Conan The Barbarian.

l Love Spawn, Batman's awesome and I always liked sam and twitch from spawn are great

Nightcrawler

Dang - Troublebot and JimmytheHutt are my boys!

Love that Warren Ellis! Love him!

The Doctor, The Drummer, Jack Carter (Planetary's answer to John Constantine), Elijah Snow, Midnighter, Spider Jerusalem . . . all badasses.

Oh - and William Gravel, of Stranger Kisses fame.

Now I know where I heard that name- he made a short cameo in The Sandman vol. 1.

Mine would probably be the Green Lantern. Mainly due to the comic "Fear Itself". Good comic, interesting storyline.

Second favorite would have to be either Johnny The Homicidal Maniac or Frank Eienstien from Madman.

Has anyone heard if they're still doing a Madman movie?

Woverine is the best. His powers arent that strong (compared to other super heros) but his will makes him so kickarse. No matter how strong a guy he comes up against is he never backs down. No matter how bad he gets messed up he just keeps on going. The terminator must of been based off him. He is tormented by internal demons that normal man cant even fathom and he maitains his sense of moral integrity. Now that inspires me.

My brother loves Nightcrawler. he is cool but only like he used to be like in the old days. he was a wisecracking acrobat. Now he is way too serious.

Gambit does come out with some pretty cool lines.

I do love the relationship xavier and magneto have. They are the best of friends but also the worst of enemies. there isnt much between them. 2 sides of the same coin.

Mum loves the beast and I rekon he is awsome too. I love the way he will philosophise or quote shakespeare in the middle of battle.

Whilst I rekon these other characters are awsome Wolverine is still my favourite by far. He has been the inspiration to me in some very hard times in my life.

I don't know if he ever had his own comic but I love the character of Apocalypse. Incredibly powerful, knows the future, knows he has to destroy it, to lazy to do it himself... :)

Gambit is the man as well as Wolverine, actually I think the x-men as a whole are terrific with the exception of Cyclops whinny ass.


I have to agree that the relationship between Xavier and Magneto is amazing and even the movies are slightly picking up on that.

I guess I'm the only one who remembers The Question. :(

Since others seem to be chiming in with more than one, I'll throw in a few additionals:

Frost from Planetary
Sam Guthrie from New Mutants/X-Force/X-men
Any gritty, brutal rendition of Bats
Quasar #3 (don't ask, for some reason the story arch around issues 20-25 really did it for me)
Poet (?) from Rising Stars
Lucyfer (only read the first arc in his break off series, and enjoyed it immensly)
Green Lantern, both Kyle and even more so Hal.
Destruction from Sandman.
Ship from X-Factor/X-Force
Rachel Summers Phoenix
And a favorite just because of the potential he had to be such a wonderful story time and again, but without a doubt, always botched by marvel, Cable.

Groo

Spiderman
all my life
500 made me cry

My favorite comic book character is Wolverine aka Logan aka James Howlett. He's just a tough little nut and has a lot of heart.

I also like James O'Barr's The Crow -- Eric Draven.

From Watchmen: Rorschak

yeah, i spelt the name wrong, but he is the best...and worst...

but i've started the Dave Sim Cerebus monster of a comic....feels like a whole another world...

SPIDERMAN by far, unless you count manga characters

Gambit/Beast/Bishop were all very awesome in the X-Men series.
And judging on looks alone, I'd have to go with Beta Ray Bill. He's got the head of a horse and carries the hammer of Thor. How awesome is that?

Spiderman. Was Spiderman to many Halloweens to count and I never went anywhere without my spidey underoos.

Probably Wolverine because adamantium is so cool.

venom has been my favorite since i was little

archie :)

not read much comics

Spiderman ... Todd McFarlane yrs

The Darkness
 

Im not sure what his name was but for a while I was reading a comic called "The Darkness" It was a spinoff of which Blade...

I like the main character and all his little gremlins....


DB

Re: The Darkness
 

The Darkness real name is Jackie Estacdo.

Sgt. Rock was one bad MoFo!

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I thought for sure I'd replied to this one already. Well I never got to read many comics as a kid because my parents would never have spent money on that for me so they only times I ever could were when I was at Walmart and they happened to have a rack full of them (Which I don't see anymore by the way :() and I'd stop and read for a little while before my mom would tell me it's time to leave....never getting time to absorb them...or even remember what they were about either....I'd show em to her but she'd always say something along the lines of "Tommorow is another day." or "When we get paid." but I never got them...I actually used to hide them sometimes till she'd actually buy them for me but...never happened.

The comic book character that stuck out to me right away more than any other was Morbius. The way he was drawn, his history, everything. He was soooo fuckin rad! Hulk stuck out too and characters like "Strong Guy" because I was a wimpy little kid who got the shit kicked out of him all the time and I'd dream I had huge muscles but I didn't like them as much as Morbius. He wasn't drawn too spectacular at first but then later on as he evolved and started getting his own comics as opposed to appearances in Spider Man his design got more intricate and really started to look cool as shit.

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In my opinion he's pretty underrated. I mean I can't recall him ever getting a big budget movie made after him, closest I've seen to him is a vampire named Radu in a chain of movies called "Subspecies" that looks just like him..almost like they ripped him off.
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Morbius isn't even in the bio section at Marvel.com anymore.

Asta!!

I'm only now really getting into comics. I've read the first three of the Sandman series, and am patiently waiting for the rest of the series to be affordable. I am also currently in the possession of the entire Preacher collection, but I've only read the first two so far.

So, my favorite character is Dream. What a loveable angry powerful brilliant anthropomorphic personification!

If I was able to be any character, I'd probably want to be Tulip. What's better than being Jesse Custer? Fucking Jesse Custer! ;)

Woverine

He is the biggest badass. He does what he wants, when he wants. Also he is tough as hell.

If I could have a second favorite it would be Gambit. Mainly because he is so smooth. Also his power is pretty kick ass.

Havok (X-Men) as done by Neil Adams - when he was introduced
Captain Marvel as done by Jim Starlin - especially his battles with Thanos
Daredevil as done by Frank Miller
Wolverine as done by John Byrne
Conan as done by John Buscema

Mine would have to be Batman. Have to respect that kind of dedication.

X-men is the best, but Wolverine is my favorite single character. And his clone X-23 is awesome.

I always wish I had read this title. My only experience with him was his guest appearance in Dark Knight 2 by Frank Miller. He reminded me a lot of some of the guys on the TF Politics board. Maybe I'll have to check some of his books out!

My favourite has pretty much always been Batman, and increasingly Superman. It's hard for other characters to stand up to these two in terms of depth as there have been more stories written for them than anyone, and certainly more "elseworlds" type stories where they are placed in different times/universes/dimensions. That'll really explore the character.

I was blown away by Promethea from the book of the same name (technically she's many characters). That title really exercised a part of my brain I didn't know I had. It really questions the nature of reality, the concept of stories and how those two might be the same thing.

P.S. anxiously awaiting Gilda's response to this thread :)

Let's look at some candidates first:

Batman.

The Frank Miller version in DKR and even more so, Year One is excellent, but I prefer the Denny O' Neal Adams version from the 70's. It's the perfect balance, not too dark and gritty like the post 90's version, not too whimsical like the 60's version, which took clues from the abysmal Batman tv show. Check out Batman: Drawn by Neal Adams--there are two hardcovers--and you'll see what I mean.

Also superior to the Miller version, IMO, is Loeb/Sale in The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, and Haunted Knight. Batman is more human, more a victim of fate than a master of it, and as a result, he's more sympathetic and compelling. Sale's artwork here is more cartoonish than Adams, but just as compelling.

Spider-Man

The best version of Spider-Man, hands down is the first hundred issues or so, with Lee/Ditko for the first 38 (IIRC) and Lee/Romita for the rest. This is the run that defined the way comics were presented for the next three decades. Well defined action sequences, well balanced villains, and a personal cast to surround the main character that was just as interesting as the super hero battles. Real character growth, and a sense that there was a plan for the whole thing, that it was mean to go somewhere. Immensely well done.

The character was compelling. He was a teenager, not the first in comics (Robin, Johnny Storm preceeded him), but he was the first to helm his own title. He was vulnerable, shy, awkward, and driven by guilt and a compulsion to do the right thing.

Superman

The best Superman stories are the Silver age ones from the 60's, the demi-god Superman who could move planets, who was thwarted by petty thugs with Kryptonite that could apparently be found in the corner drugstore, who had that cool fortress of solitude, and the super dog and a pretty cousin with powers just like his, and an impetuous girlfreind. It had all the elements.

The thing is, the idea of the character was enormously fun, and the stories were often very clever, but the character himself was a bit of a dud, too good, honest, and confident to be very compelling.

Wolverine

The best Wolverine comes from the Claremont/Byrne era of the X-men, when he wasn't overexposed, and was just a tough little guy with supersensitive senses, a healing factor, and claws. There's a scene circa Uncanny mid 120's where the Hellfire club has invaded the mansion, and most of the team has been taken out, and he's facing off against a flunky in a battle suit. The current Wolverine would just kill him without thinking twice, and be done with it. This version takes a moment to analyze the situation, is a little nervous himself, sees that his opponent is scared, too, and talks tough, giving the guy a variation of Dirty Harry's "Do you feel lucky" speech to scare him off, or at least intimidate the guy to give himself an advantage. This is a Wolverine that's compelling, and the one that made him popular.

Wonder Woman

I wanted to be Wonder Woman growing up. Tall, strong, smart, feminine and beautiful, a warrior and a philosopher. Now, I look at those early stories, where she gets tied up every other issue, and I love the very idea of wearing wrist shackles as part of you everyday costume. And she's a princess (technically now, a queen), and what little girl doesn't want to be a princess?

Batgirl is also cool. The greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the DCU is a skinny teenage girl. I love it.

But I'm going to have to go with Spider-Man. Underneath the costume, he's still just an ordinary person, trying to do the right thing. His powers never benefit him, he's constantly getting the snot beat out of him, he's lost his best friend, his girlfriend, his child, and nearly his wife, and yet he keeps helping others simply because they need to be helped and he has the power to do so. He's just like thousands of everyday people who see someone in need and help them because they have the ability to do so. In this way, he's the most realistic Super-Hero in comics.

Oh, and to update Colossus:

He died in Uncanny 390 or 391 by injecting himself with an antidote to the mutant plague, which triggered the antidote, saving all the other mutants but killing him. It was easily one of the dumbest deaths ever.

He's back, though. Joss Whedon brought him back in the first Astonishing X-Men story arc. Apparently, a group experimenting on a method of "curing" mutants stole his body and used it as part of their experiment, the antidote in his body having something to do with what they needed to be able to produce it. I cheered; it makes sense in context, and his death was so stupid as to be ridiculous in the first place.

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Nuff Said

Blue Beetl... DAMMIT

Incredible Hulk for me. Dumb green hulk to smart but weak grey hulk to smart and strong green hulk. Peter David is a great writer.

I have been a Spiderman fan since I was very young. Had the cool 70s action figure as well.

My favourite artist would have to be McFarlane as well... That was right around the time I stopped collecting.

One of my favourite story lines was the 6 part series with Kraven the Hunter...

Batman
Spider-Man

The Gods of all Comic Book Heroes.

If you haven't seen it, check out the blog HULK'S DIARY THAT IS ON THE INTERNET. I think you'd like it.

Morpheus and the rest of the Endless of course. Though actually my favorite character from the series is Hob Gadling.

I know what you mean... plus if you want to name BB you gotta add Booster Gold and Guy and hell the rest of the Giffen era Justice League...

Dilbert!!

Im Probably the only one :P