― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 05:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 03:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 15:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link
One one person voted, but gave all his points to Jerry Cornelius before cryptically saying he was off to kill Hitler's grandparents. However he did not finish the sentence because his hand was fading away.
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 15 March 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Saturday, 1 April 2006 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 1 April 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 1 April 2006 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 2 April 2006 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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Looks like Chap was right here.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 2 April 2006 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Sunday, 2 April 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link
And seeing your current quagmire, I take pity and have communiqued with teh Time Variance Authority, and they have given me approval to reveal teh results!
34. Spawn
This beloved character ushered in teh OH NO TEH LIEFELD BOTS ARE HERE TO STOP MY MISSIO---BZZZZzzzzz.
― Kirby Tittor (Leee), Sunday, 2 April 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 6 April 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link
34. Robert Crumb (assorted comics by Robert Crumb)
78 points
http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/crumb/crumb_splash.jpg
Like a lot of great comics creators, Crumb is a mix of genius and crank in varying proportions. Unlike many, he's rarely sought to turn his obsessions into any kind of philosophy - in fact the niggling baseness of the stuff that "gets him going" seems to be what drives a lot of his work. Crumb's placing of his stylised self at the heart of his sex stories is often what stops him turning into just a fetish artist: the lack of distance gives his work a grubby vigour that's grotesque and sympathetic at the same time. And when the Crumb horn dies down his grumpy autobiog vignettes and nerd-joy blues obsessions can still trounce most 'personal' comics.
Greatest Moment: I'll leave that to the experts.
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Vic is OTM, although Mr. Natural's pretty great as well.
― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link
(I can forgive people for not remembering what this poll was about, I admit.)
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 17:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:55 (eighteen years ago) link
"Crumb’s only real character was himself; only thehilarious sharpster Mr Natural came close to having alife apart from his creator. Crumb’s early attempts atself-analysis now seem dated and self-indulgent, butby the ‘80s he’d evolved into a great artist, fullycapable of stepping back to fully appreciate his ownnature – that of a rather unpleasant and neuroticallyself-absorbed man."
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
(81 points)
http://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/games/ps2/action/fantastic_four_ben_grimm.jpg
"Great visuals, and balances angst and gags better than any Marvel hero." (Pete)
"It breaks my heart to say this considering how much I love Jack Kirby, but was there ever a more annoying whiner in the entire history of comics? Get over it already!" (JD)
The Thing is the finest example of a particular Kirby type - the tough reg'lar guy who Gets Things Done. Think Dum Dum Dugan or Terrible Turpin, and then give them rocks. Muscular, street-level, simply heroic, he's almost like the last Golden Age hero as well as one of the lynchpins of the Marvel Age - though the "why am I a monster?" plot could really have done with being dropped after FF#51, rather than remaining as fallback characterisation ever since. He's also a bullshit detector and a guide to the outlandish, and almost any time he's in a 'serious' story his character doesn't work - what more could you ask for?
Greatest Moment: "I know everybody loves "This man, this monster", but to me, the best-written Ben Grimm would be the one Mark Waid did, especially in the last issue of his run. That issue also features my favorite Reed Richards ever." (iodine)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:17 (eighteen years ago) link
(82 points)
http://pc59te.dte.uma.es/cdb/series/max/bitmaps/jessicajones.jpg
"Hard smoking, hard drinking, lumpily drawn." (Pete)
Greatest moment: "Explaining that she can fly, yeah, she's just always had some trouble landing..." (Douglas Wolk)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
I like Reed more than Ben btw.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
Ben Grimm is Jewish? That never occurred to me.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Black panel borders: dud.
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
still... greatest comic book punchline ever?
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
(83 points)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/DrManhattan.jpg
Alan Moore's take on a cosmically powered supercharacter is at heart a standard what-is-this-thing-called-emotion story arc (tho with a last issue twist of sorts) but Dr M is so well realised you hardly care. His mechanistic perspective on the universe maps nicely onto the hyperformalism of Watchmen, and what's more he was naked for pretty much the whole series.
Greatest Moment: "Watchmen #4 in its entirety" (Vic F)
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link
Haha, yes.
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
60. Opus59. Roy Race58. Corto Maltese57. Martian Manhunter56. Guy Gardner (Giffen/DeM)55. Spider-Man (Dan Slott)54. Acid Archie53. Manhog52. Mo51. Black Lois Lane50. Spider Jerusalem49. Optimus Prime48. Flex Mentallo47. Marv46. Darkseid45. Hellboy44. Mek-Quake43. Tharg The Mighty42. Mona Lisa Ludacristits41. A Homosexual40. Cassidy39. Tara Chace38. Robotman (Grant M)37. Wally West Flash36. Astoria35. Emma Frost34. Robert Crumb33. The Thing32. Jessica Jones31. Dr Manhattan
"Stand by" for #30 on!
― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 April 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
(88 points)
http://www.unificationfrance.com/IMG/jpg/xmen_beast.jpg
"One of the few marvel mutant characters to break out of the narrow field and into the larger fictional world, he's changed with the times, remaining on, or at least slightly behind, the forefront of cool. Early experiments with 'beat culture' changed to full-on hippiedom, drinking and 'alleged' smoking of dope. When the mutant comics became angst-filled, meandering plots-that-go-nowhere coolfests, he was there too, tragically losing his supermind by degrees before being replaced by his own evil twin from an alternate Earth! And for the new century, he reinvented himself again as a smooth-talking metrosexual." (Vic F)
"If the X-Men, more than about race or sexuality, are about plain old-fashioned teenage alienation, surely Hank McCoy is one of the best role models the series can muster. He’s been dealt one hell of a rough hand – unlike most of his fellow mutants, his powers are not hidden and he doesn’t look like an extra from “Melrose Place” – and yet he whines about it considerably less than most of his colleagues. Which pays off – first x-man to join the Avengers, respected member of the scientific community, Beast has adapted to real life as well as anyone in his crew. The Marvel universe’s proof that you can be both a giant nerd and the life of any party, and that smarts, wit and bonhomie make up for a hell of a lot." (Daniel_Rf)
Greatest Moment: "At the Coffee-A-Go-Go he is made king of theBeat-niks. His road to ruin begins here." (Vic F)
― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 20 April 2006 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link