Why are there so many heroic bastards in comics?

>>93271698
>heroic bastards

John just makes a legal living, he never shits on people for nothing

It's a lazy easy character.

Characters are allowed to be one dimensional if you rip off Wolverine and/or your favorite old action movie protagonist enough.

Because they give the writers more flexibility and the ability to take the best of both worlds. Modern audiences reject the old-school earnest goody two shoes Boy Scout types of older comics but you usually can't base a series around a flat-out monster. The antihero allows you to have an actual hero but with the cool/dangerous aspects of a villain.

>>93273091
He just looks pissed because of his face, most of the time he is just dead inside