Favorite comic book character and company?

I used to be a huge Marvel fan, but slowly I began to appreciate the stuff from Image more. There's just something about characters like Witchblade, The Darkness, Spawn, the Gen 13 and Team 7 guys, and the rest of them.

I also like some of the later stuff when they all sort of stopped using the "Image" name and just went under "Top Cow Productions" "Wildstorm Productions" "McFarlane Productions" etc. At least I think that's what Todd McFarlane chose, I don't remember. I haven't read comics in a while.

Anyhoo, the last couple series I got into before I stopped reading comics altogether were Michael Turner's Fathom, J. Scott Campbell's Danger Girl and Jim Lee's Divine Right. I got up to about issue 6 in Divine Right before the comic stores I frequented started going out of business, and I was unable to get any of the later copies.

As a whole, I'd have to go with Image now. If you'd asked me 8 years earlier, I would've said Marvel.

 

well ive never really been into comics, but i definateley think marvel has some of the coolest characters. dc... bah, superman=dork, batman=just some rich buff guy that parades around thinkin hes a real superhero.. pshh everyone knows superheros have to have a power, not money

 

Reuben Flagg - "American Flagg" - First comics.

It's very funny, very smart and very well drawn, with great action sequences. The creator (Howard Chaykin, I think) was thanked in the credits for Robocop - he should have been given much more credit because they derived a lot of the ambience from his work on American Flagg. If you get a chance, check it out (up thru issue 21, when someone else took over from the creator and it went downhill).

 

Oh yeah, and I forgot - if I had to pick a character it would definitely be The Darkness.

 

tank girl, obviously

 

I have always been partial to marvel. The style, attitude, characters, and story's always appealed to me more.

I am particularly fond of spider-man. But the x-men universe is great because there are so many really cool characters.

I also dig batman, because he is a super-hero with out any super-powers, so I guess he's just a regular hero, but at the same time he is kind of an anti-hero, but he really isn't...ya know?

I'm not terribly big on comics, I am really only familiar with the more mainstream ones, but that's just fine, I can enjoy those just as much as any weird obscure thing anyday I'm sure.

I think my favorite all time comic is Calvin and hobbes

I should add, while I'm not very big on american comics, I am a huge Asterix fan, I'm very fond of tintin, and I enjoy various mangas, Cowboy bebop being my favotire..even though there are only 3 of them

 

NOW we are talkin comics
that and Dilbert are my favorites!

 

Dilbert is very underrated I think. It is one of the funniest satires around and yet it doesn't get nearly enough praise as it should. oh well.

 

Carlsen comics.

Gaston (by Franquin)

 

Betty Cooper - DC Comics


....my first pornography.

 

I can't narrow it down:

Spider Jerusalem
Saint of Killers
Frank Miller's Batman
Savage Dragon
Marv
Pretty much the whole cast of the Invisibles, Hellboy, The Authority, Preacher and The Watchmen
Morpheus
Punisher (as done by Dillon/Enis)

Vertigo (a DC Comics Imprint) is really, really cool. But Darkhorse puts out some pretty killer stuff, most notably Batman vs. Predator and Predator vs. Aliens. Also, nearly anything Frank Miller has touched, like Sin City or when he was doing Daredevil.

I'm pretty fond of most comics. Preacher being one of my favorites, with Transmetropolitan being almost tied.

Other than that, I'm down with Batman, Spider-Man, Man of Steel (superman offshoot), Daredevil, Scion, the Flash, and a host of others.

Don'y get me started on webcomics...

 

Another believer.

What did you collect?

 

You would love to brouse the collection I have from when I was a kid. It goes back to FF #6.

 

Gaston is pretty funny.

I like Tintin (Hergé)

Stateside, I'm a Marvel guy. Was hooked on the X-men at an early age, went on to Frank Miller's Daredevil.

Great way to learn a language.

 

I voted DC, for some reason I just cannot stand Marvel?
Favourite character has to be the Spectre (Jim Corrigan, not the Hal Jordan), the Ostrander/Mandrake series of the 90's. It was such a good read, I think only about 62 issues - I still need about 15 of them. One day.

Also love Hellboy, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was excellent. I also read Kevin Smiths own titles (not Daredevil or Green Arrow - although that one looked alright).

I love Jim Mahfood also.

 

The Maxx, by Sam Keith. Unsure about which company though. Man, it's wierd.