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August 16, 2009


FFF Results Post #176—Avoidance

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics Characters You Would Cross The Street To Avoid." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Young, Thuggish Denny Eichhorn
2. Young, Thuggish Harvey Pekar
3. The Rhino
4. Lisa Leavenworth
5. Wimpy

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Don MacPherson

1) Swarm
2) Arseface
3) Turner D. Century
4) Arm-Fall-Off Boy
5) Any Walking Dead zombie

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Ben Schwartz

1) any "mutie" -- I HATE muties;
2) Charlie Brown -- he's a bummer;
3) Muhammad cartoons -- they start fights!
4) Johnny Ryan characters -- they tend to defecate without warning;
5) DC-owned Superman characters, but not Siegel-owned (on general principle).

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Grant Goggans

1. Dirty Frank
2. Fat Freddie
3. Mr. Gloves
4. Golgo 13
5. Torquetto "T.J." Jubbli

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Evan Dorkin

1. Hell Baby
2. Reid Fleming
3. Doofus
4. The Heap
5. Needledick the Bugfucker

I almost put down The Vanisher.

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Frank Santoro

5. Jesse "Street Angel" Sanchez
4. Bruce Banner
3. Reid Fleming
2. The Tarantula (how does he walk in those shoes?)
1. Milk and Cheese

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Fred Hembeck

1. Johnny Craig's EC psycho in a Santa suit
2. Oona Goosepimple's adversaries, The Yo-Yos
3. The Comedian
4. The Asp
5. Brother Voodoo (mainly cuz he'd probably be none too happy with how I may've, um, portrayed him over the years--sorry, Bro...)

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Brian Moore

1. Ernesto
2. Simple J. Malarkey
3. Red Robot #C-63
4. Blecky Yuckerella
5. Etrigan

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Marc Sobel

1. Pogeybait
2. Gorgo
3. Spider Jerusalem
4. Brother Power the Geek
5. Death

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Danny Ceballos

1. R. Crumb
2. Lucy Van Pelt
3. Gary Groth
4. and 5. Amy & Jordan

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Miss Misery (from Sleeper)
2. The Polecat (LSH reject)
3. Porcupine Pete (Legion of Substitute Heroes)
4. The Cacti (from Steven)
5. Man-Thing

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Andrew Mansell

1. Joe Btfsplk (Lil Abner)
2. Clonezone (Nexus)
3. Infectious Lass (Legion of Substitute Heroes)
4. Simple J. Malarkey (Pogo)
5. The Snoid (Zap)

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Buzz Dixon

1. Joe Btfsplk
2. Earthquake McGoon
3. Evil Eye Fleegle
4. Romeo Scragg
5. Moonbeam McSwine

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Tom Bondurant

1. Frank Castle
2. Morgan Edge
3. Granny Goodness
4. Dr. Psycho
5. Terry Long

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Andrew Horton

* Milk & Cheese (they're bound to find SOME reason to glass me in the face with a gin bottle)
* Frankie from "The Goon" (Same reason)
* Cable (I'm not sure I'd be able to walk all the way around his shoulder pads)
* Doctor Light (Holidy Fun-Time Rape Version)
* Willie Lumpkin (Those ears. Those horrible, wiggling ears)

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Mark Coale

1. The Juggernaut
2. The Joker
3. Woozy Winks
4. Joe Btfsplk
5. Pig Pen

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Christopher Duffy

1. The Ringmaster
2. Lobo (except that crossing the street is the best way to get him to notice you...)
3. Mr. O'Malley
4. Harry Osborne (needy!)
5. Judy Junior

*****

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Eric Knisley

1. Gorilla Grodd
2. Darkseid
3. Galactus
4. The Blob
5. Pig Pen

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Scott Dunbier

1) Devil Girl
2) Chemo
3) Kingpin
4) Pigpen
5) The Mekon

*****

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Skipper Pickle

1. P'Gell (i'm weak)
3. Susie Derkins (wotta nag)
2. Daimon Hellstrom (wotta boor--"MY dad can beat up YOUR dad" ad nauseum)
4. 9-Jack-9 (not that it would do any good)
5. Death

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Richard Pachter

1. Man-Thing (Giant-sized or otherwise)
2. Cat Grant
3. Brainiac
4. Young Marvelman
5. Etta Candy

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Rob Clough

1. Reggie (from Archie)
2. Random Wilder (from Ice Haven)
3. Devil Girl
4. Bullseye
5. Dr Destiny

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Brandon Graham

1. Young, Thuggish M.o.d.o.k.
2. Young, Thuggish Darkseid.
3. Willy Pete.
4. Spider Jerusalem carrying his Bowel disruptor.
5. Namor.

*****

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Justin J. Major

1) Hank Pym (Avengers)
2) The Lockhorns (The Lockhorns)
3) Gnort (Green Lantern)
4) Uncle Duke (Doonesbury)
5) Cathy (Cathy)

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topic suggested by David Welsh

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