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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?
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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been a Spider-Man fan forever!!!
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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.
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Jesse Custer. If I could be anyone when I grow up, it'd be Jesse Custer.
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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.
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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 |
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LENORE!!!
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HEY I WANNA BE Jesse Custer!!!!!
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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). |
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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. |
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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.
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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
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Martha Washington
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The Question.
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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?
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i was brought up on Winnie the Pooh, but i canīt 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. |
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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.
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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.
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I have always been partial to Green Lantern, but Too Much Coffee man rocks my socks too.
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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.
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Longshot
Ballistic |
Conan The Barbarian.
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l Love Spawn, Batman's awesome and I always liked sam and twitch from spawn are great
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Nightcrawler
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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. |
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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. :(
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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
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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
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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.
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Probably Wolverine because adamantium is so cool.
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venom has been my favorite since i was little
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archie :)
not read much comics |
Spiderman ... Todd McFarlane yrs
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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 |
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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. http://www.geocities.com/tibmorb/morb-ani.gif http://www.comune.modena.it/glamazon...la/morbius.jpg http://www.natural-fx.ch/Spiderman/P...turalFX101.gifhttp://www.acn.waw.pl/piol/pliki/portraits/morbius.jpg http://www.samruby.com/Villains/Morb.../Morbius01.JPG 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. http://www.fullmoondirect.com/DVDS/i...es_art_lrg.jpg http://images.rottentomatoes.com/ima.../13/120913.jpg 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.
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X-men is the best, but Wolverine is my favorite single character. And his clone X-23 is awesome.
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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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Blue Beetl... DAMMIT
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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.
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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. |
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Morpheus and the rest of the Endless of course. Though actually my favorite character from the series is Hob Gadling.
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Dilbert!!
Im Probably the only one :P |
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.
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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. |
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Spider-Man fan forever!!!
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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.
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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!
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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 |
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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).
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Batman...Hands down
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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. |
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Lobo |
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