FFF Results Post #298—Momentism

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name A Character Or Characters Or Title And Then Name Four Iconic Visually-Driven Single Moments For Your Choice." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. X-Men.
2. Wolverine in the sewers, proclaiming "Now It's MY Turn."
3. Neal Adams cover of Cyclops on a Sentinel helmet.
4. Colonel Logan of the Canadian Resistance Army buys it mid-Cannonball Special.
5. Jean Grey commits suicide after Imperial Guard/X-Men fight on the moon, shouting out "Scott!"

*****



Patrick Ford

1. Silver Star.
2. New born babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, Darius Drumm meets his wife beating father's gaze and laughs, "Progress--? Change--?--Or perhaps the 'Ides of March,' O' Caesar..."
3. The full page splash of the Angel of Death in issue #6.
4. A madly spinning circus carousel sending deadly debris in every direction as it is torn apart.
5. The young Drumm whistling merrily as a walks away, leaving The Foundation For Self-Denial behind him in flames.

*****



Michael May

1. Bone
2. Fone Bone on the tree limb with the rat creatures. "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!!"
3. Fone Bone's hat catching on fire when he sees Thorn stripping for a swim.
4. Fone Bone's first snowfall in the valley. "WHUMP!"
5. Fone Bone and Smiley Bone (who's in a cow suit) being chased by an army of rat creatures that's about to merge with a stampeding herd of racing cows.

*****



Sam Henderson

1. Cerebus.
2. Cerebus jumps through a window, gold sphere under one arm like a football, gritted teeth, deadly shards of glass suspended in air. Subsequent splash pages will rotate w/r/t the spine of the comic about 720 degrees, mimicking the rotation of the ascending black stone tower/rocket Cerebus has barely managed to grab hold of of. No other aspect of any Thomas Pynchon novel will ever again so thoroughly/partially/possibly-inadvertently intrude/permeate into "popular" comics again, ever (prob'ly a good thing).
3. In formatted text only, Cerebus (riding a riverboat with his lover and, uh, F. Scott Fitzgerald) spots a castle on the riverbank where he beheaded his first Borelian, then squints, then realizes he's mistaken. Then the entire sequence is repeated, art only; except the images are increasingly interrupted by flakes and cones of what the reader understands to be red frozen methane: specifically from the surface of Pluto. This artistic decision will make literal, symbolic, and emotional sense to any reader of the comic up to this point without help from any known reference literature. No, really! The reader can/will make NO CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO SEQUENCES until s/he encounters a page depicting only Cerebus, a stone tower, and Cerebus dubiously squinting.
4. Random panels from the entire 300 issue run of the comic are reproduced in a tight grid, interpolated with Cerebus' left eye, as "the light" goes out in said eye and the character (finally) dies. Anyone who has ever watched something (anything: a fish, a beloved pet, a parent) die may gasp in recognition of the phenomenon; captured in the pages of an unpopular Funny Animal Comic with a disturbing, utterly unexpected authenticity.
5. Moe from the Three Stooges slaps Curly from the Three Stooges. The sound effect is "Smek!", rendered in an Eisner-y-quasi-Hebrew font. This moment will quietly, elegantly, but forever blow the reader's mind w/r/t the always-dicey convention/idiom/practice of graphically representing sound. No previous/subsequent hate speech/crackpot/autodidactic arrogance on the part of the artist(s) can/will ever diminish the power or effect of this particular Funny Animal Comic page (not from lack of trying).

*****



Tom Bondurant

1. Batman
2. First page of Detective Comics #475: preparing to confront Silver St. Cloud
as storm clouds threaten (and, unbeknownst, the Joker lurks)
3. Bursting into Ra's al Ghul's tent, bellowing "RA'S!"
4. Confronting the White Martians with a confident "Ready when you are."
5. "The rain on my chest is a baptism ... I'm born again."

*****



Sean Kleefeld

1. Dr. Doom
2. FF #200, where he looks up at an infinite set of reflections of himself without his mask (The Milk Duds ad from the same issue comes close in iconicness, but I don't know if it really counts as a "story moment.")
3. FF #5, where he's petting a tiger from his throne
4. Splash page from FF #247 proclaiming "This land is mine!"
5. The cover from FF Annual #2

*****



Mark Coale

1. Animal Man
2. The Coyote Gospel cover
3. The psycho pirate cover
4. "i can see you"
5. Buddy's family alive in the doorway

*****



Johnny Bacardi

1. Thriller
2. Dan Grove to Angie Thriller, when asked if he will behave during their first meeting: "No.I'm gonna act up!"
3. Beaker Parish to Salvo, slamming him against the wall as Marietta lies dying: "Get you ASS off this train!"
4. Angie to Dan, manifesting herself as Salvo's bandages and informing him that "You WILL help us to save our mother!"
5. Kane Creole, Sr. confesses to Beaker Parish the reason why he murdered his promoters: "I had to murder them- they robbed my grave."

*****



Adrian Kinnaird

1. Batman
2. A near-death Batman faces Ra's with a spade sticking out of his chest from 'Birth Of The Demon'.
3. Silent panel of Batman carrying Jason Todd's body from the rubble in 'Death In The Family'.
4. Batman punches out Prometheus in 'JLA', proclaiming "Professor Stephen Hawking!".
5. Batman and the Joker sharing a laugh at the end of 'The Killing Joke'.

*****



Buzz Dixon

1. Cerebus
2. Elrod's first appearance: "Pay attention, son. I got, I say I got a tall pointy hat."
3. Jumpeen Princes Mick and Keef: "I should think I should like to buy drugs with my share." "Coo, nuthin' wrong wi' 'is 'earing, is there?"
4. Lord Julius: "You won't score any points if you keep feeding me straight lines."
5. Cerebus throwing a baby

*****



Josh Lambert

1. Yamagata's body flying into Kaneda after Tetsuo explodes his head
2. Akira's psychic explosion that destroys Neo-Tokyo
3. Kaneda's return to Kei to tell her her forgot something
4. Tetsuo's arm mutating out of control in the hallway of the Olympic stadium
5. Tetsuo bringing Kaori down into the chamber beneath the stadium

*****

yeah, I'm guessing on a couple of these

*****
*****
 
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