50 Things I Love About Comics

gmskarka has challenged, and I must answer...

1. “Batman! He’s just a man!” “The most dangerous man you’ll ever meet...”
   
2. “Well, then I guess I’d just have to catch the bullet...”
   
3. George Perez
   
4. The New Teen Titans (Wolfman/Perez)
   
5. “Who Is Donna Troy?” (even in spite of the stories that followed it)
   
6. Marvels
   
7. “Run me down, gentlemen? I don’t think so.”
   
8. “SHAZAM!”
   
9. “These ‘no-nonsense’ solutions of yours just don’t hold water in a complex world of jet-powered apes and time travel.”
   
10. “With great power also comes great responsibility.”
    
11. “Pain? Pain is for lesser men.”
    
12. The Flash’s costume ring.
    
13. Anybody’s trophy room (JLA Watchtower, Batcave, Fortress of Solitude, what have you)
    
14. 22,300 miles
    
15. Flight rings (”They fly.”)
    
16. “We have no powers, there are millions of them and there’s a child in there who needs us to save the world. Let’s go.”
    
17. “In loudest din, or hush profound...” (the second greatest Green Lantern oath ever)
    
18. Eating the Miracle Machine
    
19. Alan Moore
    
20. Promethea
    
21. “This Man... This Monster!”
    
22. X-Men/Alpha Flight (by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith)
    
23. JLA/Avengers (by Kurt Busiek and George Perez)
    
24. Squadron Supreme (up to and especially including Mark Gruenwald’s series)
    
25. Mark Gruenwald’s last request
    
26. Contest of Champions
    
27. Cyclops vs. all of the X-Men (under Mastermind’s influence)
    
28. “Face it, Tiger, you just hit the jackpot.”
    
29. Phil Jiminez superceding George Perez as a Wonder Woman artist, something I thought couldn’t be done.
    
30. “You’re no Barry Allen!”
    
31. The Invisibles
    
32. The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe
    
33. Adamantium
    
34. Atlantis (in all its many forms)
    
35. The New Warriors (Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley)
    
36. Thunderbolts (Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley – both series way better than I expected)
    
37. Mark Bagley
    
38. Kurt Busiek
    
39. Astro City
    
40. “Nobody forgets, nobody ever forgets.”
    
41. JLA/JSA team-ups
    
42. All-Star Squadron
    
43. “The brain of the devil, in the body of a god.”
    
44. Back-up stories
    
45. Legion leader elections
    
46. The West Coast Avengers
    
47. “How did you know to be invulnerable?” “What power do you think I leave on all the time?”
    
48. “No one rivals Doom! NO ONE!”
    
49. SKREEEEEEEEEEEE
    
50. “Sometimes when you fall, you fly.”
    
    Note that, although hard-pressed, I left the DC Universe animated series out of it.