchase.
5. Name 5 cartoonists who love ass humor with as much intellectual rigor as Sam Henderson.

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Gary Usher

1. Name five one-syllable superhero names.
2. Name five readable b/w Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle parodies.
3. Name five of The Comics Journal Managing Editors from the 80s.
4. Name five truly awful Fantagraphics Books releases.
5. Name five of the best drawn current newspaper comic strips.

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Grant Goggans

1. Name five paperback Peanuts collections that don't have the note that it is made up of "Selected Cartoons" from some different book entirely.
2. Name five of Luba's kids, and their fathers, without looking at a cheat sheet.
3. Name five Kaoru Mori comics that don't have maids in them.
4. Name five characters in The 86ers other than Rafe.
5. Name five 1970s Jack Kirby comics that DC probably shouldn't bother reprinting.

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Tom Bondurant

1. Five female superheroes who have no significant relationship (familial, romantic, spinoff, legacy, etc.) to a male superhero
2. Five arbitrary, gratuitous, and/or clearly-editorially-mandated plot points you still kinda liked
3. Five good film adaptations of Alan Moore stories
4. Five continuations of Jack Kirby series which improved on the original material
5. Five single issues published within the past twenty years which really could someday put a kid through college

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Marc-Oliver Frisch

1. Name five comics writers you consider at least on par with whoever you consider to be the top five writers in prose, film or television.
2. Name five comics stories that have given you a profound insight this year.
3. Name five current North American comic-book series whose protagonists didn't exist 25 years ago that have been around for more than 50 issues.
4. Name five writers on comics you could see writing for the New Yorker if the magazine introduced a regular comics section next week.
5. Name five female writers currently working for any of Diamond's top five periodical-comics publishers as of June 2009.

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Eric Knisley

1. List five really bad "Pogo" strips
2. List five Silver Age "Superman" stories in which Superman eats an entire city.
3. List five flat-chested super heroines. Side-kicks, even.
4. List five really bad "Spirit" comics by Eisner.
5. List five pre-2000 Xeric grant winners and their product(s).

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Justin J. Major

1. Name Five Cross-Over Events that Changed Everything that Changed Anything.
2. Name Five Comic Book Stores that Opened in Your Area Code in the Last Five Years.
3. Name Five Thirteen-Year Old's Who Spend More on Comics Each Month Than on Video Games.
4. Name Five Cities that You Are Certain Will Publish Two or More Daily Newspapers at the End of 2010.
5. Name Five "Opus" Strips that You Enjoyed More than the Worst "Bloom County" Strip.

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Buzz Dixon

1. Name Five Pro-Nazi Comics Published In The U.S. Between 1941 And 1945
2. Name Five Comics Creators Whose Work Was Properly Credited By The Disney Company While They Were Still Alive
3. Name Five Times When Mary Worth Says, "It's None Of My Business" And Then Shuts Up
4. Name Five Superhero Costumes That Wouldn't Look Stupid In Real Life
5. Name Five Recent Mainstream Media Articles On Comics And/Or Graphics Novels That Did Not Use "Biff! Bam! Pow!" In The Headline (Or "Bi! Bim! Bop!" If About Korean Manwha)

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Jason Michelitch

1. Name five comics professional within arm's reach of you right now.
2. Name five major commercial comics distribution companies.
3. Name five variant covers that you could sell for more than $5 in five years.
4. Name five good comics shops within reasonable traveling distance.
5. Name five five-for-fives for which you would have to be one of the answers.

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Andrew Mansell

1. Name any 5 story lines from Steve Canyon that do not utilize the sobriquet, "Uncle Sugar"?
2. Name any 5 consecutive issues of any early '60s DC super-hero comic that were not written by Gardner Fox
3. Name any 5 Don Martin sound affects that have a real- life equivalent
4. Name any 5 of the crew members of the S.S. Guppy
5. Name any 5 comic books penned by Claremont, featuring Scott and Jean that do not contain the following dialog: "And I, you." ICK

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Dave Knott

* List five memorable Dr. Strange storylines, 1985-present
* List five successful child-oriented funny animal comics, 1970-present
* List five readable comics based on television properties
* List five watchable live action movies based on European comics
* List five African comics that have been translated into English

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on second thought, I probably should have had a consistent strategy for choosing art

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