#i actually have very little memory of watching jlu as a kid but when i watched it recently all the memories came flooding back

[fungi-maestro]

Who are your favorite comic characters? Hard mode; no The Question. (VIC OR RENEE!!!!)

Ouh! Surprisingly not that difficult for me haha. I love the Questions, don't get me wrong, but I actually have another comic character that I would probably answer if someone asked me who my favorite is. Sure, I post about Vic a lot more than this person, but I own physical copies of a ton of comics and can attribute my interest in reading comics to them. And this character is..... Squirrel Girl. :) What is it with me and Ditko characters.....

I think she's a really great hero, and she has a sort of bubbly optimism that I found super inspiring when I was a kid. I remember the first time I read a Squirrel Girl comic, I was so shocked that comics could be that fun and interesting, since most of my exposure up until then were comics/superhero cartoons I didn't feel that strongly connected to. I would say my earliest favorite superhero is Wolverine from some 90s/00s X-Men cartoon, but even then I never really cared about his history or character. Doreen Green, aka SG, was the first character I saw and thought, "I need to know everything about this person NOW." and then I started reading comics, then I started collecting them, and now I have a fat stack of TUSG and GLA comics collecting dust on my bookshelf.

To this day, she's the only character that I actually own more than one or two copies of a comic featuring them. Would it surprise you to know that I don't actually have any Question comics (compared to my ~30-40 SG ones)? Maybe someday.......

Anyway other than her, I like Plastic Man. I think he's fun. I also really remember loving Martian Manhunter as a kid from watching JLU and playing a justice league game on my brother's PlayStation, but I haven't read anything with him. I just remember him being really great, plus he could turn invisible and fly in the game. :)

I credit most of my comic love to my brothers, who were always watching stuff like that and playing games like that with me. One of them actually went on to become a professional comic artist, so I would definitely say that they nurtured that interest. Shout-out brothers. A lot of my SG comics were gifts from them once they found out I liked her. Super great and very dear to my heart. I totally recommend reading some Unbeatable Squirrel Girl if you can. Let me know what you think!

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