― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:30 (eighteen years ago) link
(99 points)
http://www.austinbooks.com/images/DCArchiveWESpirit17.jpg
Leaving aside the visual mastery and narrative genius of Will Eisner, Denny Colt still stands as a classic character. The Spirit contained everything we would love about adventure heroes in the years to come. Like James Bond, he knew the importance of a well-tailored suit. Like Indiana Jones, he usually took more punches than he threw. He was occasionally cruel to those he cared about, but he always maintained a stoic sense of duty. In a lot of ways, he was camp before camp was cool. (Huk-L)
Greatest Moment: "The Post-War Strips" sez Huk.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― kit brash (kit brash), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
As for the Spirit--it's one of my favorite comics, but does anyone actually like the Spirit? I've never wondered what would happen to him, what he was like, etc. He just seemed like an automated "Main Character" for Eisner to send out into gigantic diminishing points of perspective and multi-colored postmodern metafictions.
― kenchen, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
but this could be any noir hero no? philip marlowe, the continental op...
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Also - this is true of the Surfer too - a "good character" isn't just down to the writer! How the character stands, poses, moves, looks, smiles are just as important and that's where the Spirit picks up points and votes, surely.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
The Spirit contained everything we would love about adventure heroes in the years to come
what i meant was a lot of those qualities were also contained by heroes who were the spirit's contemporaries.
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― kenchen, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
(103 points)
http://www.zeuscomics.com/images/covers/she-hulk-v4-3.jpg
She's big. She's green. She's the smartest gal in the room. She hates clothing. (Huk-L)
A nothing character that lots of people have done a surprising amount with. (Pete)
Greatest Moment: defeating Blizzard with the power of booze (Mark C)
― Tom (Groke), Friday, 5 May 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― asdf, Friday, 5 May 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
And the good Eisner-written stories from the Spirit totally pwn everything he did post-retirement obv.
― kit brash (kit brash), Friday, 5 May 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amadeo (Amadeo G.), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Maybe tomorrow, though...
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Wednesday, 12 July 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 10 August 2006 08:10 (seventeen years ago) link
You're pretty much right -- this would have been circa '42-'45, when Eisner diverted his attentions from comic books to beating the Nazis, albeit using comic books to do it, using them as instruction manuals for GIs. Still, Lou Fine was drawing El Spirito, and since he was one of the three best Golden Age artists, that's no bad thing.
David
― David Simpson (David Simpson), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 10 August 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 10 August 2006 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
23. Heathcliff (Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats)
(4,602 points)
http://www.shoutfactory.com/img/detail/heathcliff.jpg
Imagine Garfield -- but funnier!
― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
22. Juggernaut/Cain Marko (X-Men)http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ea/Juggernaut.PNG
Greatest Moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_3cBmAHjA
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
http://es.geocities.com/beatlescomicsmelgar3/notbrand8b.jpg
He's got a pot. On his HEAD. A pothead, gettit?
Greatest moment: beating the Meatles. Whoops, meeting the Beatles.
― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― c('°c) (Leee), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Wimpy is probably best know forhis consumption of hamburgers, and anything else if hamburgers are not available. Here is his famous, "I would gladly pay you Tuesdayfor a Hamburger today." line.-- David R
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Thursday, 10 August 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link
if calvin's dad isn't top 5 there's something wrong somewhere!! -- J.D.
(not to give anything away JD but i sorta kinda address the "calvin's dad" issue in my comments --- albeit in a way that will possibly disappoint you!!) -- mark s
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 10 August 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
REPENT THE END IS NIGH, FOR WHEN SONIC THEE HEDGEHOGS COMiCS REACH THEE ISSUE 200 THEE END SHALL BE UPON US
-- the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem
― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
“Ah, I love “Drabble”. The dad’s like an unfunny version of me.” -Homer Simpson
― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:55 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/8690/eggfuqc0.gif
"Just a bit of fu"-Tom Ewing
"Mel Gibson was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence. He was released later this morning. The investigation was still ongoing, just like it would be with any other person, especially Egg-Fu."-spokesman for the Los Angeles Country Sheriff's Department
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 11 August 2006 11:48 (seventeen years ago) link
23. Superman (Superman, Action, etc)
(111 points)
"Iconic character. Impossible to write good stories about." Pete
http://theages.superman.ws/History/all-star/sitting-on-a-cloud.jpg
Probably the character whose star has risen the most since the voting closed, with Showcase Presents reintroducing the crazy Silver Age tales, All-Star making a strong case for the same spirit in modern comics, and one of the few good One Year Later renovations. I voted for him, mostly on the basis of his appearances in Morrison's JLA: a particular favourite moment was the panel of him wrestling an angel.
"greatest moment: Superman's Return To Krypton! A novel-length epic written by Jerry Siegel, drawn by (I think) Kurt Shaffenburger and screamed at by Mort Weisinger!" Vic Fluro
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 12:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link