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
- Alan Moore
- The insanity of The Amazing Screw-On Head
- Old LEGO ads
- Top Ten
- Hostess Fruit Pies as a crime-fighting device
- The Mighty Marvel Manner
- On a similar note, any Marvel comic declaring itself to be an instant classic
- Doom Patrol #34, with brain-on-brain combat
- Future Feline
- Milk and Cheese--dairy products gone bad
- World's Finest
- The many uses of radiation
- The Fantastic Four bitching at each other
- The two issues of Star Trek where Kirk surrenders the Excelsior to kittens and slugs
- DC's Helix line
- The Annotated Mantooth
- Kirby writing Jimmy Olsen and the Newsboy Legion
- "* - For more information, see Avengers #XX - Ed."
- The Tangent version of The Flash
- Dr. Manhattan carving a hydrogen atom into his own forehead
- Julie Schwartz showing up in World's Funnest and scaring the heck out of Bat-Mite and Mxylplk.
- Supreme (The Alan Moore version, of course)
- Kirby-esque energy effects
- Grant Morrison
- Justice League International
- The first, second, and last years of James Robinson's run on Starman
- Beanworld
- Jack-in-the-Box in Astro City
- "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.) - Ragged Robin
- Batarang-X
- Galactus and the Silver Surfer
- "Rubber bullets. Honest."
- The Fourth World
- Gone and Forgotten
- Gil Kane
- Bendis' run on Daredevil
- The Great Cow Race
- "Anti-Life"
- Penny Arcade
- Dream commissioning a play in Sandman
- "Avengers Assemble!"
- Archie Goodwin
- Swamp Thing (I'm Chalk!)
- "It's a monkey... WITH A GUN!" "Oook ook!" *BLAM BLAM*
- Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
- Beppo, Streaky, Proty, (all the super-pets, really)
- MERV GRIFFIN!
- MAD Fold-ins
- Alien Loves Predator
- The smell of old newsprint
- The dance/fight sequence at the end of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
- The cover of Kevin's copy of Powers #11
- Danny the Street
- Hulk smash!
- Spider-Man drinking coffee, pulling up just part of his mask in order to do so
- Goats
- "Welcome to Earth. We're here to hit you."
- Astro-Boy and his 100,000 horsepower
- The animated Tick series
- "Your fist becomes like a thing unto iron!"
- Breakfast After Noon
- Krazy Kat and Ignatz
- Mutts
- Chris Sprouse
- Illustrated Classics
- Squadron Supreme
- Rob Liefeld (for comedic purposes only)
- Using brackets to indicate a foreign language
- Big Barda
- Mojo Jojo
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Stan Lee narrating the animated versions of The Incredible Hulk and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
- Johnny B. Quick
- Sell Grit magazine!
- Reading the issue of Atari Force that came with Yar's Revenge
- Walking into my shop and chatting with the folks behind the counter
- Doom Force Special #1
- Marvel/DC crossovers, particularly Superman vs. Spider-Man
- Swarm!
- Top Ten - with special mention to the Ultramice/Atomcats storyline
- The New Frontier
- Intergang
- The "Finer World" storyline on StormWatch
- JLA: Classified
- The revelation in the last pages of the first issue of Thunderbolts
- Blankets
- Understanding Comics
- The Amazing Cynicalman - particularly his guest shot in Zot! 10 1/2
- Sergio Aragones
- Neal Adams
- Bill Finger
- Boondocks
- Reading Shogun Warriors on the bus when I was 10
- Planetary
- Darkseid
- We3
- Alias (still holding judgement on The Pulse)
- Bloom County
- "With great power comes great responsibility."