Let's start things off with a bang...

This is a meme that's floating around some of the other comics blogs, and it seems a good way to set the tone for what's to come here. In no particular order, and more or less off the top of my head, it's a list of one-hundred things I love about comics:

1. Superman
2. Jack Kirby
3. Frank Miller
4. Frank Miller and Dave Mazzucchelli on Daredevil
5. Frank Miller and Dave Mazzucchelli on Batman
6. The new Catwoman costume
7. The Dark Knight Returns
8. Silver Age covers
9. Kirby crackle
10. Speed lines
11. Mecha
12. Pencil, paper and you’re set to make your own
13. Tintin
14. Blade of the Immortal
15. Adam Hughes
16. Alan Davis drawing Captain Britain
17. Parallel Earths
18. Kryptonite
19. Batarangs
20. “Snikt”, “Thwip”, “Bamf,” and other sound effects
21. Battle cries like “It’s clobberin’ time!” “Avengers assemble!” and “Titans together!”
22. The psychology of the Hulk
23. Marv
24. Concrete
25. Superhero names that end in “Kid” and “Lass,” and ones that start with “Kid” too
26. Preacher
27. Hitman
28. Justice League Antarctica
29. Sandman
30. Chris Claremont’s first 17 years on the X-Men
31. Alan Moore
32. Miracleman
33. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
34. Rorschach
35. Watchmen
36. “Look, up in the sky!”
37. “In brightest day, in darkest night, no evil shall escape my sight, let those who worship evil’s might beware my power, Green Lantern’s light!”
38. The Ghost Who Walks
39. Manga eyes
40. Tom Orzechowski
41. Walt Simonson
42. Bill Sienkievicz
43. Arthur Adams
44. Hellboy
45. Wednesdays
46. Grant Morrison
47. 100 Bullets
48. "Comics are just words and pictures; you can do anything with words and pictures." – Harvey Pekar
49. Travis Charest
50. The first 24 issues of Brubaker’s Catwoman
51. Darwyn Cooke
52. Adamantium
53. Black Panther
54. Made up cities like Metropolis, Gotham, Keystone, Coast, Gateway, and countries like Wakanda and Latveria
55. Blue Beetle and Booster Gold
56. The Composite Superman
57. Arch enemies and secret identities
58. Brian Bolland
59. Madman
60. The all-new, all-different X-Men
61. Cyclops’s visor
62. Capes
63. Maus
64. All six Dark Horse volumes of Akira
65. Grant Morrison's respective final issues on both Animal Man and Doom Patrol
66. Bryan Hitch
67. Frank Quitely
68. Peepshow
69. Seth
70. Lex Luthor
71. Power Man and Iron Fist
72. Namor’s ankle wings
73. Squee
74. Hunter Rose
75. Grendel Prime
76. The bit in “For the Man Who Has Everything” when Superman gets super angry
77. Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing
78. John Constantine
79. OMAC
80. The ads in old comics
81. Giving them out at Halloween and seeing kids flip out (two years ago one kid left his bag of candy on my driveway as he walked away reading the comic I’d given him)
82. Bob Haney’s Teen Titans
83. Alex Ross
84. Peter David
85. Warren Ellis and Mark Millar’s runs on The Authority
86. Y the Last Man
87. The very first issue of Impulse, by Mark Waid and Humberto Ramos
88. The Justice Society of America
89. James Robinson and Tony Harris’s Starman
90. Batman
91. Alex Toth
92. Timothy Truman’s Hawkworld miniseries
93. Paul Grist’s Kane
94. Andi Watson
95. Priest
96. Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn
97. Curt Swan
98. Will Eisner
99. Lee and Ditko's Amazing Spider-man
100. Grant Morrison’s Superman
101. The fact that I’m at 100 and I’ve only scratched the surface…