100 Things I Love About Comics

Yes, the list making bug has hit hard -- first movies, then TV, and now, comic books.  Granted, this one will be a bit more niche than the last two, but for the three people who'll actually read it -- and the one of those who will actually get 98% of the references without the aide of Google -- I hope it's worth it.  Again, I tried to keep it as varied as possible, so it wasn't just me listing 100 things I love about The Legion of Super Heroes and Alan Moore. Now, for those of you who do read this, please, leave thoughts on your favorite things about comics as well.

1. Swashbuckling Nightcrawler
   
2. Finding some new layer or detail the first half-dozen times I read Watchmen
3. Old school Justice League/Justice Society team-ups
   
4. The Squadron Supreme
   
   
5. The Kessels' Hawk and Dove run
6. M.O.D.O.K.
   
7. Projectra's execution of Nemesis Kid
8. The art of George Perez
   
9. Blue Devil as weirdness magnet
10. Ms. Marvel
    
11. Ambush Bug
12. The New Mutants watching Magnum, P.I. 
13. Steve Ditko's Dr. Strange
     
14. Kurt Busiek's Astro City 
15. John Ostrander's Suicide Squad 
16. The reveal of who the Thunderbolts really were
17. The Green Lantern Oath
    
18. Spider Jerusalem's filthy assistants 
19. The Great Lakes Avengers
    
20. Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
    
21. Constantine conning the devils to cure his cancer
22. Steve Gerber's Defenders
     
23. Havok's original costume and power signature
    
24. Ronnie Raymond/Professor Stein as Firestorm
25. Alan Davis
    
26. Babe the Blue Ox's fantasy life in Jack of Fables 
27. Ralph and Sue Dibney
28. "We have become like unto tiny refreshing gods!"
29. Tim Drake as Robin
30. The original Spider-Woman series, in all its oddball glory
31. The Dark Phoenix Saga
32. Gail Simone.
33. "One punch! One punch!"
34. Bill Willingham's Elementals 
35. Vril Dox.
36. Learning more about WWII from All-Star Squadron than I did in history class
37. Songbird
38. Tony Isabella's Justice Machine 
39. Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol
40. Beast and Wonder Man's bromance
    
41. Scourge taking out a whole bar of villains in one fell swoop
42. Barry Ween, Boy Genius
43. Phil Foglio's Angel and the Ape mini
44. Peter David
45. Pamcakes
46. Stupid stupid rat creatures in Bone
    
47. "Church and State" arc in Cerebus 
48. Wolff & Byrd: Supernatural Attorneys at Law
49. Mark Gruenwald's Quasar
50. The reinvention of Machine Man in Nextwave
51. Reinventing Arthurian legend in Mage: The Hero Discovered 
52. Joe Hill's Locke & Key 
53. Amadeus Cho
54. Alan Moore's Supreme
55. Paul Grist's Jack Staff
     
56. Star Trek loving demon Glumph in Boneyard 
57. Micronauts
    
58. Alternate timelines
59. Red Kryptonite
60. Legion of Super-Heroes tryouts
61. Tony Chu's interesting talent
    
62. James Robinson's Starman
63. Deadpool traveling back in time to Amazing Spider-Man #47
64. Parodying Dune and Harry Potter at the same time
65. Improbable team-ups
66. Frank Miller's Daredevil
67. The fact that Marvel decided to team up their Blaxploitation hero and Kung-Fu hero, and it actually turned out to be even more awesome than it sounds
    
    
68. Wise-cracking heroes
69. Dan Slott's She-Hulk 
70. Christopher Priest
71. Nova, the Human Rocket
    
72. Shared universes and continuities
73. Delirium of the Endless
    
74. T. Campell's Fans!
75. The sound effects in The Incredible Hercules
    
    
76. One-Who-Knows
77. Dynamic Duo
78. Warriors Three
79. Frightful Four
80. Fatal Five
    
81. The Secret Six
    
82. Salem's Seven
    
83. Offical Handbook to Marvel Universe
84. The Vision losing his temper
    
85. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
86. Herbie Popnecker: The Fat Fury
87. The Tarot issue of Promethea 
88. Tenzil for the defense
89. Kitty Pryde
90. Barbara Gordon using her library and information sciences abilities to fight evil
91. Clan Apis
92. Thinly veiled hero/villain analogues
93. Unstable molecules
94. The Foot Soldiers
    
95. Warren Ellis' Global Frequency 
96. Marvel's "Cosmic" books
97. Aaron William's PS238 
98. Alan Moore's From Hell
99. Phil Hester's The Wretch
100. Avengers assembling.