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in which the full depth of my geekery is revealed
The meme that's going around in the comics blogosphere at the moment (birthed by Fred Hembeck, believe it or not) is to blog 100 things you love about comics, and since I'm an inveterate list-maker and long-time comics lover I decided why not?:
100 Things I Love About Comics
1. 24-hour comics
2. the Absorbing Man
3. Achewood's Ray Smuckles & Roast Beef
4. Adrian Tomine's 32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics
5. Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve
6. Agatha Harkness
7. Animal Man travelling back in time in Issue #22 and causing glitches in Issue #14
8. the Anti-God decreating the universe very very slowly, in Doom Patrol
9. the archetypal grasslands and talking birds in Anders Nilsen's Big Questions
10. “Assistant Editor's Month”
11. B. Kliban's non-cat-related cartoons
12. Ben Edlund's The Tick
13. Big Numbers #1-2
14. Bill Sienkiewicz's Stray Toasters
15. Bloom County's anxiety closet
16. Bloom County's Steve Dallas
17. Bob the Angry Flower
18. Brian Ralph's Cave-In
19. the Brotherhood of Dada, in Doom Patrol
20. Bugtown, the setting of Matt Howarth's Those Annoying Post Bros.
21. Calvin and Hobbes, especially the Sundays
22. Chris Ware's impossibly complex diagrams and cut-out toys
23. the conceit of Go-Man: keeping the main character in a coma for the first twelve issues of the series
24. the convoluted network of cyborgian family relationships between Henry Pym, Ultron, the Vision and Wonder Man
25. “The Coyote Gospel,” Animal Man #5
26. Craig Thompson's Blankets
27. Dan Clowes' Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron
28. the Danger Room
29. The Dark Knight Returns' approach to Superman
30. Dark Phoenix
31. Dave McKean's Sandman covers
32. David Heatley's “My Sexual History (Slightly Abridged Version)”
33. Doonesbury
34. Dr. Doom / Latveria
35. Dr. Manhattan building a palace on Mars in Watchmen
36. Dr. Strange
37. Eddie Griffith's scratchy, terrifying art in From Hell
38. Edward Gorey's Amphigorey
39. Eightball #23, “The Death Ray”
40. the fact that Wolverine was made by Canadians
41. the first two issues of Grant Morrison's Invisibles
42. For Better or For Worse
43. Galactus / the Trial of Galactus / the Ultimate Nullifier
44. Gerhard's backgrounds on Cerebus
45. getting Two-Face to use the I Ching, in Arkham Asylum
46. Ghost World's Enid Coleslaw
47. “Gin makes a man mean!”: Evan Dorkin's Milk and Cheese
48. How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
49. Huey Freeman from The Boondocks
50. Iron Man
51. “I did it fifteen minutes ago,” in Watchmen
52. J. Jonah Jameson
53. Jack the Ripper having visions of the 20th century in From Hell
54. Jack Kirby
55. James Kochalka's American Elf
56. James Kochalka's Monkey Vs. Robot
57. Jim Woodring's Frank
58. Jim's Journal
59. John Porcellino's King-Cat Comics
60. the Joker
61. Julie Doucet's Dirty Plotte
62. Ben Katchor's Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer
63. the kid from St. Swithin's Day markering “Neurotic Boy Outsider” on his forehead
64. Kitty Pryde
65. Life In Hell, from the 1982-1987 era
66. Little Nemo in Slumberland
67. Lynda Barry's Ernie Pook's Comeek
68. Magneto
69. Marc Bell's weird Basquiat-ish text-image agglomerations
70. Marvel Team-Up
71. the Negative Zone / Annihilus
72. parodies of the cover of Fantastic Four #1
73. Paul Pope's THB
74. Peanuts' Linus
75. Peanuts' Lucy
76. Phil Foglio's Phil and Dixie
77. Phil Foglio's XXXenophile
78. the physics and internally consistent logic of Larry Marder's Tales of the Beanworld
79. Prohias' Spy Vs. Spy, in MAD Magazine
80. R. Crumb's Zap Comics #1
81. the R. Crumb issues of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor
82. Reed Richards / Susan Richards / Franklin Richards
83. Rick Veitch's dream comic collections Rabid Eye and Pocket Universe
84. the Scarlet Witch's hex magic
85. Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics
86. the second half of Church and State
87. Sentinels / Roxxon Oil
88. Sergio Aragones' margin cartoons in MAD Magazine
89. the serial killer convention in Sandman
90. She-Hulk
91. the Silver Surfer
92. “Something fell”: Cerebus
93. Spider-Man
94. stories where characters meet their creators (Animal Man #26, Cerebus haggling with Sim on Pluto, recent issues of Alan Moore's Promethea)
95. Tank Girl
96. Tom Orzechowski's lettering
97. “unstable molecules”
98. Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest
99. What If? / Uatu the Watcher
100. Why I Hate Saturn, by Kyle Baker
I may come back and round out this list with link-annnotations later. Labels: comics, lists |
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
11:34 PM
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