snickr replied to your post: Some of these are pretty hard since I’m more of a…

But you can love heroes conceptually, regardless of writer/artist, yes? Some people like the rich-angry-vengeful & others like the dreamy-nice-death-reaper & some like the ultra-violent-blue-collar. What characters do you like the idea of?

I tend to gravitate towards the human and broken and how that works with their idealism. Chamber, who blew off his torso and lower parts of his face when his power emerged and that put adamper on his social skills. Or when it’s blue-collar comics, it doesn’t get more blue-collar than Hellboy. He’s like a hero made from plumbers.

Or Captain America if we’re talking about high ideals — unlike superman he jumps in front of bullets not because it won’t hurt him but because it’s what a hero do.

And then we have when they quickly twisted Deadpool from an assassin into something more interesting by making him into a very mad man who can break the fourth wall. The meta of that gets to me as I love those things.

But to me, a high concept of powers and origin doesn’t speak to me alone. Sadly. Example. Iron Fist. Originally very boring actually, very much a creation sprung from watching karate movies of the seventies. Despite that the 2006-2009 series The Immortal Iron Fist was amazing. Good storytelling can make anything great, just as bad can sink it.

This is the problem: what I like don’t really come out of the base concept. It’s the details. And this means I probably skim over and ignore things that’s good due to them sounding stupid. (Thank God I never ignored Buffy because of the hideous movie.)