Ah, Yes, Inspiration
In the meme-following-the-leader tradition, I now offer my ode to the Top 100 Things I Love About Comics. I've been loving every minute of this on the blogs. Start here with the big list compiled at the Comic Book Galaxy blog (ADD's is photo shopped and annotated, Fred Hembeck's is sketched). Enjoy mine, if you dare:
1. Peanuts
2. Spider-Man
3. Batman: The Animated Series
4. Max Fleischer's Superman 'toons
5. In fact, all DC 'toons
6. The Man
7. The King
8. Joe Kelly's Deadpool
9. Grant Friggin' Morrison
10. Spider-Man 2, Superman 2, X-Men 2
11. From Hell
12. Peter David's Incredible Hulk run
13. Super hero parodies (Tick, Great Lakes Avengers, etc.)
14. Ice Haven
15. The visceral experience of We3
16. "Tesuoooooooooo!"
17. Mr. Majestic, Wildcats, Wildcats Version 3.0, Automatic Kafka, and The Intimates by Joe Casey
18. American Elf
19. Bloom County/Outland, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, and Garfield in its prime
20. Giant Sized Man-Thing
21. "Bub"
22. Scott McCloud
23. The Hurricane and Rosey
24. Mike Weiringo's Spidey
25. The Passion of the Blogs
26. Mad Love, Year One, Arkham Asylum, The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke
27. Vertigo
28. Michael Chabon
29. Christopher Priest's Black Panther
30. Flash vs. Superman, race around the world
31. "To be continued..."
32. Savage Dragon
33. The Age of Apocalypse, an X-Men story that actually ended, it still excites me
34. Adrian Tomine
35. Ang Lee's ambitious Hulk movie
36. Walt Simonson's manic run on Fantastic Four
37. The excitement of the next big crossover (for good or bad)
38. The consistently entertaining Liefeld and Byrne (for good or bad)
39. Preacher
40. For the many songs with Superman in the title (Eminem, The Flaming Lips, geez...)
41. Y-The Last Man, because every non-comic reader I give it to loves it
42. That brief excitement over the possibility of Darren Aranofsky directing a Batman: Year One movie
43. Major Bummer
44. Widescreen comics
45. Rumor mills
46. The 3-D Spider-Man ride at Islands of Adventure
47. Bizarro Seinfeld and Sealab 2021
48. "You tell him, Steve-Dave!"
49. Alex Ross's super heroes
50. My John Romita/Alex Ross Spider-Man vs. Green Goblin print
51. Ghost World, Road To Perdition, American Splendor
52. Finding treasures in the bargain boxes
53. Transmetropolitan
54. The super hero-like battles at the ends of Dark City and Matrix Revolutions
55. Akiko
56. Comic pros' internet columns (especially Permanent Damage)
57. The CBLDF
58. Ozymandias did it 35 minutes ago
59. Sandman Mystery Theatre
60. Captain America
61. Super heroes never die
62. Sidekicks (even dead ones)
63. "Mike Murdock"
64. The Silver Surfer
65. Neil Gaiman's Death
66. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue #13
67. Daredevil comics, any Daredevil comics
68. 300
69. Jenkins and Lee's Inhumans
70. Bendis' Marvel work
71. Bendis' non-Marvel work
72. Amalgam Comics
73. Morrison and Quitely on All Star Superman, my God...
74. X-Force/X-Statix by Milligan and Allred
75. The Sin City trailer
76. "I give you oblivion!" "Burn!"
77. Kirby's Surfer is the best in Crimson Tide
78. America's Best Comics
79. Morrison and Lee's Fantastic Four 1234
80. Hate
81. Gun Dog Comics
82. The illusion of change
83. Captain America standing alone against Thanos in the Infinity Gauntlet
84. Gruenwald's ashes in Squadron Supreme
85. The X-Force issue I got a letter printed in
86. Mad Magazine
87. Wednesdays
88. Erik Larson's Spidey
89. Madrox the Multiple Man
90. Monkeys, yeah, monkeys
91. Fin Fang Foom
92. Steve Ditko's Shade the Changing Man
93. Spidey vs. Juggernaut
94. Nu Marvel (for good or bad)
95. Maus
96. George Perez
97. The rest of the world, "Since comics are for kids, adult comics must be porn!" Yes sir...
98. John Romita, Jr.
99. The Only Blog That Matters, the crappiest blog in the world
100. Super heroes!
Thanks for reading!
1. Peanuts
2. Spider-Man
3. Batman: The Animated Series
4. Max Fleischer's Superman 'toons
5. In fact, all DC 'toons
6. The Man
7. The King
8. Joe Kelly's Deadpool
9. Grant Friggin' Morrison
10. Spider-Man 2, Superman 2, X-Men 2
11. From Hell
12. Peter David's Incredible Hulk run
13. Super hero parodies (Tick, Great Lakes Avengers, etc.)
14. Ice Haven
15. The visceral experience of We3
16. "Tesuoooooooooo!"
17. Mr. Majestic, Wildcats, Wildcats Version 3.0, Automatic Kafka, and The Intimates by Joe Casey
18. American Elf
19. Bloom County/Outland, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, and Garfield in its prime
20. Giant Sized Man-Thing
21. "Bub"
22. Scott McCloud
23. The Hurricane and Rosey
24. Mike Weiringo's Spidey
25. The Passion of the Blogs
26. Mad Love, Year One, Arkham Asylum, The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke
27. Vertigo
28. Michael Chabon
29. Christopher Priest's Black Panther
30. Flash vs. Superman, race around the world
31. "To be continued..."
32. Savage Dragon
33. The Age of Apocalypse, an X-Men story that actually ended, it still excites me
34. Adrian Tomine
35. Ang Lee's ambitious Hulk movie
36. Walt Simonson's manic run on Fantastic Four
37. The excitement of the next big crossover (for good or bad)
38. The consistently entertaining Liefeld and Byrne (for good or bad)
39. Preacher
40. For the many songs with Superman in the title (Eminem, The Flaming Lips, geez...)
41. Y-The Last Man, because every non-comic reader I give it to loves it
42. That brief excitement over the possibility of Darren Aranofsky directing a Batman: Year One movie
43. Major Bummer
44. Widescreen comics
45. Rumor mills
46. The 3-D Spider-Man ride at Islands of Adventure
47. Bizarro Seinfeld and Sealab 2021
48. "You tell him, Steve-Dave!"
49. Alex Ross's super heroes
50. My John Romita/Alex Ross Spider-Man vs. Green Goblin print
51. Ghost World, Road To Perdition, American Splendor
52. Finding treasures in the bargain boxes
53. Transmetropolitan
54. The super hero-like battles at the ends of Dark City and Matrix Revolutions
55. Akiko
56. Comic pros' internet columns (especially Permanent Damage)
57. The CBLDF
58. Ozymandias did it 35 minutes ago
59. Sandman Mystery Theatre
60. Captain America
61. Super heroes never die
62. Sidekicks (even dead ones)
63. "Mike Murdock"
64. The Silver Surfer
65. Neil Gaiman's Death
66. McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue #13
67. Daredevil comics, any Daredevil comics
68. 300
69. Jenkins and Lee's Inhumans
70. Bendis' Marvel work
71. Bendis' non-Marvel work
72. Amalgam Comics
73. Morrison and Quitely on All Star Superman, my God...
74. X-Force/X-Statix by Milligan and Allred
75. The Sin City trailer
76. "I give you oblivion!" "Burn!"
77. Kirby's Surfer is the best in Crimson Tide
78. America's Best Comics
79. Morrison and Lee's Fantastic Four 1234
80. Hate
81. Gun Dog Comics
82. The illusion of change
83. Captain America standing alone against Thanos in the Infinity Gauntlet
84. Gruenwald's ashes in Squadron Supreme
85. The X-Force issue I got a letter printed in
86. Mad Magazine
87. Wednesdays
88. Erik Larson's Spidey
89. Madrox the Multiple Man
90. Monkeys, yeah, monkeys
91. Fin Fang Foom
92. Steve Ditko's Shade the Changing Man
93. Spidey vs. Juggernaut
94. Nu Marvel (for good or bad)
95. Maus
96. George Perez
97. The rest of the world, "Since comics are for kids, adult comics must be porn!" Yes sir...
98. John Romita, Jr.
99. The Only Blog That Matters, the crappiest blog in the world
100. Super heroes!
Thanks for reading!
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