- Scott Pilgrim
- Justice League Unlimited
- The Teen Titans theme by Puffy AmiYumi
- The Teen Titans show itself, for that matter
- Gene Colan
- DC's new Showcase books (which is the perfect format for a Sugar & Spike collection, HINT HINT!)
- Box Office Poison and Tricked by Alex Robinson
- All-Star Superman
- Nextwave
- IDW bringing back The Maze Agency
- X-Men Legends for PS2
- The Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes tabloid with the wedding of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl (1000 years in the future, and the universe is still plagued with bell-bottoms)
- The Flash TV series
- The new Marvel Team-Up by Robert Kirkman
- The often unsung work of colorists, or color artists, or whatever the hell they want to call themselves
- The Comic Geek Speak podcast
- The I Read Comics podcast
- The unparalleled hyperbole of Stan Lee
- The Best of the Spirit trade paperback (hey DC, howzabout a Best of Plastic Man next?)
- "The Ballad of Barry Allen" by Jim's Big Ego
- Afforable Little Lulu reprints from Dark Horse
- The album sized reprints of Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics produced by Gladstone and Disney - the perfect size for those stories!
- The Fantastic Four movie, which I actually liked better than Batman Begins
- Evan Dorkin's blog
- Mike Wieringo's sketch blog
- Reading one of the New Teen Titans drug issues (the one with Speedy on the cover) out loud as a class in second grade
- The current Legion of Super-Heroes book by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson
- The occasional letter pages in the above comic book
- The letter pages in Starman (which were more often about various & sundry bits of pop culture ephemera than about the book itself)
- The Darkseid gag in the first Ambush Bug mini-series
- Who's Who: The Definitive Guide to the DC Universe
- Discount Comic Book Service
- Graphic novels in libraries, for helping me discover new comics I might not have read otherwise, as well as saving me a ton of money by letting me read and enjoy comics I would have been disappointed in if I had actually spent money on them (e.g. New Avengers is a decent read for free, but I don't know if I'd ever want to actually buy it)
- Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe
- The theme song to the 60s Spider-Man cartoon
- Jack Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey series, which had almost no connection to the movie whatsoever
- The theme song to Nextwave.
- The ad for Spalding basketballs drawn by Jack Davis, starring Rick Barry and Dr. J, that ran on the back of every comic book published for about 4 decades.
- The Tandy WhizKids helping out Superman with a TRS-80, of all things.
- The Earthwar storyline in Superboy & the Legion of Super-Heroes
- Mr. Mind
- The Encyclopedia of Super-Heroes by Jeff Rovin (multiple factual errors and all)
- The Defenders, esp. the early issues of the original series and the brief revival from a few years back by Kurt Busiek and Erik Larsen
- Kitty Pryde
- Art Adams
- Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker
- Space Cabby
- Chronos, the entirely too-short-lived DC series written by John Francis Moore
- Chase, the entirely too-short-lived DC series written by D. Curtis Johnson
- The Creature Commandos
- Seasons 2-4 of the Superboy TV series (the ones with Gerard Christopher)
- Superman: Secret Identity
- The Joker talking about boners.
- Squarecat Comics
- Bizarro
- 70s and 80s JSA stories
- Yvonne Craig as Batgirl
- The fact that Batgirl was a librarian (library workers represent!)
- Ed McGuinness
- Gorilla Grodd
- Batman's "sci-fi closet"
- The Land of Nod, Oddville, and Jetcat's Clubhouse by Jay Stephens
- The Marvel Comics Video Library, produced by Prism Entertainment. I must've rented the whole series over the course of one winter back in grade school.
- Joe Kubert
- Scott Kollins (esp. his work on The Flash)
- Mike Parobeck
- The fact that any DC book you own from circa 1983 probably has the "Masters of the Universe" preview insert in it. There was no escaping that damn thing!
- Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld
- Arm Fall Off Boy
- The Tick
- Jim Aparo's Batman
- The No-Prize
- John Byrne, pre-Cranky Old Man of the Internet era
- Walter and Louise Simonson
- Varying shades of Kryptonite
- Curt Swan
- The weird jogging-in-the-air pose that Wayne Boring always drew Superman doing
- Dan DeCarlo
- Kurt Schaffenberger
- The constantly changing t-shirt slogan gag (who created that, Kurtzman or Elder?)
- The now retired DC bullet logo
- Marvel's Godzilla series
- Nova, the Human Rocket - the only superhero guaranteed to be a bigger loser than you!
- The JLA satellite
- The two Superman/Spider-Man crossovers
- The X-Men/Teen Titans crossover
- The JLA/Avengers crossover
- Adam Strange by Andy Diggle and Pascal Ferry
- Hello, I'm Johnny Cash from Spire Christian Comics
- Old school Marvel monster comics
- DC 100 page issues
- American Elf/Sketchbook Diaries by James Kochalka
- Jaime Hernandez
- Scott McCloud
- Archie meets the Punisher
- Carmine Infantino
- The Incredibles
- The Hulk's purple pants
- The very notion that radiation could give you super-powers instead of killing you
- The fact that I'll get to introduce Liam to all of this and more.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Let's list again, like we did last winter...
Mikester may have re-awakened a sleeping beast, so if this turns into a meme again, blame him. So here now for your blogging enjoyment is, again in no particular order, 100 More Things I Love About Comics (you can see the list I made last year here if you're curious):
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