FFF Results Post #270—All Shapes And Sizes

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Stories You Like From Serial Comic Books: One That Lasts One Issue Or Less, One That Lasts Two, One That Lasts Three, One That Lasts Four, And One That Lasts Five Or More." This is how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. "Master Race"
2. Zot! #13-14 (Vs. Zybox)
3. Whoa, Nellie!
4. "Mad Dogs And Englishmen," American Flagg! #23-26
5. Human Diastrophism (six parts, Love & Rockets #21-26)

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Milo George

1. Fantastic Four Annual #6
2. Fantastic Four #25-26
3. Fantastic Four #48-50
4. Fantastic Four #74-77
5. Fantastic Four #55-61

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Mark Spedding

1. Fantastic Four 8, "Prisoners of the Puppet Master" (Lee/Kirby) -- the first comic I ever read unaided.
2. Fantastic Four 25-26 "The Thing vs The Hulk/The Avengers Take Over". First and best big punchin' crossover event.
3. X-Men (1963 series) 57-59 -- Sentinels story (Thomas/Adams) -- the first (and debatably best) X-Men story to capture the real subtext of the concept, and Adams on fire. Couldn't handle them when they came out though, too scarily realistic for a child of 7.
4. Dr. Strange (1974 series) 1-2, 4-5 (Englehart/Brunner) -- the first Silver Dagger story. Best Dr. Strange story not touched by the hand of...
5. Strange Tales 130-146 (Ditko and various scripters) -- the Dormammu/Eternity epic. The story is a bit ragged but Ditko's art is unrivalled for sustained inventiveness.

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M. Emery

1. Spectacular Spider-Man #118 "Ashes to Ashes" Devastating end to a minor subplot
2. The Amazing Maze Dumoir (2000AD Prog 368-369)
3. Judge Dredd A Question of Judgement - An Error of Judgement - A Case for Treatment (2000AD Prog 387-389)
4. Birdland #1-3 + second #1
5. Punisher (1986 Mini Series)

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Dave Knott

1. "The Anatomy Lesson" -- Swamp Thing #21
2. "Beaches" -- Palookaville #2-3
3. The Galactus Trilogy -- Fantastic Four #48-50
4. "Rabbit Hunt" -- Kane #5-8
5. "High Society" -- Cerebus #26-50

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Brian Nicholson

1. "How Things Work Out" Alan Moore and Rick Veitch, Tomorrow Stories 2
2. Anarky story drawn by John Paul Leon, Batman Shadow of the Bat 40-41
3. Change Or Die, by Warren Ellis and Tom Raney, Stormwatch vol. 1 48-50
4. Jimbo 1-4 by Gary Panter published by Zongo Comics
5. Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron by Daniel Clowes, Eightball 1-10

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Gary Usher

1. "For the Love of Carmen" (L&R 20)
2. "In The Valley of the Polar Bears" (L&R 26-27)
3. Jack Jackson trilogy (Graphic Story Monthly 4-7)
4. "Mark Stone: Sessions 1-4" (Psychoanalysis 1-4)
5. "Rory Randall, Singing Cowboy" (Prime Cuts 1-7)

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Justin Colussy-Estes

1. "Browntown," Jaime Hernandez (So good, and a story I use in the classroom for my intro to lit course. Students find all the elements eminently clear)
2. "A World for the Winning"/"A World Lost" two part story from Supervillain Team-Up #14 and Champions #16 (I loved this as a kid and its goofy strengths still hold a lot of fascination for me)
3. Daybreak, Brian Ralph (I could read endless issues of Brian Ralph's characters crawling over apocalyptic landscapes scavenging for food and beating the crap out of each other)
4. Unstable Molecules, by James Sturm (Folks don't really tell four-issue stories any more, now it's all six issue stuff. But here Sturm does everything he wants, and more, all in four issues)
5. Usagi Yojimbo: Grasscutter, Stan Sakai (When Sakai takes Usagi epic, he goes big in a way that builds like a tautly constructed film, without widescreen panels, without decompression, only great storytelling)

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Will Pfeifer

1. "A Date With Hopey," Love and Rockets
2. "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" (Superman 423 and Action 583)
3. "Southern Comfort" (American Flagg 4-6)
4. Flex Mentallo (four issues)
5. "Born Again" (Daredevil 227-233)

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Mark Coale

1. Animal Man 5 (coyote Gospel)
2. JLA: Age of Wonder
3. We3
4. Stanley and His Monster (1993)
5. Avengers 270-278 (Siege of Avengers Mansion)

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Michael Grabowski

1. "Death of Superman" (Jerry Siegel's 1961 "imaginary" story)
2. The Uncanny X-Men #141-142 "Days of Future Past"
3. Cerebus #14-16 "The Palnu Trilogy"
4. Criminal: The Last of the Innocent
5. Stray Bullets #22-28 "Dark Days"

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Bob Temuka

1. Tear It Up, Terry Downe (Love and Rockets 28)
2. Preacher 25-26
3. Invisibles v1 22-24
4. Batman: Year One (Batman 404-407)
5. The Return of Barry Allen (Flash 74-79)

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Tom Bondurant

1. "The Origin Of The Justice League -- Minus One!", Justice League of America vol. 1 #144
2. "Double Blind," Star Trek (DC) vol. 1 #s 23-24
3. The Avengers vol. 1 #s 164-66 (vs. Count Nefaria)
4. The New Teen Titans vol. 1 #s 23-25 and Annual #1 (Starfire vs. Blackfire, with the Omega Men)
5. "The Great Darkness Saga," The Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 1 #s 290-94

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Jamie Coville

1. Spider-Man vs. Wolverine: High Tide
2. Amazing Spider-Man #229-230: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut!
3. Wolverine #31-33. Wolverine vs. Monkey Brain Drug Dealing Yakuza Gang
4. The Adventures of Captain America #1-4: Sentinel of Liberty (Best Cap Origin Ever!)
5. Avengers #281-285: Assault on Olympus

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Th MZA

1. "Everybody Loves Me, Baby" (Penny Century #7)
2. "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" (Superman #423 & Action Comics #583)
3. Dark Knight Strikes Again #s 1-3
4. Interiorae #s 1-4
5. Finder: Sin-Eater (Finder #s 1-14, 22)

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John Vest

1. Wallace Wood's "The Curse"
2. Conan The Barbarian #14-15 (Conan and Elric)
3. "The Idiots Abroad"
4. Fantastic Four #57-60 (Doctor Doom steals the Silver Surfer's power)
5. "The Search For Smilin' Ed" (six parts in Zero Zero 21,22,24,25,26,27)

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Dan Morris

1. "Flies on the Ceiling" Love and Rockets #29
2. "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?" Superman #423 and Action Comics #583
3. David Boring (Eightball 19-21)
4. Fantastic Four #349, 350, 352, and 354
5. Hicksville

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Paul Stock

1) "Desert Fox!" (or maybe it was called "Rommel!!" (EC Frontline Combat)
2) "Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow" (Superman/Action Alan Moore)
3) "Idiots Abroad" (Freak Brothers -- that went on for several issues, didn't it?)
4) The entire Buddy Bradley story (Hate)
5) The first 26 (Grant Morrison) issues of Animal Man

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Sean Kleefeld

1. "Prisoners of Dr. Doom", Fantastic Four #5
2. "The War to End All Skrulls", Fantastic Four Annual #19/The Avengers Annual #14
3. "Big Trouble on Little Earth", Fantastic Four #347-349
4. "In One World--And Out the Other", Fantastic Four #160-163
5. "Into the Negative Zone", Fantastic Four #251-256

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Justin J. Major

* "You Decide! /The Beginning of the End!" Doom Patrol #121 (1968)
* "The Super Stalag of Space/The Execution of Matter-Eater Lad" Adventure Comics #344-345 (1966)
* Hawkworld #1-3 (1989)
* Batman: The Dark Knight #1-4 (1986)
* "The Great Darkness Saga" Legion of Super-Heroes vol. 2, #290-294 (1982)

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Scott Dunbier

1) Detective #439: Night of the Stalker, my favorite Batman story ever. Written by Steve Englehart, plotted and drawn by Sal Amendola.
2) Superman #423 and Action Comics #583: The last two stories of my Superman, the one I grew up with. As told by Alan Moore. Almost went with Red Nails from Savage Tales 2 and 3!
3) Flash #217-218: The best Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow story -- and some of Adams' best art -- after their book was cancelled.
4) Swamp Thing #21-24: Alan Moore starts the British Invasion, I remember reading these and just thinking WTF. Great stuff.
5 or more) Detective Comics #437 through 443: The great Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson give us Manhunter -- gotta go read my old B/W collection of this again.

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Douglas Wolk

1. "Judgement Call," Judge Dredd Megazine #300
2. "The Love Bunglers," Love and Rockets: New Stories #3-4
3. Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye #1-3
4. "Dead Robin," Gotham Central #33-36
5. "Church and State" (sixty parts, Cerebus #52-111)

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Buzz Dixon

1. Archie Meets The Punisher
2. "The Battle With Bizarro/Bride Of Bizarro" Action Comics #254-255
3. The Idiots Abroad Parts I-III (Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers)
4. "Arzach" Heavy Metal Vol.1 -- #1-4
5. Church & State Vol. I & Vol II Cerebus #52-111

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Tim O'Neil

1. "This Man, This Monster" -- Fantastic Four #51
2. "A Blind Man Shall Lead Them"/"Battle of the Baxter Building" -- Fantastic Four #39-40
3. The Galactus Trilogy -- Fantastic Four #48-50
4. Doctor Doom steals the Power Cosmic -- Fantastic Four #57-60
5. The "Son of Doom" Saga -- Fantastic Four #193-200

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Joe Keatinge

1. Superman Adventures #41, "22 Stories In A Single Bound" written by Mark Millar & illustrated by Mike Manley
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey #5 & 6, written & illustrated by Jack Kirby
3. Detective Comics #622-624, written by John Ostrander & illustrated by Flint Henry
4. Robocop vs. Terminator #1-4, written by Frank Miller & illustrated by Walt Simonson
5. Spider-Man #18-23, "Revenge of the Sinister Six", written & illustrated by Erik Larsen

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Sean Ford

1) "Browntown" Love and Rockets New Stories #3
2) "Days of Future Past" -- Uncanny X-Men #141, #142
3) "Atlas" #1-3 (i'm assuming there won't be more...)
4) "Batman Year One" (Batman #404-#407)
5) "I Never Liked You" (Yummy Fur 26-30)

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topic suggested by Tom Bondurant; thanks, Tom

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