Let me count the ways.

Fred started it, Alan David Doane ran with it, and then Mike goes and turns it into a meme. Well, knowing a fun bandwagon to jump on when I see it, I had to join in, too, so I humbly present to you, in no particular order, The 110 Reasons* I Love Comics (because I refuse to submit to The Man's limit of 100):

1. The Marvel Family (and their assorted friends and villains)
2. Superman
3. The 60s Batman TV Show
4. Starman by James Robinson
5. “The Kid Who Collected Spider-Man”
6. Getting issues of March of Comics from Paul at Standard Shoes
7. Wednesdays at Nostalgia Ink during high school and college (Hi, Bruce and Mary, if you’re out there somewhere)
8. Jack “King” Kirby
9. Stern and Byrne on Captain America
10. Bone
11. The first season of “Lois and Clark”
12. Wolfman and Perez on The New Teen Titans
13. Animal Man by Grant Morrison
14. Steranko’s brief but perfect Captain America run
15. Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham
16. Strangers in Paradise from Volume 1 up through the High School story in Volume 3
17. Milk and Cheese (MERV GRIFFIN!!!!) and other works by Evan Dorkin
18. The Maze Agency by Mike W. Barr
19. The Sesame Street segment about the letter S, starring Superman
20. DC reprints by Whitman, available in three-packs in drug, book and department stores everywhere
21. Dr. Doom
22. Mark Gruenwald on Captain America (pre Cap-Wolf, anyway)
23. Steve Ditko
24. Batman: The Animated Series
25. Carl Barks
26. Superman: The Movie & Superman II
27. Sandman by Neil Gaiman
28. Peanuts, featuring Good Ol’ Charlie Brown
29. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends
30. Sarah Dyer's Action Girl Comics
31. JLA/JSA crossovers
32. DC 100 Pagers
33. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
34. JoAnna Cameron as Isis
35. Gorilla covers
36. “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” by Don Rosa (D.U.C.K.)
37. The Dark Phoenix Saga
38. The fact that superhero action figures of the 80s were about the same size and could be used interchangeably (Dr. Doom Vs. the JLA! The Spider-Man/Firestorm feud!)
39. The Phantom Blot
40. Dr. Doom traps The Fantastic Four in The Village, sort of (FF 84-87)
41. The Skull House storyline (Captain America 290-300)
42. Byrne on Fantastic Four
43. The Essential Marvel books
44. The Adventures of Captain Marvel starring Tom Tyler
45. Watching Batman: The Movie in French on the CBC when I was 4
46. Crisis on Infinite Earths
47. John Romita drawing Spider-Man
48. Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
49. The Aim toothpaste give-away comic with Spider-Man and the Green Goblin
50. Wizard of Comics, the first comic book store in Bangor, ME
51. Calvin and Hobbes
52. Filmation’s Shazam! cartoons
53. Gil Kane
54. Erin discovering Optic Nerve
55. The Legion of Super-Heroes
56. Waid and Garney’s first run on Captain America
57. 80 Page Giants
58. Jack Cole’s Plastic Man
59. Will Eisner’s Post-WW2 work on The Spirit
60. Superman Peanut Butter (Fred's right; that stuff was good)
61. Fred Hembeck
62. Watchmen
63. Alan Moore’s run on Supreme
64. The New Adventures of Superboy
65. Nostalgia Con 1-5 (comic conventions in Central Maine, run by the afore-mentioned Nostalgia Ink)
66. Challenge of the Super-Friends
67. Superman: The Animated Series
68. Kirby names (Flippa Dippa! Vermin Vundabarr! Mr. Buda!)
69. Walter Simonson’s signature (it’s a dinosaur!)
70. The 7-11 Marvel Superheroes promotion
71. Gumby’s Summer Fun Special by Art Adams
72. Little Lulu by John Stanley
73. X2: X-Men United
74. Spider-Man on The Electric Company (and Spidey Super Stories)
75. “This Man… This Monster!”
76. Nexus by Baron and Rude
77. The Fleischer studios Superman cartoons
78. Ask The Answer Man
79. Grant Morrison’s New X-Men
80. Zot!
81. Tales of the Beanworld
82. “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?”
83. True Story Swear to God
84. Get Fuzzy
85. Spider-Man 2
86. The Comics Journal’s online interview archive posts
87. Outlandish origin stories
88. Mad (comic and magazine)
89. The Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League
90. The hand-me-down Superman pajamas/playsuit I got from my neighbor as a kid (and the warning printed on it: “Remember, this suit won’t make you fly. Only Superman can fly!”)
91. The first comic book store I ever went to, Moonshadow Comics in Portland, ME.
92. DC’s “The Greatest ________ Stories Ever Told” series
93. Herbie Popnecker
94. Days of Future Past
95. Squadron Supreme by Mark Gruenwald
96. Marvel Tales (classic Spidey at an affordable price)
97. Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley
98. Getting a letter printed (Electric Girl #2)
99. Stan Lee and John Romita unmask the Green Goblin
100. Darkseid
101. Heroclix
102. Eating pizza with Mart and Carrie Nodell (perhaps the two nicest people I have ever met)
103. The Aquabats (they count, right?)
104. A Charlie Brown Christmas
105. Krypto
106. Blue Beetle
107. "For the Man Who Has Everything"
108. Multiple Earths (especially 2, S, X and Prime)
109. Comics creators with exclamatory names (Elliot S! Maggin, Scott Shaw!)
110. My parents actually encouraging me to read comic books (thanks, Mom and Dad!)

*Updated from 105 Reasons at 3:43 pm. on 2/14/05, because I somehow managed to leave stuff out, if you can believe it.