State Your Opinion on a Character

[random_havoc]

I am a big fan of Pitt, and I agree with PaleRider that the best part of it was Keown's artwork. Basically the comic was like the Hulk, if the hulk actually had the stones to kill people. Don't get me wrong, I love the Hulk in his various incarnations as well, but when you have a being of that much raw power and rage it sometimes just gets tiring seeing stories where he never actually lets the rage loose in a lethal way.

I own the whole Pitt series (all signed by Keown) and overall it's pretty great. But I bought them all after the fact. The problem, as I understand it, with the series as it was coming out was that Keown had the same problem most of the image creators had, they had way to many missed deadlines. From what I've heard instead of being monthly as advertised there were times where people had to 6 months or something. But then I guess "Image United" is a prime example that those geniuses at Image still haven't learned their lesson from the 90s. Which is just sad.

Anyways, this is a character that was really a product of 90s comics but in the best possible way imo.

 

[random_havoc]

Moving on...


Velocity

The speedster from Image/Top Cow comics and from the Cyberforce team. What say ye?

 

[PaleRider]

no clue

 

[Megazell]

Velocity story lines don't seem to bring out her character enough for any her stories to be remember-able. There is a reason why her books are found in $1 bins.

I think the character design is nice but the character falls flat. Little to no depth.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Who?

 

[Anubis]

Heh, I was thinking about making one for the Misc comics.

As far as this chick, I have no idea who she is.

 

[Kurosawa]

Who?

So far all I know of is Invincible (no opinion but people tell me i'd like it), Savage Dragon (who I like a lot), and Spawn (who I can give or take).

 

[random_havoc]

Heh, I was thinking about making one for the Misc comics.

You can take the thread over if you want to dude

 

[Anubis]

No, no, you keep it.

 

[random_havoc]

Well, haven't posted a character in here for a while. Let's try a more recent one...

Superior

 

[PaleRider]

only read the first issue and it didn't grab me

 

[random_havoc]

Thread abandoned by the way. Apparently people on these boards either don't know about or don't care about characters that aren't from Marvel or DC.

If anyone else wants to try and get this going feel free, but it doesn't look likely you'll get many responses.

 

[SuperFerret]

You're picking relatively obscure characters though, AND doing them back to back.

I'll take over for a bit if you want.


EDIT: Actually, nevermind. I'm not all that big on the indy guys, but my point still stands that there are a ton of characters that are more well known than the ones you're using. Spawn, Invincible and Savage Dragon are a start, but what about Hellboy, the TMNT, any of the Walking Dead characters, Turok, Spider Jerusalem? Hell, even Calvin and Hobbes could count.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

I decided to take over this thread and bring in characters I know, including comic strip characters

Characters covered so far:

Spoiler

Invincible
Savage Dragon
Spawn
PITT
Velocity
Superior
Gargamel (Smurfs)
Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead, Image Comics)
Jughead Jones
Garfield
Captain Haddock
April O'Neil
The Tick
G-Man
Lucky Luke
Arthur (the Tick sidekick)
Hellboy
Mickey Mouse
Phantom Blot
The three Bone cousins
Voltron
Kit Walker/Phantom 21
Gladstone Gander
Doc Savage
Asterix
Dennis and Gnasher
The Mask
Papa Smurf, and all the rest of the little blue people
The Rocketeer
Madman
Raphael
Leonardo
Donatello
Michaelangelo
Splinter
Shredder
Baxter Stockman
Traximus
The Fugitoid
Spiro and Fantasio
Iron Lantern
Super Soldier
Amazon
Lobo the Duck
Dark Claw
Dr. Strange Fate
Skulk
Spider-Boy
Jackie Estacado
Sara Pezzini
The Archies
The boys
Marv
Judge Dredd
Cassi Hack
Atomic Robo
Scott Pilgrim
Boba Fett
Tank Girl
Vampirella
Conan the Barbarian (Dark Horse comics)
Kato
Red Sonja
The Goon
Jimmy Corrigan
Reuben Flagg
Heath Houston/Fear Agent
Cerebrus
Modesty Blaise
Concrete
The Pro
Zorro
The Morning Glories

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Today's character is

Gargamel​

 

[SuperFerret]

I like Gargamel, but I was never clear on his motives. Did he want to eat the Smurfs? What was the deal with him creating Smurfette?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Dunno about his obsession in the comics, he just wanted to catch them cause he hates them, for some unknown reason. There was a time he turned some of them to gold coins and they were stolen by bandits

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Can't believe I just found this thread! Let's see...

Invincible:

One of my favourite books right now. This comic is just a joy. The sheer, unbridled imagination and wealth of ideas is nothing less than inspiring and Invincible himself is easily one of the best realised comic characters I've ever come across!
Kirkman expertly manages to balance the old school silver age ethos of Kirby and Lee with modern day levels of characterization and story development. The result makes for very special stuff and he should be very proud of himself.

Savage Dragon:
Know very little about the character. Supposed to be a great book, though. Maybe I'll stick it on my reading list for this year

Spawn:
LOVED Spawn when I was a kid back in the late 90's. Honestly, couldnt give a toss about him these days...

Pitt:
Uhhhh.... moving on...

Velocity:
I have no idea who that is. Sorry.

Superior:
I have something of a soft spot for Millar's writing but I've read so many stories with Superman-analogues in them lately, it'll be a while before i can get to this one...

Gargamel:
Never a smurf kid so I know very little about him... he's, what, some sort of Smurf-pedo?

 

[Hound55]

I thought the core premise of The Smurfs is that they're a delicious society of little blue commies. Hence Gargamel's interest in them.

Maybe he created Smurfette because he was planning on farming them. How the hell were they reproducing before she turned up? Mitosis?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Spawn:
LOVED Spawn when I was a kid back in the late 90's. Honestly, couldnt give a toss about him these days...

Loved his animated series, nothing else

Velocity:
I have no idea who that is. Sorry.

Same here

Gargamel:
Never a smurf kid so I know very little about him... he's, what, some sort of Smurf-pedo?

You can say it that way

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Well, with that picture of him, you can't really blame me for thinking so, can you? t:

 

[WalkingDeadMike]

Invincible

Invincible is awesome as a comic and a character. I love the spin Kirkman put on the 'coming of age superhero'. His character development/progression through the first 86 issues of the book have been great. I love that stuff that happens in the book actually effects the way he thinks in future issues. Example: This **** that's going on with him and Dinosaurus currently, I'd say has been being setup since issue 52 (long before Dinosaurus' first appearance), when Mark and Oliver had their little conversation about the logic of killing, ends justifying means, and whether Mark ever thought his father was right.

He also has one of the coolest costumes in comics.

 

[E-Man]

Invincible is pretty cool. To be honest though, Mark isn't the best character to me in his comic. He's nice to read about, but I find myself liking Oliver more than him. His resolves is amazing though. You don't **** with his loved ones and live.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Today's character is

Gargamel​

Bwahahahahahahahahahaha ! now that is *&^%$ awesome!!
Gargamelly- mel rocked as far as inept, disheveled, SPCA hated, cannibal wizards went! you know for a kid show....dude wanting to eat their asses was just wrong.. there is something terribly &^%$ up with TV! it's was to eat them or turn them into gold. &^%$ Harry potter!! he aint got nothing on G-mel!

 

[Spider-Aziz]

^Lmao

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Cause I assume WalkingDeadMike will like today's choice, I bring you

Rick Grimes, from the Walking Dead​

His username inspired the idea