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Off THEIR Minds: Who Is The Best Clone?

Comic creators are asked who their favorite clone character is.

A couple months ago I asked the question if there were too many clones in comic books. Because you guys had a lot to say on the subject, we decided to ask comic book creators who their favorite clones were. In this next installment of Off THEIR Minds, I asked this question at the Long Beach Comic Convention. Surprisingly, some creators didn't really have a favorite clone. Check out what they had to say. 
   

     
Obviously Dustin Nguyen was just jokingly trying to push the character he's been working on so much lately. My favorites are definitely Ben Reilly and X-23.
 
Do you have a favorite clone? Do you think they're being overused and are a cheap way to create a new character from an existing popular one? Who is the ultimate clone? 
 
Thanks to Heather for being in the video and sticking blades to my neck.

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@Namor1987 said:
"X-23, Kaine, Power Girl, Stryfe, & Madelyne Pryor "

Power Girl A clone? of who?
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Ben Reilly has to possibly be one of the best clones in comics. Him, X-23, and Bizarro. 

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Conner Kent and the Guardian are the best clones. 
 

 
 
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Ben Reilly, the greatest Spider-man
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X-23 than maybe Superboy but defiantly X-23

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I love when you take a question and ask different creators their opinions!

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Do the clones in the Star Wars Universe count as they are by far my favourite; especially Boba Fett or the RC's :D

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You know what? Seeing that cosplay... blades on a tiny girls' hands look much scarier in real life than they do in the comics. She just looks like Wolverine Twilight edition, but when you get down to it, it kind of works visually...

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I agree with Jimmy Palmiotti. The only good clone is a dead one. The only clone I find at all interesting is Superboy, but only for the fact that he's a clone of 2 enemies embodied in one person.

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Ultimate Jessica Drew is pretty cool

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I don't think Agent X counts as a clone but if he does, then he'd be in my top 3.  Since his status is up in the air, I'd go with the ever popular X 23 followed by both Jessica Drew from Ultimate U and Ben Reilly from 616.  Oh and Power Girl isn't so much a clone as much as a double but I'd put her on the list if it counts.  I like her so much more than Supergirl that I'd really prefer to think she was created first and not the other way around.

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Definitely Seryfe is the best.
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Ben Reily And Deadpool No no wait I can't believe noone said this BOBA FETT!

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Superboy and Ben Reilly.

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Boba Fett is the ultimate clone looks exactly like the cell donner and was trained to be exactly like the cell donner

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X-23

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Ben Reilly and Carrion

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Haven't we had this conversation like a million times before (no offense), but besides the obvious ones Ben, Conner, X-23, Stryfe, I vote for the ever infamous Luuke Skywalker. 
 

 
 
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Scarlet Spider is what got me into Spider-Man!!

Ben is the greatest.

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Superboy without a doubt.

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X-23 but I feel with her they basically copyed Wolverine's life in a simpler version.
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Widdle Wade beats all. 

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Ben reily
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Kaine and Ben Reilly FTW

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Kaine!!!

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Ben Reilly and Superboy.

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@Jake Fury:
Me Unagree!!!
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Ben Riely because unlike the other clones he is independent

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X-23. Hands down.
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I agree with J.T.  Conner Kent.

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Stryfe , Nate Grey , Ben Reily , Superboy , X-23 , Kaine  , i just love clones!
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@WW-Fan said:
" @Namor1987 said:
"X-23, Kaine, Power Girl, Stryfe, & Madelyne Pryor "
Power Girl A clone? of who? "
My bad Divine, the clone of Power Girl
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Ben Reilly all the way

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X-23 & all of Nick Fury's LMD's. Seriously does he have those things stacked up in some warehouse somewhere because he sure does goes through them like water
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B@FoxxFireArt said:

" I'm actually with Jimmy Palmiotti on this one. I'm not the biggest clone fan.  He's right, it's such a weak story tool.
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If I had to pick someone. I would say Brianna Diggers. She's sort of a clone. She's a combination of both Gina and Britanny Diggers. Though, she shares a lot similar with her sisters. She's pretty much her own person with personality and quirks.
 
X-23 is an 'interesting' character, but she was trying to influence the vote here in her favor. The writers have tried different things with her. Not sure she's really been established well, yet.

I do find it interesting how Ben Reilly got all those mentions. Considering he came from a story arc with the most gross overuse of clones in comics, outside of prequel-Star Wars comics.
 
Note sure if you could count Secret Invasion as a clone story, but close. They were copies who though they were the real deal. "
Bri by a mile. 
 
Then Conner.
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@Jake Fury said:
" Bizarro am worst clone "
qft
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x-23  all day

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I usually don't really care for the whole clone thing,
 
but I think x23 is totally awesome.
 
I just love her whole emotional and angst driven back story,
 
She has her own personality and motivations
 
and she's just totally bad ass and hot
 
so she'll always get my vote
 
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X-23 and Madelyn pryor

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Superboy 
 
 
Guardian 
 
 
Donna Troy 
 
 
Vril Dox II 
 
 
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vril dox 2, x-23, superboy and Ben Reilly ftw!

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Professor X - remember that's not his original body!
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WHAAAAAAAAT?! WTF?!  what about boba fett?! this is absolutly an insult!!!
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I'm gonna go with Superboy cause he's a mix of Superman and Lex Luther. Twisted.

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@b3n8m3 said:
" WHAAAAAAAAT?! WTF?!  what about boba fett?! this is absolutly an insult!!! "
Then, the entire clone army and Sidious II
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I'm not a fan of Superboy personally. He's alright, but the entire line of Superman comics and the characters around it have never really interested me that much. X-23 is alright at times, but along with Draken they fall under my general "meh" reaction to Wolverine (yes, I'm a X-men fan that is not a fan of Wolverine). I'm not big on clones in general. Ben Reilly had some good moments and he probably ranks as my second most liked clone.  
 
The one clone I really liked was Nate Gray, X-man. Well let me rephrase that: I liked Nate as he used to be. Warren Ellis is a great writer usually, but when he came onto X-man he completely ruined the character and turned him into someone way too powerful and quite frankly unstoppable. Nate only died because he chose to. nothing could kill him after Ellis screwed with him.  As for his return? Eh. It was fun seeing him mess with the Dark X-men and Osbourne, but Nate is not  team player and if writers try to force him to be part of the X-men its just going to further ruin the character. 
 
Well that turned out to be more of a rant then I wanted.

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Bobba Fett for the best clone, but the best clone created in comics?........hmmmmmmmmm.  There's a few