A while back there was a topic on Wizard's Top 100 comicbook characters. This got me really interested to know who you guys think would be the least popular/favorite comic book hero/character today? And so as not to be one sided, who would think would be the top 10 most popular comic book hero/character today?
Thanks in advance for any feedback on this.
Do you mean "unpopular" as in "nobody knows about them" or as in "people know about the character but they generally hate/dislike it"?
If it's the former, it could be any one of what I'm sure are thousands upon thousands of obscure comic book characters that have been created over the years.
If it's the latter... well that's harder to speculate on. As much as people online and in comic book shops like to complain about Wolverine/Batman/Superman showing up everywhere, people still buy comic books featuring these characters in droves, so they seem to be very popular with a large, but perhaps less vocal, portion of the comic book buying population.
I think the most "unpopular" characters, in one sense, are the ones that used to be featured on major comics and strips, but have fallen out of favour because of changing social and political mores. Characters like The Spirit's Ebony White (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebony_White) or Walt Disney's Boy Thursday (http://sickopath.com/mmbtp1.html). Both were somewhat acceptable characters back in the first half of the 20th century America, but whose appearance would probably be seen by most as a horribly stereotyped and racist depiction now... Disney's Thursday (and his brother Boy Friday, who was featured in a popular 1935 animated short) is particularly offensive not just because of how he was drawn but also because of how he was shown to be little more than an animal in his antics. These characters will probably never be "re-popularized" in their original form (they didn't even bother updating the Ebony White character in the upcoming Spirit movie... they just wrote him out of it entirely).
Thanks again Zulu for that feedback. As to your question, i was thinking about the latter. Those unpopular comicbook heroes, which people don't like much. I was also hoping to get some feedback on Marvel/DC comicbook characters. Now that i think about it, i guess it is rather hard to speculate on which characters these might be. :doh:
I tried looking at comicvine, and they have a section there where they have a list of comicbook characters and how much comic book issues have been done for them. I'm not really sure, but i guess it kinda gives me some idea on whose popular and whose not. :wacko:
Just wondering which character has the most and least fans. :blush:
I'll try looking for any other websites that could offer more information.
Prez.
Hey, Prez isn't so bad. But I also like Brother Power, so what do I know?
I guess you'll always find SOMEBODY who likes unpopular characters. And let's not even get started on indies here. There's characters that are unpopular simply because nobody has heard of them. On the other hand, some are just really awful. Like, say... Malibu Comics.
It's the artwork that does it for me-Grandinetti could do better.
And I like The Geek also.