GCA 2008: Best Male Character
Posted by: Rich Watson on April 18, 2008 at 11:31 pm
 Emmet Wilson “The story itself was inspired by the writer Hamlin Garland, who was writing in the late 1800s. He wrote a short story about a man returning to his family farm. He had met with success in New York but his bother and his mother were beat down by the demands of the farm. In the Satchel Paige book, I created a fictional character, about the same age of Paige who also seems to be a rising start. Except he hurts his knee and can’t play any more and returns rural Alabama to work as a sharecropper. So Paige’s accomplishments, the myth he creates for himself, are seen through the experiences of sharecropper in the Jim Crow era south.” – Sturm, from his Newsarama interview Luke Cage “Luke Cage will now rise to be the leader of the team. He almost had a …hmmm, let’s says a ‘King Arthur’ heaviness in him in New Avengers #22, where he made decisions to fight for what he believes in no matter what the cost to himself or his family. And now here he is having survived the war and kind of being put in position to lead the team to where it needs to go. He is, of all of them, the biggest believer in that what happened to the New Avengers in the first arcs – in the Savage Land, discovering there is something rotten in S.H.I.E.L.D. – is all connected, all the way from House of M, to the Secret Wars, to Civil War … that there has been something pulling at them this whole time, and they’re going to get right back to trying to figure out what it all is and putting it all together.” – Bendis, from his Newsarama interview MF Grimm “…I look at it this way: Instead of totally focusing on the situation itself, the outcome of the situation was a test within myself. It was a test between me and the creator, to show me my purpose on the planet, and I needed to sit down and learn patience and go on the path to learn and acquire a certain amount of knowledge that I was too ignorant to try to get while I was still walking. So I realized I was paralyzed anyway, but now I’m paralyzed physically. You know, before it was mental. I have to say it was really just the fact of me, my temptations, and obviously not getting in tune with the world correctly. I learned a lot from it. If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change a thing, because of the knowledge that I have today.” – Carey, from his CBR interview Nat Turner “Nat started with a few trusted fellow slaves. The rebels traveled from house to house, freeing slaves and killing all the white people they found. The rebels ultimately included more than 50 enslaved and free blacks. Because the rebels did not want to alert anyone to their presence as they carried out their attacks, they initially used knives, hatchets, axes, and blunt instruments instead of firearms. Nat called on his group to ‘kill all whites.’ The rebellion did not discriminate by age or gender, although Nat later indicated that he intended to spare women, children, and men who surrendered as it went on. Before Nat and his brigade of rebels met resistance at the hands of a white militia, 57 white men, women and children had been killed.” – from Turner’s Wikipedia entry The Spectre “I can empathize with the Crispus Allen character. Here’s this honest, morally strong, family loving guy thrust into a crazy situation! What’s he gonna do? It’ll be interesting to see how he settles into his role as a ‘Spirit of Vengeance’ and whether that changes him and his way of thinking. It’s fun to illustrate the contrasts between him and the Spectre.” – Battle, from his Comics Bulletin interview 
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