10 Best Comic Book Characters NOT From Marvel Or DC

8. Rosie (Boom! Studios)

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Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took Grunkle Stan from Gravity Falls, Bunny Bravo, and Bear Grylls, threw them all into a blender, and just hit the puree switch? Of course you have, who hasn't? And fortunately, this great question of the universe has finally found its answer in Rosie from Boom! Studios' Lumberjanes.

Rosie is the kind of character that you suspect normally spends her time fighting monsters, and just acts as camp director for Miss Quinzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp For Hardcore Lady Types in her spare time. Neither the heroines of this story nor the audience knows that much about her, save that she's eccentric and incredibly resourceful. Not to mention a wee bit too quick to suggest an axe as a solution to interpersonal conflicts.

61 issues into this comic and we haven't learned much beyond that, which would be frustrating in any other context. But the character is just so much fun that it hardly even matters.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?