Favorite Comic Moment

Hellblazer is replete with such cool moments

Another favorite is when the King of vampires attacks to feed off Constantine and the King vamp's teeth and jaw rot away from John's demonically tainted blood.

John uses the temporary weakened condition of the vamp to drag him into sunlight - then pee on his smoldering remains - laughing his a$$ off

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Dedi

Deadeye, that does sound cool hehe.

LotA, I see what you're saying, but a character's name shouldn't fortell a character's future persay. Bishop (a black man... hence "Black Bishop" isn't destined to fight the White Queen to the death, is he? Cyclops isn't destined to be killed by a character named Odysseus, is he?

Sometimes a name is just a name, and even so, they already did the whole death and rebirth thing with Jean to death (no pun intended for once )... doing it over and over and over again gets stale very fast. Besides, I'm still miffed that they even brought the pheonix force to Jean to begin with. Jean was never the pheonix. It was the pheonix pretending to be Jean. The pheonix bonded with -Rachel-, not Jean. There was no reason other than (imo) a poorly written retcon to explain why the pheonix would abandon Rachel and bond with Jean.

Punstarr, you should really appreciate the irony of the name, and should have seen it coming a mile away. I mean, really.... Naming a character's persona/character/psychotic episode/alien/whatever after a mythical bird which is born/reborn, out of an egg or not, in the fire of it's/it's mothers/it
s father's death/ashes(I think that covers all the variants on the general mythos of the phoenix I have heard, sorry if your favorite was missed) is just asking for repeated self-sacrifice of the character. You wouldn't expect a character named "slash" to not have a blade fetish, nor a character with the moniker "PunStarr" to be the fall-guy, so why would someone named after a dead again, alive again yearly/annually bird(or close equivilant which loves pomigranites) to survive? Down that road lies madness, and off the side of it lies a glen and in that glen lies a dale, and Adale needs help with her tv service today, can you tell her why there are only 7 quarters of the football game she cannot see with her x-ray specs? Anyway, I seem to have wandered off the point, which was the name is just BEGGING to have the Lazarus issue(born 12/12/1902 died 7/15/1930 born 9/11/1942 died 9/11/1969 born 7/11/1970 died 7/11/1977 born 7/11/1977 died 7/11/1977 born 7/11/1977 died 7/11/1977(It was a KILLER party) born 2/14/1982 died[this space intentionally left blank]).

Not meant rude and it's late so sorry if it seems that way.

I love it when someone outsmarts the devil Especially when he outsmarts them TWICE

And no finer exponent of this is JOHN CONSTANTINE -from the HELLBLAZER comics books in the graphic novel "DANGEROUS HABITS" - Where John's dying of Terminal Lung cancer from his chainsmoking habit .

THE FIRST TIME
When saying goodbye to a dying Irish friend - Brendan Finn - he saves his soul from being collected by Satan.
For Brendan has sold it to create and own the best Alcohol in the world.

Constantine tricks Satan into drinking Holy Water magically disguised as Guiness.
John uses the opportunity to smash him in the face with a wine bottle "STICH THAT" and dissolves Satan back to hell in a Well spring of HolyWater blessed by Saint Patrick.
Satan vows to make Constantine's Soul suffer worse than anyone ever sent to hell and The Devil hasnt got long to wait.

THE SECOND TIME
John hatches a plan to save himself from eternal torment, secretly selling his soul to Satan's equally powerful brothers.
When they discover Constantine's trick, they find themselves in a position where they would be forced to go to all-out war over his soul.
Weakened by a recent civil war in Hell, the three wouldn't dare wage war on each other as Hell woud be destroyed this time and the only winner of a war in Hell would be God and his angels.
As a result, they were forced to cure John of his cancer and keep the crafty Mage alive.

And as the cream on the cake as Constantine walks away from Satan -
he flips him THE FINGER

PURE GOLD

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Dedi

Yeah..........maybe that was actually a Skrull

Not at all. Marvel made the biggest mistake when they killed their own adage of "only Bucky stays dead". What's next? The return of Uncle Ben?

I was actually going to go on a little rant about that and how Marvel has diluted the impact of that story with the numerous re-incarnations and eventual deaths of Jean.

Is it me or has it gotten so bad that it just seems like a joke??? I mean, isn't everyone expecting Steve Rogers to re-appear as Captain America any minute now? If a character were to STAY dead, that would be a shock these days!

And that's why I've given up on reading comics. For every great moment (Roy Harper donning the Red Arrow costume is probably the most recent) there are far too many awful ones to keep me coming back (the conclusion of Civil War was seriously lacking).

But that's just my opinion. Perhaps now that I'm older I expect more from comics and maybe my standards are too high? I just don't want to get caught up in the "next big event" or "this season's Mega-crossover". I just want good stories about the characters I care about.

Is that too much to ask???

I remember. That was pretty big. Too bad she's now become the token death character now. How many times has she died now?

Hands down, the best moment for me was X-Men #137, the original death of the Phoenix story. I was lucky to start reading X-Men just as this storyline was developing and I tell you, those characters were real to me. Jean's sacrifice was a shock at the time because Marvel didn't paste "In this issue -- An X-Man DIES!!" all over the place. It really had an impact on me and still does to this day.

Mine is Superman having coffee with Mr Majestic

That's why I like Batman, he's insane but doesn't realize it. Dude runs around in tights, recruits kids to fight super-powered freaks, has a butler, a hundred vehicles, computers, and exercise programs to maintain a day, and somehow, in all the craziness that is his job and life, he has the notion to go visit Two-Face in Arkham and play Chess with him. WTF, Batman?

Here's mine.