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Monday, February 14, 2005

100 things I like about comics

Like having an onion on your belt, it's the fashion of the time.

OK, I swear I'm the only one who remembers that episode of The Simpsons. Anyway, Kevin's doing it, Mike Sterling's doing it... I can only follow along with this trend.
100 Things I Love About Comics

  1. Alan Moore
  2. The insanity of The Amazing Screw-On Head
  3. Old LEGO ads
  4. Top Ten
  5. Hostess Fruit Pies as a crime-fighting device
  6. The Mighty Marvel Manner
  7. On a similar note, any Marvel comic declaring itself to be an instant classic
  8. Doom Patrol #34, with brain-on-brain combat
  9. Future Feline
  10. Milk and Cheese--dairy products gone bad
  11. World's Finest
  12. The many uses of radiation
  13. The Fantastic Four bitching at each other
  14. The two issues of Star Trek where Kirk surrenders the Excelsior to kittens and slugs
  15. DC's Helix line
  16. The Annotated Mantooth
  17. Kirby writing Jimmy Olsen and the Newsboy Legion
  18. "* - For more information, see Avengers #XX - Ed."
  19. The Tangent version of The Flash
  20. Dr. Manhattan carving a hydrogen atom into his own forehead
  21. Julie Schwartz showing up in World's Funnest and scaring the heck out of Bat-Mite and Mxylplk.
  22. Supreme (The Alan Moore version, of course)
  23. Kirby-esque energy effects
  24. Grant Morrison
  25. Justice League International
  26. The first, second, and last years of James Robinson's run on Starman
  27. Beanworld
  28. Jack-in-the-Box in Astro City
  29. "In brightest day, in darkest night,
    No evil shall escape my sight.
    Let those who worship evil's might
    Beware my power, Green Lantern's LIGHT!"
    (Thanks, Julie and Alfie.)
  30. Ragged Robin
  31. Batarang-X
  32. Galactus and the Silver Surfer
  33. "Rubber bullets. Honest."
  34. The Fourth World
  35. Gone and Forgotten
  36. Gil Kane
  37. Bendis' run on Daredevil
  38. The Great Cow Race
  39. "Anti-Life"
  40. Penny Arcade
  41. Dream commissioning a play in Sandman
  42. "Avengers Assemble!"
  43. Archie Goodwin
  44. Swamp Thing (I'm Chalk!)
  45. "It's a monkey... WITH A GUN!" "Oook ook!" *BLAM BLAM*
  46. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
  47. Beppo, Streaky, Proty, (all the super-pets, really)
  48. MERV GRIFFIN!
  49. MAD Fold-ins
  50. Alien Loves Predator
  51. The smell of old newsprint
  52. The dance/fight sequence at the end of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
  53. The cover of Kevin's copy of Powers #11
  54. Danny the Street
  55. Hulk smash!
  56. Spider-Man drinking coffee, pulling up just part of his mask in order to do so
  57. Goats
  58. "Welcome to Earth. We're here to hit you."
  59. Astro-Boy and his 100,000 horsepower
  60. The animated Tick series
  61. "Your fist becomes like a thing unto iron!"
  62. Breakfast After Noon
  63. Krazy Kat and Ignatz
  64. Mutts
  65. Chris Sprouse
  66. Illustrated Classics
  67. Squadron Supreme
  68. Rob Liefeld (for comedic purposes only)
  69. Using brackets to indicate a foreign language
  70. Big Barda
  71. Mojo Jojo
  72. Calvin and Hobbes
  73. Stan Lee narrating the animated versions of The Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
  74. Johnny B. Quick
  75. Sell Grit magazine!
  76. Reading the issue of Atari Force that came with Yar's Revenge
  77. Walking into my shop and chatting with the folks behind the counter
  78. Doom Force Special #1
  79. Marvel/DC crossovers, particularly Superman vs. Spider-Man
  80. Swarm!
  81. Top Ten - with special mention to the Ultramice/Atomcats storyline
  82. The New Frontier
  83. Intergang
  84. The "Finer World" storyline on StormWatch
  85. JLA: Classified
  86. The revelation in the last pages of the first issue of Thunderbolts
  87. Blankets
  88. Understanding Comics
  89. The Amazing Cynicalman - particularly his guest shot in Zot! 10 1/2
  90. Sergio Aragones
  91. Neal Adams
  92. Bill Finger
  93. Boondocks
  94. Reading Shogun Warriors on the bus when I was 10
  95. Planetary
  96. Darkseid
  97. We3
  98. Alias (still holding judgement on The Pulse)
  99. Bloom County
  100. "With great power comes great responsibility."