Ten Things I Love About Comics
A few bloggers have been doing lists of 50 Things They Love About Comics. I don't have enough scans ready, so think of this as a prelude. The next edition will have at least 500% more Doop.
1. Wally calling Bruce on his Batdickery
Identity Crisis was a crappy comic event, but it brought us the joy of watching Wally be badass and defensive of his villains. And to be fair, has any Batman villain successfully fought a speedster? Bart beat the Joker when he was two. He made the Riddler cry. Don't try to play the tough guy here, Bruce. You'll lose.
2. Bruce's creepy journal entries on his sidekicks
I vastly prefer Bruce when he has lots of family members to have quasi-badtouch relationships with to the Lone Dark Knight Fanboy Wankery edition.
3. Tim totally had his first wet dream about Dick
I love that their reaction to this story was not to kill Tim and dump his body in the river to preserve their secret identities from the crazy, crazy little boy but rather to give him a Robin outfit and reward his years of stalking. Good call there, Batfolk.
4. INCEST!
All siblings in superhero comics have a degree of incest to their relationship. In some cases it's a bit more obvious.
5. Bart's thought bubbles
Impulse thinking in pictures is just a great character note. It says so much so simply.
6. Impulse and Brainiac 5 and a monkey: Best team up ever.
The best part of this is how everyone in the universe instinctively knows that leaving them alone in the room together would be a terrible idea that would kill us all. Actually, just having them in the same time should be cause for the collective heroes of the world to be on high alert.
7. When new heroes fail. A lot.
Please start a new series of Young Avengers soon. I want more teenage boyfriends failing at saving the world.
8. Everything Ex Machina chooses to be.
The scene where Mitchell gets his powers is so creepy. As the book goes on and you see more about him gradually disconnecting from humanity as he gets more machine like and logical and then going back and realizing that he was always kind of distant is just great character work. Did the powers choose him or is he using them to justify himself? And is he a robotsexual or totally a robotsexual?
9. Not so much everything Civil War chose to be.
The next words out of Tony's mouth are not, "I love you." Total. Fucking. Ripoff.
10. Motherfucking Doop
Yes, there is a romance comic about Doop. Who is by far the greatest mutant of all time. Possibly the greatest comic book character ever, actually.
1. Wally calling Bruce on his Batdickery
Identity Crisis was a crappy comic event, but it brought us the joy of watching Wally be badass and defensive of his villains. And to be fair, has any Batman villain successfully fought a speedster? Bart beat the Joker when he was two. He made the Riddler cry. Don't try to play the tough guy here, Bruce. You'll lose.
2. Bruce's creepy journal entries on his sidekicks
I vastly prefer Bruce when he has lots of family members to have quasi-badtouch relationships with to the Lone Dark Knight Fanboy Wankery edition.
3. Tim totally had his first wet dream about Dick
I love that their reaction to this story was not to kill Tim and dump his body in the river to preserve their secret identities from the crazy, crazy little boy but rather to give him a Robin outfit and reward his years of stalking. Good call there, Batfolk.
4. INCEST!
All siblings in superhero comics have a degree of incest to their relationship. In some cases it's a bit more obvious.
5. Bart's thought bubbles
Impulse thinking in pictures is just a great character note. It says so much so simply.
6. Impulse and Brainiac 5 and a monkey: Best team up ever.
The best part of this is how everyone in the universe instinctively knows that leaving them alone in the room together would be a terrible idea that would kill us all. Actually, just having them in the same time should be cause for the collective heroes of the world to be on high alert.
7. When new heroes fail. A lot.
Please start a new series of Young Avengers soon. I want more teenage boyfriends failing at saving the world.
8. Everything Ex Machina chooses to be.
The scene where Mitchell gets his powers is so creepy. As the book goes on and you see more about him gradually disconnecting from humanity as he gets more machine like and logical and then going back and realizing that he was always kind of distant is just great character work. Did the powers choose him or is he using them to justify himself? And is he a robotsexual or totally a robotsexual?
9. Not so much everything Civil War chose to be.
The next words out of Tony's mouth are not, "I love you." Total. Fucking. Ripoff.
10. Motherfucking Doop
Yes, there is a romance comic about Doop. Who is by far the greatest mutant of all time. Possibly the greatest comic book character ever, actually.