FFF Results Post #455—Panel Presentation

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Send In A Superhero Comic Book Panel That's 600 Pixels Wide And Tell Me Four Things You Like About It, One Thing You Don't." This is how they responded.

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Justin J. Major

1. The green foreshadows Hulk's eventual color.
2. I know Banner is screaming but there are no sound effects or word balloons.
3. The existential terror in Banner's eyes.
4. The world really does seem to stand still in this panel -- the flash is an eternity.
5. Shouldn't Banner's glasses be askew?

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Stergios Botzakis

1. I like Black Panther’s striped gloves and boots.
2. I like the use of multiple editorial footnotes. I miss those.
3. I like the complicated arrangement of bodies in combat.
4. I like that Swordsman is calling Drax a son-of-a-bitch in French, slipping one by the Comics Code.
5. I dislike the Swordsman’s impossibly bent left leg. No one in editorial noticed that?

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Michael Dooley

1. the panel's tenderness-to-super-pow ratio
2. woman via “Golden Age” artist Gustav Klimt
3. text requires page rotation (not available on iPod)
4. Barron Storey triangulation
5. fishnet shoes

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Tom Spurgeon

1. I like the coloring.
2. I like the swirly background as it communicates the power the character has but also looks great design-wise.
3. I am delighted by Slack-Jawed Colossus.
4. I like the lettering effects, both the creepy letters and the announcement of her name as a kind of logo.
5. I don't like the prose -- both its absurdly purple content and the unlikely notion that communicating what gets communicated here would be important to any creature in this circumstance.

Please note: To be considered for inclusion, you must send me or direct me to a 600 pixel-wide panel.

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Buzz Dixon

1. Phizgink was one of several characters created by various artists (Alan Weiss in this case) for the March 1972 issue of Esquire in an attempt to find a new hero for the 1970s, and as my number was up (literally as I was going to be drafted immediately upon graduation from high school) his battle cry appealed to me and became words to live by.
2. Actually not a bad costume design tho you can't tell it from this panel.
3. In a multitude of parallel universes populated by Gimmick-Man and Captain This and Lady That and other repetitive unimaginative names, Phizgink rises above all the rest.
4. Gawd, lookit dat face. TRY forgetting that...
5. This was Phizgink's only appearance.

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Ryan Sands

I love:
1. The way Venom's tongue shape and spit convey his anguish and stuttering shock.
2. The shape of Carnage's knuckles indicating his upper-level edginess and intensity vis-a-vis Venom's brawler stability.
3. The idea of Carnage symbiote ripping around in Venom's symbiote like Tremors trying to kill Kevin Bacon.
4. The choice to add a second "T" to "APAAARRTT!"

I don't love:
5. The random Carnage blobs flying off his hand, wrongly conveys Cletus Kasady's as without singular purpose.

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John Vest

1. I like the colors.
2. I like Sal Buscema's inking, particularly of the Surfer's face.
3. I like the Silver Surfer's litheness, rendered by John Buscema.
4. I like the Silver Surfer's dialogue.
5. I wish the credits were more comprehensive, and listed the colorist.

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Sean Kleefeld

1. Reed Richard's five o'clock shadow has not been used nearly enough since Jack Kirby left the book.
2. Uatu's pose kind of has this parental "What were you thinking? You're giving me another headache" vibe to it.
3. Galactus is talking about himself in the third person and nobody seems to think this is odd.
4. Sam Rosen did some really nice lettering, and is vastly under-appreciated.
5. But, man, Galactus in a skirt with bare legs? Bad call on colorist Stan Goldberg's part!

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