This should be a fun one!
I loved comic books as a kid. In particular, my favorites were Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and then I got into X-Men. Every morning before school, I’d watch the X-Men animated show, which still has one of the best theme songs ever IMHO: https://youtu.be/sAkL2-vh2Sk
For that reason, my all-time favorite comic book character has to be Storm. I love that her superpower is the ability to harness electromagnetic energy (and thus the water cycle) whenever she needs to.
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What is/ was your favorite comic book or graphic novel character?
Can’t wait to see if we have any outstanding favorites and excited to learn about some new ones as well.
Do you have a favorite comic book character?
- Batman
- Spider-man
- The Hulk
- Storm
- Wolverine
- Iron Man
- The Flash
- Green Lantern
- Wonder Woman
- Ghost Rider
- Gambit
- Aquaman
- Swamp Thing
- Animal Man
- Archie
- Superman
- Spiderman
- Cerebus
- Shazam/Captain Marvel
- Squirrel Girl
- Solomon Grundy
- Dennis the Menace
- The Warlord
- Hellboy
- Adam Warlock
- robin
- Robin / Nightwing
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ich-ni-san
(ich.ni.san)
2
Once upon a time, I couldn’t get enough comics featuring The Hulk.
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Spider-man for me. Grew up watching Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and reading whatever comics (spectacular, amazing, etc) would be in the magazine rack of the local supermarket, unfortunately we didn’t have a comic shop close by.
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I have a lot of fond memories of Chris Claremont’s X-Men (so many!), but I think my all-time favorite comic book character is Ghost Rider, Dan Ketch version (although Johnny Blaze was pretty awesome, too).
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Mainly Batman & Swamp Thing. Those are the only two characters I’ll mostly read anything from, regardless of author (crappy modern comics notwithstanding).
When reading comics I’m much more storyline based, so while I’m not a massive Superman fan “All-Star Superman” is one of my all time favorite comics because it’s such a good story. Similarly, while Batman is my all time favorite fictional character, I don’t like team-ups and I especially don’t like how Batman is written in team-ups to be able to contend with the other characters (this goes for the Justice League & to a lesser extent the Batfamily). Love the Clint Eastwood-esque grouchiness, cynicism, and dry humor but hate how he’s made into the ultimate badass who can do no wrong. Plus it makes me miss the pulpy detective feel from his best solo stories.
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tb33t
(TB33T)
6
I was a big fan of the X-Men growing up. Watched the cartoon and started a small collection of comic books. Don’t have very many, but I still have them somewhere. I was always fascinated with Gambit. I really wish he had a bigger role in the movies, or an origin story movie. He always looked cool and had that cajun accent.
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wyld
(cwik)
7
As a kid I always thought it would be cool to be able to talk to animals so Aquaman was my favorite. As I got older I started to follow X-Men a bit more and started watching the cartoon with my son. That had to be one of my favorite theme songs of all time.
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patti8216
(Patti8216)
8
First comics were my mom’s little sister, Aunt Shirley’s Archie ones. I hope she still has them!
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jonahzona
(jonahzona)
9
I’m with @tb33t . As a kid I LOVED Gambit. The fact that anything became a weapon was so awesome. I can still hear the cartoon music. I loved it. Except for Jubilee’s sparklefingers and annoying teenage angst.
I got pretty into the comics and even had a few of the Jim Lee X-Men comics before he went to Image, as well as the Todd Mcfarlane Spiderman’s, which were the best. Then I got pretty into Image (Spawn / Youngblood / WildC.A.T.S / Pitt), but then I lost them all in a stupid bet. I am still sad about that one.
Oh well, I gave it all up at about 14 and never really looked back. LOL.
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I read a few comic books as a kid until I discovered books.
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Spiderman indeed. Was a fan way way before any of this Marvel stuff came out. Have a pretty big collection of Spiderman things in general. From common to actually pretty rare. Always collecting cool Spiderman things.
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edt
(EdT)
13
My favorite is definitely Cerebus.
300 issues, start to finish, no ongoing drawn-out story that keeps going and never ends…
But full of insight on the human condition.
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edt
(EdT)
17
I always thought it funny how The Warlord was kinda like a reskinned Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) 
lamocon
(lamocon)
18
There’s a LGS that kinda shares the same parking lot as the PD. I’ll pop in there once in a while, but they’re really set on MSRP. The staff seem to gatekeep a little too much for my liking. The one I frequent is about twenty minutes away from where I work and their pricing/hours is much better.
maxdenton
(Brazbit)
19
I don’t have a favorite comic book character, per se, I have a weird relationship with comics. I didn’t receive many as a child growing up, other than Whiz Kids! and the other free ones I would pick up at places like Radio Shack. However, I did have a handful of key comic books as a kid that I read over and over again until they fell apart. Some of the most iconic Daredevil, Spiderman, Thor and the like as well as several Disney ones.
They were much beloved, but I never paid them much thought until I was watching Mythbusters one day and they were doing a myth about raising a sunken ship and I was like, that’s simple they just need some ping pong balls, and sure enough that was the myth they were testing based on a somewhat obscure 1949 Donald Duck comic book which was one of the same comic books that I had read and reread growing up.
It was this that made me realize those comics were my father’s from when he had been my age and he had shared them with me when I was old enough to read. Sure enough, as Marvel movies started invading cinemas behind the scenes shows would show covers of various books of the 40s and 50s that served as inspiration for the various superhero stories and sure enough a number of them were also part of the small collection that I once had.
While I loved the comic at the time, I treasure now what me having those particular comics represented. My father didn’t have much when he was a child and what little he managed to hold onto into adulthood he kept tight control over and well preserved only letting me see or handle them under close supervision. The fact that he both held onto these, and they survived 40ish years despite being made of the cheapest paper available to the publisher and yet was willing to give them to me, likely knowing that would be the end of them means so much. I only wish I had known at the time that these were not some, then current, dime-store impulse buy or thrift shop haul of other people’s cast-off books they might still be around today.
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