Favorite Comic Book Character?
 

Personally, mine is Spawn. The whole story and Spawn's costume is just kick ass. I really enjoy the comics. So, who is your favorite comic book character, and why?

Batman

Especially Frank Millers Dark Knight...
The Dark Knight Returns is one kickass story, and it is told in a style that blew me away the first time i read it. I will never forget the sequence that ends with Batman and Robin on horses :)

Swampthing
Berni Wrightson made a big impression on me when i was a kid.

John Difool
Moebius's/Jodorowsky's whining antihero :)

The MetaBarons

RanXerox

Spiderman

I'd have to go with Batman also.I like Jim Lee and Jeph Loebs' version although I didn't like the ending to Hush.

Death and Dream from the Sandman series are my favourites, shrouded in mythology and enveloped in history these characters are incredibly deep and meaningful.

And perhaps on the polar opposite would be Eric and Xavier, the idea of them being the best of friends only to turn enemy on each other out of a difference in ideals, yet still retain that friendship through struggle. It's an utterly fantastic idea.

Winnie the Pooh :)

i was big on Gen13 for awhile, till about 18, when they decided to go with the fucked up series arc and j. scott campbell left. the new artists are really shitty.

been a Spider-Man fan forever!!!

Batman gets my vote too. Has anyone read the new issue by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso? Amazing stuff, I can't wait to see more.

Jesse Custer. If I could be anyone when I grow up, it'd be Jesse Custer.

Jesse Custer

Hell, I'm grown up and I still wanna be Jesse.

'NNY

Either you know who I'm talking about or you don't.

the Chainsaw Vigilante...
http://www.thetick.ws/images/chainsawvigilante.jpg

He's an antihero from the comic book version of The Tick.

Man, Pellax and Moobie already took Jessie, so how about Cassidy? I'd dig a Irish vampire with a bad case of arrested development.

Also, the Doctor from The Authority. He's a junkie that can use magic and sleeps with rock chicks. What's not to like?

mm. would have to say Arcangel, of the X-men, before the energy wings and molting storyline crap. him, and Pete the PO'ed Postal Worker. real favorite for a while, though, was/is Black Bolt, of the Inhumans.

It's really hard to choose... I guess I'll just list the characters that I've focused on through the years (in no particular order)...

Spawn
Superman
Green Lantern
Daredevil

LENORE!!!

HEY I WANNA BE Jesse Custer!!!!!

deadpool was cool when his own comic first came out.
batman was cool becuse of the whole schicophrenic nature of the man yet sane enogh to want to use it to his advantage.
wolverine has the best powers.If you had superman's you would have day to day problems like not being able to bang regular chicks without a kryptonite condom(friction issues,shooting load like a shotgun blast, and other stuff talked about in mallrats).

Squee!

Always a good choice. Do you live next to a psychotic with a dimensional gateway in his basement?

My favorite character, hands down, is John Constantine.

This is followed by Spider Jerusalem.

Veritas en Lux!
Jimmy The Hutt

Colossus without a doubt. From the first comic I ever read as a very young lad, he was my favorite. I don't read comics anymore (I can't afford them anymore!), but I heard he died a while ago. Of course, superheroes and villains rarely stay dead. :) Does anyone know if he's back yet?

I always loved Thor and Captain America as well.

As for me, my short list would have to be,
Hawkeye (duh)
Death (duh)
Dream
Captain America
I'll stop there, but my true short list has about thirty characters on it. (and don't even ask about my long list)

Didn't read that many comics, but Batman the Dark Knight Returns was awesome. I liked Superman, he always tried to do whats right. Marshall Law was a fun graphic novel.

I see this as two questions.

1 My favorite comic character is the Thing from the Fantastic Four. Why? He was turned into a monster, yet it didnt crush his spirit. He has more love, humanity, and compassion than any beautiful person. Yet at the same time he is powerful and very tragic.

2 Who would I want to be? Hmmm, Part says Jesse Custer, but the crap he went through in his childhood makes me say no. So then I would look for someone like Superman, or Captain Marvel. I would say SHAZAM and never turn back to a kid. Why would anyone?

Gambit - he always has the right thing to say, plus one of the coolest looking characters I've seen

Martha Washington
http://www.marsimport.com/images/MARWT01A.jpg

The Question.

mattevil - are you aware that Larry Niven (I believe) had an essay on why Superman never got any poontang from Lois Lane - and indeed, why he couldn't, without killing her?

oh i totally agree.
i was brought up on Winnie the Pooh, but i can´t say that they were in comic books back then... more classic books.

as for out and out comic characters... well i guess i liked Batman the most... but i never ever went so far as to actually buy a comic.

I don't think he's coming back. At least, if Grant Morrison has anything to say about it.

I miss my comic book store so much right now. Too bad this hellhole couldn't support it.

Grant Morrison = BEST. XMEN. EVER.

Veritas en Lux!
Jimmy The Hutt

I never read Morrison's X men, I am too mad at him for the crummy ending to the INvisibles, and the Filth in general.

Death and Dream, of course.

Also, Archangel and the Scarlet Witch.

Refresh me, and this may sound stupid, but John Constantine rings a huge bell in my head. Who is he again?

Archie.... err.... I mean Batman.

I have to confess though, I haven't read a Batman comic in years.

The Demon or Longshot.

I have always been partial to Green Lantern, but Too Much Coffee man rocks my socks too.

Oh, forgot about Milk & Cheese


http://www.maths.tcd.ie/local/JUNK/m.../pics/Milk.gif


Gin makes a man mean.

John Constantine is from Neil Gaiman's Books of Magic, and Hellblazer.

like i said in my post i went on the dialogue in the movie mallrats.

You are correct, it was Larry Niven, and the story is Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. Short and very funny.

Longshot

Ballistic