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The best comic character EVER

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deletia

13:44 / 10.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Ganesh:

<gasp of delighted remembrance>

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

He was best. He was so pretty, and listened to the Dylans, and said things like "the Techno Glove can fix just about anything". And the shove Glove!

Ganesh

13:55 / 10.10.01

Red gloves and green gloves.

What with this and the blue skin fetish, I'm becoming a little disturbed at sharing so many erotic comics keynotes with the estimable Haus...

[ 10-10-2001: Message edited by: Ganesh ]

moriarty

14:53 / 10.10.01

Danny the Street.

Bona to Vada!

Doctor Sax

15:30 / 10.10.01

quote:Originally posted by shirleydoe:
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.

That's a really nice thought, thank you. But I wouldn't saddle you with the hassle of posting comics all the way to the North of England. The postman finds it difficult enough to get up the cobbled streets as it is, largely because he has to deliver the coal at the same time.
Sorry for the descent into inanity, there. But that was a nice thought, thanks.

<<Runs off with big "they do like me after all!" grin to delete self-absorbed whining thread in the Conversation>>

The Damned Yankee

21:49 / 10.10.01

Jack Knight from Starman and his supporting cast are my favorite characters for an ongoing series (alas, ongoing no more

).

"Blue skin fetish", huh, Ganesh? Starman has ya covered there, too!

Our Lady of The Two Towers

12:57 / 12.10.01

quote:Originally posted by Flyboy:
Death's Head (the original version, yes?) gets my vote.

Deaths Head rocked. The only British created character of the last ten years or so that wasn't completely irredemably shit. Then he killed his Dad and got given a new body which was him with all the interesting parts of his personality taken out. Sales plummeted.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

12:58 / 12.10.01

Does anyone remember the Iron Man of 2020? Tony's grandson or something. He doesn't appear much, but on the few occasions that he has, everyone has managed to kick the shit out of him, even Machine Man and he's a fugging lightweight!

Regrettable Juvenilia

13:01 / 12.10.01

Oh yeah. 'Man Of The Year' had the most traumatic ending of any comic I've ever read.

"I had more time..."

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

20:00 / 12.10.01

drum roll please-----------------

NFL SuperPro!

he was a bad muth

WATCH YOU MOUTH

Just talkin bout NFL Super Pro

Traz

09:14 / 13.10.01

(Edited because I just noticed that Flyboy had already identified the comic in which Iron Man of 2020 appeared.)

Arno Stark didn't seem too heroic in that particular issue, though. Allowing the New York City of the future to be destroyed by a bomb you've built strikes me as being more than a tragic flaw. Maybe it was one of his off days.

Just to be nit-picky, though, why did the first line of the story say "Welcome to 2015" instead of 2020? And when Iron Man picked up Bobby Saunders and flew off, only to be blasted by Blizzard, how did the little twerp manage to take no damage from either the heat subtraction or the fall to the roof of the bus? And who'd win if Superman and Mighty Mouse had a fight?

But if trauma is what you're looking for, Flyboy, pick up Miracleman #15; everyone in London is tortured to death.

[ 13-10-2001: Message edited by: Traz ]

SMS

09:14 / 13.10.01

Villain from the Heckler, whose facial expressions were printed on his face. He had no mouth, no nose, no eyes. Cannot remember his name. He died, and, on his face was printed "dead."

Hush

09:14 / 13.10.01

Re Fool Killer

A ten Issue mini by Steve Gerber; not a bad read, and all issues still in stock I think at the Comics Warehouse at about 40p each. However it has tended to be overwritten in my memory by the Beard Hunter episode of Doom Patrol, with which it shares a lot, including the bathing in garbage thing. Fool kiler suffers in comparison becaue it tries to have a message, rather than simply enjoying self obsessed, insightless vigilante stupidity.

But as has been said the Doom Patrol has absolutely the best characters; and probably the best character interaction. For me the Jane/Cliff romance was the best.

So no one here rates any invisibles characters?

Lazarus Churchyard

Lazarus Churchyard.. yes I second that. I'm also a sucker for Transmetropolitain

Lucianna Drake

17:32 / 13.10.01

Well call me mundane if you must, but for my comic book buck, Psylocke is the best superhero in the superhero universe, and of course The Phantom, The Tick, and Satan on the beach in The Sandman.

06:48 / 14.10.01

it has to be a super-intelligent ape of some description.
Monsieur Mallah lets a disembodied brain in a jar tell him what to do, and he loves it, so he's out.
I vote for Solivar because he wears a cape and nothing else (that's my idea of style) and he speaks about humans in a really condescending, patronising way. ha, stupid humans.

Knight's Move

02:36 / 21.11.01

I think I'm backing Expressionless here with Ric the Vic: angel spunk cakes, backing England when Header was around, partying with demons, what a guy. Does anyone else think it's a fucking travesty that he ended up in Hell, or an I missing some later escape of his to Heaven? Some of the only people in that whole series who truly deserved Heaven were him and Brendan - and Brendan tricked his way in - someone tell me he makes it to Paradise where he belongs...Other than that The Maxx comes pretty high.

Mister Remington Finn

14:21 / 21.11.01

Marv from Sin City.....
and more offbeat:
Bueno Exelente from Hitman
He fought with the power of perversion....

[ 21-11-2001: Message edited by: Mister Remington Finn ]

Ofermod

03:12 / 22.11.01

Nobody hoaxes the Hoaxer!

Hmm..actually every character from that series. The Fact, The Legion of Legions, and of course, Phantom Dad!

Traz

04:37 / 22.11.01

I'd like to nominate Pope John-Paul II, who appeared in "very special" Web of Spider-man annual. The Vicar of Christ and Peter Parker joined forces to banish Dr. Strange's old foe Nightmare, who was terrorizing the little girl who would grow up to be the St. Therese of 2020.

Mister Remington Finn

16:16 / 22.11.01

Well traz, if you like him, ya gotta love Battle pope by Funkatron

**********shameless plug alert********

Knight's Move

22:06 / 22.11.01

Would that be Marv as in "Incredibly Violent" Marv who does the most icredibly violent thing ever involving lengths of rubber tubing and a hacksaw? Absolute classic.

Hush

05:11 / 23.11.01

Indeed, Ofermod, every character in that series, (and is not The Hoaxer a morrison, enpapered, an authorial avatar?) including and especially Flex himself.
I wish he was my Dad. I wish he was my mate.
Flex Mentallo, hero of the beach. The only really grounded hero.

Mister Remington Finn

12:51 / 23.11.01

The one and only,Knight....Too bad Frank Miller toasted him in the end of the first story arc (or TPB).....not that I like the current cast...but nothing beats a homicidal gladiator born in the wrong century.....Look for the story about Marv in Babes, Booze and Bulets.....("Now where did I get these gloves...?")

deja_vroom

14:29 / 23.11.01

Traz, if you're into the Pope, i think I found the perfect christmas present for you...
--
As for the super-hero...
I'd go with Sebastian O - that fucking bastard.

Or that guy from JLA, the Galactus rip-off that went from world to world redecorating everything with pink fur, neon, te whole crap

don't remember his name... help, anyone?

[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]

15:24 / 23.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Conquistador de Jade:
Or that guy from JLA, the Galactus rip-off that went from world to world redecorating everything with pink fur, neon, te whole crap

don't remember his name... help, anyone?

Manga Khan...What a great character!!! That JLA (Giffen's one I mean)was even better than Grant's.

deja_vroom

15:27 / 23.11.01

No, No, not Manga Khan... he was great, also...
I'm talking about that giant gay guy, who had this Silver Surfer rip-off in a jet ski probing the space for worlds for him to redecorate...
This giant guy dressed like if he was an anthropomorphic Las Vegas.
He was --------- The Worlds Redecorator or something.

Jack Fear

18:22 / 23.11.01

Are you thinking of the Marvel character, the Shaper of Worlds? Looked like a Skrull from the waist up, was a big machine from the waist down--and he had a "herald," like the Silver Surfer--a golden-skinned youth named Glorian who rode around on a rainbow.

I only wish I was making this up.

MJ-12

23:35 / 23.11.01

no, no, his herald was the Scarlet Skier, who ended up partnering with G'nort (funny how some things come back to you). I think the name was something terribly obvious, like Mr. Galaxy...

Laughing

14:24 / 24.11.01

Wasn't his name Mr. Nebula?

Other great characters:
The Creeper from DC - he had yellow skin and green hair and he went around practically naked and had a really irritating laugh. not unlike myself
also, the old Dr. Fate, Speedball from the New Warriors, and .....

The Flaming Carrot!!

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

01:20 / 25.11.01

I know this is mostly goofy characters that are fun, but every so often I go back at read the first 7 issues of "Thriller" and am amazed at the characters in the book.

Beaker Parrish, the first artificial man who is also a priest. Data who was half man half car, and his 7 year old Jamacian pickpocket sidekick. Salvo, who never ever missed while shooting but would never shoot a person for any reason. The actor whose face melted every 24 hours.

What a brilliant book. From what I hear it all fell apart because the artist kept drawing things the opposite from how the writer plotted it trying to get him fired...and they both got fired.

That would have been a hit 10 year later for Vertigo.

[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]

00:44 / 26.11.01

quote:Originally posted by MJ-12:
no, no, his herald was the Scarlet Skier, who ended up partnering with G'nort (funny how some things come back to you). I think the name was something terribly obvious, like Mr. Galaxy...

Yes, Mr. Nebula...What a GREAT character. I can't think of ONE favorite character for me right now, there are a lot. Most of them come from Grant's Doom Patrol. I love Danny The World, and I've always loved the marvelized version of John Constantine from the Doom Patrol episode when Danny dreams...

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