Source: comicbook.com
8. Tommy Monaghan
(Hitman, DC Comics)
Hitman is easily one of the best comic books DC has ever published.
Garth Ennis and John McCrea created a truly one-of-a-kind dark comedy that turned into a tragic and meaningful drama. Its central character, Tommy Monaghan, is one with whom I’ve formed a deep personal attachment.
Tommy and his friends went through a lengthy series of wacky adventures (Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium is one of my all-time faves). But the latter half of the book is a downwards spiral of depressing and violent events, killing off Tommy's gang of friends one by one.
By the end, only Tommy and his best buddy Nat were left (along with Hackett and Baytor, who were less present). The duo knew by the first page of the last issue that they probably weren't making it out of the book alive. And they didn't, going out in a hail of gunfire while accomplishing their goals once and for all. The two wound up in heaven, which was just a bar filled with all their former friends. "Drinks are on the house, and there's no last call, but you gotta leave your guns at the door."
Beautiful.
