Surfer and Thor? You kidding me? Surfer has nothing but good showings and crappy showings... Written well, he IS the fine line between Earth bound and Cosmic.
I don't think I've EVER seen Thor massively overrated here...
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Maybe you should put "DC" in front of your username.
Most overrated
1. Supes(and lame)
2. Batman(Cool character, but people let that go to their heads)
3.Wolverine(Extremely cool character, but people let that go to their heads) Yeah. Martial Artists are cool though.
damn this shit's going to be so unanimous... it shouldnt be asked
we all know people will say wolverine... i can not only predict it, i can smell it
ok let's see why:
he defeated spidey more times than not...
he cuts the hulk
he survived a punch from namor
he stabbed the thing
he survived a nuke
he survived a full sentinel blast (destroyed his flesh)
he almost killed human torch
he stabbed magneto
and
he regenerated from a drop of blood
yep. those are probably the main reasons people will give.
but does he sell? YES. does he appeal to both comic readers and non-comic readers? yes. is he the most bankable character in the comic biz? without a doubt.
let's talk about his personality too. is he a good character? definitely. is he a good person? not really.
in fact in the last issue of his self-named ongoing title(#31), fury said he killed 1,800 people from jersey to japan searching for the boy who died. the boy that caused the EOTS arc. damn. that alone speaks volumes of the man's character.
...Superman?
While Supes is the prototypical superhero, I don't see him as an interesting character. He's extremely powerful and is too much of a square-jawed boy scout for my liking. He does have a place in the DC Comics universe, but outside of a couple episodes of Justice League, I've never seen him written as an interesting character.
Also, his movies suck. I like Superman 3 because of the fight between evil Supes and Clark Kent, but that's it. Christopher Reeve made a great Superman, but the movies had some ridiculous twists in them that showed that the writers had worked themselves into some serious corners. Lois Lane dies, so he turns back time. Time travel is always lame (I'm looking in your direction, J.K. Rowling) unless it's the focus of the story. Other films gave him lame powers that came out of nowhere, like the kiss of amnesia and rebuilding the Great Wall of China vision.
...Batman?
I like the core concept of Batman. Put him in the hands of Alan Moore, Jeph Loeb, or hopefully Christopher Nolan (director of the upcoming Batman Begins film) and I love Batman. But he's usually written really poorly. Most of my dislike of the character can be summed up in Frank Miller's story The Dark Knight Returns. This alternate universe tale is considered a classic Batman story and serves as inspiration for many modern Bat-tales. At the end of DKR, the government calls in Superman to stop Batman's one-man crusade...
First problem: Thanks to some massive military technology and some Kryptonite, Batman beats Superman. This seems to have spawned the notion that Batman is unbeatable if he has time to prepare for a fight. No. That's dumb. Batman is mortal. His rogues gallery is mortal. I don't care how long he prepares; if he goes up against someone who can casually fly through a sun, he gets his ass owned 99 times out of 100.
Second problem: The narrative makes Batman out to be justified in his actions. No. Batman is a lunatic. Just because he lost his parents does not give him the right to run around at night and beat up criminals. The only reason that anyone should sympathize with that psycho is that it's a comic and he usually manages to direct his rage in a constructive manner. Even then, the question should linger as to whether or not Batman is actually a good guy. Not enough folks in the comics (or the audience) ask that question. -Charlie Martin ( http://www.uvm.edu/~chmartin/ )
These are the words from a comic book reader who knows the truth and doeasn't let hype rule his judgement.
read the comics... if you can get past the obvious back slapping i think you'd really like it... for a time i hated him... i thought what most people do, but i gave the comics a chance... i didnt regret it...
The movies arent fair... and it was a generation ago... the public was different back then...
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Aug 28th, 2005 08:57 PM
Maybe you should put "DC" in front of your username.
screw you whirsplatt mike jones is hard
