FFF Results Post #231—Re-Reads

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Comics You've Re-Read This Year." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. 1970s Peanuts, Charles Schulz
2. 1970s Doonesbury, Garry Trudeau
3. Hicksville, Dylan Horrocks
4. Early Prince Valiant, Hal Foster
5. Sick, Sick, Sick, Jules Feiffer

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Jude Killory

1. Rubber Blanket -- D. Mazzucchelli
2. Understanding Comics/Making Comics -- S. McCloud
3. Green Lantern/Green Arrow Collection Vol. 1-2 -- D. O'Neil & N. Adams
4. Captain America 100-113 -- J. Kirby & J. Steranko
5. Fun Home -- A. Bechdel

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Michael Grabowski

1. "Won't Be Licked! The Great '37 Flood in Louisville" by Dan Zettwoch
2. Ganges #1-2 by Kevin Huizenga
3. Sshhhh! by Jason
4. Citizen Rex #1 & 2 by Mario & Gilbert Hernandez
5. the various strips reprinted in R. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics

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Jones

* Queen and Country, Greg Rucka et al.
* Plastic Man Archives, Jack Cole
* Drifting Classroom, Kazuo Umezu
* Buddha, Osamu Tezuka
* House, Josh Simmons

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Rich Tommaso

1. X-Force Peter Milligan, Mike Allred
2. Louis Riel Chester Brown
3. The Human Target Peter Milligan, Javier Pulido, Cliff Chiang
4. The New Frontier Darwyn Cooke
5. Penny Century Jaime Hernandez

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Karl Stevens

* From Hell
* 80's Crumb
* David Chelsea In Love
* Peanuts '65-70
* Hate

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Tom Mason

* Krazy Kat by George Herrimann
* The Shadow by Howard Chaykin
* Conchy by James Childress
* Peter Arno's Sizzling Platter
* Jeremiah: Frontier Zone by Hermann

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Uriel A. Duran

1) Creature Tech, Doug TenNapel
2) DC:The New Frontier, Darwyn Cooke
3) Sin City:Family Values, Frank Miller
4) Paper Biscuit, Ronnie del Carmen
5) My Faith In Frankie, Mike Carey, Sonny Liew & Marc Hempel

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Max Fischer

1. Jack Survives, by Jerry Moriarty
2. Powr Mastrs, by CF
3. Everything by John Stanley
4. Scott Pilgrim, by Brian Lee O'Malley
5. Luba, by Gilbert Hernandez

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Lee Leslie

1. Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
2. Savage Sword of Conan by Roy Thomas, John Buscema et al.
3. Casanova by Matt Fraction
4. Batman Adventures by Paul Dini & Bruce Timm
5. Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope

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J. Colussy-Estes

1. King City vol. 1
2. Very, Very Sweet vols. 5-7
3. The Hookah Girl & Other True Stories
4. Wonton Soup vol. 1
5. Bloody Benders

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Brandon Graham

1. Twilight X, Joe Wight
2. Appleseed, Masamune Shirow
3. The Woman Trap, Enki Bilal
4. Finder, Carla Speed Mcneil
5. Albedo, Steve Gallacci

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Russell Lissau

1. The Far Sides, vols. 2 and 3 and The Prehistory of the Far Side
2. Doonesbury, "And The Kid Goes For Broke," and other 1970s-era collections
3. The various Bloom County collections
4. Darwyn Cooke's Parker: The Hunter
5. 100 Bullets

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Michael May

1. Artesia
2. The Killer
3. Atomic Robo and the Fightin' Scientists of Tesladyne
4. Okko: The Cycle of Water
5. Boneyard

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Isaac Cates

This one's pretty easy for me, because I'm teaching a graphic novel class this semester, but I'll try to go off-syllabus some.

1. Lynda Barry, One Hundred Demons
2. The Alan Moore run on Swamp Thing
3. Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
4. Conway & Swan, Superman #311
5. Jack Kirby, The Eternals #3

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Eric Knisley

1. Dal Tokyo (Gary Panter)
2. Good-Bye (Yoshihiro Tatsumi)
3. Why I Hate Saturn (Kyle Baker)
4. Black Hole (Charles Burns)
5. Furlington Mackelthwaite in the Awful Truth (Eric Knisley)

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Danny Ceballos

1. Kramers Ergot #4
2. The Jungle Book, H. Kurtzman
3. Sandman #19, Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess
4. I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!, Fletcher Hanks
5. Nine Ways To Disappear, Lilli Carre

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Andrew Horton

* Justice League (The Giffen/DeMetteis years)
* Bloom County ( I can't believe how much I realized I missed this strip)
* Tales of Woodsman Pete (Lilli Carre is probably only a book away from being a superstar)
* Prison Pit One (Because awesome)
* Batman (i think think think I've figured out what Morrison is doing. And I love that I'm probably wrong)

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Thomas Scioli

1. Shade the Changing Man, Steve Ditko
2. Micronauts #1-12, Bill Mantlo and Michael Golden
3. Captain America, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
4. Daredevil Born Again, Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli
5. Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 28, Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

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Joe Schwind

* Fresca Zizis, Melinda Gebbie
* the Guindon collections, Richard Guindon
* King of the Royal Mounted (FC363), Jim Gary
* Mister X 1-4, Motter, Rivoche, Los Bros Hernandez
* Spacehawk 1-5, Basil Wolverton

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Rob Clough

1. Hicksville
2. Bughouse
3. Acme Novelty Library #19
4. Supermonster: Gloriana
5. Late Bloomer

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Matt Seneca

1. Fantastic Four: Big In Japan, by Seth Fisher and Zeb Wells
2. The Complete Walt & Skeezix, by Frank King
3. Black Hole, by Charles Burns
4. Paradax, by Brendan McCarthy and Peter Milligan
5. Monster Men Bureiko Lullaby, by Takashi Nemoto

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Rodrigo Baeza

* Black Kiss, Howard Chaykin
* David Mazzucchelli's solo work (decided to re-read his short stories before reading Asterios Polyp for the first time)
* The sections of Jacques Tardi's It Was the War of the Trenches that Drawn & Quarterly published in the 90's (re-read in the new Fantagraphics edition)
* Rip Kirby, Alex Raymond (the strips reprinted in the first IDW volume)
* Grant Morrison et al.'s Batman comics (from Batman and Son up to Batman R.I.P.)

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David Jones

1. Inhumans (90's, Jenkins/Lee) 1-12
2. Prez 1-4 (also the Canceled Comics Cavalcade issue)
3. Sub-Mariner (70's) 55-72
4. Flex Mentallo 1-4
5. Adventures of Bob Hope 95-105

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Mark Coale

1. Terminal City (both volumes)
2. Walt Simonson Thor
3. Ostrander Suicide Squad
4. Sandman Mystery Theatre
5. 1970s Claw the Unconquered

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Fabio Antibas

1 - Doom Patrol (Grant Morrison's run)
2 - Doom Patrol (Drake and Premiani's run)
3 - Doom Patrol (Paul Kupperberg's run)
4 - Doom Patrol (Rachel Pollack's run)
5 - Doom Patrol (Grant Morrison's run; yes, again)

I had to compare Morrison's run with the others just to be sure it was as good as I remembered it to be. It's better. And I am not counting Byrne's...

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Chad Nevett

1. Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson
2. Dark Reign: Zodiac, Joe Casey & Nathan Fox
3. All-Star Superman, Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely
4. Warlock, Jim Starlin
5. Sin City, Frank Miller

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James Langdell

1. The Heart of Jeremy Mith, Steve Ditko
2. The Last Flower, James Thurber
3. Little Nothings 2, Lewis Trondheim
4. Alec stories (as represented in The Years Have Pants), Eddie Campbell
5. Private Beach, David Hahn

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Walt Simonson's run on Thor
2. Lum
3. Dark Knight Returns
4. Sleeper
5. Lone Wolf and Cub

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Joe Keatinge

1. The Adventures of Tintin: Destination Moon/Explorers On The Moon, written and illustrated by Herge
2. The Airtight Garage, written and illustrated by Moebius
3. The Invisibles, written by Grant Morrison and Illustrated By A Whole Lot Of Artists
4. The Walking Dead, written by Robert Kirkman and Illustrated by Tony Moore & Charlie Adlard
5. Casanova, written by Matt Fraction and Illustrated by Gabriel Ba & Fabio Moon

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Andrew Mansell

1. Captain Easy Sundays 1933-1935
2. Fables 1-90 (for a panel prep)
3. The Long Road Home/The War Within by Trudeau
4. Johnny Hazard Sundays 1958-1964
5. Astro City: Confession

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David Brothers

1. Flex Mentallo, Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely
2. Hellboy In Mexico, or A Drunken Blur, Mike Mignola/Richard Corben
3. Gunsmith Cats, Kenichi Sonoda
4. Preacher, Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon
5. We3, Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely

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John Vest

1. 1970's Fantastic Four, Roy Thomas issues (including the parallel worlds storyline with the two Things)
2. Howard The Duck, Steve Gerber
3. El Borbah stories, Charles Burns
4. Harold Hedd comics, Rand Holmes
5. Conan The Barbarian, Roy Thomas & Barry Windsor-Smith issues

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Buzz Dixon

1. Popeye, Elsie Segar
2. Barry Ween Boy Genius, Judd Winick
3. Space Family Robinson a.k.a. Lost In Space, Dan Spiegle
4. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Dick Calkins
5. Doofus, Rick Altergott

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Sean T. Collins

* The Locas material from Love and Rockets Vol. 1, Jaime Hernandez
* The ACME Novelty Library #20, Chris Ware
* Batman R.I.P., Grant Morrison and Tony Daniel
* Pluto Vols. 1-3, Naoki Urasawa
* The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Phoebe Gloeckner

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Grant Goggans

1. 2000 AD progs ~1330 to 1450
2. 1970s Doonesbury
3. 1970s Defenders
4. I guess about the first half of Brian Bendis's run on Daredevil
5. All the Avengers that have been reprinted in the Essentials

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John Platt

1. Every issue of Usagi Yojimbo
2. The complete Hellboy and BPRD series
3. Early Saga of the Swamp Thing issues
4. Peanuts (1966-1970)
5. Most of P Craig Russell's Opera comics

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Eric Newsom

* Tintin in Tibet by Herge
* Super Spy by Kindt
* The Palomar collection by Gilbert Hernandez
* Human Target: Final Cut by Milligan & Pulido
* Mad's Dave Berg Looks Around by Roger Kaputnik

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Jamie S. Rich

1. Mage: The Hero Discovered by Matt Wagner
2. The Complete Rocketeer by Dave Stevens
3. Black Kiss by Howard Chaykin
4. The Amazon by Steven T. Seagle, Tim Sale, & Matt Hollingsworth
5. Time2 Vols. 1-2 by Howard Chaykin

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Anthony Acri

5. DC comics spotlight 36, i think, the origin of the justice society vs. Hitler
4. Essential Nova
3. the run of power of shazam by Jerry Ordway.
2. the national lampoon funny pages special
1. Action comics/Superman 1

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Brian Moore

* Omac, Jack Kirby
* Sinner Munoz and Sampayo
* Black Blizzard, Yoshihiro Tatsumi
* The Grasshopper & The Ant Harvey Kurtzman
* You Are There Jacques Tardi and Jean-Claude Forest

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