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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:03 AM
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Poll question: Greatest and/or favorite comic-book series ever (whether you've read em
Edited on Wed Jul-28-04 11:24 AM by Bombtrack
or not)

***By comic books I mean action-comics. Super-hero type comics. (Marvel, DC, Image, Darkhorse, etc)

Meaning, which one has the best collection of the greatest characters and/or stories that you may or may not have read.

I know I've never read the vast majority of these.

For the avengers you can vote for it even if you think an individual major members solo comics were the best (Cap America, Hulk, Thor, Iron Man etc). For Justice League just vote for the whole thing if you mean the whole thing. So, just Green Lantern or whatever(he was a member right?) would be "other". Also if you think an individual X-Man like Wolverine had the best comic, vote X-men.
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quispquake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:04 AM
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1. The Watchmen!!!
"Who watches the Watchmen"?

BTW: I heard rumours of Darren Aronofsky (of "Requiem for a Dream" fame) could be directing the motion picture of this finally!!! Woo Hoo!!!
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:06 AM
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4. Big, big second on Watchmen.
nm
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pocket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:04 AM
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2. Lenore
the cute little dead girl
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7th_Sephiroth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:21 AM
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11. Trigun
and trigun maximum
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:05 AM
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3. I vote for
The fabulous furry freak brothers.
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:07 AM
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5. The X-men during the Phoenix saga
I thought was quite good.

And the Archangel series was good, too.
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:09 AM
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6. Let's go X-men
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leeman67 Donating Member (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:12 AM
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7. The Preacher..
by Garth Ennis is my favorite series by far. I also like the Frank Miller Batman Returns story and really anything by Alan Moore (Watchmen, From Hell, etc.)
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chiburb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:46 AM
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18. I grew up on DC and Marvel, but the Preacher
Is my all-time favorite. Ennis writes beautifully, and Steve Dillon is a master of art. (Fabry did the covers though...)
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leeman67 Donating Member (535 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 01:01 PM
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25. Good, it's not just me!
:)
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:13 AM
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8. I liked some weird ones
I like wonder woman when she lost her powers and became a kung fu mama in the late seventies.

I liked Dr. Strange -

I liked "Ironfist" and "The (Preying?) Mantis"

And I liked the old Dracula series (late seventies, early eighties)
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:17 AM
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9. Tales of Scrooge McDuck by Carl Barks
Edited on Wed Jul-28-04 11:19 AM by Bridget Burke


The stories appeared in comic books with several different titles. Featuring Donald, Huey, Dewey, Louie, Gyro Gearloose & the infamous Beagle Boys.

From hippie days, I had a fondness for certain characters drawn by S. Clay Wilson. I'm not posting any of that stuff, in order to avoid offending the younger or more sensitive members of the audience.

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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:19 AM
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10. I Always Enjoyed Archie, Veronica, Jughead, Betty and Reggie
Can you match their correct last names? (Without Googling!)

Archie
Betty
Jughead
Veronica
Reggie


Mantle
Jones
Lodge
Andrews
Cooper





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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:21 AM
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12. Archie Andrews
Betty Cooper
Jughead Jones
Veronica Lodge
Reggie Mantle
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:33 AM
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14. Oh, sorry... you forgot to phrase it in the form of a question.
The correct response would have been "What is Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Jughead Jones, Veronica Lodge, and Reggie Mantle?"

-- Allen

LOL... Very good anyway! Did you look it up? Or was that from memory?

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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:39 AM
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16. memory
It's a gift, but it's a gift nobody wants.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:44 AM
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17. Well, I'm Impressed
But how well would you have done if the challenge had been to simply recall their last names (out of thin air) instead of matching up the names with an unsorted list of last names?

And have you ever been on a quiz show?

-- Allen
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:54 AM
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19. Still could have done it.
My lovely wife keeps telling me, "You know more about nothing than anyone I know," a line she copped from "Seinfeld".

Haven't been on a quiz show yet. But no one will play me in "Trivial Pursuit" anymore.
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:23 AM
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13. Maybe I should have said action comics
super-hero type comics. Marvel, DC, Image, etc.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 11:34 AM
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15. Too Late Now. --- Sorry For Cluttering Up Your Thread.
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Zolok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 12:25 PM
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20. Oh....just let me add...
Mr. Fantastic is an inept dipshit...
Sue Storm is a passive aggressive yenta
Ben Grimm is a self pitying jerk...
Johnny Storm really is a flaming a-hole...
And the X-MEN really do belong in a circus sideshow....
MAKE MINE DC!
MARVEL SUCKS!!!!!!
STAN LEE IS A IRRITATING PUTZ!
:)
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 02:12 PM
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26. Then why don't you take your nazi ass back to Russia!

go marvel

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Zolok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 03:48 PM
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31. Did I mention
that Spiderman is perfectly useless in union suit and out?
That if a meteor was about to obliteration NYC he's the last guy anyone would call?????
Heil the First Secretary of the CPSU!
:)
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 07:34 PM
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32. ?
wtf did you just say
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flordehinojos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 12:27 PM
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21. Does anyone remember Little Lulu?
:shrug: Just asking!
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 02:18 PM
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30. Oh yeah! That comic rocked!
In kindergarten (early 1950's) whenever we did drawings I always did Lulu, Tubby, or Witch Hazel. :)
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 12:28 PM
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22. The Incredible Hulk, though the movie SUCKED!
Edited on Wed Jul-28-04 12:28 PM by tom_paine
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pbg Donating Member (253 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 12:56 PM
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23. Strikeforce Morituri
but I'm biased...:-)
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 01:01 PM
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24. Neil Gaiman's "Sandman"
Not really an action comic book, but a good one. Lots of literary and mythological references. It also has a lot of pagan references. I like the character of Death-If death is a personal entity, than I hope it is a nice one, not the guy who looks like Skeletor.
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Cybergata Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 02:14 PM
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27. The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers
Hey, they weren't the ordinary superheros, but it still will be my favorite comix series.

:hippie:
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 02:15 PM
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28. Daredevil during Watergate
The villain "The Mandrill" was Nixon, and Erlichman, Haldeman, Kissinger et al were beast-men...and only Daredevil with his radar sense could "see" what they really were.
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Speck Tater Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 02:16 PM
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29. Other: Sandman or Uncle Scrooge (nt)
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Bombtrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-29-04 06:40 PM
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33. are either of those Action comics?
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