My vote: The Flash
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One of the most accepted truisms in super-hero comics is that there's not a whole lot of new stuff to be found underneath Earth's yellow sun. With seventy years of heroes, villains, selfless acts and dastardly schemes, plenty of creators have come up with bold new ideas, only to find out that they were done years ago. Probably by Jack Kirby.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of the fun of super-hero comics comes from taking those old elements and seeing a new spin on them. Whether they're obvious and intentional stand-ins -- like The Authority's Apollo and Midnighter as Superman-and-Batman -- or creations that try to slip by unnoticed, there are plenty of bootleg versions of super-heroes out there, and some of them actually become great in their own right. And those are the characters we're spotlighting today with a look at The Top Five Greatest Knockoff Characters In Comics!
Read More: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/06/15/knockoff-characters-comics/#ixzz1PPYscBD8
Chris: Remedial Batmanology, ComicsAlliance's in-depth look at the Batman film franchise! This week, we're kicking thing off with one of the most successful and influential super-hero movies ever: 1989's Batman, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton.
.I'm preparing a new post about the theological implications of a statements like these.The first 21st century superhero is a hedonistic, narcissistic, even nihilistic, adrenaline junkie, billionaire entrepreneur do-gooder. If Peter Parker's life lesson is that "with great power comes great responsibility," Tony Stark's is that with great power comes a shit-ton of fun.
You can't get any more Gen Y than that.
