The ILC Favourite Characters Of All Time

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

23. Heathcliff (Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats)

(4,602 points)

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Imagine Garfield -- but funnier!

22. Juggernaut/Cain Marko (X-Men)
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Greatest Moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV_3cBmAHjA

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He's got a pot. On his HEAD. A pothead, gettit?

Greatest moment: beating the Meatles. Whoops, meeting the Beatles.

Wimpy is probably best know for
his consumption of hamburgers,
and anything else if hamburgers
are not available. Here is his famous,
"I would gladly pay you Tuesday
for a Hamburger today." line.
-- David R

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

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

“Ah, I love “Drabble”. The dad’s like an unfunny version of me.”
-Homer Simpson

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"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

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

If we have unfinished polls, then suck it.

If Superman has gone up, how far DOWN has Batman gone? Aside from the Morrison issues, he's like a giant turd sitting in my drink.

Yay for Andrew!

Hey, the vagina dentata thread is thattaway!

But please don't post there, Zillaman might come back.

(113 points)

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"He's been good and he's been bad but common sense he never had. During the swinging marvel sixties, nobody was more maniacal than Magneto! But he could reform at the drop of a hat to become a sincere, deep, profound, achingly deep man of immense DEPTH. But we secretly like him better when he's a gibbering freak, as Grant Morrison proved." (Vic F)

Excellent example of a villain who's ethos rather than powers makes him a great foil to the hero(es), and the subject of a grebt essay by Tom on the perils of character growth.

Greatest moment: Answering a door – "Who am I? I am power! Men call me – MAGNETO! And now – come in!" (Vic F)

Did Morrison write this stuff, or it was Claremont meddling?

Yay! The legacy continues! Onward to #1! LET NO ONE STOP US!

I think the answer lies in less short-term factors: Batman's had a pretty great run in media visibility for almost two decades now (from the Burton and Schumacher flicks through the animated series up to "Batman Begins", and of course the 60's show got shown a lot on TV, too), and then there's the Miller stuff, which might not be too popular with ILCers *these days*, but I'm willing to bet most of us went through a phase of thinking "Dark Knight Returns" and "Year One" were pretty hot shit. So between those two factors it seems pretty difficult for a comic fan not to have at least a passing fondness for Batman, while Superman has just been a lto more...avoidable.

Did anybody else have absolutely no interest in Bat/Supes comics when a child? After all the movies, tv shows, cartoons, etc., the comics always felt superfluous.