Monday, June 29, 2020
A week of lists: 101 great things in comics
It's been another rough week, so it's a bunch of reprinted lists to get through the next seven days, starting with 101 great things in comics..
1. Greenberg the Vampire's moustache
2. Thor's hammer
3. Luba's hammer
4. Hammerstein's hammer
5. Otis the Penguin's umbrella hat
6. The wanker from Dicks and his incredible right arm
7. Cyclop's visor
8. Havok's headband
9. The Grendel eyes
10. Night Thrasher's skateboard with the blade inside it
11. The Joker's fake flower with the acid inside it
12. Jesse Custer's white pants
13. Zenith's Phase 2 jacket
14. Starman's rod
15. Daredevil's horns
16. Jack Staff's staff
17. The original Captain Britain's mace
18. The batmobile
19. Horse the cat's jaw
20. Doyle's missing tooth
21. Superman's bottled city
22. Shade The Changing Man's M-Vest
23. Nick Fury's eyepatch
24. Nick Fury's eyepatch (ultimate version)
25. Captain America's shield
26. The little wings on the side of The Flash's head
27. The little wings on the side of Namor's feet
28. The giant wings on the side of the Warlord's head
29. Catwoman's ears
30. The little fluffy bits at the end of the gloves and boots on the Black Cat's original costume
31. The big fluffy bits around the Creeper's head
32. Guy Gardner's turtleneck
33. Tintin's quiff
34. The Infinity Gauntlet
35. Tetsuo and Kaneda's bitchin' motocycles
36. Lobo's badass space hog
37. Terry Downe's cigarettes
38. The broken bottles that are frequently employed by Milk and Cheese
39. Dan Dare's eyebrow
40. Concrete's cement armchair
41. The Question's blank facemask
42. The Marvel Universe's Dracula and his awesome supernatural dress socks
43. Bat Lash's pansy
44. Rogue Trooper's bio-chipped buddies
45. Obelix's menhirs
46. The Wasp's endless election of wonderful costumes
47. Cowboy Wally's Foreign Legion film
48. Megaton Man's biceps
49. Bizarro Superman's skin
50. The batarang
51. The Nth Man's snow-white mullet
52. Omac's mohawk
53. Maggie Chascarillo's hair when she puts soap in it
54. Betty's ponytail
55. Mr Natural's beard
56. Adam Strange's jetpack
57. The body language the Scarlet Witch uses when she throws out some hexbolts
58. Ambush Bug's antenna
59. Robyn Slinger's wonderful collection of toys
60. That weird fucking flying thing that Orion of the New Gods is always bombing about in
61. Doctor Fate's fullface helmet
62. Magneto's helmet
63. Scrooge McDuck's spats
64. Judge Dredd's helmet
65. Judge Dredd's lawgiver
66. Judge Dredd's Lawmaster
67. Judge Dredd's kneepads
68. Judge Dredd
69. The Unknown Soldier's bandages
70. Smiley Bone's cow costume
71. The Goon's flatcap
72. Hellboy's massive red hand of doom
73. Lois Lane's accusing finger when she confronts ill doers
74. Hans Von Hammer's flying goggles
75. Martha Washington's earrings
76. J'Onn J'Onzz's brow
77. Mean Machine's dial
78. The Phantom Stranger's medallion
79. The Phantom's skull-ring
80. The bat-signal
81. Billy's boots
82. Itto Ogami's babycart
83. Longshot's little knives
84. Green Arrow's boxing-glove arrow
85. Nikolai Dante's inner computer
86. Deathlok's inner computer
88. John Constantine's old punk band
88. Luther Arkwright's scarf and flying jacket combo
89. Madame Xanadu's tarot cards
90. Motormouth's sneakers
91. Nemesis The Warlock's Blitzspear (or is it the Blitzspear's Nemesis?)
92. Merv Pumpkinhead's mop
93. Jonah Hex's scar
94. Quimper's mask
95. Wolverine's sideburns
96. Batman's hatflaps in Red Son
97. Batman's bootlaces in Year 100
98. Groo's cheese dip
99. Forbrush Man's pot
100. Spider-Man's webshooters
101. Crazy Jane's hopeless smiles
* First published in the Tearoom in July 2013. There are a lot of great things about comics, but there's also great things in them too.
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