50 Things I Love About Comics

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1. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
2. Grit.
3. Ambush Bug.
4. The first twelve issues of Alpha Flight v.1.
5. Kirby poses (right fist forward, left foot back)
6. The relationship between Ben Grimm & Johnny Storm
7. Elliot S. Maggin
8. Captain Carrot and the Amazing Zoo Crew
9. Godzilla Vs. Shield
10. Fabian Nicieza is being kept off the streets
11. Solomon and Zeus can be on the same acronym, and nobody cares
12. Superhero comics written by Emo musicians
13. Watching Honest Ed's get demolished in a duel
14. Being able to point to a intensely dense crossover story as my first comic book.
15. The front cover of Justice League #1.
16. ROM, Spaceknight!
17. DC Comics Presents: Superman and the Legion of Substitute Heroes. Or any issue of DCCP.
18. Letter columns
19. "Whatever happened to the Man of Tomorrow?"
20. Any supervillain who could make a lot better living off of patents than crime.
21. "Richards!"
22. M.O.D.O.K.
23. The Answer Man.
24. Cerberus Church & State
25. Cerberus High Socity
26. Thwip!
27. Power Pack.
28. Yorick Brown and his search for love
29. That I missed the '90s almost entirely.
30. Misunderstandings that lead to every first meeting being a fight.
31. T.M. Maple, R.I.P.
32. The Fantastic Four Roast
33. Absolute Editions
34. The Elementals (pre-sex specials/"vs Saddam Hussein!")
35. J. Jonah Jameson going off.
36. The first What If? humour issue.
37. Captain Universe: The Hero Who Could Be... YOU!
38. Dial H for HERO
39. Planet Hulk merging standard superheroics with Sword & Sorcery
40. Batman beating the Punisher silly in the JLA/Avengers crossover.
41. The never-ending Christmas Eve feeling about the last issue of Planetary.
42. The photo-art from the first issue of Captain Canuck.
43. Duck protagonists (Howard, Destroyer, Donald, Scrooge, etc)
44. Eros
45.The Impossible Man vs Warlock
46. "Welcome to the X-Men, (insert character's name here)! Hope you survive the experience!"
47. The Dark Phoenix Saga.
48. Mini-Marvels
49. The Metal Men. Because, even if they never win, they try.
50. "I leave it entirely in your hands."

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