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October 10, 2010


FFF Results Post #230—Custom Jump 02

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Existing (Completed Or Ongoing) American Comics Serials (Or Books That Could Be Made Into Serials) That You Would Put In A Japanese-Style, Big Ol' Phonebook-Sized Anthology Of American Comics, Made Just For You." This is how they responded.

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Chris Arrant

1. Love & Rockets
2. King City
3. Terry & The Pirates
4. Transmetropolitan
5. Calvin & Hobbes

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Wash Tubbs
2. Fantastic Four
3. Hate
4. Multi-Force
5. Barnaby

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Dave Knott

* Kane
* The Mourning Star
* Doonesbury
* Usagi Yojimbo
* The Age Of Bronze

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Marc Arsenault

1. New Gods #6 "The Glory Boat", Jack Kirby
2. Marvel Comics adaptation of the movie The Deep
3. Peter B. Gillis fill-in issues of Captain America and Super Villain Team Up
4. Freakwave by Milligan & McCarthy
5. Adventure Comics 360 by Jim Shooter and Curt Swan "The Legion Chain Gang"

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Jason Michelitch

1. Sugar and Spike
2. Mage: the Hero Discovered
3. Finder
4. Bone
5. Giffen/DeMatteis' Justice League

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Gary Usher

1. Jordan Crane "Vicissitude"
2. Jaime Hernandez Locas
3. Frank Santoro et al Cold Heat
4. Richard Sala Delphine
5. Kate Beaton Hark! A Vagrant

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Buzz Dixon

1. Kona, Monarch Of Monster Isle by Sam Glanzman
2. Magnus, Robot Fighter by Russ Manning
3. Space Family Robinson a.k.a. Lost In Space by Dan Spiegle
4. Archie & Related Titles by Dan DeCarlo
5. Fantastic Four #1-#100 by Jack Kirby

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Andrew Mansell

1. Prince Valiant -- the Murphy Run
2. Master of Kung Fu
3. Midnight by Jack Cole
4. Mickey Mouse by Paul Murry
5. Gordo by Arriola

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Tom Mason

Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo
Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse
The Walking Dead
Rob Hanes Adventures
Fred Toole & Al Wiseman's Dennis The Menace

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Scott Cederlund

1) James Robinson's Starman
2) Baron & Rude's Nexus
3) Moore's Tom Strong
4) Allred's Madman
5) Brian Wood's DMZ

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Marc Sobel

1. American Splendor
2. Stray Bullets
3. Eightball
4. Hate
5. Love & Rockets

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Tom Bondurant

1. Doonesbury
2. New Teen Titans
3. Amazing Spider-Man
4. Fantastic Four
5. Green Lantern

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Michael May

1. Bone
2. Pogo
3. Boneyard
4. Casper
5. Buddha

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Michael Grabowski

1. Dungeon
2. Stray Bullets
3. Bacchus
4. Monsieur Jean
5. Crumb's Genesis Illustrated

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Justin J. Major

1. The Legion of Superheroes
2. Kim Deitch's Waldo the Cat
3. Carl Barks' Scrooge McDuck
4. Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek
5. Dorothy Gambrell's Cat and Girl

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Aadi Saliman

1. Sandman Mystery Theatre
2. Preacher
3. Cerebus
4. Love & Rockets
5. The Amazing Spider-Man

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Joe Keatinge

1) Madman
2) Everything By Moebius
3) Little Nemo in Slumberland
4) Casanova
5) Savage Dragon

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Fabrice Stroun

1. PWRMASTRS (CF)
2. The Fourth World (Kirby)
3. Jimbo (Panter)
4. Birdland (Gilbert Hernandez)
5. Ditko's ongoing b/w rambling ("A ditko Act", "Oh, No! Not Again, Ditko", etc.)

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Alan David Doane

1. Warren Ellis's Complete Stormwatch/The Authority run
2. Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
3. Eightball
4. Miracleman
5. American Splendor

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John Platt

1. Mutts
2. Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen
3. Uncle Scrooge
4. The Spirit
5. Mr. Monster

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William George

1. New X-Men
2. Walt Simonson era Thor
3. Love and Rockets
4. Claremont and Sienkiewicz era New Mutants
5. The Walking Dead

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Jill Friedman

1. Strangers in Paradise
2. Preacher
3. New X-Men
4. She-Hulk (2005 reboot)
5. Lucifer

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Sean T. Collins

* Locas
* Palomar
* Ultimate Spider-Man
* The Fourth World Saga
* Big Questions

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Austin English

1. Usagi Yojimbo
2. Barney Google
3. Tank Girl
4. Nowhere by Debbie Dreschler
5. Kane

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Tuck!

1 THB (Paul Pope)
2 Jack Kirby's Fourth World (all of the various books woven into one contiguous storyline)
3 Pirate Corps (Evan Dorkin)
4 Astounding Space Thrills (Steven Conley)
5 Bravo For Adventure (Alex Toth)

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Jim Kingman

1. Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth #1-36
2. Peanuts
3. Preacher
4. House of Mystery #174-321
5. Planetary

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Danny Ceballos

1. Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek
2. Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
3. The Complete George Carlson's Jingle Jangle Tales
4. Don Martin's Captain Klutz
5. Everything Gabrielle Bell has done up to this point

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James Langdell

1. Batman (early 1980s Doug Moench run that flowed between Detective and Batman issues)
2. The Heart of Juliet Jones
3. Starstruck
4. Rare Bit Fiends (by Rick Veitch)
5. Rex the Wonder Dog

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J.E. Cole

1. Criminal
2. 100 Bullets
3. Planetary
4. Sleeper
5. Joe Casey's and José Ladrönn's Cable run (Cable #48-70)

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although I was pretty liberal with what constituted a single choice, I deleted a few with ties -- it's five for friday, not six+ for friday; nothing personal, and I hope it won't dissuade you from responding in the future

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thanks to all that participated

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