Voice Cast in Your Head

[usuallymatt]

When I started reading Valiant I found myself reading the characters drawing inspiration from celebrities. I've sometimes found myself doing this with novels, too if I find a character reminds me of someone. Anyone else do this?
So far my voice cast resembles the following:

Armstrong = Jon Goodman
Ivar = Paul McGann (8th Doctor)
Gilad = Jim Caviezel
Ninjak = Mark Strong
Aric = Tom Hardy
Neville = Colin Firth
Peter Stanchek = Aaron Paul
Toyo Harada = Ken Watanabe

Keep in mind these are similar to how I "hear" these characters in my head.
The other main characters don't closely resemble anyone well known. Am I crazy or does anyone else do this? How do you hear the different characters of the Valiant universe?

[ilzuccone]

wow i've never heard characters as actors. i wish i did! probably makes reading the book more fun.

i'm usually just reading as quickly as i can. they all sound like ilzuccone with a mumbling problem to me.

[ilzuccone]

i do mumble a lot.

[jeremycoe]

What'd you say?

[usuallymatt]

Yeah i usually "sub-vocalise" when reading. It makes reading a little slower but I find it way more enjoyable.

[NinJZA]

Add to that Lance Reddick as Abram Adams and Anna Torv as his girlfriend. Also, I definitely hear Jeff Bridges' big Lebowski voice whenever I read Armstrong.

[possumgrease]

I always have voices in my head when I'm reading. Not those voices, but ones I imagine the characters using. I don't usually tie it to a specific actor though unless I'm reading a comic about another medium's intellectual property (like the Professor from Futurama).

Harada is one I've not quite given a voice yet. I think he's probably too smart to use an accent unless he's using the accent to "plainsfolk" the audience. Of course, half of his dialog is in someone's mind. In that case, is he really using words with sound and accent or is it actually as case of making the other person's brain simply understand something as words?

Back in the day, I had a great voice for Aric, but now that he no longer talks to the good skin, it just doesn't work. RIP internal dialogue.

[NinJZA]

I always have voices in my head when I'm reading. Not those voices, but ones I imagine the characters using. I don't usually tie it to a specific actor though unless I'm reading a comic about another medium's intellectual property (like the Professor from Futurama).

Harada is one I've not quite given a voice yet. I think he's probably too smart to use an accent unless he's using the accent to "plainsfolk" the audience. Of course, half of his dialog is in someone's mind. In that case, is he really using words with sound and accent or is it actually as case of making the other person's brain simply understand something as words?

Back in the day, I had a great voice for Aric, but now that he no longer talks to the good skin, it just doesn't work. RIP internal dialogue.

I actually read the relaunched X-O Manowar before going back and reading the classic Bob Layton issues, and at first the good-skin dialogue threw me, but it actually grew on me quite a bit and definitely adds a lot of charm to the classic series. I definitely have a great barbarian-sounding voice in my head, can't quite place it on an actor though.

[jmatt]

and at first the good-skin dialogue threw me, but it actually grew on me quite a bit and definitely adds a lot of charm to the classic series.

Agreed. While the storyline has some 'Conan' to it, I miss the personal affectations of the original.

[nscc]

Not so much for other comics but for silver age marvel... Everything is in Stan lees voice.