The Comic Book Survey

[aTOMiC]

I'm curious about all the opinions the Comic Book fans here at KW have so here are mine.

1. Top 5 Favorite Comic Characters
Iron-Man
Spider-man
The Thing
The Hulk
Black Widow

2. Favorite Comic Company
Make Mine Marvel

3. Top 5 Favorite Comic Artists
John Byrne
George Perez
Dale Keown
Gary Frank
Neal Adams

4. Top 5 Favorite Comic Writers
David Micheline
Peter David
Chris Clairemont
Joss Whedon
Gerry Conway

5. Favorite Superhero Team
The Avengers

6. Favorite Comic Monster
The Manthing

7. Favorite Comic Era
silver age

8. Favorite Comic movie adaptation
Spiderman II

9. Top 5 Super Villians
Dr. Doom
Thanos
Magneto
The Mandarin
Green Goblin

10. Age you bought your first comic.
12 (not counting comics that were given to me earlier)

11. Age you bought your last comic.
39

[matrixman]

Nearly all of my favorite characters and stories have come from DC. But I haven't read any new comics for years. I don't pretend to keep up with all the new comic book companies. The quality of reproduction of today's comics is amazing, though.

[duchess of malfi]

The only comic books I have read lately are the ones based on GRRM's The Hedge Knight, from Roaring Studios, and with fantastic artist Mike Miller.

[Baradakas]

Marvel rules over all, but I still love Superman, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter.....

[CovenantJr]

Well well, Marvel is kicking some behinds in here. I voted Marvel, because I'm a comic novice, but Spiderman, the X-Men and the Transformers comics I read as a kid are all Marvel.

[Gart]

I have to go with Marvel as well. I always liked their comics far more than DCs; Marvel had continuity in their books and in their whole universe, whereas DC (at least when I was buying) was all over the place with multiple earths and so on.

And also, I absolutely loved the character of Phoenix and the whole Dark Phoenix saga (X-men). I think I still have that letter from Jim Shooter somewhere...

[Avatar]

The only ones I've still got are the 4 LegionQuest ones, and the Age of Apocalypse, Alpha to Omega that they are the prelude to.

Gave away all the rest to a friend who collects them, and don't really have a preference.

[matrixman]

Hmm...curious how there seems to be a sharp division between DC and Marvel fans, at least here. Well, I don't actually hate Marvel...but given the choice between a Marvel or a DC comic, I'd pick up the DC.

Favorite DC characters:

Dr. Fate
Superman
V (V For Vendetta)
Martha Washington (Give Me Liberty)
John Constantine (Hellblazer) -- speaking of which, it's been turned into a movie! Constantine will be played by some actor named Keanu Reeves.

Favorite Marvel:

Thor
The Punisher
Dr. Strange
Silver Surfer
Spider-Man (okay, is it small 'm' or capital 'M'??)

Other:

Really liked Magnus Robot Fighter for a brief shining period. I pictured him as a futuristic Haruchai as he crushed them nasty robots with his bare hands.

Favorite superhero team:

um...er...Watchmen?

Favorite superpower:

Dr. Fate -- sorcerer of cosmic power. Nothing much fazes him/her. Just don't know what the heck happened in that goofy DC universe meltdown which somehow turned my beloved Dr. Fate into simply some guy named "Fate." I'm not sure I want to know.

Dumbest superpower weakness:

Green Lantern being ineffective against anything colored yellow. That is lame beyond words, people. I've heard, though, that this vulnerability has been rectified. So...he's only useless against, what, purple now?

[Roland of Gilead]

I didn't vote, because my favorite comic company, CrossGen, wasn't a choice.

I just got into some of their comics a few months ago, and then they went under. A damned shame.

CrossGen was doing things I'd never seen before, although I admit I'm a novice in the field. I wasn't interested in super-hero stuff, so the four comics I tried were Brath, Sojourn, El Cazador and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Brath was Conan-like, about psuedo-Scottish clans resisting a Roman Empire. El Cazador was a pirate saga. Kiss Kiss was a send-up of the sixties secret agent genre.

And Sojourn, the best comic I've ever read, was epic fantasy. Greg Land was a superb artist.

Now they're all gone.

Way back when I really liked Mike Grell's Warlord, so I guess I'd vote for DC as second choice. And I'm a fan of Preacher, and isn't Vertigo an off-shoot of DC? So yeah, I'll go with DC. By default.

[danlo]

1. Top 5 Favorite Marvel Characters
Daredevil
Silver Surfer
Dr. Strange
Conan
Black Panther


Top 5 D. C.
Flash
Green Latern
Batman
Hellblazer
Supe

2. Favorite Comic Company
Make Mine Marvel

3. Top 3 Favorite Comic Artists
Frank Miller
John Byrne
Gary Frank


4. Top 5 Favorite Comic Writers
never really paid attn.

5. Favorite Superhero Team
X-Men (Metal Men was way cool, way back in the day)

6. Favorite Comic Monster
Vampirella Yeah BABY!

7. Favorite Comic Era
Miller's DD years

8. Favorite Comic movie adaptation
X-Men 2 (Hellboy previews look damm hot, tho...)

9. Top 5 Super Villians
Galacticus (I know, strange, debatable)
Kingpin
Punisher (back when he was a bad guy)
Juggernaut
The Brain (the little guy with huge head who messed w/Hulk)

10. Age you bought your first comic.
6 (major Hulk freak till 12)

11. Age you bought your last comic.
'92 (but I browse DD pretty hard every 4 months or so...)

12. Hottest Comic Gals aside from Vampy
Hel---what's her name, red hair-think she's a Valiant character
Electra
Medusa
Poison Ivy
Aedon Flux

13. Greatest Silly comic
Groo the Warrior

14. Coolest short-run comic
Mr. (or Captian) Universe (I think that was it's name-an invisible entity that inhabited different people and turned them in a Superhero every month or so...circa 1978?)

[danlo]

Here ya go--Captian Universe (Marvel)--first appeared 1954! But had best drawn personal run '80 and '81

Captain Universe is the generic name for the recipient of the Uni-Power, a special kind of energy that endows an individual with a host of superhuman powers. The Uni-Power is a manifestation of the Enigma Force, an extradimensional energy originating in the subatomic realm called the Microverse, wielded by the ethereal Time Travelers. The Uni-Power appears to be a floating globule of luminescent energy that appears seemingly from out of nowhere to engulf an individual, conferring upon him or her the costume, powers and knowledge of Captain Universe. The Uni-Power only manifests itself at a time of crisis - be it personal or worldwide - and withdraws when the crisis has abated. How it chooses the individual who get full possession of the Uni-Power to solve his or her crisis is yet known. The Uni-Power does not remain unmanifested for very long. It transfers from one person to another across the face of the world with no perceptible time lapsing between. At all times somewhere on Earth there is a Captain Universe (once, a pair of twins were Captains Universe simultaneously).

The Uni-Power can be manipulated by each Captain Universe in a variety of ways, dependent upon each recipient's imagination and strength. The Uni-Power amplifies strength about fifty times Thus if a person can normally lift (press) 150 pounds, he or she would now be able to lift approximately 7,500 pounds. Each Captain Universe is also granted the ability to fly by harnessing the Uni-Power's energy to generate antigravitions. The Uni-Power also grants the ability to manipulate structure of objects, changing one shape into another, or even transmuting the elements of an object from one substance to another. This power of molecular manipulation extends to both organic and inorganic matter. Thus the Uni-Power can be used to heal wounds by rearranging the molecules of flesh, tissues or organs, or it can be used to alter the physical characteristics of a person (enlarging the hands of changing their features). The Uni-Power can also be wielded like an energy-beam, generating a luminous burst of energy with a concussive force determined to an extent by the user's ability. The Uni-Power also grants each Captain Universe Uni-Vision which enable the user to see the molecular structure of an object, to see through walls, or to see long distances away. The Uni-Vision is emitted by Captain Universe's eyes and produces a visible beam of energy. This energy has certain hypnotic-side-effects: a skillful wielder of the Uni-Vision can use it to hypnotize people into telling the truth.

So far, the identities and exploits of but a handful of Captain Universes have been disclosed. The first was ex-astronaut Ray Coffin (MICRONAUTS #8) who wielded the Uni-Power to help battle the Microversian tyrant Baron Karza. Other recipients have been Steve Coffin, the son of the original Captain Universe (MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #9), the twins Clare and Ann Dodgson (MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #10), the cat burglar Monty Walsh (MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #11), the Hulk's alter ego Bruce Banner (HULK ANNUAL #10) and the sorcerer supreme Doctor Strange (MICRONAUTS #35).

(We're GEEKED, we're stoked, who's your daddy?, yeah baby toot, TOOT! )

[Baradakas]

Spider man also wielded Captain Universe power to battle the Tri-Sentinel....

[dANdeLION]

1. Top 5 Favorite Comic Characters
Spider-man
The Hulk
Promethea
Iron Fist
Jakita Wagner

2. Favorite Comic Company
Marvel

3. Top 10 Favorite Comic Artists
Jim Steranko
Barry Windsor-Smith
John Romita
John Byrne
John Cassady
Jack Kirby
Berni Wrightson
Gary Frank
Carlos Pacheco
Jae Lee

4. Top 5 Favorite Comic Writers
Peter David
Stan Lee
Len Wein
J. Michael Straczynski
Jim Starlin

5. Favorite Superhero Team
The Fantastic Four

6. Favorite Comic Monster
Swamp Thing

7. Favorite Comic Era
silver age

8. Favorite Comic movie adaptation
Spiderman II

9. Top 5 Super Villians
Dr. Doom
Thanos
Dr. Octopus
the Leader
Ultron-5

10. Age you bought your first comic.
12

11. Age you bought your last comic.
40

[A Gunslinger]

1. Top 5 Favorite Comic Characters
Spiderman
Magneto
Daredevil
Batman
Superman

2. Favorite Comic Company
Marvel

3. Top 5 Favorite Comic Artists
John Byrne (though his work recently stinks..80's Byrne..GREAT!)
George Perez
JACK KIRBY (all hail the king)
Frank Miller
Barry-Windsor Smith


4. Top 5 Favorite Comic Writers
David Micheline
Peter David
Chris Clairemont
Frank Miller
Alan Davis

5. Favorite Superhero Team
The X-Men/Fantasitic Four

6. Favorite Comic Monster
The Thing (at least in his own eyes!)

7. Favorite Comic Era
silver age

8. Favorite Comic movie adaptation
Spiderman II

9. Top 5 Super Villians (Magneto is no villian...nor is Galactus)
Proteus (a great X-movie villian...c'mon Singer!)
The Collector
Dr. Doom
Ultron_5
Green Goblin

10. Age you bought your first comic.
9
11. Age you bought your last comic.
35

[A Gunslinger]

Superpower you would most like to have:

Mind Control/Reading

A person could do a lot of good with such a power, if one could remain sane and in control of it.

[dlbpharmd]

1. Top 3 Favorite Comic Characters
Superman
Green Lantern
Batman

2. Favorite Comic Company
DC

3. Top 3 Favorite Comic Artists
John Byrne
George Perez
Curt Swan

4. Favorite Superhero Team
Legion of Super Heroes

5. Favorite Comic Monster
Doomsday

6. Favorite Comic Era
silver age

7. Favorite Comic movie adaptation
Spiderman II

8. Top 5 Super Villians
Darkseid
Doomsday
Luthor
Joker
Two Face

[Byrn]

Bah, Dark Horse is the coolest.

But the Comics I read as a kid spread pretty evenly between Marvel, DC, Image, Malibu and Dark Horse.

Were's the Lobo love.

"Bite me Fanboy"

[___]

Superpower you would most like to have:

Mind Control/Reading

A person could do a lot of good with such a power, if one could remain sane and in control of it.

Heh, tell me about it....I have enough of a problem staying sane with my powers.....

[TIC TAC]

Superpower you would most like to have:

Mind Control/Reading

A person could do a lot of good with such a power, if one could remain sane and in control of it.

Heh, tell me about it....I have enough of a problem staying sane with my powers.....

What powers? Compared to THANOS, who wishes the total destuction of all life in the universe (and has come very close serveral times), your puny powers are........well frankly they'er pretty impressive.

[matrixman]

I remember Thanos...he's that guy from Infinity Gauntlet. I know, that was a while back. (I said I hadn't read any comics for years.) It was an interesting story until the 2nd last issue or whatever, when I realized logic and credibility had left the building. It was all about selling a glossy comic book, not telling a good story. (Ooh, shocking.) Then after the Infinity Gauntlet came the Infinity Watch or something. Great. Have they gotten to the Infinity Cufflinks yet?

No offense to any Thanos or Marvel fans intended.


And since I'm on a rant: why are divine or cosmic beings drawn with MUSCLES? Why do they require muscles? Seeing an early muscular "Eternity" was...strange. Exactly who is Eternity--the embodiment of all that is-- trying to impress??

Yes, pointless questions. No answer except "that's just how they're drawn."