Top 5 Favorite Comic Book Characters

My favs, pretty conventional:

1) Capt Marvel (Shazam)
2) The Thing
3) Aqualad (Young Justice)
4) Wolverine
5) Batman

1 - Jim Gordon (I've already posted this somewhere else I think and could talk for hours about how much I love him as a character)
2 - Yorick Brown (Y: The Last Man) First non superhero comic I ever read and only comic to ever make me cry and laugh out loud.
3 - Batman because Batman
4 - Superman because Superman
5 - Robin (Tim Drake) the whole Tim Drake/Stephanie Brown arc throughout the years made me love them both so much, felt like an on-again-off-again sitcom relationship. So really the 5 spot is shared by both of them.

I'm going to go have a think about a list that isn't just Loki repeated over and over.

Honestly, though, this is hard, and I haven't even read that many comics!

Damn! That's a heavy question to ask, I'll probably post this and realise I've missed something, but here goes:

1 - Batman

2 - Spider-Man

3 - Joker

4 - Captain Marvel (Princess Sparklefists)

5 - Barbara Thorson (I Kill Giants)

So, bearing in mind that I am v. new to reading superhero stuff and haven't actually read a lot of the "big name" titles like Batman etc., and discounting the movies which would make this an entirely different list:

1. Loki - O.K., so this would be the same for the movies, but I absolutely love the comics version as well and the Journey into Mystery/Young Avengers/Agent of Asgard run brought me back to comics and into reading superhero comics in general. He's complicated and devious and hilarious and frustrating and my heart breaks for him regularly, not least because of all his enemies his worst one is himself.

2. Death - Sandman was the first comic series I ever read, in trade form, and of course I was immediately charmed by Death. The book may have been about Dream, but Death was its heart. Plus, without her letting them go I wouldn't have gotten the Dead Boy Detectives ongoing I'm currently loving.

3. Mazikeen - Lucifer was the second comic series I ever read. I love the complexity of Mazikeen, and the fact that while she's initially presented as being kind of Lucifer's underling, you quickly learn that she has agency and interests of her own to pursue. A really fascinating character.

4. Captain Marvel - I was introduced to Carol Danvers with Kelly Sue DeConnick's run and became an immediate fan of the character for her heart, heroism, and strong relationships with women. I haven't liked the past couple of issues in the new arc as much but the character remains one of my favorites.

5. Leah - I mean, I kind of had to with my avatar, didn't I? I know she's sort of an out-of-left-field choice, but to me Journey into Mystery wouldn't have been the book it was without Leah. Her relationship with Loki was so true to life and charming, and their ending, realizing who she would become, was heartbreaking. I still tear up at the BFF moment. And then her reappearance in Young Avengers with the sassy new Jamie McKelvie redesign had me literally gasp and say "Yes!" when I saw her on the page. I love Leah, basically.

This was so hard! I'm sad to have left off: all of the Young Avengers, particularly America Chavez who is badass and I would like to be her when I grow up; Ms. Marvel Kamala Khan, who is precious and courageous and makes my week every month I pick up her book; the Runaways, collectively, especially Gert who was OMG A PLUS SIZE GIRL IN A COMIC; Cloak and Dagger, the team I discovered through Runaways and am now collecting; and all the characters I haven't met yet or haven't read enough of or the right book to add them to my favorites list!

Mmm lets see...

1 - Barbara Thorson(I Kill Giants) - Thought very long about this, but as much as i love superheroes i had to go with this character, mostly because i can absolutely relate to her and what she's going trough in this book.

2 - Spider-Man - My favourite super hero.Spidey was one of the first heroes i got introduced to as a kid and i still love everything about him, the costume, the powers, supporting cast, and the villains.

3 - Batman - What can i say...he's the goddamn Batman...

4 - She-Hulk - My favourite female superhero, mostly because she's always so well written in her solo series, and she has everything that a great super hero character needs, humor, intelligence, bravery and bad-assery.To me she's a lot more than just the Hulk's cousin.

5 - Bigby Wolf(Fables) - This spot could have also gone to other Fables characters like Boy Blue or Flycatcher, but since Bigby is more or less the main character of the book and i've always liked his backstory a lot i had to go with the Big Bad Wolf.