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When you read your comics. Who's voices do you hear for those characters? When I read, I like to use a blend of celebrities and people I know to fill in the voices of the characters. So if you do the same, what celebrities voices do you use?


mine are:

Ultimate books
Sean Marquette: Peter Parker / Spider-Man
Andrea Baker: Mary Jane Watson
Dave Fennoy: Nick Fury
David Kaufman: Johnny Storm / Human Torch
James Arnold Taylor: Electro
Jan Hajduk: Agent. Sharon Carter
Loren Lester: Richard Parker / aged Clone Peter Parker
Brian George: The Shocker
Bob Glouberman: The Rhino
Daniel Capellaro: Eddie Brock, Jr.
Arthur Burghardt: Venom
Cathal J. Dodd: Wolverine
Willem Dafoe: Norman Osborn
Peter Lurie: Green Goblin / Hobgoblin
Timothy Daly: Steve Rogers / Captain America
Jonathan Frakes: Tony Stark / Iron Man
Patrick Stewart: Professor Charles Xavier / Professor X
Sr. Ian McKellen: Erik Lensherr / Magneto
Lenore Zann: Rogue
Norm Spencer: Scott Summers / Cyclops
Ben Afflect: Matt Murdock / Daredevil
Steve Buscemi: Robert Bruce Banner
Fred Tatasciore: Hulk
Michael Clark Duncan: Bruno Sanchez / Ox
Edward Asner: J. Jonah Jameson
Roscoe Lee Browne: Wilson Fisk / Kingpin
Thomas Haden Church: Flint Marko / Sandman
Sarah Carter: Gwen Stacy
Kelsey Grammer: Dr. Franklin Storm
Sam Elliott: general. Ross
George Buza: Hank McCoy / Beast
Chris Potter: Remy Lebeau / Gambit
Brad Garrett: Ben Grimm / The Thing
Jenna von Oy: Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat
Rino Romano: Harry Osborn
Eric Johnson: Fredrick "Flash" Thompson
Allison Mack: Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman
Cliff Roberson: Uncle Ben
Wendie Malick: Aunt May
Grey DeLisle: Janet Pym / The Wasp
Nolam North: Hank Pym / Giant Man / Ant-Man
Olivia d'Abo: Natalia Romanoff / Black Widow
David Duchovany: Agent. James Woo
Mila Kunis: Sue Storm / Invisible Woman
Andy Mider: Reed Richards / Mr. Fantastic
Alyson Michalka: Liz Allen
Halle Barry: Ororo Munroe
Thomas Jane: Frank Castle / The Punisher
 
Every character I read sounds like Random.

That gotta be creepy when it comes to the girls.

I do variations of celebrity's and my own. Except with the character's that you think should have unique "voices," then, it's totally original.

A lot of mine arn't original. Some of them played the part of these characters in cartoons, movies, and video games. I think some of them are perfect for the voice, like Edward Asner. I think he has the perfect voice for J. Jonah Jameson.
 
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Neat question.

Batman - Gregory Peck

The Joker - various pitches of Mark Hammil, depending on the incarnation

Darkseid - Michael Clarke Duncan

Superman - It depends. Usually just a normal voice, but occasionally I kind of give him John Schneider-as-Pa-Kent's voice.

Hal Jordan - Pretty much the only character who sound like me
 
Generally speaking, I like your picks, watcher.

For me, it depends on how they're drawn and written.

Sometimes I have difficulty reconciling voices used in certain 'definitive' incarnations with how they may be written or drawn in the comics. For example, Justice League Unlimited uses a very top-notch cast... but in DC: The New Frontier I couldn't get Carl Lumbly to really work right with how Martian Manhunter was written.

However, Ioan Gruffudd does work for Reed Richards in Ultimate Fantastic Four, but in Mark Waid's Imaginauts/Unthinkable, he reads like John C. McGinley's voice for JLU's Ray Palmer/Atom. Both incarnations of Sue are a mix of Tara Charendorff-Strong.

For X-Books, I find Hugh Jackman relatively acceptable for most incarnations of Wolverine. He works in most stories, regardless of tone or writing, which I think is a testament to the actor. I really do like Cathal J. Dodd from the 90s X-Men series, but it seems kind of silly when you use him in a story that is ostensibly less cartoony.

On a random note, I generally hate Rino Romano as a voice actor.
 
I don't really use voices. When I'm reading something I generally focus on the words themselves, the corresponding images, and my own perceptions, rather than any imagined sounds. Sometimes I concentrate on a particular scene, though, and imagine the voices.
 
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I admit sometimes, just sometimes, I hear one voice and one voice only while I read.

The monkey from the Simpsons episode where Homer goes into space. The one that came back super intelligent.

I am not joking. His line "No, I don't think we'll be telling them that" is something I say very often and that voice just come out a lot.
 
Yeah, I don't hear voices in my head. You're all nuts.

^^

But I think I'm just not creative enough to do so.
 
I admit sometimes, just sometimes, I hear one voice and one voice only while I read.

The monkey from the Simpsons episode where Homer goes into space. The one that came back super intelligent.

I am not joking. His line "No, I don't think we'll be telling them that" is something I say very often and that voice just come out a lot.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Dammit, now that's how its going to sound to me.
 
I don't really use voices. When I'm reading something I generally focus on the words themselves, the corresponding images, and my own perceptions, rather than any imagined sounds. Sometimes I concentrate on a particular scene, though, and imagine the voices.

This is exactly what I do too, but when I'm purposely thinking of the voices in a scene the ones I listed are who I hear.
 
This is exactly what I do too, but when I'm purposely thinking of the voices in a scene the ones I listed are who I hear.
When I'm purposefully thinking of voices, I think the most obvious one for me is Kevin Conroy as Batman.
 

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