100 Things I Love About Comics

The fella who hates memes came up with this one, with a bit of help from Alan David Doane and Fred Hembeck. I'm not a great one for bandwagons, but here goes, in no particular order:

1. "Stan Lee Presents.."
2. "In Orbit Every Monday!"
3. Avoiding spoilers!
4. Iron Fist!
5. Alan Davis!
6. The death of Gwen Stacy!
7. "I make stabby."
8. Gotham Central! (why aren't you buying this title?!?)
9. "Doc Ock is marrying Aunt May!"
10. Top Ten!
11. Viz!
12. Alpha Flight #1-#29!
13. Super-Villain Team-Up!
14. Peter David!
15. Old Stoney Face!
16. Kirbytech!
17. Suicide Squad
18. Thanos!
19. The Great Cow Race!
20. Hawkeye!
21. Kurt Busiek!
22. One! Dimensional! Characters!
23. Preacher!
24. Amazing Spider-Man #238-#289!
25. Thumbing through Previews!
26. J. Jonah Jameson!
27. Barry Kitson!
28. "Essential" reprints!
29. Good comics-to-movie adaptations!
30. Really really bad comics-to-movie adaptations!
31. "One punch...!"
32. Grant Morrison!
33. League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen!
34. The Circus Of Crime!
35. Sites which mock the Circus of Crime!
36. Tank Girl!
37. "Gaze into the fist of Dredd!"
38. "And I, I have shown him, that a man without hope is a man without fear."
39. Walt Simonson's Thor (yes all of it)!
40. Comic blogs (all 15 of them)!
41. Raking through back issue boxes!
42. DC One Million!
43. "Blue blistering barnacles!"
44. "Tiny footprints in her brain."
45. Avengers 273-277!
46. Alan Moore!
47. The Dark Phoenix Saga!
48. "Justice - Like Lightning!"
49. Opening a new comic parcel!
50. Alias!
51. Fables!
52. Calvinball!
53. Planetary!
54. Dan Dare Pilot Of The Future!
55. Sam Slade Robo-Hunter!
56. L.E.G.I.O.N!
57. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants!
58. Peanuts!
59. Brian Bolland!
60. The Revolving Door of Death!
61. The Invisibles!
62. Waldo Dobbs and Ernie Quinch!
63. Bendis!
64. John Byrne in his heyday!
65. "Doom needs no one."
66. Geoff Johns!
67. The Helicarrier!
68. Cross-title crossovers!
69. Greg Rucka!
70. The Black Zoid!
71. "This is an imaginary story. Aren't they all?"
72. Bad guys reforming!
73. Good guys going bad!
74. Garth Ennis!
75. Comic-Book Guy!
76. "Face it, tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"
77. Not waiting for the trade!
78. Antici - say it with me - pation!
79. Superman / Batman (my secret shame)!
80. Posters who take their comics way too seriously!
81. Hulk #330-377!
82. Nostalgia!
83. Egomaniacs!
84. Silver Bullet Comic Books!
85. Time-travel!
86. Parallel Universes!
87. Soap Opera!
88. You can read them anywhere!
89. Sentinels!
90. Luthor!
91. The Vertigo League?
92. Comics for disaffected teens!
93. Comics for old fogeys!
94. Comics for kids!
95. Asterix the Gaul!
96. Grudge matches!
97. Loeb & Sale!
98. Galactus!
99. Strangers In Paradise! (if only for the look on the wife's face when it arrives!)
100. Everything you think you know... is a lie!"

And to think, I thought I was being so clever, setting up a link for every single entry. That is, until I went back to Progressive Ruin...