The ILC Favourite Characters Of All Time

(190 points)

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Hopey for a new generation! Though I have no idea who the one for now is.

Sometimes the most obvious choice is also the best one. Ghost World is Dan Clowes' finest achievement not because there was a movie based (ever so slightly) on it, but because it's a work of remarkable sympathy and insight about two girls preparing to enter the world of adulthood, one of whom succeeds and one of whom stalls. Clowes' beautifully elliptical storytelling style, which focuses on one moment of epiphany after another, is well suited for the story of Enid and Becky, who thrive on the weird discoveries they make in random places – until that pleasure evaporates along with their friendship. It's Enid who captures our imagination more, though, perhaps because her fate remains uncertain at the story's end. (Justyn)

Enid is one of the smartest, sharpest characters in comics - the graphic novel is at once a celebration of that and a fairly pitiless look at the traps smartness and sharpness can drag you into. (Tom)

pwned by Tuomas :(

Haha! I'd love to see this.

finest achievement

#22!

Also omg expressive rabbit

(192 points)

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Lucy was the most terrifying character in the history
of comics - proud, sadistic, utterly self-centered and
hateful. The most famous running gag in Peanuts
involved her lying to Charlie Brown about an act of
pointless treachery and then offering a hypocritical
excuse for it; in an early episode Linus is seen
crying after Lucy tells him she wishes he'd never been
born. "Beneath the surface there's something tender,"
Schulz once said of her. "But maybe if you scratched
deeper you'd find she's even worse than she seems." (Justyn Dillingham)

Best Moment: Pulling the football; away just as Charlie Brown was about to kick it. (David Simpson)

And a worst character vote from Huk ("What a bitch.")!

It's basically the Countdown to Calvin now as far as I'm concerned.

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it's not copyrighted material, so I don't think I'm violating any ilx rules by posting this link.

I think this should actually do it.

NOTE: contains spoiler if you gave up on Cerebus at a sane point.

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To list exactly why I love Cerebus so much, or believe he's the greatest character ever created in comics, would dominate proceedings so I'll try and keep it short.

Cerebus is all of us. Well, not exactly. Cerebus is all the bits we don't like or don't/can't acknowledge about ourselves and we hate. He's every bit of petty jealousy. Every ounce of manipulation. Our lack of backbone. Our drinking. Our intolerance. Our stupidity. Self aggrandisement. Wanking. Insanity.

As Tom said during the nominations phase, "I'm not voting for Cerbeus because he's a cockfarmer." And that's exactly right. He's boorish, arrogant and frequently entirely wrong-headed. He decides he wants a woman in his life and gets her by painstakingly destroying her husband. When things go wrong, it's never his fault. People can exploit him, but he just leaves.

His finest moment? Easy. At the end of 'Form & Void', having been plagued for some time with an urge to visit his parents but held up with ridiculous behaviour from Jaka. When they get to Sand Hills Creek nobody will speak to him. Cerebus realises they have died.

He is inconsolable. He tears his hair out, rubs mud in his face and, seeing Jaka, vents his frustration with the prophesied words "Go on. Beat it. Scram." She leaves, and he is alone in grief.

He is us, and we are him.