Comments on: 50 Other Things I Love About Comics

By: agent_torpor

agent_torpor — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:24:34 +0000

Yeah, Xorn was so much cooler when we found out he was Magneto. Before that, he was just some far east weenie.

By: fanboy d

fanboy d — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:07:56 +0000

lame old magneto?

By: Jack Norris

Jack Norris — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:55:15 +0000

Re the Hernandez brothers:
I started out being more attracted to Jaime’s stuff, and it was years before I really checked out Gilbert’s, but these days I’m actually more of a Gilbert fan.
Generally, I just became more engaged with the character’s stories in Gilbert’s stuff, mostly because Jaime’s storyline (at least in the central Locas stuff; the one pagers & the like were still fun) seemed to slow to a crawl, with the whole “Maggie and Hopie are back in the same town again and single and dancing around whether they’ll ever get back together again” thing seeming to drag on for frickin’ EVER.
Plus, Gilbert has branched out into all kinds of freaky shit outside of his main L&R storylines in recent years.
Also, while Gilbert’s visual style might not be as readily easy to get into, once you do it really holds you.

By: DBish

DBish — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:11:04 +0000

The few things/people on that list that I don’t love, I’ve either never heard of or they are Death Note.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:02:51 +0000

Here's my Top 80. If I think about it for a few more weeks, I could expand it to a hundred, so I'm stopping at eighty.

By: Rohan Williams

Rohan Williams — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:00:17 +0000

Much better. The Sims references are still creepy, though.

By: Sallyp

Sallyp — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:44:12 +0000

“#42..Chris Sims – Dude did give us Lego Batman with Sharkchuks. That, and he’s pretty much me, so all this fawning over him is really self-flattery.”

I don’t know. I don’t wish to be rude, but Sims is actually funny.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:23:15 +0000

Massive Hardcover Comics Collections That Are Great Stories And Also Blunt Weapons If Need Be. A Real Double Threat.

–Let us not forget the Morrison New X-Men Omnibus, which I discovered this week is impossible to read in bed.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:12:14 +0000

Locas is great. Palomar is at least a smidgen greater, even if Jaime’s art is more attractive.

By: Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:59:12 +0000

Reed Richards’ stubble. Heh. Nice.

And I just read “Lost at Sea” recently – it’s quite lovely.

By: Matthew Lazorwitz

Matthew Lazorwitz — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:30:30 +0000

Good list. And yes, that Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told was a great gateway comic. I was given that and The Greatest Joker Stories ever told back in ’89, and I’m surprised they haven’t fallen apart from all the readings I’ve given them.