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Richard Stevens
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Posted: 13 August 2018 at 10:21am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Now you've got me thinking that the X-Men who *should* have had impenetrable accent dialogue were the ones from the future!
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Posted: 13 August 2018 at 10:26am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Red Hulk, Venom, Gambit, Harley Quinn and...sadly...Wolverine...are at the top of my list. 
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Hey Brian,
Thanks!
Just for info's sake:
Honey Badger is the child-aged clone (clone-sister?) of X-23. They're doing a big sis/little sis thing in the current WOLVERINE title.
Cyclops was my favorite X-Man until basically Grant Morrison said "f*ck this guy with a chainsaw" and... bleh. I'm about 100% certain one outcome of the upcoming X-MEN DISASSEMBLED book will be to resurrect Cyclops.
And Red Hulk is no longer Thunderbolt Ross (who's back working for the government). The current Red Hulk is a guy named Gen. Robert Maverick, who can only "Hulk out" by using a regulator that gives him 60 minutes of Hulk-time. It's putting a huge strain on his body so his days as a Hulk are probably short-lived. He was in the USAVENGERS book but hasn't reappeared since AVENGERS NO SURRENDER.
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I'm the reverse of a couple other folks I guess.  I never understood the appeal of Longshot.  Never had any interest in the character, or derivatives like Shatterstar.  Gambit when he first appeared seemed pretty Longshot-ish to me and so made a bad first impression, but especially once he got his own spinoffs, and they fleshed him out more, the character grew on me.  Claremont's writing became pretty unreadable to me at a certain point, and none of the new characters he introduced during that period, at Marvel or DC, really clicked with me until a few of them got into other hands.

And now to be really controversial, for whatever reason, the Silver Surfer never clicked with me as a character.  I love the FF, and obviously #48-50 is a classic.  There are several stories I really enjoyed with the Silver Surfer in them.  But even when creators I really enjoy have worked on the Surfer as a solo property, try as I might, I just can't do it.  The character just doesn't work for me.

Probably the most major character that never worked for me in comics (movie version is pretty much a different character), is Iron Man.  I always thought the armor and the concept was cool.  But as a broke kid, there was nothing about Tony Stark that I connected with at all.  Even from a wish fulfillment standpoint.  Spider-Man I latched onto immediately, but Iron Man was sort of the opposite.
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Any other versions of existing characters, except She-Hulk.
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All the Hulk variations,all the Wolverine variations,all the Spider-Man variations are just mediocre milk the formula characters and nothing more to me.
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Lobo
The New Mutants
The Forever People
Longshot
Red Hulk and Red She-Hulk
Killowog- I really hate that character
Guy Gardner- but I think that's the point
Kyle Rayner
Metamorpho
The Metal Men


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 Eric White wrote:
The Metal Men

Them be fighting words in these parts!

*Puts boxing gloves on* 
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Brian Hague
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That's good news concerning the Red Hulk, Andrew. I prefer the new set-up you describe to the idea of Thunderbolt Ross becoming one more in a pile of Hulks. I would like it even better if the character went by some other name than "Hulk."

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Brian Hague
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Give 'im one for me, Robbie! And another for Rex Mason!

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Spider-Gwen
America Chavez
Squirrel Girl
Gwen-Pool
Carol Danvers Captain Marvel
I really would love to read interesting
female and diverse characters.
This is not them.
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 QUOTE:
Any other versions of existing characters, except She-Hulk.


I’ll steal what JB said, and add the JLAnimated version of John Stewart
as my other exception.
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