Friday, August 29, 2008

The 50 Things Meme I Suffered Through

50 Things I love about comics, in random order and somewhat random sorting.

01 - Monica Rambeau
02 - Allison Blair (Dazzler)
03 - Cloak & Dagger
04 - Magneto (Movieverse 1&2)
05 - Wolverine (barring Origins)
06 - Scott Summers
07 - Misty Knight
08 - Spiderman (the married one)

09 - Invincible

10 - The Silencers
11 - MetaDocs
12 - Lai Wan - The DreamWalker
13 - Artesia

14 - Batman
15 - Gotham - (especially in Batman/Deathblow)
16 - Bludhaven - (O'Neil's & Dixon's)
17 - Dr. Fate - Inza Kramer
18 - Wonder Woman (Greg Rucka's writing, Johnson's art)
19 - Superman (Jim Lee's)

20 - That Renee Montoya made such a successful jump from the animated series to the comic books / Gotham Central

21 - Women with light powers
22 - The concept of guardians chosen by what they guard (the city, an artifact, the universe)
23 - Fiesty redheads
24 - The unexpected punch
25 - Knowing your partner inside and out /through and through
26 - Cityscapes from above
27 - Small children who kick. total. ass
28 - Villains with a good wardrobe
29 - Really, really, big guns
30 - Third tier characters the hero couldn't live without.

31 - Alternate Universes & Elseworlds
32 - Reluctant players in long trenchcoats
33 - Time Travel Paradox
34 - Favourite restaurants / franchises
35 - Shadow Hill

36 - Kisses suspended over a city
37 - Batman & Superman back to back
38 - Bad ass sword-play
34 - DeadPool
35 - Flatman, the Great Lakes Avengers and true heroism

36 - Negima
37 - Claymore
38 - Chi's Sweet Home

39 - Heroes crouched in the shadows
40 - Impossibly beautiful under water/the ocean civilizations
41 - Heroines who take a beating and keep on fighting


42 - Spiderman Unlimited
43 - Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles
44 - Juuni Kokki
45 - Seirei no Moribito
46 - Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars
47 - Batman: The Animated Series
48 - Superman: The Animated Series
49 - X-men: Evolution

50 - The Blue Crew: Nightcrawler, Beast, Talia & Mystique.

As you can see, my love of comics led me to animation and belief in drawn stories and heroics as extremely worthwhile art. It took me a while to decide to post it with those animated shows =- but that's the truth, that's part of what I like about comics; I'd have never been originally interested in something like Roughneck Chronicles if I hadn't been interested in animation - which came from a love of comics. And then ST:RC because a series I absolutely adored and had to go hunt down the original Heinlein book.

All in all though, I think I suck at memes like this. I just don't think about things in this way.

4 comments:

  1. I actually liked the Roughnecks 'toon (the few episodes I managed to catch) more than I liked the book. Heinlein just does not click with me for some reason...

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  2. Lurker:

    Having seen the cgi-toon before the Big Screen Movie, I was in for a huge shock when I saw both ST and the sequel. I kept going "But that's not how it happened and why are they messing it up!!"

    I didn't expect to like the book, but really wanted to give it a chance since I loved th series so much and surprise surprise the book was close enough to the series (or the other way around) that I really got into it.

    It was all big guns and shooting things and yet I really enjoyed it.

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  3. 32 - Reluctant players in long trenchcoats

    John Constantine love FTW!! <3

    I may do this meme too...

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  4. Kick-ass-shounen-fighting-series-disguised-as-a-harem-comedy fans represent!

    Also lol at Chi's Sweet Home.

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