I have a ton of favorite Marvel characters. I love Spider-man especially Ultimate Spider-man. I actually really like the Ultimate versions of most of the characters better than the regular universe. I always avoided the Ultimate universe because it seemed like such a gimmick. After I started reading it though I really enjoyed it. I even liked the Fantastic Four comics and I really don't like the regular Fantastic Four. I also really liked the short-lived MC2 universe. Spider-girl is one of my favorite comics not just because the characters are fun, but because it was like back in the old days when time actually passed in the comics. Remember when Peter was in high school and then after four years he graduated and then was in college and then got a job? All like in real life when time passes. Then for the next several decades he somehow stays the same age. I hate that part of the comics. I like the progress from the old ones.
Anyway, my other favorite Marvel characters are the X-Men, Hulk, Scarlet Spider, Daredevil, and others. I really like some of the older X-Men stories like Age of Apocalypse, Onslaught, anything with Cable or Bishop, the Phoenix sagas. I've always liked the Hulk even from the beginning. I have reprints of the actual first comics where he was gray hulk. I love Scarlet Spider and I am so annoyed that he is dead. It's frustrating because everyone I like best dies and never comes back meanwhile everyone else can be killed and revived a hundred times. I like Daredevil even though I think the character design is kind of lame, his stories are usually very compelling and deeper than a lot of others. I especially like when Spider-Man and Daredevil team up. They have some of the best interactions.
couldn't agree with you more about Daredevil stories. I often find his book to be one of the most well written and gritty.
I also follow Spidey, but I only read ASM, I've never gotten into the Ultimate universe (although it looks like Spidey's getting killed off in the Ultimate books) I read Deadpool's main book (I really wish it was based more in the main Marvel Universe) and whenever he actually has a series in print, I love's me some Moon Knight (and it KILLS me that there is no Moon Knight OP Character)
Yeah, I always enjoy Daredevil. And Spider-Man has some of the most interesting characters although the old cycle of Peter's life gets a little old after awhile. They do tend to reuse some plot devices over and over like the death of Aunt May, his on-again, off-again relationship with MJ, things like that. I still really like the comics though. I am not caught up on the Ultimate Universe so I don't know what's been going on with Spidey. I recommend the Ultimate series though. Especially the Ultimates. You'd never expect Captain America to be bad-ass, but he totally is in the Ultimates.
Favorite Marvel Characters who are in Overpower - Captain America, Black Cat, Spiderman, Venom, Hawkeye, Psylocke, Serpent Society
Favorite Characters who sadly never made it - Nebula, Quasar, Power Pack, Firestar, Thanos, D-Man and the rest of the West Coast Avengers
Quote from: The Dude on April 10, 2011, 04:17:24 PM
Favorite Marvel Characters who are in Overpower - Captain America, Black Cat, Spiderman, Venom, Hawkeye, Psylocke, Serpent Society
Favorite Characters who sadly never made it - Nebula, Quasar, Power Pack, Firestar, Thanos, D-Man and the rest of the West Coast Avengers
I always liked the Serpent Society as well. Venom is one of my favorite characters. At least the Eddie Brock Venom. I don't like to think about what happened after that. For some reason Hawkeye always seemed to make much more sense than the DC archers. Especially in the Ultimate universe. The characters you mentioned that aren't in Overpower are ones I don't know except Thanos and I know of the West Coast Avengers, but not about them.
I'll say this of the West Coast Avengers, if you've never read it find the first 30 issues or so, because they are among the best books Marvel ever published. I was always a Hawkeye fan but after WCA he was one of my all-time favorite heroes. The premise is after years (decades in real life) of agitating Cap on how he could be a better team leader Hawkeye is finally given a chance to lead an Avengers team but he it's franchise on the west coast (L.A.) and he has to recruit his own members. No a-listers for him. In the limited series he ends up with his wife Mockingbird - a shield agent with no superpowers; Tigra, a chick with tiger-like powers who had been an Avenger for four issues of the main series before quitting the team because she was terrified of the kind of threats they faced after meeting Ghost Rider and Molecule Man, she was working as P.I. in the L.A.-San Francisco area; Wonder Man, who is indestructable and could be potentially be Thor-level hero except he died on his first mission in Avengers #8 stayed dead for over 150 issues and when ressurected had a real fear of dying again so that he returned after about two dozen issues service to the main team moved to Hollywood to be a stuntman; and Jim Rhodes, who at the time is serving his very first stint as the fake Iron Man and trying to measure up. When the main series ended Rhodes was out and Stark was back in, but litterally had just reassumed the armor for all of 1 issue in his main book after his most lengthy bout of alcoholism. So the whole early issues of the book is this group of cast-off super heroes coming together to prove themselves worthy of being Avengers and Hawkeye proving himself worthy as a team leader after years of shooting off his mouth. It's fantastically written and a lot of great action scenes too as they face some A-list Avengers baddies like Ultron. Grim Reaper, Graviton and their own arch-enemy Master Pandomonium.
Sadly none of this is in trade but individual issues can be found not too expensively and its well, well worth it. Just stay away for anything past issue 45 when Steve Englehart leaves the title because it goes downhill pretty fast from there
(and needless to say I've made homemades on all of these guy with a nice WCA Compound Homebase too)
So I guess I'll bite on the WCA comics. I should have them soon. I also thought of another comic series I liked which is the Runaways. I really liked the way it started off. Up until Civil War anyway. I'm not sure what's going on now, but when they started to because just another comic in the larger story arc I found them much less interesting.
Hulk.
Wolverine.
Venom. (Eddie Brock)
fin
Quote from: Nostalgic on April 11, 2011, 06:40:57 PM
Hulk.
Wolverine.
Venom. (Eddie Brock)
fin
In a 3-way battle for the Infinity Gauntlet!
Gambit's my favorite character.
X-men and Uncanny X-men were my favorite books. (haven't yet, but I want to start reading/collecting again, including Legacy).
AoA is my favorite arch.
Quote from: ncannelora on April 12, 2011, 01:20:55 PM
Gambit's my favorite character.
X-men and Uncanny X-men were my favorite books. (haven't yet, but I want to start reading/collecting again, including Legacy).
AoA is my favorite arch.
I like gambit as well and his is one of my wife's favorite characters. I really liked him in Ultimate X-Men as well as the original X-Men cartoon and even the X-Men: Evolution cartoon. One of my favorite lines and scenes in the old X-Men cartoon is when they are all talking to Bishop and he can't remember what he's supposed to do and then Gambit walks in and says "Everyone can relax, Gambit has arrived." He was really awesome. And then of course Bishop goes to kill over a little assassination/shape-shifting misunderstanding.
Nate Grey (X-Man)....no surprise there. ;)
Other favorite characters include:
AOA Blink
AOA Sabretooth
Maverick
Mr. Sinister
Jean Grey (Phoenix)
Wolverine
Quote from: Nate Grey on April 16, 2011, 03:04:06 AM
Nate Grey (X-Man)....no surprise there. ;)
Other favorite characters include:
AOA Blink
AOA Sabretooth
Maverick
Mr. Sinister
Jean Grey (Phoenix)
Wolverine
I recently read the Dark Phoenix Saga TPB. It made me very curious about Jean's Phoenix. I really want to go back and get the X-Men Essentials that build up to that point. When I get some cash handy, i'll have to do it.
For me, Deadpool is #1. Up until recently he wasn't all that popular, which meant keeping up with his stuff was easy. Now, forget about it. And so much of it is pretty crappy. But I just can't stop myself... I supported the character since his first mini series, so I'm pretty much compelled to buy it all now. Even the "Deadpool" solo title is hurting (Daniel Way couldn't write a good story if it kicked him in the nuts).
I also am really into the Ultimate world. USM is (of course) great. Millar's writing on the Ultimates is good, I try and keep up with it as well. I loved the Ultimate Mystery/Enemy/Doom storyline. I like it that the Ultimate universe can take more "risks" than 616.
Other than that, I keep up with the Avengers lines, as well as the "major events". Fear Itself looks good, it's nice to see someone other than Millar and Bendis getting a chance to write a major story. Can't say I care for the Asgardian stuff, but if it's well written, I can read it.
As far as non-Marvel, I really like Transmetropolitan. Hilarious!! When I find a bit of extra cash, I try and pick up something by Alan Moore that I haven't read yet, so there's that as well.
THE THING
THE MIGHTY THOR
@ the dude...
Power Pack made into op... well maybe not as characters, just the name "Power Pack"
And for West Coast Avengers (or Avengers West Coast), Rhodey was Iron Man for the mini series and maybe their appearances in the Avengers books at the time. When the regular series launched, it was Tony in the silver centurion armor - a definite A-list hero. Though I remember how Hawkeye desparately wanted to fill his roster, basically begging the Thing and whoever else he ran into (except Firebird).
@ Kyle
Deadpool is my main man too. I buy almost all of it (even though a lot of it is weak). I've started skipping the guest shots (as there are too many of em, and didn't appreciate seeing Moon Knight slice him up so easily). I agree with you on the Daniel Way stories... I'm surprised they've kept him on so long. My favorite runs were Joe Kelly's and Gail Simone. Though the Cable/Deadpool w/ Fabian was quite entertaining.
In answer to the question... my favorite Marvel character always was Spider-Man but I gave up on him in recent years... the clone saga may have had something to do with that, as well as One More Day (or whatever that was called).
At present, I would have to say its
Deadpool (#1 with a bullet)
Sabretooth (though I haven't looked in on him in a while)
Taskmaster
I like many other characters (Silver Surfer, Luke Cage, Punisher, etc but not enough to really call em favorites).
I saw some post about someone who never plays an OP deck w/o Storm. I'm tempted to do that with Deadpool... though I wish I could have the picture from his 3 stat card on the IQ hero.
For real, Deadpool's 3-stat artwork is one of the best in the Original Set, and one of the few that clearly rivals his 4-stat.
Quote from: supercal on August 22, 2011, 07:04:35 PM
@ the dude...
Power Pack made into op... well maybe not as characters, just the name "Power Pack"
And for West Coast Avengers (or Avengers West Coast), Rhodey was Iron Man for the mini series and maybe their appearances in the Avengers books at the time. When the regular series launched, it was Tony in the silver centurion armor - a definite A-list hero. Though I remember how Hawkeye desparately wanted to fill his roster, basically begging the Thing and whoever else he ran into (except Firebird).
@ Kyle
Deadpool is my main man too. I buy almost all of it (even though a lot of it is weak). I've started skipping the guest shots (as there are too many of em, and didn't appreciate seeing Moon Knight slice him up so easily). I agree with you on the Daniel Way stories... I'm surprised they've kept him on so long. My favorite runs were Joe Kelly's and Gail Simone. Though the Cable/Deadpool w/ Fabian was quite entertaining.
In answer to the question... my favorite Marvel character always was Spider-Man but I gave up on him in recent years... the clone saga may have had something to do with that, as well as One More Day (or whatever that was called).
At present, I would have to say its
Deadpool (#1 with a bullet)
Sabretooth (though I haven't looked in on him in a while)
Taskmaster
I like many other characters (Silver Surfer, Luke Cage, Punisher, etc but not enough to really call em favorites).
I saw some post about someone who never plays an OP deck w/o Storm. I'm tempted to do that with Deadpool... though I wish I could have the picture from his 3 stat card on the IQ hero.
Should look into the Big Time to Spider Island period of Amazing Spider-Man. I'd never read much in the way of Spider-Man comics over the years but I thought Slott did a magnificent job. Haven't read any of his work beyond Spider Island yet, though, so I'm not sure if the consistency was maintained.
I was an X-Men (Wolvie/Gambit/Sabretooth/Onslaught and Venom (not quite X-Men, I know)) kid way back. Owned a lot of X-Men comics from the 90's, but never really read them. Been trying to do that lately, as well as catch up on AvX before Marvel NOW! in a couple months, but Batman's been luring me to the darker side that is DC.
Favorite character - Punisher
I think Garth Ennis's last Punisher run & random 1-shots are great.
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Favorite story arc - Age of Apocalypse
With the work and collaboration that must have been put into it it could have easily been a disaster. The combined artwork was phenomenal!
The ONE complaint I have with AoA is that instead of Juggernaut having a brain aneursym when seeing all the chaos around him he should have reached into his backpack & pulled out his helm one last time, kick some ass and then died.
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Combined story & artwork - Guardian Devil
Kevin Smith & Joe Quesada
Quote from: ncannelora on April 12, 2011, 01:20:55 PM
Gambit's my favorite character.
X-men and Uncanny X-men were my favorite books. (haven't yet, but I want to start reading/collecting again, including Legacy).
AoA is my favorite arch.
Gambit is one of the coolest characters, but I like him best when I can be him in a video game, such as the Genesis XMEN games, or Marvel vs. Capcom. Style defined.
As for the XMEN cartoon, same story, but my favorite part is where Gambit and Bishop are playing cards, and they start showing off their powers. Bishops says, "I can absorb your mutant energy and channel it back atcha" then Wolverine pops his claws and says "How'd ya like to try absorbin'
THESE." HAHAHA That cartoon had some great lines! Good stuff:)
Gail Simone's Deadpool was great. Art was great, story was great. I always laugh out loud reading a Deadpool comic. I must say he's around too much now. I mean, I'm glad he's making waves, but they're gonna overdo him like this other great Xcharacter that we know. Overexposure cheapens a character. Wolverine has always had my heart, but gosh, he's in EVERY book on the shelf, including Justice League of America.
Hello SECRET INVASION! I would've loved for part of the conclusion to that story to have been that a bunch of the Skrulls didn't get the memo that one of them was already chosen to be Wolverine for the takeover, and now that the Skrulls had been stopped and all that was over, Wolverine would only be in 2 titles a month. That guy's in more places than McDonald's.
Hulk and Wolverine are the best. But after Planet Hulk and World War Hulk, Hulk has just a tiny bit of a lead on Wolverine. He stomped a mud hole in everyone. Hulk is undisputed in raw power. You can beat him, but kill his happiness, and he literally could destroy everyone. They didn't stop him. He proved he had a heart by submitting. He could've killed everyone. But instead he forgave everyone. I need a kleenex. :'(
My favorite series by far is the Onslaught followed by Secret Wars
not big into comics... don't know where to begin, i heard the Infinity Gauntlet series is magnificent though.
would like to find good comics revolving around Nightcrawler/Archangel, or at least a big part for them playing in the story.
favorite heroes... Nightcrawler, Archangel, Iceman, Silver Surfer, Adam Warlock, Dr.Strange, Colossus, Starhawk, Havok, Human Torch, Vision, Hawkeye.
favorites villains... Mr.Sinister, Juggernaut, Mysterio, Magneto, Galactus, Mandarin, Omega Red, Quicksilver.
Favourite Hero:
My fave has changed over time depending on storylines and events - Wolverine, Beast, Colossus, Spider-man, Iron Fist, Captain America, Sentry, and Hulk. Currently my tops are Silver Surfer and the Winter Soldier.
Favourite Villain:
This too has changed - Sabretooth, Deadpool, Dark Beast, Bullseye, Loki. Nowadays, I'm drawn to Galactus.
Favourite Storyline:
Age of Apocalypse is hands-down my fave; great changes in characters, costume changes and story.