Let's say you're in a comicon in Shangri-La, and you meet you all-time favorite artist (dead or alive, because it's Shangri-La) and he/she offers to draw for you a sketch of any one character for free. Who's the artist, and the character?



For me, I'll pick George Perez as my artist. So, the relatively easy part is over. The hard part is choosing the character for him to draw.



My first Marvel comic ever was an issue of Fantastic Four drawn by Perez, and the Thing is one of my all-time favorite characters (as much as I can have a favorite character, since it depends in the writer and the artist, but as least I think the Thing has been more consistently written over the years than most characters) and the only other FF member I really care for is Mr. Fantastic, but he's not very visually interesting.



Then again, a lot of my earliest Avengers comics were Perez, and he of course knocked those out of the park as well. The Avengers is defnitely something I associate with George Perez, more so than the Fantastic Four.  I could ask him to draw Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, Vision, Black Panther, or Hawkeye. All cool looking characters whom I like.



Then again, the New Teen Titans is Perez at the height of his powers, and I loved that book as well. I could ask him to draw one of the characters he co-created (Cyborg, Raven, Starfire) or Kid Flash, who rocks one of my all-time favorite costumes.



So...tough choice here. For some reason, I think I'll go with the Thing. I think I'd be tickled to have a George Perez drawn Thing sketch.