Every month there's hundreds of characters in comics who jockey for
their shot at the top slot here, but in the end there can only be ten in the Top
Ten Heroes and Villains for April of 2018. Let's get started! At Number 10 we
have Lightning from Marvel Comics. Miguel Santos will probably go back into the
toy chest immediately following the conclusion of Avengers: No Surrender. And
he may never return to this list again. But let it be known that Lightning
single-handedly saves the planet in a completely earned and legitimately cool
moment. And moving right into our Number 9 slot is The Grandmaster. After seeing
Jeff Goldblum Jeff Goldblum his way around that character it was nice to see
the comics kept his character intact in Avengers: No Surrender. A classic
antagonist who found himself playing all manner of dangerous games against his
own pieces and the would-be Grandmaster himself: The Challenger. ...But who really
cares about him anyway? At Number 8, people forget that while Superman turned
80 thanks to his first appearance in Action Comics number one his gal Friday
wife mother of their children and all-around female icon herself Lois Lane
also debuted in the very same issue. We wouldn't be shocked if Bendis gave Lois
a much bigger role than ever before when he eases into his writing job.
Congratulations and happy birthday Ms Lane! Number Seven: who would have thought
this one-off idea from a Thanos book would have this much fanfare? Cosmic
Ghost Rider had an awesome and forgivably brief mystery that, when revealed,
only made people more excited about him! So much in fact that he's getting his
own series in July written by Donnie freaking Cates, and that's just for
starters! I'll bet we can expect a cool action figure, mobile game skins, a movie
and a Netflix tie-in series all in the next year and a half. Or at the very
least a bunch of cool tattoos. Number Six, being called the Kite Man of the Justice
League by his own robot sidekick, Booster Gold is getting a major push from DC and
in particular Tom King like never before with recent developments in the Batman
title. If Booster Gold got a series out of this much exposure and positive press
we wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Our Number Five is Ninjak. Valiant has
been teasing this webseries since 2014 and now it's finally here and people can
start asking themselves, "Do I recognize anyone in this show?" Chock full of great
fight choreography and cool superhero shenanigans, if you aren't aware of the
show, you should probably check it out. This is probably the biggest push of a
single character Valiant's ever had. Number Four is Thanos. He's finally gonna
say more than two or three things... Probably? You're seeing him Infinity War
and his stock is going to go through the freaking roof. Don't be
surprised if you start seeing prune chin merchandise all over the place for quite
some time. Number Three is the Red Goblin. Sure, when Silver Surfer gets the Carnage
symbiote, nobody panics but when Norman Osborn takes it over everybody loses their
freakin minds! Even though he looks more like a Demogoblin than a Green Goblin
this unexpectedly awesome direction for the Osborn character is helping to
ensure that Dan Slott's departure from the Spider-Man title will be a memorable one.
No question! Number Two is Deadpool because Deadpool's popularity is so
potent it's practically an aphrodisiac. But that's been the case pretty much
since New Mutants #98. Of course in this case there's a hotly anticipated
sequel coming out next month so it shouldn't surprise anybody to find the
Merc With A Mouth not far from this list. And the Number One Top Hero or
Villain for April of 2018 of course is the Man of Steel. The Boy in Blue. The
dude turned 80 and still looks amazing even when he's rocking the Quailman look.
He just celebrated Action Comics #1,000 with a gorgeous anthology and a
little tease towards the future. Congratulations Superman! You've earned
it. But it's not all sunshine and rainbows because we've got to take a
look at our Fail of the Month! That's right, our breakout character of the
month who just kind of sucked. And the Fail of the Month goes to this
overdeveloped character Rogol Zaar! This dumb looking character apparently
destroyed Krypton and knew Jor-El before doing the deed. Hopefully we'll learn a
little bit more about this guy before he fades into obscurity but April's Action
Comics #1,000 saw the first official appearance of this gross faced
weirdo. From his unpronounceable name to his incomprehensible physiology to his
out of the gate retconning of Krypton's origins...
Yeesh Rogol Zaar, we hardly knew ye. And that's a good thing.
Hey, thanks so much for hanging out with us and checking out the Top Ten Heroes
and Villains of April 2018. Stay tuned next month for a new list (which may
have some of the same characters). You never know! It's up to the comic book
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