Okay, in honor of the Comic Book Thread giving us a post count now, I say we take advantage of it by talking about some of our wildest, nerdiest comic book fantasies.
About bloody time if you ask me.
Right now, who are your top 5 favorite super heroes/comic book characters?
In no particular order:
The Joker The Clown Prince of Crime has always been my favourite comic book character, mainly because he embodies everything relating to chaos and disorder. His morbid life view of 'life being the ultimate joke and death the ultimate punchline' is one that i've shared since before i fell in love with the character. Now obviously i don't go around killing people to make them see things that way, but it did teach me not to take life so seriously, because you'll only drive yourself to the grave anyway, and who's the joke on then?
Plus i really want to see if you can actually
make smilex........
Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead) Although just about every WD character goes through pure hell at some point, Rick Grimes has been through pure hell since issue one of the TWD. He gets shot and falls into a coma in the first page, wakes up to a zombie ridden America, risks life and limb to find his family, and when he does, he's forced to lead a rag bag group of survivors who all die painfully one after another, including Rick's best friend Shane, his wife Lori and new born baby Judith, and with the exception of about 4 people, every other person he's met along the way.
He's lost a hand, been shot again and has had to do truly unspeakable things to people (sometimes unnecessarily) in order to survive, and as he feels his soul slowly turning more and more black, he has to watch his 8 year old son suffer the exact same thing.
How can you not feel sorry for the guy and pray that if TWD ever ends, that Rick Grimes will be at peace with himself when he finally goes, and doesn't have to watch his son running away from him as he's slowly eaten by Roamers?
Guy Gardner - Green Lantern
Despite the fact that Green Lantern Corps focused more towards Kyle Rayner and his personal issues lately than it did Guy Gardner, Guy Gardner is the character that made me keep going back to GLC during the Sinestro Corps War and the Blackest Night build up.
Guy Gardner to me, is just as kick ass as Hal Jordan, but with a far better attitude and sense of humour. Plus he's a total nerd at heart. For example, in Blackest Night he actually uses an idea from Star Trek to help fight the Black Lanterns, and even quotes the exact episode number and season to boot, resulting in John Stewart saying 'Guy, sometimes you
really scare me.'
Plus the whole chip on his shoulder that HE should be the #1 lantern over Jordan makes him even better.
Deadshot The Deadliest Man Alive With A Gun, again much like Gardner makes my list purely for his sense of humour and pure ruthlessness. Lately it's been suggested that he's getting closer and closer to going completely postal and blowing away anyone stood in front of him. Some of the lines he's had since Gail Simone started Secret Six have had me in stitches, like this one for example:
Bane Love is..... complex
Deadshot You don't gotta tell me dude, i've got videos.
I really, really want to go back and see if i can find some of his earlier appearances from when he first challenged Batman and even when he was in Suicicde Squad, because just about everytime i've read something where Deadshot was involved, i've enjoyed it that much more. Watching him trying to kill Pied Piper and Trickster in Countdown to Final Crisis was the highlight of the whole series imo.
Darkseid The Lord of Apokolips has to make my list really, i mean, i wrote a whole damn song about his quest to achieve the Anti Life Equation (wanna hear it? Look for Laid Wasted on facebook and there's a video of it from our second ever gig a week or so ago, sound quality's not great, but it's something. Song's called 'Anti-Life' funnily enough)
Jack Kirby's New Gods have always been a favourite of mine, and the mad ambitions of Darkseid are always a good read in my book. After seeing some of his appearances in Final Crisis, Superman, Countdown to Final Crisis, Death of The New Gods, and all of his appearances in Superman TAS, i'd say Darkseid is my favourite 'all powerful' comci book character. As you can see, most of my picks are simply guys with cool attitudes and characteristics as opposed to super-powered freaks, but if we're talking 'Power to destroy a galaxy' kinda characters, Darkseid's my number one.