Thursday, May 5, 2011

Top 5: Sidekicks

This week I was looking around, thinking about what new Top 5 to do when I spied my comic books. However, instead of thinking about all the awesomeness on the covers, I started thinking about all those crazy cool characters not in titles. So here goes, give up your Top 5 comic book characters who aren't title characters. No Batmen, Supermen, Wonder Women, Aquamen... You get the picture.
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  1. The BaconatorMay 7, 2011 at 9:23 AM

    So I had a similar experience to Eyestone. Made a solid list with explanations of my choices for each of these, and then the damn internet crashed... Gonna have to start saving my posts.
    Here's the abridged version:

    1. Rorschach - Watchmen
    Pure awesome, love to hate him. Everything a comic book character should be.

    2. Cassidy - Preacher
    Never finished the series, but loved this guy. F**k Twilight, this is a real vampire.

    3. Doc Manhattan - Watchmen
    Goin right at it, I do have the tattoo after all. Nothing like an all-knowing blue man who is still fallible.

    4. Agent 355 - Y: The Last Man
    Greatest secondary character in recent memory. Even though I was disappointed with all parts of the ending to this story, she still carried a lot of what made this series as awesome as it was.

    5. Jeroen Thornedike (Doctor) - The Authority
    Never have I wanted to be a superhero more than I've wanted to be called upon as the next doctor. I'm just glad I don't have the f**ked up heroin addiction like this guy...


    I'm gonna go read some comics.

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  2. RyanMay 13, 2011 at 9:59 PM

    01. Ira - Moonshadow

    A huge, violent, bitter muppet-esque martian who will teach you how to fight and get you laid.

    02. Grip Glutz - 20th Century Eightball

    An absurd one-off character, Grip is a living, breathing 50's Jonny Quest-inspired action icon. His only friend is an irish squid that
    sets up jokes for him. Here's an example:

    Shamrock Squid - "BUt ye had another sidekick before we met...a lad wise beyong his years, wasn't he?"

    Grip - "That's right, Shammy! But the authorities took him away when they found out I was FUCKING him!"

    Yeah, he fucks kids too.

    03. Muscle Rider - Gantz

    I somehow ended up reading Gantz a few months ago. It's a really grim, ultra-violent science fiction manga. A few chapters in,
    this badass dude who dresses like Ryu from Street Fighter shows up with the sole goal of fighting the toughest dude in the world.
    A toddler character in the book starts calling him "Muscle Rider", which I blame on weak translation. Either way, I liked the idea
    of some tough asshole walking around in the middle of a futuristic sci-fi epic dressed like a ronin who only wants to be the toughest
    dude in the world. If you have time to indulge in 3000+ pages of BADASS, check out Gantz.

    04. Rorschach - Watchmen

    Maybe the best-written character in comics, ever. Can't argue this one at all.

    05. Johann Kraus, Hellboy/BPRD

    He's a gas! Also, BPRD cracks into some excellent character development for this dude, where as his Hellboy origins were treated
    as a novelty at times.

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