FFF Results Post #216—Comebacks

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Kinds Of Comics That You Wouldn't Mind Seeing Have A Comeback, No Matter How Inexplicable." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. Baseball comic books
2. Comic books starring medical personnel
3. Funny Animals
4. Comics With Nothing But The Equipment Of Superheroes In Them
5. Comics Starring Consumer Items, Like Computers

*****



Matt Seneca

1. Sunday pages (as opposed to Sunday strips)
2. Comics with the color done in Benday dots
3. Comics that warn readers about the dangers of VD
4. Tabloid-sized reprints of pamphlet comics ("Treasury Editions")
5. Manga pamphlets

*****



Evan Dorkin

1. Humor anthologies
2. Girl's comics like Polly Pigtails, with articles and non-fiction/instructional/craft comics
3. Promotional comics like Smilin' Ed's Gang given away at Buster Brown stores, featuring back-up features unrelated to the promotion
4. Comics starring actors/comedians having misadventures, modern equivalents to the Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis titles
5. Music/pop culture hybrid comics magazines like Deadline and Escape

*****



Uriel A. Duran

1) Comics about superhero pets
2) Giant monster comics
3) War comics
4) Black & white horror comic magazines
5) Mexican Lucha Libre photo comics

*****



Adam Casey

1. Romance comics
2. Pop culture fad based comics
3. Original creation kids comics
4. Parody/spoof comics
5. Big Two superhero original graphic novels

*****



Marc Sobel

1. Newspaper adventure strips
2. Choose-your-own-adventure comics
3. Serialized floppy alternative comics
4. Anthology magazines (like Eclipse, Heavy Metal, Epic, etc.)
5. Limited mail-in offer comics

*****



Justin J. Major

1. Celebrity Adventures
2. Professional Wrestling Manga
3. Police Procedurals
4. 100-page Super-Spectaculars
5. Proselytizing Archie Comics

*****



Ali T. Kokmen

(1) Mystery comics about (non-superpowered, non-supernatural) private investigators
(2) Classics Illustrated-type abridged adaptations of literature
(3) Biography comics of important historical (rather than current) figures
(4) Medical/doctor comics
(5) Comic books set in state fairs

*****



Andrew Mansell

1. Comics with an accompanying Album (Avengers #4, I had in my youth)
2. DC 100-Page Super-Spectacular w/No Ads
3. Gold Key Disney Comics Digest (featuring Barks and Murry)
4. The Marvel (Curtiss) Black and White Magazine line
5. Menomonee Falls Gazette (or MF Guardian or Comic Strip News etc.)

*****



Sean Kleefeld

1. 80-Page Giants
2. Comics that only cost a quarter
3. Promotional mini-comics that came packaged with action figures
4. Comics about pirates (not that they were ever really popular in the first place, but...)
5. Comics sponsored by Radio Shack

*****



Bill Matheny

1) Fat kids
2) Comics based on sitcoms
3) Dramatic hot rod stories
4) Funny hot-rodding characters
5) Comics with the word "Pal" in the title

*****



Aaron White

1. Airbrushed comics
2. Comics about popular comedians (like Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope etc.)
3. Romance comics
4. Comics about inspiring real people (like Corrie Ten Boom)
5. And definitely funny animals

*****



Michael Dooley

1. sequential narratives woven in tapestries or carved from stone
2. comics that use dialect talk balloons with phonetic spellings
3. fashion model comic books with paper cutouts
4. Tijuana Bibles
5. newspaper comic strips with small, lengthy, typeset, serif caption texts, numbered in sequence, under each panel

*****



Chris Elio Eliopoulos

1. Hostess snack cakes comics ads
2. Sitcom TV show inspired comic series
3. Bootleg Disney comics from China
4. Cleaning products ads
5. Comic magazines for kids

*****



John Platt

1. Movie adaptations
2. Treasury-size comics
3. Self-published black-and-white funny animal parodies
4. Science comics
5. Romance comics

*****



John McCorkle

1- Comic books that sell 500,000 copies a month
2- Comic books that sell 400,000 copies a month
3- Comic books that sell 300,000 copies a month
4- Comic books that sell 200,000 copies a month
5- Comics drawn by Brian Bolland

*****



Michael Grabowski

1. Single creator anthology series appearing with regular frequency
2. Sunday full page adventure serials
3. Alternative press weekly strips
4. Comic book-sized catalogs of superhero-related mail-order merchandise illustrated by cartooning school artists
5. Historical comics

*****



Marc Arsenault

1. 'Adult' Periodical Comics Anthologies
2. DC Digests
3. Marvel Treasury Editions
4. Supermarket distributed kids magazines that regularly contained comics
5. Monthly collections of current newspaper comics

*****



Stephen Leach

1. Archie Comics knockoffs
2. Soap opera comics
3. Comics based on popular newspaper strips
4. TV show adaptations
5. Magazine-sized independent comics (like the original L&R, Neat Stuff, Lloyd Llewellyn)

*****



Mark Coale

1. western comics
2. comics starring altruistic rich kids
3. lucha libre comics
4. comics starring non-zombie monsters
5. comics based on sit-coms

*****



Richard Pachter

1. Superman fights crime and criminals, gets stopped by Kryptonite but perseveres, flies, bends metal bars, hangs out in the Fortress of Solitude, covers stories as Clark Kent and eats Beef Bourguignon with Lois. And winks.
2. Batman fights aliens and costumed criminals, trades quips with Robin and goes to high society parties as Bruce Wayne with Kathy Kane and/or other hot chicks.
3. The Flash runs fast, fights evil gorillas and hangs out with benign intelligent ones, too.
4. Green Lantern hangs out in the future with a different identity and girlfriend.
5. The Justice League of America fights a giant starfish or malevolent plants and Wonder Woman takes the minutes of their subsequent meeting.

*****



Matthew Craig

1. British Sports Comics
2. Comics For Girls
3. Comics For Tomboys
4. Outré Comics In Mainstream Newsagents
5. "Look-In"

*****



Iestyn Pettigrew

1. Mainstream comics written by Steve Ditko that feature people in suits holding clenched fists at their side -- I always think an underrated aspect of Ditko's drawings is the way he can make people's hands seem like immense weights swinging at the end of their suit or shirt, whilst also making it seem like they have no arm. I think mainstream comics needs some more anger driven drama and not the current crop of neurotic teenage/ middleclass smash everything in a sulk pap that’s put out at the moment.

2. Cheap throw away trash comics produced in a hurry -- I'm fascinated by the whole pulp writers churning out content era, simply because some of the stuff produced was just so weird and off the wall just so space could be filled. I personally believe this allowed a lot of very personal and unconscious genius to flourish.

3. Caliber comics -- I just really liked a lot of their line of comics; I feel they set a lot of trends for the current mainstream market and that this is something not well-examined at present.

4. The Atlas comics of the '70s -- I just have an unfathomable affection for some of those -- especially The Destructor and The Tarantula -- that artwork was fantastic.

5. More comics as tourist items -- when I came over from the UK to visit America and found comics about the Grand Canyon with a really rubbish superhero team, it made my trip -- I guess that makes me sound sad -- but in my defence, we couldn't walk anywhere because there were forest fires so there wasn’t much to look at!!

*****



James Langdell

1. Comic books put out by restaurants
2. Comics explaining how to do household tasks
3. Comics in the local newspaper that present vignettes of local history
4. Comic book stories that expand on current comic strips and panels
5. Comic books starring real-world celebrities in fictional adventures

*****



William Burns

* Comic books that compile newspaper strips
* Comic books about the hilarious misadventures of army privates
* Comics about shambling muck monsters
* Comics about the fantastic adventures of famous people who actually exist
* Comics giving a reasonably realistic take on wars this country is actually fighting right now

*****



Justin Colussy-Estes

1. Sports trivia comic strips
2. Restaurant chain mascot give-away comics
3. Large-scale adventure comic strips (are there any left other than Prince Valiant?)
4. Bugville/Insect comic strips (yes, I'm going waay back for that one)
5. '80s b&w boom comics that smelled of newsprint & cheap ink

*****



Eric Knisley

1. Full-sized Sunday full-color comics pages
2. Imaginary and What-if Stories
3. Instructional and educational comics (military, industrial, etc)
4. RAW-type cutting-edge anthologies
5. True Crime comics

*****
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