Everybody else is doing it, so why can't I?

This meme has been making the rounds, thanks to Fred Hembeck and Alan David Doane, so I figured I'd take a stab at it. So, for Valentine's Day, I give you -- in no particular order -- "100 Things I Love About Comics":

1. Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland
2. “Discovering” a great new book
3. Neil Gaiman
4. Who’s Who and The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe (Deluxe Edition)
5. Manga sound effects (“huru huru,” “glommmmmmmm,” “poit”)
6. David Michelinie and George Perez’s run on The Avengers
7. Small Press Expo
8. Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld
9. The old Comics Feature magazine
10. Grant Morrison
11. Airboy
12. Fans who have a near-religious devotion to esoteric characters
13. Planetes
14. Finding tattered, goofy and obscure ‘40s, ‘50s and ‘60s comics at flea markets
15. Roy Raymond, TV Detective
16. Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil
17. Ted Naifeh
18. Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
19. Alex Raymond
20. How Loathsome
21. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman
22. Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown
23. Debra Winger as Drusilla/Wonder Girl
24. The Kindaichi Case Files
25. Atari Force
26. The Marvel Family (except for Uncle Marvel; I hate him)
27. Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
28. Jill Thompson
29. Patsy Walker’s bizarre evolution from ’40s funny girl to ’50s romance queen to ’70s Daughter-in-Law of Satan
30. Andi Watson
31. Dr. Strange
32. Roy Thomas’ All-Star Squadron and The Invaders
33. Sandman Mystery Theater
34. The Sea Devils
35. James Jean
36. The roll calls from the old JSA/JLA team-ups
37. Jo Chen
38. The enthusiasm and thoroughness of Scott Tipton’s “Comics 101”
39. Darkseid and Galactus, cosmic badasses
40. Hiroyuki Asada
41. Monthly shipments from Discount Comic Book Service
42. James Robinson and Tony Harris’ Starman
43. Bob Haney
44. Annotation websites
45. Mike Wieringo’s sketch blog
46. The Demon (the character, if not always the comics)
47. Thriller, by Robert Loren Fleming and Trevor Von Eeden
48. Steven Grant's "Permanent Damage"
49. John Byrne’s Alpha Flight, oddly enough
50. Jock's covers
51. Eric Shanower’s passion for The Age of Bronze
52. Prez Rickard
    
53. Bill Sienkiewicz’s 14-issue run on The New Mutants
54. Jeff Parker
55. J’onn J’onzz, Manhunter from Mars
56. Carla Speed-McNiel
57. DC’s multiple Earths
58. Scanilation sites
59. Jessa Crispin
60. Catwoman, as depicted by Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke, Cameron Stewart, Brad Rader, Javier Pulido and Guy Davis
61. The old Shazam! and Isis TV shows (“Oh Elders, fleet and strong and wise, appear before my seeking eyes!”)
62. Marv Wolfman and George Perez’s New Teen Titans
63. Reading reviews of titles I’d never actually buy
64. Gail Simone
65. Spinner racks
66. The Legion of Super-Heroes, with or without the continuity baggage
67. Neptune Perkins
68. Dark Horse Presents
69. Dick Giordano’s “Meanwhile …” column
70. DC’s short-lived 1973 series, Champion Sports, which featured stories like “Horse Story: What Can You Say About A Three-Year-Old Stallion That Has To Die?”
71. Steve Lieber
72. Agatha Harkness, particularly when she’s playing nanny
73. Forced and incomprehensible acronyms like S.H.I.E.L.D. and T.H.U.N.D.E.R.
74. Eduardo Risso’s page layouts
75. Anthologies
76. Creators who speak intelligently and passionately about their work (even if I don’t particularly like their work)
77. Western comics from the 1960s and ’70s
78. The Duke of Oil
79. Letters pages
80. Reading comics to my nephew
81. Blue Devil
82. Louise Simonson
83. No-prizes
84. Detective Comics #455 (Batman in “Heart of a Vampire,” by Elliot S! Maggin and Mike Grell, and Hawkman and Hawkgirl in “Battle of the Backfiring Weapons,” by E. Nelson Bridwell and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez)
85. Annuals
86. Mike Mignola
87. 100 Bullets
88. Golden Age sidekicks
89. Digest-sized collections
90. Oni Press
91. The Metal Men
92. Paul Smith
93. Editor’s notes
94. The Brave & The Bold
95. C.C. Beck
96. Isaac Christians
97. Night Force
98. Script books
99. Jeff Smith
100. Occasionally seeing my own stories published