To make it fair, Richard is on vacation for this poll, since he'd win first by a landslide.

So aside from the Lord of the Thirteen Hells, who is your favorite of the group?

Sooba! I like kitties And Sooba seems to like Richard

I voted Krunch. He seems to be the best voice of reason in the group, plus Tauren (Minotaurs) rock.

Well, if we can only choose from the actual group, I would have to choose Cale. He's constantly making want to cuddle him.

Either Krunch or Sooba... *flips coin*

Sooba wins

hmm...
so far 3 people voted benny
but nobody replied as to saying why...............

Benny is a psyco-priest with nice curves.. What's not to like?

Add: Rhapsody - Triumph of My Magic Steel

Krunch, a person i can identify myself with...

0_o *backs away slowly*
well all in all, Cale. Second funniest, and he is good.
Whats not to like?

I like Cale, and I'd like him for a friend because he'd be so fun to tease

Argh. It's between Sooba and Cale... both are funny; Sooba is cool, Cale seems to be fun to poke at.

For the sake of the poll, Cale.

I chose Cale, because he reminds me of my warcraft character, despite the fact Melanion is a female

I am not voting. I refuse to participate in any poll that does not include Richard.

My favorite was krunch... second is sooba.

I almost didn't, but if there wasn't anybody beneath Richard (i.e., everybody), then he wouldn't be the best, now would he? Well, actually, he'd still find a way.

I say Sooba. I like kitties, do you like kitties, I think kitties are wonderful. Especially kitties with paws the size of your head bearing claws the size of those really big steak knives you get at like, Lone Star, and mandibles of death that can rip your internals out with much the same ease as plucking a daisy, only with a lot more blood and agony.

...[/breathe]

There's no contest for our little poster-boy Cale! n_n *huggles Cale while he struggles to get free*

cale WOULD win, if krunch hadnt takled that dragon earlier in the strip. krunch gets my vote on this one.

Cale will win. Richard is the most AWESOME character, but Cale gets the most face time, and has the most character development. Not enough is known about any of the other characters, besides their basic personality quirks.

yeah i guess thats true, but after richard i want to know more about krunch, i LIKE cale, and in all fairness there is a chance that he might take over from krunch in my favourites (thats a correct spelling in england.. so shh) stake but so far krunch seems a lot more interesting.

Ja, people around here get all iffy if you don't speaka the same english as they do. Haters. I personally don't like Krunch that much. Its not that I have anything against intelligent exposition over senseless slaughter(though one can never grow bored over the latter), its just Krunch doesn't really say anything we don't already know. The most profound things he's ever said are 'people are different' and 'a promise lasts forever'. And those were just for the benefit of our questionably-naiive elf boy. His extensive dialog so far consists of something you'd read in a fortune cookie.

well im thinking of the strip as a whole, there are so many areas of krunch that have been left unanswered (changes the dvd in the background to superman returns) where as with cale i know they WILL be answered with krunch im not so sure. the same goes for richard, i know at some point richard will be unravelled further, but i have this feeling that krunch will always be left as the unexplained one.

I pick Sooba, because he accompanies Richard more often then Cale

hah! thats as good a reason as any i suppose. oradow ftw!

He might get a bit of exposition eventually, this is just a baby comic, and I don't see it being the kind of thing that will die in less than a decade. Cale is getting his accolades now, and comic-wise I'm predicting Benny is next, given this whole quest thing is because of her anyway. It looks like Richard will get his backstory in the upcoming movie (which I absolutely can't wait for). But like I said, the comic is still young, so Krunch will probably get his day, just not as soon as everybody else.

I mean, we already know a little about him. His father is a politician, he has a brother who's a warrior. It kind of seems to me, from his little chat with the late Lord Stoll, that he's a bit of an outcast from his family. Which would make sense, him being a scholar and all, while his kin seem to be more military oriented.

Or at least, thats what I got from that one page of comic. >_>

I guess so but there are always those characters in the books films and comics who are interesting but not THAT interesting enough to get a propper back story and i always saw that of krunch. i guess the reason why is because he is one of those "guide" characters, or at least so far he has been. you know, the gandalf characters, the ones that seem to take a hell of a lot of importance in a story and you make a lot of assumptions about but are never really ever explained. i mean who knows a thing about gandalf really? his story is never gone into it is just assumed. the same goes for krunch...

..or at least so far it has.

Mmm, Walter O' Dim. Best non-character evar.

now your being silly, walter WASNT a non-character he was actually... the man in black you need to read that series MUCH more heavily. Ahh the dark tower, i love thee.

Also krunch would be the red king in this case. pretty much a deadly important character, and yet we know almost nothing about him, he is just there to fill a hole

Okay, for one, Krunch could never compare to the Red King. And Walter was a non-character, his sole purpose was to pave the way for Roland. He only got a little face in the first book, then everything else was [primarily] about Jake. I hate how he turned out to be a bit of a pussy at the end, but then again I hate how horribly Roland and the Red King's luvvchild failed at existance. (I just forgot his name..fuck.) I mean, he gets offed by a billy-bumbler and a bit of bad horsemeat!

My favourite part about Walter though, was that he turned out to be Flagg from The Dragons Eyes. It's ironic that he killed Roland originally, then a couple hundred decades later, totally gets pwned by him.

Oo flagg is from the stand... whats this dragons eyes stuff? dear lord is there actually something i dont know about this. inform me, quickly!

also i think that krunch can and does compare to the red king, because the red king is important, yet has no real information about him ever specified. in other respects of course he is entirely different, but for those parts they play the same character.

You haven't read the Dragons Eyes? (Well, actually, I haven't read the Stand. Which I dunno why, its like his most famous book.) I think its technically called 'Behind the Dragon's Eyes', but w/e. Its a really medievally kind of book, the style is really different from what Mr. King usually puts out. It about This king, his two sons, and the kings advisor, the indomitable Flagg. Basically the king is stupid, so Flagg runs things. Of his two sons, ones a pussy and the others a born-leader. Of course Flagg doesn't want leader-boy leading, so he assassinates the king in a most wonderful way, frames LB, takes pussy under his evil wings and chaos ensues. The late-kings name, do it interest ya, was Roland.

And role-wise, maybe. Maybe. But I still can't, in any way, conceive of a similarity between the Red King and Krunch. It just doesn't work.

the similarities stop entirely after "they are important and their backstories arent explained" if you take even the tiniest character depth step you are lost in a whirlpool of dissimilarities. I still maintain that krunch is the lesser spotted guide who is inportant yet unexplained.

also i will have a look for that book, flagg appears in a HELL of a lot of kings books, but his first appearance is in The Stand, so hes predomenantly from that, even though he acts entirely differently in the dark tower books.

I still stand by my judgement of krunch as my second favourite, untill cale does something uber cool like takeling a dragon.

Well, remember technically the DT series is set in a distant future. Flagg, later known as Walter O' Dim, the Man in Black, has been around for a couple hundred decades. Maybe even a couple millenium.

I like to think of it as him evolving a Richard-like joy in fucking with anybody and everybody just for the hell of it. Only, instead of slaughtering people, he plays intricate mind-games that leave his victims as babbling, hell-plagued lunatics. ^.^

Actually, I'd think that was IT, but since most of his books sell better than hotcakes, it's hard to tell. At some point of popularity, it's just a matter of degree.

As for ol' Flagg and the Dark Tower, I'm currently reading Insomnia, which hearkens back to the Tower and the Red King (or Crimson King, in this book). Stephen King, how I adore thee. He just has SUCH a way with words.

All of his books tie into the DT series. Thats the point.

Cale, since he's a better pet to Richard then Sooba.

Dunno, Sooba has bigger teeth. Now, if Cale got himself a fork, that would be a different story.

Exactly. That's half the fun of reading -- finding the tie-in.

But my favorites are a toss-up between Insomnia and Bag of Bones. IT is a contender, but only from nostalgia's sake.

Comic-wise, I see more parallels between LFG and IT than anything else. I mean, what else is our intrepid crew but the Loser's Club with a better sense of humor and dragons/griffons to kill? Woot!

Krunch - Stuttering Bill (scholarly with natural leadership capabilities)
Benny - Beverly (strong, but still vulnerable and the only girl in the group)
Richard - Richie (sense of humor, though Richie isn't wicked)
Cale - Stan (the "didn't want to get involved" aspect more than the neat-freak thing)

Of course, there's no real correlation for Sooba. Not saying it's a direct parallel, of course, just throwing it out there.

Sooba will be the evil fortune cookies.

Yea, I only saw the movie. I've actually only gotten to read a handful of mr. Kings books. I'm in the process of purchasing all of the DT series, just kus I love it so much.

'Specially word processing programs. I always type my words with the extra U's everywhere. The words just seem so... empty without them

Iu knouw whaut youu meaun.

I spell gray as "grey" most of the time. I think it looks cooler. Sounds cooler in my head, too. All Sean Connery-ish.

Same. Grey rocks.

On topic, I have an issue, as my second/third favorite characters are either former sorta party members (Tavor) or New sorta party members (Pella). I like the party tons as a whole... They are all equally awesome in my sight... Except for Richard who reigns... So if an "all of the above" was added...

I know what you mean. I actually can't decide if I like Richard or Tavor more. I guess for now, it's kind of a tie between them for first place with Cale in second.

Wait, you might prefer a snotty, holier-than-thou dead elf to the indomitable psychopathic Richard?

...Mind...can't comprehend....urg..moose..x_x

On second thought, Tim might be my second favorite, you know....'cos he's Tim.

...And I love moose. Mini Moose.

Out of all the non-main(ish) characters we've encountered so far, I gotta say I have a thing for the Beholder. He sees all that there is....and all that there is looks suspiciously like a wall.

=P Well..he's cute, right? Sorry, I just happen to have an incurable attraction to men who have a sarcastic sense of humor and can match me in a battle of wits.

dude, Benny ftw!! if Richard isn't first, then Benny is, i don't care what y'all think about Cale!!

Why Benny?

because she needs some lovin' too!!! she's the healer of the group and never stops to say to Richard "i'm through with healing you, i have to heal you all the time!" plus, they are soulmates. you can tell. if you look closely...........