The Distinguished Competition, Part II

[dlw66]

Who is your favorite DC character, and why? If you can't narrow it to one, then by all means tell us about 2-3!! ;D

[Doctor Bong]

Batman. I always tought he was a Marvel character trapped in a DC Universe..

[dlw66]

I would echo that sentiment. The O'Neil/Adams Batman is my favorite, followed closely by the Englehart/Rogers era.

As a kid, and even today in reading back issues, Superboy was always infinitely more appealing to me than Superman. I loved the solo adventures in the 12-15 cent Superboy comics, as well as the Legion. The interaction with Pete Ross and Lana Lang, the back-up Superbaby stories, Krypto... Those are very fond reading memories from my youth!!!

[Doctor Doom]

...BARRY ALLEN!

I've said before, I honestly can't explain it's just the kid inside me.

[balok]

Batman, hands down. He's competent and courageous - with no powers at all save his mind he is one of the pre-eminent heroes of that universe.

Barry Allen and Hal Jordan come in a close second.

Never really got into Superman, for a lot of the same reasons I don't like the Sentry - I think it's really hard to tell good stories about people that powerful, without tricks like kryptonite.

[Shiryu]

Batman all the way. I like Superman too, and I've heard good things about Hal Jordan, but Batman is miles in front of them. I would have loved him to be a member of the Avengers ;D

Things I really don't like instead are the "family of heroes". Captain Marvel comes to mind

[von Bek]

The Wolfman/Perez New Teen Titans. The whole group. I remember being 11 and reading those stories feeling like the character were close friends.

[Tana Nile]

I sound like a parrot, but I have to say Batman as well.

But my real favorites no longer exist - the first DC book I bought was Superboy and the Legion, back when Mike Grell was drawing it. I had only read Marvels until I came across Legion, and something about it seduced me to"the distinguished competition". Of course there is still a Legion book but after so many revisions those characters are really not much like the ones I read way back when. Although I have to admit when I look at some of the costumes they wore back then I have to giggle. Anyone remember Cosmic Boy's black outfit with just his underoos and some fabric on his sides? How did that thing stay up? Magnetically?

[dlw66]

I think I mentioned elsewhere a recent Legion cover with Tyroc on it and he actually has a word balloon over his head (a modern sin, to be sure ) and says, "Does anyone think it's cold in here?"

[Tana Nile]

yeah, Tyroc had a pretty skimpy outfit too. A lot of those old Legion costumes were pure cheesecake/beefcake. And to think all those kids were living together, no parents around...I guess we were lucky there were no Legion babies! Although I haven't been following the new series, maybe there are now?

[The Night Phantom]

One of my earlier DCU series was Green Lantern Corps—you know, the era in which Hal, John, and Guy were joined by various alien GLs as joint protectors of Earth. Unlike a lot of Green Lantern fans, I don’t have a strong attachment to a particular GL—I’m a fan of the GLC concept. The power is itself cool, and I love the idea of its interstellar sodality. It’s a nifty science-fiction concept wrapped in superhero tights.