There were a few Rebirth costumes that I liked-- Superman finally had a version of the no-trunks look that I could get behind before they put the trunks back on him, Supergirl's previous costume was a perfectly good classic-style outfit, Jon's costume is a great fit for a Superboy-in-training, I liked that they just went ahead and made Wonder Woman's movie outfit her official costume since I thought that was a great compromise between the old one-piece bathing suit and all the different sets of over-designed battle armor they keep slapping on her, Starfire and Raven no longer look completely ridiculous.......

....and that's about it.

Not a fan of Raven's particularly, nor Starfire's. Both aren't terrible, but I like the previous iteration of Starfire's costume more, the one from her solo series. Raven's best costume is arguably her animated costume I think.

I love Batman's Rebirth suit and am actually pretty bummed that he's arbitrarily going back to the Hush design. I get putting Superman back in the trunks to a degree, but Batman moved beyond that look a long time ago without any real problems.

Rebirth seemed like a natural progression of all the suits from the past. The purple cape was a cool change of pace and a nice nod to the original gloves, I liked the belt quite a bit, and the yellow trim around the symbol was uniquely suited to bridge the Bat and Oval symbols.

Now he's just going back to looking like dude in tights again after Capullo nailed the armor meets bodysuit aesthetic.

Guess I can add that to my long list of grievances with King's run.

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Not a fan of Raven's particularly, nor Starfire's. Both aren't terrible, but I like the previous iteration of Starfire's costume more, the one from her solo series. Raven's best costume is arguably her animated costume I think.

Agreed on both counts. I'll still take their current looks over their atrocious designs from the New 52 any day, though.

There were a few Rebirth costumes that I liked-- Superman finally had a version of the no-trunks look that I could get behind before they put the trunks back on him, Supergirl's previous costume was a perfectly good classic-style outfit, Jon's costume is a great fit for a Superboy-in-training, I liked that they just went ahead and made Wonder Woman's movie outfit her official costume since I thought that was a great compromise between the old one-piece bathing suit and all the different sets of over-designed battle armor they keep slapping on her, Starfire and Raven no longer look completely ridiculous.......

....and that's about it.

Flash I can get behind... But then it never changes much. I like Wally's costume. It's a nice balance between that he wore as Kid Flash and as the Flash

While I'm thinking about it, have we ever done just a straight-up "what's your favorite design" talk yet? Not necessarily your favorite era of a character, just your favorite look that they've had. Outfit and/or artist.

For example, Batman's had a godjillion different takes on the Bat-suit, but to me it's always gonna be the Bronze Age Neal Adams look. The blue-and-gray, the yellow circle, the utility belt with capsule-things instead of pockets, ears at just the right length so they're not little stubby bumps or giant devil-horns, and a build that's designed more for swashbuckling than for brutality. In much the same way that most people can't say 'Superman' without immediately conjuring an image of Christopher Reeve, this is the immediate Batman that comes to my mind:

@Master Bruce nu52 Flash. Ballsy.

I'm just headed to bed so will have to skip on this conversation but I'll throw up my limited picks tomorrow, I only got into comics a couple of years ago so I don't have this massive history you all do with the characters. A byproduct of rural living in Scotland as a kid, even as an adult I have to order them online as there isn't a shop near me. Yes I can read them online, Which I tend to do for Flash but I also like physical copies.

@Master Bruce Very surprising Batman pick. Never expected you to go so controversial.

Before I go to bed, as one of the few picks I'm going to make. I have to say. World War Hulk to me, takes the cake.

It's got his brutal element, his gladiator element as well as the crown which is a pretty important item of memrobelia. Especially for as far as the heroes on Earth are concerned, this is a very evolved Hulk.

Least favourite has to be:



The Indestructible Hulk. Just the way the armour looks, and I suppose also the artwork he looks like a Green Goblin reject.

@Master Bruce Very surprising Batman pick. Never expected you to go so controversial.

Well, it was either that or this. And while I love this to death, it'll probably always rank second.



Honestly, my taste in Batsuit designs tend to vary. I like the Young Justice animated suit alot aswell, and the suit in the Arkham Asylum game. There are few Batsuits I utterly loathe, so for the pick of 'least favorite'...

I'll go ahead and put the rest of my picks in as well. You've already seen my pick for Batman, so let's go with a few more:

















Switching over to Red Team:

Thanks for the hider tags, guys. If I saw this page had thirty-six thousand images on it I would have bailed pretty fast.

Green Lantern [+]

Kyle Rayner's pretty much the only Lantern that doesn't either put me to sleep or get on my nerves, and on top of that, he's got the biggest wardrobe to choose from. Sadly, most of his costumes are kind of lame (why do they keep giving him that mask with no nose?!), but I really like this one. Cool minimalist logo, a few glowy bits here and there to make him look appropriately sci-fi, but still immediately recognizable.

Aquaman [+]

While the Sword of Atlantis book itself never really did it for me, I really liked the costume design, which I thought really brought home the whole "King Arthur, but, y'know, underwater" angle.

Close second goes to his underwater camouflage costume from the 80s. I mean, if you want to convey that the guy spends all his time in the deep blue sea, how about putting some actual blue on his costume?

Supergirl [+]

Is Bruce Timm a dirty old man who draws all of his women like something you'd see sprayed on the nose-cone of an old B-17? That argument can certainly be made. Do I mind? NOPE!

Batgirl [+]

Might be a bit of a surprise given that I hate-- hate with a capital HATE-- everything they've done with Barbara Gordon since the launch of the New 52. But I gotta admit, I do kinda really like this costume, especially when it's got that purple hue to more clearly differentiate her from the other Bats. In my own personal head-canon, Babs should still be Oracle, but in any flashback sequences to her days as Batgirl, she'd be wearing this suit.

The Teen Titans [+]

Thor [+]

Man, the God of Thunder series was so friggin' good. And a big reason I was so drawn to it was the cover art, which looked like something from a trashy fantasy pulp novel. Dude looks like what every D&D Paladin dreams about being, and Old King Thor and Young Idiot Thor compliment him really well.

Captain Marvel [+]

Screw you, Carol, I'm not calling him Shazam.

The X-Men [+]

Rather than go through each of them one by one, I'm just gonna pick my 'definitive' X-Men lineup and my favorite takes on their costumes:

I forgot all of these characters because I was having a massive brain-fart beyond the ten I listed, but since you've reminded me...

I'm not going to list all my favorites because I'm too lazy to hop onto my laptop and because the majority of them have been covered so here's two that I haven't seen referenced yet.

Liking for Bermejo. I fucking love that look and wish more artists would adopt it.

Liking for Bermejo. I fucking love that look and wish more artists would adopt it.

Also love what we saw of this suit in the 'Crossfire' segment of Batman: Gotham Knight.

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Also love what we saw of this suit in the 'Crossfire' segment of Batman: Gotham Knight.

Wait, there's an animated Batman movie where they play Crossfire?! Awesome!

@AndyC Favourite Costumes, I've already done Hulk and have little comic book preference outside of these two.



Too start my own discussion, who is your favourtie underrated villain? Someone that never really grows (but has the potential to do so), or someone that just gets isnta-knocked out. Why are they you're favourite?

Too start my own discussion, who is your favourtie underrated villain? Someone that never really grows (but has the potential to do so), or someone that just gets isnta-knocked out. Why are they you're favourite?

Dr. Thomas Elliot aka Hush.

I feel as though more than any of Batman's rogues, Hush has the explicit opportunity to be Batman's Mirror Universe Counterpart. Bruce's parents were murdered, Thomas murdered his parents. Thomas was jealous of Bruce's seemingly carefree life while forced to go to school after school to pursue a medical degree while Bruce was free to travel the world. I just feel that beyond his introductory arc, Hush has never been made a legitimate threat again despite this being a man who was able to cut out Selina's heart and keep her alive or perform open heart surgery on himself. Not to mention making his face look identical to that of Bruce's.

Elliot is able to physically go toe to toe with Bruce and given his knowledge of the human body should be able to target vulnerabilities with surgical precision. He's a master strategist and during the pair's childhood, Thomas always beat Bruce at their 'friendly' games of chess.

I would just love to see Hush rise to the same notoriety as Joker, Two-Face, Riddler etc especially because I think Hush is far more of a threat than a lot of Batman's 'A-List Rogues'.

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I see what you did there.