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The best comic character EVER

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Molly Shortcake

15:03 / 07.10.01

Thundersword. Does anyone else remember this guy? He's only been in two comics, an issue of Secret Wars 2 and Iron Man #197.

A thirty-something, slightly overweight, white, Hollywood writer who was granted a fraction of the beyonders power. He transformed himself into his ideal superhero image. His awesome powers were used to destroy fast food franchises and Hollywood studios, all while spitting out post ironic, self refrential one liners.
Grant Morrison should get ahold of this character for a mini-series...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:22 / 07.10.01

Oh god yes, wasn't his battlecry something like "Do you know how many bullets were fired in last nights The A-Team without killing anyone?!"

Ellis

15:27 / 07.10.01

Maggot was the best superhero ever.

A big black/ blue african guy who had maggots for kidneys/ intestines and they would eat stuff for him like bombs and beggars. Brilliant.
I mean how could anyone make a character like that boring?

<looks in X Men back issues>

...Ahhhh.......

Johnny Mother

15:42 / 07.10.01

Longshot was the greatest ever, the lucky bastard.

And he was a robot, which automatically doubles his 'cool' factor.

YNH

15:46 / 07.10.01

Which issue of SWII, Honkey?

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Never Mind. It's number 1. Gawd I'm a geek on Sundays.

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Ronald Thomas Clontle

16:19 / 07.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Johnny Mother:
Longshot was the greatest ever, the lucky bastard.

And he was a robot, which automatically doubles his 'cool' factor.

Longshot wasn't a robot, he was more of bioengineered humanoid with three fingers and a bad mullet.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

16:45 / 07.10.01

Whoa. A mullet? Cool factor's gone in to overdrive.... !

Ronald Thomas Clontle

16:48 / 07.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Jonny Suede:
Whoa. A mullet? Cool factor's gone in to overdrive.... !

and his girlfriend was Dazzler, the Britney Spears of the X-Men world...

I think the coolest comic book character ever is a dead heat tie between Crazy Jane and Rebis out of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.

rizla mission

18:38 / 07.10.01

MR. 45 (and his assistant Romantic Rick)!
They appeared in one frame of Doom Patrol..

DrDee

20:06 / 07.10.01

Luther Arkwright.
Or does Brian Talbot's opus not count as "comics"?

Seth

22:46 / 07.10.01

Ric the Vic. For keeping a sub-machine gun in his pulpit.

The Garth Ennis run of Hellblazer had a brilliant supporting cast.

Sharkgrin

23:29 / 07.10.01

Flex Mentallo.
Morrison's spin forced all meat-and-potatoes-eating super heroes to appear on the Jerry Springer Show.

MJ-12

01:39 / 08.10.01

Ambush Bug

Traz

01:59 / 08.10.01

Saturn Red, from Casual Heroes.

Evil mastermind in a lab coat: "Has Saturn Red showed up to fight my robot monster yet?"

Flunky, peering through video screen: "Not yet, boss, but your machine just knocked over another skyscraper."

Evil mastermind: "Bah! Well, he'll show up eventually; he can't go on boffing his underaged fans forever!"

Cop Killer

04:47 / 08.10.01

I think it's the Chainsaw Vigilante all the way...

The Damned Yankee

04:47 / 08.10.01

The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight! A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Or am I thinking of Dubya again?

Ganesh

04:47 / 08.10.01

Mr Nobody.

Jackie Susann

04:47 / 08.10.01

Who was the character in Doom Patrol who had every power you'd never thought of? I vote for her.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

10:51 / 08.10.01

Traz- Who's Casual Heroes by, because I must get it immediatly!

And I'd have to vote for Mr Nobody too! "Baboon!"

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

13:58 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by MJ-12:
Ambush Bug

Agreed. Its too bad the character was never a sales hit, and everything Giffen did from that point was far less entertaining. I *still* will buy every copy of the Ambush Bug comics I find in quarter bin to give to people who then read them and laugh despite themselves.

moriarty

20:05 / 08.10.01

I have every Ambush Bug appearance. All of them. Even the issue of Crisis that he pops up in (and I know he said he didn't take part, but he was lying).

I am going to be a very sad, lonely, old man.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

23:07 / 08.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Cop Killer:
I think it's the Chainsaw Vigilante all the way...

Good one...

I loved Mr. Six. The Tick, too, and the cool secret agent from the Tick #7.

Secret agent: "My agency's been a bit quiet recently..."

Tick: "When was the last time they contacted you?"

Secret agent: "Noonish. Summer. 1957. They're being a little coy, I'll admit."

Traz

05:00 / 09.10.01

Lozt, I just thumbed through my collection and realized that I had sold my copy of Casual Heroes #1, so I can't name the artist, writer or even the company. To my recollection, though, its absence is not a spectacular loss. Apart from one or two witty lines ("Troublemaker, come to the plaza, quick! It's an emergency!" "What, did Saturn Red run out of prophylactics again?"), the comic had nothing to boast about.

glassonion

15:00 / 09.10.01

i always had a soft-spot AND a hard-on for Maniac 5

'please....just let me hurt people again'

Doctor Sax

16:47 / 09.10.01

If I remember rightly, the Secret Wars threw up a whole load of "international" superheroes who were never seen again. There was an Israeli woman who flew about with a furry blue cape, and an Australian Aboriginal who could go into dreamtime and hit people over the head with his boomerang. And someone from the North of England with a faithful whippet, a string of deadly black puddings, and a sack of coal for the chucking at of supervillains.

Jay Future

17:03 / 09.10.01

Mr Six! Yeah that guy was nearly as cool as Zenith.
Question:Will Morrison`s new title The Filth
feature Mr Six?

Doctor Sax

17:07 / 09.10.01

And if not him, what about Jason King?

Mr Tricks

03:32 / 10.10.01

you're think of Contest of the Champions

and Zabra (the Israeli) has actually seen a bit of action in issues of Hulk & [/b]X-men[/b]... that Blue Fur Cape though.... K I N K Y

well.. I'll vote for ROGAN GOSH Psycidellic Karmanaught!!!

Doctor Sax

08:37 / 10.10.01

Contest of Champions! Christ, I'd forgotten about that. It was truly awful, wasn't it?

What about The Foolkiller from old issues of the Defenders? I've a vage feeling he came back somewhere.

rizla mission

12:43 / 10.10.01

Doom Patrol had all the best characters.

The Beard Hunter!

Monsieur Mallah and the Brain!

deletia

13:10 / 10.10.01

The guy with the Tree of Gloves in Doom Patrol.

Or Nightcrawler. Not very left-field, I realise, but he looks so damn cool.

Doctor Sax

13:34 / 10.10.01

I always liked the Thin Man from old Invaders oppos The Liberty Legion, largely because he had a shit green costume and the most useless power ever - he was thin!

Ganesh

13:36 / 10.10.01

quote:Originally posted by The Haus of Connection:
The guy with the Tree of Gloves in Doom Patrol.

<gasp of delighted remembrance>

The Love Glove! He was cool, wasn't he? Doom Patrol had loads of great characters, really.

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:36 / 10.10.01

Death's Head (the original version, yes?) gets my vote.

shirleydoe

13:37 / 10.10.01

There was a Foolkiller mini-series in the 90's at some point, with a whole batch of Foolkillers. I could find what issues I have and mail them to you if interested.

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