The Comics Reporter

February 21, 2015

FFF Results Post #409—The Last Five Books You Read

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name The Last Five Printed Comics Or Printed Comics-Related Books You Read, Five To One, No Matter What They Where." This is how they responded.

Tom Spurgeon

5. Dicebox: Wander, Jen Manley Lee, (Self-Published)
4. The Muppet Show Comic Book: The Treasure Of Peg-Leg Wilson, Roger Langridge (BOOM!)
3. Seth: Conversations, Edited By Eric Hoffman And Dominick Grace, (University Press Of Mississippi)
2. Fantasy Sports #1, Sam Bosma (Nobrow)
1. Tower Of Treasure, Scott Chantler (Kids Can Press)

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Jeffrey Goodman

5. The Bus by Paul Kirchner (Tanibis Editions)
4. Creeping Death From Neptune -- The Life And Comics Of Basil Wolverton (Fantagraphics)
3. National Lampoon Presents The Very Large Book Of Comical Funnies (National Lampoon)
2. Shary Flenniken's Sketch Book (Self-Published)
1. Marvel Masterworks Warlock Vol. 2 (Marvel)

*****

Alastair Tervit

* Goliath Tom Gauld, (Drawn & Quarterly)
* 2000AD Prog 1918, John Wagner, Greg Staples, Gordon Rennie, Emma Beeby, Neil Googe, Eddie Robson, Darren Douglas, Kek-W, John Burns, Pat Mills, Patrick Goddard and Cat Sullivan, edited by Matt Smith (Rebellion)
* Viz #242, Graham Dury, Simon Thorp, Simon Ecob, Barney Farmer, Lee Healey, Paul Palmer,, Cat Sullivan, Davey Jones, Tom Ellen, Terry Corrigan and Nick Tolson, edied by Dury and Thorp (Dennis Publishing)
* Bumf! Vol. 1, Joe Sacco (Jonathan Cape)
* Red Fang, Steve Moore & Steve Yeowell (Rebellion)

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Shannon Smith

5. Superman 36, Geoff Johns, John Romita Jr., Klaus Janson, Laura Martin etc. (DC Comics)
4. Action Comics 39, Greg Pak, Scott Kolins, Aaron Kuder, Wil Quintana etc. (DC Comics)
3. Batman & Robin 38, Peter Tomasi, Patrick Gleason, Mick Gray, John Kalsiz etc. (DC Comics)
2. Ms. Marvel 11, G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Ian Herring, Joe Caramagna etc. (Marvel Comics)
1. Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special 1, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, John Timms, Ben Caldwell and a bunch of other guest artists etc. (DC Comics)

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John Platt

5. Murder Me Dead, David Lapham (Image)
4. Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman, Marc Taylor Nobleman and Ty Templeton (Charlesbridge)
3. The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, Noah Van Sciver (Fantagraphics)
2. Lost Cat, Jason (Fantagraphics)
1. Mind Mgmt Volume One: The Manager, Matt Kindt (Dark Horse)

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Philip G. Smith

5. Bumperhead, Gilbert Hernandez, (Drawn & Quarterly)
4. Love & Rockets: New Stories #7, Gilbert & Jaime Hernandez, (Fantagraphics)
3. The Sculptor, Scott McCloud, (MacMillan)
2. Loverboys, Gilbert Hernandez, (Dark Horse)
1. Superman #349, (DC Comics) Pasko, Swan, Chiaramonte, Roy, Oda, Andru

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Caleb Orecchio

5. Groo: Friends and Foes #1, Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier, Tom Luth, and Stan Sakai, (Dark Horse)
4. Rat God #1, Richard Corben, (Dark Horse)
3. Double + #1, Ben Sears, (Study Group Comics)
2. Transformers vs G.I. Joe #5, Tom Scioli and John Barber, (IDW)
1. It Will All Hurt #2, Farel Dalrymple, (Study Group Comics)

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Des Devlin

5. The Best of Wonder Warthog, Gilbert Shelton (Knockabout United)
4. MAD #531 (20 Dumbest of 2014 issue), The Usual Gang of Idiots (DC)
3. Gotham Central Book Four: Corrigan, Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka and Cano (DC)
2. Jon McNaught (Nobrow)
1. The Blighted Eye, Glenn Bray (Fantagraphics)

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Roger Langridge

5. The Gumps: The Saga of Mary Gold, Sidney Smith (IDW)
4. Carl Barks' Duck, Average American, Peter Schilling Jr. (Uncivilized Books)
3. The Humans #0, Keenan Marshall Keller & Tom Neely (Self-Published)
2. Brave and Bold #197, Alan Brennert, Joe Staton & George Freeman (DC Comics)
1. Walt Before Skeezix, Frank King (Drawn & Quarterly)

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Ethan Heitner

5. Baddawi, Leila Abdelrazaq (Just World Books)
4. Discovering America, David Mazzuchelli (Coconino Press)
3. Incomplete Works, Dylan Horrocks (Victoria University Press)
2. Love and Rockets vol 2 #11, Los Bros Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
1. Love and Rockets vol 2 #10, Los Bros Hernandez (Fantagraphics)

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Scott O. Brown

5. The Wrenchies, Farel Dalrymple, (First Second)
4. Suicide Squad #1-2 (1986), John Ostrander, Luke McDonald, etc. (DC Comics)
3. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume Three: Century, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill, (Top Shelf)
2. The Multiversity #1: Thunderworld, Grant Morrison, Cameron Stewart, etc., (DC Comics)
1. Trees #7, Warren Ellis, Jason Howard (Image Comics)

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Tony Palminiello

5) Rat God #1, Richard Corben (Dark Horse)
4) Night Business #1, Ben Marra (Traditional Comics)
3) Night Business #2, Ben Marra (Traditional Comics)
2) Raw Vol. 2 #2, Various (Francoise Mouly/Penguin Books)
1) Crossed Badlands #72, David Hine/Nahuel Lopez/Digikore Studios (Avatar Press)

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Oliver Ristau

5. Ich, Popeye, E. C. Segar (Melzer)
4. Mathematical Solutions for a Global Crisis, Jesse Jacobs( kus! komiksi)
3. Den letzten beissen die Hunde, Jacques Tardi and Didier Daeninckx (Edition Moderne)
2. Ciao, Ciao Bambina, Sara Colaone (Kappa Edizioni)
1. Astragalus, Terkel Risbjerg and Anne-Caroline Pandolfo after Albertine Sarrazin (Schreiber & Leser)

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Chris Duffy

5. Vengeance Squad #2, Pete Morisi, Nicola Cuti, Joe Staton (Charlton)
4. The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor #23, Don Glut, Jesse Santos (Gold Key)
3. The Phantom #71, John Clark, Don Newton (Gold Key)
2. Popeye the Sailor: Sea Stories, Bud Sagendorf (Gold Key)
1. Demon #11, Jason Shiga (Jason Shiga)

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Bart Beaty

5. Corto Maltese: Under the Sign Of Capricorn, Hugo Pratt (IDW)
4. Love and Rockets New Stories #7, Jaime Hernandez and Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
3. Displacement, Lucy Knisely (Fantagraphics)
2. Sens, Marc-Antoine Mathieu (Delcourt)
1. Capharnaum, Lewis Trondheim (editions Pow Wow)

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Jamie S. Rich

5. Airboy, #2, James Robinson & Greg Hinkle (Image Comics)
4. Batman Eternal, Vol. 1, Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, et al. (DC Comics)
3. Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn, Hugo Pratt (IDW)
2. Operation S.I.N. #2, Kathryn Immonen, Rich Ellis (Marvel)
1. Harrow County #s 1-2, Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook (Dark Horse)

*****

Robert Boyd

* Love & Rockets: New Stories #7, Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez
* Loose Joints #1, Jonny Negron
* Safari Honeymoon, Jesse Jacobs
* Calculus Cat, Hunt Emerson
* Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell, Jacques Tardi

*****

Danny Ceballos

5. The Body is a Lemon, Kelly Froh, (Self-Published)
4. The Cheapest S.O.B's, Kelly Froh, (Self-Published)
3. Nasty Day, Kelly Froh, (Self-Published)
2. Cartoon Utopia 2014, Ron Regé, Jr., (Self-Published)
1. Introducing The Weaver Festival Phenomenon, Ron Regé, Jr., (Self-Published)

*****

Tim Hayes

5. Countdown to TV Action (Bear Alley Books)
4. Avengers #140 (Marvel)
3. The Nocturnals: Witching Hour (Dark Horse)
2. Judge Dredd: America (Rebellion/2000AD)
1. The Best American Comics Criticism (Fantagraphics)

*****

Charles Brownstein

5) Mothers, Claire Bretecher, (Methuen)
4) Demon #11, Jason Shiga, (Self-Published)
3) Shoplifter, Michael Cho, (Pantheon)
2) Incomplete Works, Dylan Horrocks, (Victoria University Press)
1) Cyborg 009 vol 1, Shotaro Ishinomori, (TokyoPop)

*****

Mark Verheiden

5. #22, Steve Ditko, (published by Ditko & Robin Snyder via Kickstarter)
4. Our Fighting Forces #117, (DC Comics) (back issue)
3. Capa-Alpha #604, comics related apa, self-published by the membership
2. Masterpiece Comics, Sikoryak, R, (Drawn & Quarterly)
1. Creeping Death From Neptune, Wolverton, Basil (Fantagraphics Books)

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