FFF Results Post #144—Meta

On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Suggest Five Future Five For Friday Topics." This was how they responded.

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Tom Spurgeon

1. Name Your Five Favorite Marvel or DC Comics Single Issues, Nothing From The Same Series Twice
2. Name Five Comics Conversations You Never Need To Have Again
3. Make Five Confessions Related To Comics That Don't Necessarily Portray You In A Flattering Light
4. Name Five Items That Only Exist In Comics You'd Bid For Were They To Magically Appear On eBay
5. Name Five Of Your Favorite Magic Users From Comics

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Stergios Botzakis

1. Favorite character with double initials
2. Favorite sidekick
3. Item in continuity that should never be undone
4. Best fictional location
5. Best fictional scientific finding/happening/thing

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James C. Langdell

1. Five Favorite Exclamations from Comics (either signature lines or one offs)
2. Five Dream Incidents in Comics (only one may be rarebit inspired)
3. Five of Your Dream Incidents Related to Comics (not counting the one where you're crushed under falling long boxes)
4. Five Memorable Entryways in Comics (doors, portals, gateways, mouseholes)
5. Five Musical Selections That Are a Great Soundtrack for Reading a Specific Comic Story (not counting "Shrimp Boats", which is great with everything)

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Don MacPherson

1) Name your five favorite bearded comics characters.
2) Name your five favorite bald comics characters.
3) Name your five favorite comics gods (divine characters, not creative legends).
4) Name five comics series that bore terrible titles.
5) Name five comics creators -- not writers or artists -- who have a profound impact on the medium today.

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Buzz Dixon

1 - Name 5 Comics That Should Have Ended With Issue #__
2 - Name 5 Iconic Characters That Would Be Improved By _____
3 - Name Your 5 Favorite Serious Funny Animals
4 - Name 5 Comic Book/Comic Strip/Manga Families You'd Like To Belong To
5 - Reverse The Polarities On 5 Heroes & Villains (i.e., what if Batman were the villain and the Joker the hero?)

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Evan Dorkin

1. 5 comic shops you won't go back to and why
2. 5 comic-related names you'd think about giving to your child (but wouldn't, right? Right?)
3. 5 favorite hats or pieces of headgear worn by a comic character
4. 4 publishers you wish would start up again and 1 you wish would close shop for good. Or 3 and 2. Whatever.
5. 5 cartoonists you'd hire to do interior design in your house, bonus for what room(s) you'd have them do

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Rob Clough

1. Name five characters you'd like to drop acid with.
2. Name five artists whose work you discovered at a small press show like SPX, APE or MOCCA.
3. Create a basketball starting lineup using five different comics characters--they don't actually have to play basketball.
4. Name 5 comics characters that you wish had been your parent.
5. List your five favorite interviews you've read with a cartoonist.

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David Welsh

1. Name five work-for-hire creators you'd like to see do independent, non-genre work.
2. Name five comics you'd pay for again if it meant erasing the memory of ever having read them in the first place.
3. Name five comic properties that should be adapted into Broadway musicals.
4. Name five comic properties that could be adapted into Oscar-bait motion pictures.
5. Name five comics characters you would cross the street to avoid, were they real.

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Rick Lowell

1) Name five fictional comic locations that you would visit if given the chance.
2) Name five writer/artist combinations who have never worked together before that you would like to see collaborate.
3) Name five comics that you have bought just for the covers.
4) Name five vehicles or machines from comics that you would like to drive or ride in.
5) Name five weapons from comics that you would not wish to fall into enemy hands.

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Michael Aushenker

* Name the five best characters ever created by Steve Ditko
* Name five discontinued comic book publishers that you wish were still around.
* Name five canceled or indefinitely postponed comic book series that you wish were still around
* Name the five comic book characters you will not miss if they disappeared tomorrow
* Name the five best characters with a military ranking (Captain, General, Admiral, etc.)

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Christopher Duffy

* Name five potential reprint projects so great that you can't believe haven't been published or planned yet.
* Name five comics pets you'd like to own.
* Name five regular anthology comics (past or present) that you think are fun, important, or just unappreciated.
* Name five things the comic books of the 40s could teach the comic books of today.
* Describe five comics-related gifts you've received, and what was cool (or not) about them.

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Douglas Wolk

1. Quote Five of Your Favorite Lines of Dialogue from Comics From Memory (No Checking!)
2. Name Five Comics You're the Only Person You Know Who Liked
3. Name Five Defunct Series You Wish Were Still Ongoing
4. Name Five Great Comics You've Found in a Bargain Bin
5. Name Five of the Funniest Comics You've Ever Read

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Marc Sobel

1. Five Dream Artist/Writer matchups
2. Five Favorite Covers
3. Five Favorite Issue #5s (i.e. Animal Man #5)
4. Gary Larson Week -- Five Favorite Far Sides
5. Five Things That Could Cheer Up Chris Ware

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Russell Lissau

1. Five comic book plot lines you wish never existed
2. Five characters who you wish had their own books but don't have them right now
3. Five characters you'd invite to a dinner party
4. Five characters you wish had better costumes
5. Five creators who deserve more work/recognition

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Nat Gertler

1. Name five creative team/title matchups that never happened, but should've.
2. Name five things in Marvel Universe history you'd fix if you lived in the Marvel Universe with a time machine.
3. Name five things you'd fix in the comics industry history if you had a time machine in the real world.
4. Five comic characters you'd want as your best friend.
5. Five words you first encountered in comics.

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Dave Knott

* Recommend five intelligently written books about comics.
* Name five real-life personalities who have made unexpected cameos in comics.
* Name five events from comics-related history for which you wish you could have been a fly on the wall.
* Name five creators who have left comics for other media or otherwise retired and you would like to return to the fold.
* Name five creators who have entered comics from other media and you would like to go back where they came from.

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Mark Coale

1. Name Five Convention Stereotypes You Wish You Never Had to See Again
2. Name Your Five Favorite Characters that Work in the Media
3. Name Five Fictional Buildings in which You'd Like to Live
4. Name Five Books You'd Like to Own that You've Never Seen in Person
5. Name Five Creators That You'd Like to See Write an Episode of Dr Who

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Douglas Mullins

1. Name Five Great Musical Performances from Comics
2. Name Five Great Art Exhibitions from Comics
3. Name Five Great Dance Scenes from Comics
4. Name Five Great Chefs/Meals from Comics
5. Name Five Great Poets from Comics

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Matthew Craig

1. Who Are Comics' Five Greatest Internationalists?
2. Which Five Comics Characters Would You Erase From History?
3. Who Were The First Comics Characters You Could Draw From Memory?
4. Ronin, Ronin, Ronin: Name Five Great Comic Book Wanderers.
5. Name Five Comics We'll All Still Be Reading in 2020.

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Richard Pachter

1. Five artists you liked when you were a kid but don't like as much (or at all) now
2. Five artists who were doing good comics work at least ten years ago but aren't doing any comics work now
3. Five series or stories that would be ideal for animated TV series adaptation
4. Five favorite Superman artists
5. Five favorite Superman writers

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Sean T. Collins

1. Name five critics/writers about comics whose work you enjoy.
2. Name your five favorite masks in comics. Not the whole costume, just the mask.
3. Suggest five awesome online comic art image galleries. Provide links.
4. Suggest five awesome online comic-related posts, essays, articles, or reviews. Provide links.
5. Name five comics creators who seem like comics characters, as well as the creator and/or comic whose work he or she seems to come from. (No autobio allowed.)

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