FFF Results Post #346—Special Deliveries

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Favorite Specifically Identifiable By Its Own Name Combat Moves From The Comics." This is how they responded.



Tom Spurgeon

1. The Fastball Special.
2. The Iron Fist.
3. Black Bolt's master blow.
4. Goku's spirit bomb.
5. Lady Shiva's leopard blow.

*****



Andrew Mansell

1. The Twisker-Sock (Popeye)
2. The Goodnight Irene Punch (Mammy Yokum)
3. Snicker-snak (Little Boy Blue--Fables)
4. Hit 'em low Olive Oil (Daredevil) (Hey, it worked once)
5. The Double Whammy (Evil Eye Fleegle)

*****



Buzz Dixon

1. Twisker Punch (Popeye)
2. Batusi (Okay, it was on the show, but he still decked two of King Tut's men while dancing)
3. Kick In The Balls (Cheech Wizard)
4. Bullets & Bracelets (Wonder Woman)
5. CLOBBERIN' TIME!!!

*****



Jeff Parker

1. Tarzan's Full Nelson
2: Hulk's shock-wave clap
3: Magnus' Transistor-Chop
4: Superman's finger flick
5: Captain Easy's Spank

*****



Matt Emery

1. Strontium Dog's Electronux
2. Slaine's Warp Spasm
3. Dredd's Heat Seeker
4. Modesty Blaise's Kongo
5. Dad Dare's Paralysing Pistol

(...justifying employment of weapons as combat maneuvers.)

*****



Mike Baehr

1. Shock Wave Technique
2. Dual-Weapon, Like, Bash 'n Slash Technique
3. Hosk Emit Abusion
4. Battle Warping
5. Word Pressure Magic

All from Joe Daly's Dungeon Quest.

*****



Ben Z.

1. Nova flame (Johnny Storm)
2. Knife-to-the-eye (Frankie)
3. Spin Dash (Sonic the Hedgehog)
4. Maneuver Seven (Young Justice. It's just a renamed fastball special.)
5. Big stupid hand (Green Lantern)

*****



Rodrigo Baeza

1. LICKETY-WHOP!
2. Snoopy's pounce
3. Herbie Popnecker's Lollipop Bop
4. "Mandrake gestures hypnotically"
5. "Burn."

*****



Don MacPherson

1. Darkseid's Omega Beams
2. Human Torch's Nova Blast
3. Dr. Strange's Crimson Bands of Cytorrak
4. The Forever People's Infinity Man summoning/merging
5. Shouting "Shazam!" to get the magic lightning to zap an opponent.

*****



Evan Dorkin

1. Darkseid's Omega Effect
2. Black Widow's Widow's Bite
3. Doctor Strange's Winds of the Watoomb
4. Android Captain Marvel's "Split!" attack
5. Sailor Venus' Love Me Chain

*****



Michael Buntag

1. Piccolo's Special Beam Cannon (Makankosappo).
2. Canary Cry.
3. Rock Lee's Front Lotus (Omote Renge).
4. Thor's God Blast.
5. Erza Scarlett's Requip: The Knight.

*****
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