Friday, June 20, 2008

My Top 40 Fave Comic Book Moments

Toshi did his own list. Here’s mine. While I have a lot of favorites (probably hundreds!), these are the ones I can remember right now. On other days, the ranking’s different and there are added and removed items. But today, this is how it is.

1. Cyclops lashes out with his fully controlled optic blast. “To me, my X-Men.” (Astonishing X-Men)

2. Michonne elaborately gets even with the Governor! (Walking Dead)

3. Captain Jetman gives Smax permission to break someone’s neck. (Top Ten)

4. The Confessor makes the ultimate sacrifice while exposing a conspiracy. (Astro City)

5. Teary-eyed Butterball looks at a photo of his proudest moment. (Avengers: The Initiative)

6. Buffy gets really cozy with a subordinate Slayer. (Buffy Season Eight)

7. Mockingbird lets her stalker, the Phantom Rider, fall to his death. (West Coast Avengers)

8. Deadpool punches Kitty Pryde to get Wolverine’s attention. (Deadpool)

9. Rachel Summers fights the Beyonder in vain, but never quits. (Uncanny X-Men)

10. Ozymandias explains his plans in detail. (Watchmen)

11. Swamp Thing rescues Abigail Arcane from hell. (Swamp Thing)

12. Morpheus’s formerly condemned ex-lover reincarnates as a boy. (Sandman)

13. Batman and Wonder Woman share a kiss before dying at the hands of the League of Ancients. (JLA)

14. The Thunderbolts are revealed as the masquerading Masters of Evil. (Thunderbolts)

15. Northstar publicly announces that he’s gay. (Alpha Flight)

16. Majestic gives TAO the punishment he deserves. (WildCATS)

17. Lobo beats the tar out of Santa Claus. (Lobo Paramilitary Christmas)

18. Kabuki bites off and swallows a part of her pinky. (Kabuki)

19. Jean Grey discovers Emma Frost and Scott Summers' psychic affair. (New X-Men)

20. Prometheus throws Oracle out her tower’s glass clock. (JLA)

21. Aunt May and Peter Parker talk about his secret identity for the first time. (Amazing Spider-Man)

22. Oracle and Calculator face off in one room during a techie convention. (Birds of Prey)

23. After long hours of torment, the Secret Six bust out of the Crime Doctor’s torture chamber. (Villains United)

24. Shikari is reunited with the lost Legionnaires. (Infinite Crisis)

25. Arseface vows revenge on Jesse Custer. (Preacher)

26. Evey reads the letters of Valerie, a concentration camp prisoner. (V for Vendetta)

27. Deadpool, stuck in the past, masquerades as Peter Parker. (Deadpool)

28. Alcoholic Warbird tries to fly to space, fails miserably and turns to the bottle once again. (Avengers)

29. The Runaways are betrayed by one of their own. (Runaways)

30. Superman knocks out Thor with one punch. (JLA-Avengers)

31. Superman beats the Hulk. (DC Versus Marvel)

32. Mephisto reclaims the Scarlet Witch’s sons Tommy and Billy. (Avengers West Coast)

33. She-Hulk furiously confronts her evasive former teammate Starfox, who may have used his “date rape” powers to seduce her and other women. (She-Hulk)

34. Peter Parker publicly unmasks. (Civil War)

35. Thor beats up Iron Man for cloning him. (Thor)

36. Adam Warlock is deemed unworthy to handle the power of the Infinity Gems by his fellow cosmic beings. (Warlock and the Infinity Watch)

37. Cyclops reveals a secret conversation between his teammates to his captor, Kruun. (Astonishing X-Men)

38. Manitou Raven says “Inukchuk” for the first time. (JLA)

39. The Hulk almost effortlessly trounces team after team of X-Men. (World War Hulk: X-Men)

40. Young Matt Murdock slaps back a bullet with his first billy club. (Daredevil: Man Without Fear)

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