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Post by batlaw on Nov 12, 2015 0:24:42 GMT -5
think 95% of the legion of super heroes and the fourth world stuff is just stupid. Outside my ability to suspend disbelief and ignore the silly stupidness of. Similarly, even though I enjoy and accept all the ridiculous crazy fantasy of comics etc, I just have a problem with "stretchy" characters. Somehow I just can't buy it. A guy can fly and shoot ice from his eyes and Im fine, but a guy that can supposedly stretch his arm into the next room and I shake my head and say nope.. too unrealistic.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 12, 2015 1:30:55 GMT -5
I always hated Lois lane. She tried to screw Superman and expose his identity to the world regardless of what it would do to him and his family. So...really just 50s and 60s Lois? |
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 12, 2015 1:31:48 GMT -5
But I would love to get my hands on that John Byrne Superman whatever-it-is DuperSuper posted scans from earlier. I know that Byrne isn't the most reputable of writers, but I love his art. I just do. The Bryne Superman run was a good run. It's not considered to be bad at all. Except the Barda porn... |
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Post by realjla on Nov 12, 2015 4:03:34 GMT -5
Is Vibe from Justice League of America (Detroit) ... I just can't stand his character on the JLA/JLD.  Yo, dude, chu must be WACK. |
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Post by realjla on Nov 12, 2015 4:07:23 GMT -5
I never really liked reading THOR because he talks funny. Verily, methinketh yon 'Stan the Man' , in days bygone, did confuseth his Old Norse and Olde English syntax. Yon results doth bloweth dead bear. I have had enow! |
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 12, 2015 4:11:08 GMT -5
I never really liked reading THOR because he talks funny. He doesn't talk any funnier than Americans do... |
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Post by realjla on Nov 12, 2015 4:13:23 GMT -5
Superman is boring. Not even Alan Moore could make him interesting. I've said this a million times. Superman written by anyone other than Cary Bates or Elliot Starchild! Maggin is just fine. And even Bates was OK in the '70s, compared to Maggin's 'take a bong hit every time the writer makes a Superman-Jesus analogy' period. Early-80s Supes was in bad shape. Seems like CB's Superman went downhill around the time Bates came up with fresh ideas for the Flash. The red guy flourished, the blue guy got stagnant. |
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Post by realjla on Nov 12, 2015 4:18:28 GMT -5
Doctor Doom looks cool and has a great backstory/origin but is an obnoxious tool of a stereotypical villain, always ranting and raving and waving his royal willie. "You DARE to defy Doom?!!?" Please. That, and he's a typical Kirby super-scientist, able to pull the exact never-seen-before-or-since doodad out of his ass the situation calls for. Cei-U! I summon my cancelled Latverian visa! I could never get into the Fantastic Four because, while I loved the Thing and the Torch, Reed, Sue, Franklin, and the supporting cast never did anything for me. OK, Willie Lumpkin is cool, but the rest? Meh. |
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Post by Warmonger on Nov 12, 2015 5:26:11 GMT -5
Superman is boring. Not even Alan Moore could make him interesting. I've said this a million times. Exactly The ultimate goody two shoes, supreme boy scout who never faces any sort of moral dillema or anything. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 6:37:25 GMT -5
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Post by Calamas on Nov 12, 2015 9:09:39 GMT -5
Barry Allen for me...borinnnnnng. Superman is boring. Not even Alan Moore could make him interesting. I've said this a million times. Yes, Barry Allen is. And, I always felt, he's supposed to be. That’s what Geoff Johns never understood. Barry was a dull mid-western guy who so lacked imagination, when he received superpowers he patterned himself after a childhood comic book hero. That’s why his villains are so colorful. The contrast. To a lesser extent I feel the same about Superman. Clark Kent is a disguise. Superman is the persona he shows the world. Neither is a complete person, so neither is particularly interesting. It’s up to the creator’s to make the stories interesting. |
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Post by Calamas on Nov 12, 2015 9:14:01 GMT -5
The Tarantula. A character Conway insisted on using again and again. No super-powers, only a pointy toe. Yet Spider-Man was always scared to death of that toe. He talked and talked about how dangerous the character was and how afraid he was. I was quite glad when Roger Stern came along and did a Spider-Man/Tarantula fight right. He did the same thing at DC with a Batman villain called Black Spider. No other writer was interested in him but Conway brought him back every time he was got a Batman assignment. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 12, 2015 9:14:17 GMT -5
Let's see:
- I agree I hate Deadpool, and really, forth wall breaking in general.
- The only time I was into Wolverine is when he had Bone Claws... otherwise, he's too one note
- I agree Hal Jordan is super boring.. Barry Allen is a close 2nd. I'll take Kyle Rayner and Wally West any day and twice on Sunday.
What I really don't get is the love of Thanos in particular, and Starlin in general. He's a boring character, the art is just Kirby-clone (but not as good), and yet he still always get beat, even though he's Death Incarnate. The Neil Gaiman Goth-Chick version of Death is FAR superior.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2015 9:18:01 GMT -5
I never liked Harley Quinn, Martian Manhunter, Jubilee, or John Stewart and Guy Gardner Green Lantern. Throw Darkseid in there too.
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Post by DubipR on Nov 12, 2015 9:27:21 GMT -5
Hal Jordan is the lamest Green Lantern and DC character created... there I said it.
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