I'd have to go with Superman. He's the epitome of the superhero, plus has all the basic/cool powers that everyone wants.


Gambit is a badass, plus he got Rogue.


Spider-Man was witty and funny, and I'll cast another vote for the "McFarlane drew him best".


Wolverine is the quintessential badass and like someone else said, adamantium is just cool.


Grunge from Gen13 always cracked me up. I'm glad I wasn't around for when the story got all weird and J. Scott left.


Spawn was one of the coolest looking characters ever and I was always really mesmerized by the stories back when I'd read them as a kid.


I always loved the dark vigilante types like Batman and Punisher, too bad the most recent movies of the two were pretty bad.


And purely for looks, I always thought Ghost Rider looked awesome. A biker with a flaming skull riding on a motorcycle with tires covered in fire. C'mon. How can anyone not think that's just awesome?

I guess I'm in the minority here. I'd put McFarlane well behind a bunch of other artists. Steve Ditko, is for me, the definitive Spider-Man artist. His successor, John Romita is a close second, and the current Romita Jr. also is quite good at capturing the essense of the character.

MacFarlane drew strikingly beautiful splash panels. The one of Mary Jane cowering, weeping by the apartment door as she's being attacked by Venom is a great visual. But for storytelling, MacFarlanes style doesn't work nearly as well for me; Ditko and both Romitas are adept visual storytelling; it isn't about the still frames, it's about how the action flows from frame to frame, something that's never worked well for me in MacFarlane's work. This is also why Alex Ross's interior work often leaves me cold.

Frank Miller's Batman. No contest.

I actually like Captain America for his unflappable resolve, no nonsense approach and incredibly agile mind. When I read the Captain America graphic novel that dealt with 9-11, I thought it was one of the best things I had read in a long time.

Besides Captain America, I like Gambit. Cool reserve, throws cards, converts potential energy into kinetic energy. In his mini-series, when he charges up a statue and hurls it out the window, that was cool.

Hob Gadling from the Sandman comics comes in at third. Lives forever, but otherwise, perfectly normal. Just trying to live each day, learning new things, and living with the mistakes of his past.

Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner) ranks up there for me too. As a fellow artist, I've always wanted to be able to just take the stuff in my head and just plop it into reality.

Guy Gardner, back in the one true GL days.

and Thanos gets my vote for anti-hero.

This is a very interesting take... thanks.

Spider-Man fan forever!!!

Read Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics, and you'll get a much more in depth analysis of the "in between the panels" thoery of what makes good comic art. All comic fans should be reading it anyway.

Iron Man
Spider-man
and Captain America

I used to really love the X-men but I grew up and they ummmm yeah they are still the same whiney bags of crap they were when I was 10. I have enough angst in my own life don't need to read it in my comics thank you!

Although I have always loved Nightcrawler and still do and Beast as well. But I consider him an Avenger and not an X-men.

Other than the most popular ones, such as Batman, Spiderman, etc., my personal favorite (since I was about 12 years old) is: Lady Death.

I love Nightcrawler and Magneto. I never really liked Doctor Octopus in the comics but Alfred Molina did an amazing job with the character in Spider-Man 2. I want the blue, the magnetism, the mechanical arms or any combination of 'em!

Moon Knight was one of my favorites... i was also a big Spider-Man, Daredevil and Batman fan.

i got rid of a lot of my comics, but i think i still have almost all of the Moon Knight books. i'll have to take a look through them again.

http://www.comicbookmemories.com/mk034.JPG

moon knight was my second favorite.

dr. strange for me though, tossed my comics long ago but miss those. alternate worlds, spells, all of it.

I grew up reading 2000AD. It's a British comic of several different stories, I don't know if it had much of an audience in the US, but Judge Dredd was the main story every week.
My favourites were:
Rogue Trooper
Sinister and Dexter
Canon Fodder
Slaine

If you used to like X-men, pick up the current Astonishing X-men run by Joss Whedon (yes THAT Joss Whedon). It's the best X-men stuff in years. I know the first six issues are already collected in a trade paper, not sure if 7-12 are collected yet (if not then they should be soon).

I would think that Rorschach is my favorite character. There's something visceral and real about his character. I've seen certian characters develop over time, and even have changes in personality that could mirror a real person...but never have I seen the anguish and pain of a truely haunted person reflected so well in any literature, let alone a graphic novel. I found myself relating to Rorschach more than I related to Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, Dr. Lazlo Kreizler in The Alienist, or Don Quixote in....well Don Quixote (three of my favorite works of fiction). If I were ever to become an actor, that is the role I'd want to play (partly because I'd love it, and partly because I'd be worried anyone else would screw it up).

Batman...Hands down

Green Lantern (Hal) - I like the concept, the power ring and being part of a galactic police force.

But aside from that, a Green Lantern's power is less the ring and more his or her internal make up - only those who are fearless and honest and with great will power can use the ring, and so it speaks to the character well.

Archie. (oh, that Jughead :lol: ) Oh, and Betty's hotter than Veronica, btw.
Hot Stuff, Casper, Wendy, Little Audrey and the rest of the Harvey Comics gang.

As far as the superheroes go...Spiderman, hands freakin' down.

Hmm..

Lobo

Since the last time I posted on this thread I've grown up quite a bit and I have a new favourite: Harvey Pekar!

Like a few of you I've always been a huge fan of Captain America! I'd have to say Green Lantern is number 2, but it's a distant number 2.

Ever since I was little and read my first comics about how Steve Rogers became Cap and then became aware of the history I've been hooked.

Valerian et Laureline/Linda & Valentin

http://www.chez.com/iconoclaste/Imag...d_valerian.jpg

Linda is beautiful, charming, cunning and all heart. Valentin is hunky, straight-forward by-the-book and honourable. Together they have adventures in space! And time! What's not to love? I want to be Linda. I want to be Valentine. Heck, I'd sell my baby brother to the Russian Mob just to be anyone in that colourful whimsical outrageous universe.

watchmen -- pick anyone

I was addicted to the Ghost Rider as a child, still am a little. I am really afraid of this movie coming out because I think it is going to be a piece of prison ass.