Like a horrible virus, this meme is spreading. Are you having a good Valentine’s Day? The future Mr. Tangognat cooked me dinner and helped me author this blog post. Some of the things on the list are things I used to love, but may not love currently. Anyway, here we go, the 100 things we love about comics:
25 cent cover prices (Mr. Tangognat)
Action Figures
Alan Moore
All the many varities of kryptonite
Alliteration from Stan Lee
Ambush Bug
American Splendor
Amethyst Princess of Gemworld
Andi Watson
Any use of magic in a comic
Appleseed
Area 88
Basara
Benday Dots (Mr. Tangognat)
Blue Monday
Bone
Christopher Chance (Mr. Tangognat)
Clamp
Colleen Doran
Comet the Super Horse
comic book movies (most of them)
Comics Blogs
Conan the Barbarian
Demon Ororon
Dr Strange
Early Cerebus
Early Elfquest
E-Man
Erica Sakurazawa manga
Firestar
Go back to yancy street, ya yahoo!
Gotham (Mr. Tangognat)
Grant Morrison
Green Lantern’s motto
Harvey Pekar (Mr. Tangognat)
Hellboy
Hot Gimmick
Iron Wok Jan (Mr. Tangognat)
J. Jonah Jameson
Jack Kirby
Jewish superheroes
Jill Thompson
Joe Sacco (Mr. Tangognat)
Joss Whedon and John Cassaday on Astonishing X-Men
Justice League (Mr. Tangognat)
Kitty Pryde
late lamented Journalista!
Lea Hernandez
Legion of Superherores
Lone Wolf & Cub
Mai the Psychic Girl
Manga
Mars
Matt Wagner
Morlocks
Mr. Mytzlplyx
Namor being cranky
Nausicaa
Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
Old Ads from Comic books (Mr. Tangognat)
old Captain Mar-Vell
Oni Press
Paradise Kiss
Persepolis (Mr. Tangognat)
Peter Milligan
Planetary
Planetes
Power Man and Iron Fist
Power Pack
Powers
Prince of Tennis (Mr. Tangognat)
Princess Mermaid
R. Crumb (Mr. Tangognat)
Sam Keith
Sequential Tart
Smallville (Mr. Tangognat)
Sound effects, both English and Japanese
Steve Ditko
Street Angel
Supergirl
Tales of the Beanworld
The Dark Knight Returns
The Flash (Mr. Tangognat)
The fortress of solitude
The Red Star
Thor saying “I say the Nay!†anytime
Tokyopop
Uncle Ben (Mr. Tangognat)
viz
waiting for the trade
Warren Ellis
Watchmen
web comics
When robot duplicates are used as cover for a superhero’s secret identity
Why I Hate Saturn
Will Eisner (Mr. Tangognat)
Wonder Woman’s invisible plane
X-Men
Yuu Watase
Zot!