Favorite DC Character Ever

[Navarre]

That seems to be a good question with many characters. As comics generally have a sliding time scale to allow the continued publication of characters not yet in their 80's, it's hard to tell.

Wally was in college at the beginning of New Teen Titans in 1980. So I would guess he was 18 or 19 then.

My best guess is that he is about 25 and will remain there for a very long time.

[Slappy]

When Flash #1 hit the stands starring Wally West, he turned 20 in the book and had a party.  Dick and Donna are older because they welcomed him in as no lomger a teenager.  I forget how it was worded but the idea was that D&D were already 20 or older.

[greyman24]

Well, I believe that Wally's aging was sped up at one point, and that's how they justify the fact that now he's a husband/father figure while "just a short time ago" in Identity Crisis he was considered a kid.

[Navarre]

At least they tried to justify it. That's more than we get sometimes.

[SpiderLover]

I don't read DC up until recently, but I've always been a fan of Dick Grayson. Zantana coming in close second and Wally coming in third.

[Navarre]

Dick and Wally I know from New Teen Titans, of course.

I have never read much of Zatanna. I only think of her as that woman in the magician's costume who quotes her spells backward (which seems the lamest thing ever). I'm sure there must be more to her than that and her bust size.

Why do you like Zatanna?

[ikindadislikekevinsmith]

Ok, right now, my second favorite character is Damien Wayne.  Ok, ok, give me a chance, i can explain.

The single redeeming quality of Damian Wayne is a will to goodness.  He doesn’t know what goodness is, he was grown in a test tube and raised by the League of Assassins.  Everything that this kid has experienced in his life was meant to make him a murderous sociopath.  But he’s Bruce Wayne’s son, so on some instinctive level he knew it was a trap and he escaped it.  In doing so he gave away the key to the kingdom, abdicated his place in the line of succession for the League of Assassins.

So he wants to be a good guy, ok, Robin’s a good guy, so I’ll murder him and put on his cloths, then I’ll be Robin and I’ll be a good guy, hell, it worked for Lando, so he kicked Tim Drake off the dinosaur face. 

But Dick Grayson was going through separation anxiety for Bruce being dead, so he decided to save Damien’s soul out of respect for his pop.  The Batman Robin relationship reversed, so where Robin used to keep Batman out of the abyss, now it’s the other way around.

So his struggle is not one of competence, he’s an awesome Robin, it’s one of judgment.  It’s kind of Dextery. 

Teen Titans don’t quite write him right, yet.  They’re close, though and it’s good.  Batman Brave and the bold did a good elseworlds Damian.  Batman 666 just hurts so good, pill popping monomaniac, in a basement talking to a cat, in a Gotham literally descending into hell, 128 degree average temperature and Satan walks the streets.   Shudder.

[Gaumer]

Sounds like X-23

[Navarre]

Sounds like X-23

That would be one of those young female girls Wolverine is always bringing into his life, wouldn't it? Wolverine is Batman done right, is that what you're saying? 

[Gaumer]

Sounds like X-23

That would be one of those young female girls Wolverine is always bringing into his life, wouldn't it? Wolverine is Batman done right, is that what you're saying? 

That is a huge stretch, buddy

The similarities between Batman and Wolverine cannot be denied. They do have things that set them apart, but I would never place one above the other save that Batman is an OG and in the long run is head and shoulders above Wolverine. But Logan is working on it

I know very little of Damian Wayne. He sounds like a great character though. But from what IKoDKS stated about him he sounds like X-23, a clone of Wolverine trained by an evil organization with their own agenda, with no sense of what doing good is but wanting to discover it and whatnot. It may be a little more deeper with Wolverine being, IMHO, more of an anti-hero than Batman. But that's not for this topic.

[Navarre]

heh No. I was just ribbing you because I can.   

Hawkgirl seems to have some fans but they seem to have been generated more by the animated series than the comics.

[Gaumer]

I know it

I don't read much DC at all, but I think Blackest Night had some Hawkgirl/Hawkman stuff that really made me want to know more about them and their relationship.

But there were too many Wolverine books coming out so I skipped it

[Navarre]

But there were too many Wolverine books coming out so I skipped it

Ha! Fair enough.

I have wanted to learn more about Hawkman and Hawkgirl too. But their origins seem even more convoluted than Logan's and I didn't think that was possible.

[Alisha Mynx]

I have wanted to learn more about Hawkman and Hawkgirl too. But their origins seem even more convoluted than Logan's and I didn't think that was possible.

Maybe that is part of why they have such a confusing history.  Think about it:  Access, the guy who's job it is to keep the DC and Marvel Universes seperate, didn't notice when the Hawkpeople slipped into the Marvel U and had their memories altered by the Weapon X project.  Then right about the time Wolverine went berserk (which I believe is at 5 minutes after the hour, every hour), they slipped back into the DCU with altered memories and adamantium, which they called Nth Metal because it sounds cooler.  And noone but a handful of people know about it, including Superboy-Prime who gripes about it on forums.

 

[ikindadislikekevinsmith]

If you're into hawkman, check this out/

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/15/hawkman-history-lbfa-comics/