# What is your favorite comic-book heroine? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638 "2000-01-27T21:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f8ce5/32.png) [@The\_Peyote\_Coyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Peyote_Coyote)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/1 "2000-01-27T21:04:00Z")
We’ve discussed four-color villians and heroes (see the recent Batman threads). Now let’s discuss more important issues. Who is your favorite heroine from the funny books? I vote for Nova Kane of E-Man. * * * The Coyote gnaws … but he does not swallow. ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/2 "2000-01-27T21:08:00Z")
Dawn. Not so much a heroine as a guiding force, she’s picking up a sword and wading into it in her new series. Black Widow, only because she’s romantically linked with my fave hero, DD. * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) I’ve got a little black book with me poems in. I’ve got a bag, toothbrush, and a comb. ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/3 "2000-01-27T21:08:00Z")
Rally Vincent of _Gunsmith Cats_. ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/4 "2000-01-27T21:12:00Z")
Jean Grey! Yowza! * * * -Frankie “Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?” -Bad Religion ---
**Author:** ![Mullinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@Mullinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mullinator)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/5 "2000-01-27T21:18:00Z")
## Wonder Woman, but that is mainly due to Linda Carter running in the outfit on TV. My sig line is currently unavailable. Please check this post in 1 hour when we resume our broadcast day. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/6 "2000-01-27T21:23:00Z")
Ice, from the old Justice League International (late-80’s - early 90’s era). Sweetest girl ever in a comic book. * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@kozmo.com](mailto:ckeller@kozmo.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/7 "2000-01-27T21:28:00Z")
Rogue. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Muscular Dystrophy Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/8 "2000-01-27T21:32:00Z")
Ooh! Ooh! I change my answer! Orgasm Lass from XXXenophile! Now _thats_ the way I want to have my nefarious schemes foiled! * * * [http://www.madpoet.com](http://www.madpoet.com) I’ve got a little black book with me poems in. I’ve got a bag, toothbrush, and a comb. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/9 "2000-01-27T21:38:00Z")
Lois Lane, back before they turned her into a hippie chick in the late '60s. When I went through my brief comic-book phase in the mid-60s (I think it lasted about two months), Lois still looked like she did in the 1950s TV show: very Donna Reed/June Cleaver. Like a grown-up, but she still managed to be an adventurous gal. Then, around 1968 or so, they gave her long shaggy hair, micro-minis and go-go boots, and I gave up in utter dismay. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/10 "2000-01-27T21:47:00Z")
Psylocke of X-men. She’s one tough babe. I chose the first part of my screen name because of her. * * * Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. -William Blake ---
**Author:** ![Twin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@Twin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Twin)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/11 "2000-01-27T21:48:00Z")
There are so many to choose from! My current favorite would have to be Promethea. That book rocks! Alan Moore can do no wrong. cmkeller: I always liked Ice, too. Three cheers for the Giffen league! ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/12 "2000-01-27T21:58:00Z")
Phoenix was a bad-ass momma. But I’d have to go with Kitty Pryde, as Shadowcat. * * * “You both can suck my used tampons, you goat-raping, rat-stuffing inbred sons of a syphillitic gutterslut and a one-eyed midget named “Klaus”.” –NTG ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/13 "2000-01-27T22:03:00Z")
The Black Canary…fighting crime in pirate boots and fishnets. Should also give Honorable Mention to Eros Comics’ Domino Lady…when the artist’s first drafts came in, the publishers looked 'em over and debated whether or not the artist had ever SEEN a woman with no clothes on. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![kellibelli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e480ec/32.png) [@kellibelli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellibelli)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/14 "2000-01-27T22:04:00Z")
Black Cat, Spiderman…she kicks ass. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/15 "2000-01-27T22:19:00Z")
Dagger of Cloak and Dagger. ---
**Author:** ![ReservoirDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@ReservoirDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReservoirDog)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/16 "2000-01-27T22:34:00Z")
I only read two books, both in the DC Vertigo line, which does not produce Super-hero comics, per se. However, in _Preacher_, Jesse Custer’s sweetheart Tulip is one bad-ass girl. She has been killed by redneck halfwits and resurrected by God himself, survived a somewhat ambiguous and perhaps forced relationship with a vampire, and pumped more lead into bad guys than I can honestly recall. She doesn’t take any shit (from mere mortals, anyway) and can hold her own against any tough goon thrown at her. She’s got a good sense of right and wrong, is strong, loyal and smart. What more could you want? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/17 "2000-01-27T23:14:00Z")
Eve and I may be the only two here who remember Lois Lane from the early/mid-60s. I have to agree, she was tough. No super powers, and a really gooey crush on Superman, but she was absolutely fearless and enterprising on the job, and managed to get out of a lot of jams without Superman’s help. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/18 "2000-01-28T01:13:00Z")
For me it would be a tough choice between Elektra and Dakota North. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/19 "2000-01-28T01:15:00Z")
\She-Hulk! The Glorious Glamazon! OOh! My favorite color was green , forever after…\ :o * * * With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D, and you still have the frog you started with. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638/20 "2000-01-28T01:26:00Z")
Storm, of The X-Men, in her original costume. John Byrne is what they refer to in the biz as a good girl artist. No, _he’s_ not a girl, he– Oh, you get it. * * * \>\< DARWIN \> \_\_ **L\_\_\_L** [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-comic-book-heroine/13638.md?page=2)