State Your Opinion on a Character

[greenrage36]

She always reminded me of a wanna-be hentai character. The concept isn't bad, but I never could quite bite on the presentation of it; as mentioned above I also hadn't really bothered with any of the comics aside from a brief leafing-through at the comic shop here and there. I kinda remember sitting through a couple of the (TNT?) tv series and was even less impressed by that...

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The Archies​

You know, after this one I'll retire posting more characters, cause I ran out of people
Anyone else care to grab it? Feel free

 

[Wesley Dodds]

The Darkness-

Garth Ennis' origin story was extremely fun... the rest? Meh.

Witchblade-

No.

The Archies-

Yeah, they're okay. Not a big fan or anything but I've got nothing against them.

Speakin' of Ennis, howsabout:

 

[Anubis]

Loved it.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Same here... but apparently we're the only ones.

Okay! Something a little more mainstream...

Marv

 

[The Morningstar]

The Boys is awesome. Yea it's basically ****ting over the superhero genre, but it also poses some interesting questions and is actually pretty clever deconstruction once you get over the hyper violence etc. Plus it has one of my favourite lines ever.

"A Glock's a wankers gun, son"

Marv is also awesome.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, Boys is awesome. Also, that dude had a hamster in his butt.

I like Marv. He's a psycho but as long as you stay on his good side, and don't have a coat he likes, you're cool.

 

[Holmberg]

Asterix​

My all time favorite comic book by René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, especially books # 2 - 24.
Goscinny also did a great western comic, Lucky Luke, with the artist Morris, which had 20 good years from 1957 to 1977, and he did the wonderfully silly Arabian Nights-type Spoof Iznoogood with the artist Jean Tabary.

The Asterix and Lucky Luke stories Goscinny wrote are the comics that will always be closest to my heart. Asterix was wonderfully anachronistic, and though Goscinny had done some research on the period, he never let historical accuracy get in the way of a good gag. The character's were hilarious, with the chieftain being my favorite. Lucky Luke got me interested in the western genre, and its mythology. With both series it seems to me that Goscinny even affected his two artist. He made them perform better. Morris was never as good neither before or after working with Goscinny, and Uderzo, who was once a master of his craft, has chosen to self destruct and to take his life's work with him in the procces. Asterix and Lucky Luke are today but pale shadows of the former selves (1960 - 1979/1957 - 1977), and it's a shame. The last Asterix book was so painful to read that I had to put it down, never to read it again. However, in their prime they were the best and second best comics of all time to me.
Goscinny was a great loss.

Glad to see that Spirou & Fantasio and the Smurfs are also here.

Other Franco-Belgian Bande Desinee comics of note, besides these and Tintin:

Gil Jourdan by Maurice Tilleux.
Gaston Lagaffe by André Franquin, who also created the Marsupial during his Spirou & Fantasio run.
Blueberry (western comic)by Jean 'Moebius' Giraud
Jerry Spring (western comic), by Moebius'/Giraud's mentor Jijé
Valerian, a sci-fi comic by Mezieres & Christin.
Buddy Longway (western) by Derib
Thorgal (Sci-Fi meeting with vikings) by Rozinski & Van Hamme.
And there are many more good ones.

Moebius and Mezieres were among the prime movers in the french sci-fi Metal Hurlant experiment, which in turn inspired the American Heavy Metal magazine.

Nice also to see the picture of Gladstone Gander. Donald Duck is perhaps the most human character in comics (!), able to expres any human emotion. As a kid I didn't like Gladstone, because he often got the better of Donald, but when, as an adult, I re-read a Carl Barks story where he, deeply ashamed, is forced to admit that he once performed one day of honest work. This was an experience so traumatizing that he has tried ever since to block it from his memory, I couldn't help but like him a bit for that. That was brilliant.

 

[greenrage36]

Heh..really have ran the gamut here in the last few choices!

The only thing I'll say about the Archies is that Betty and Veronica were my two earliest comic book crushes...aside from Wonder Woman and Vampirella...aside from that, I would only read their stuff in between issues of what I saw as the 'real' comic stuff aka Marvel, DC, and the Warren horror magazines...

The Boys I only recently discovered and what little I know, (and have read about 'em), they sound very intriguing. Will probably check them out one of these days...I assume I can collect a few trade paperbacks and get the overall gist of them??

Marv is great...one of my faves from the whole Sin City landscape...

 

[The Question]

Oh God I ****ing hate The Boys.

I dig the idea of a book set in a super hero world where most of the heroes are corrupt, but the Supes in The Boys are all so over the top and corrupt in mostly the same ways that it sterns credulity and is nigh impossible to take seriously. And, it is so prevalent in the book that any humor value wears out very quickly. The bulk of the series is just characters giving long, drawn out, one sided monologues about how super heroes suck. Several issues are complete rehashes of stories Garth Ennis has already told, like the MULTIPLE issues that are just a soldier telling a story about whatever war he was in just to jack off the U.S. Military for being the living incarnation of some kind of action kung fu Jesus. The raunchy humor isn't funny, I'm not saying that to say it'f offensive, I'm saying that to say that it just isn't very funny. And, ultimately, the book is entirely pointless. Preacher's anti-religion stance made sense because religion is a real thing and there are people in the real world who have grievances with it. Super Heroes don't exist, and its not like the Supes in The Boys are particularly realistic, they're just as over the top and impossible just in a more cynical way, so it just kind of comes off as Garth Ennis being petty and whiny and pretentious because people like comics that he doesn't.

Marv is cool.

 

[SlamAdams]

Oh God I ****ing hate The Boys.

I dig the idea of a book set in a super hero world where most of the heroes are corrupt, but the Supes in The Boys are all so over the top and corrupt in mostly the same ways that it sterns credulity and is nigh impossible to take seriously. And, it is so prevalent in the book that any humor value wears out very quickly. The bulk of the series is just characters giving long, drawn out, one sided monologues about how super heroes suck. Several issues are complete rehashes of stories Garth Ennis has already told, like the MULTIPLE issues that are just a soldier telling a story about whatever war he was in just to jack off the U.S. Military for being the living incarnation of some kind of action kung fu Jesus. The raunchy humor isn't funny, I'm not saying that to say it'f offensive, I'm saying that to say that it just isn't very funny. And, ultimately, the book is entirely pointless.

Marv is cool.

Agreed with all this. I took out the part of realism though and the comparison to Preacher

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Judge Dredd

 

[Anubis]

Honestly? I don't believe I ever read a thing with him in it, so I have no opinion.

 

[Holmberg]

Judge Dredd

The idea about a futuristic Dirty Harry coupled with elements from Death Race 2000, and spiced up with references to punk and new wave, is quite funny. John Wagner, Pat Mills and Carlos Ezquerra created him, but I always felt that the thing that gave the book any real impact was the artwork by Brian Bolland, especially the covers. The interiors of the book could seem a bit stiff, and the feet too exaggerated in size, but I still like Bolland's style. It was also interesting that it came from England.

But perhaps the judge lacked the quality that makes longevity. The premise of the book, the law & order principle taken to a fascistoid extreme, is quite funny, but whether it can be considered a classic or not, I don't know.

Summary would be that I like it, but don't consider it among the true greats. In the long run the absurd cynicism makes it difficult to really feel attached to. I've only met one guy who had it as his all time favorite, bordering on fanatism, and of course he was a brit.

 

[random_havoc]

Looked over Dredd's comics and the art looked crap to me so never read. Like the basic concept and look of the character, so maybe the new movie will make me a fan.

 

[KingMob]

The movie with Stallone and Rob Schnider was hilariously bad, and for that reason I loved it. As for the comic, my experience with it is limited, but from what I've seen, its pretty awesome. I like that the series progresses in real time. I haven't read anything with the character in a while.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Okay, (relatively) good turnout for the last few characters, but this thread's starting to turn into a bit of a sausagefest so...

Cassie Hack

 

[Anubis]

From Hack/Slash?

Never got around to reading it.....but she does look kinda hot.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Yeah, from Hack/Slash.
I avoided it for a long time, thinking it was just whacking material, but it's actually a pretty decent book. It's suprisingly clever. Cassie is a really strong character (and yeah, she's easy on the eye too!)

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, I've heard nothing but good things. Once I get my money right, I'm definitely gonna be grabbing some trades for this.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Hmp. So just myself and the ever-reliable Anubis want to weigh in on this one?
Okaaaaaaaaaay. So, anyways... we've had superhero G-men, a big violent lug with a heart of gold, a fascistic future-cop and a teenage monster hunter... Know what I'm thinking? I think we need a wisecracking, robot adventurer.

Atomic Robo

 

[Wesley Dodds]

No love for Atomic Robo? None at all?

 

[random_havoc]

I've got a friend that loves atomic robo, but personally I'm not a fan of comedy comics. I'm more into the classic superhero type stuff

 

[Wesley Dodds]

It's not just a comedy comic, though. Yeah, there's lots of funny stuff but also, action aplenty and even the occasional bit of pathos-ridden introspection from the Robo himself. Tonally speaking, think Hellboy or BPRD and you're pretty much there...

 

[SuperFerret]

Love Atomic Robo.