Your Favorite Moments In Comics (bound to have spoilers)

Mighty Matt Maxwell caught the meme from other bloggers (and it apparently started on TCJs boards.)

Here's mine, or at least the ones I thought of last night at around nine pm.

Micronauts #29: wherein the titular characters are shot into the mind of their leader. Bicameral mayhem ensues.

New Gods #6: The Glory Boat revealed. Awe-inspiring.

Seaguy #1: The battle with the Anti-Dad. One last moment of epic heroism and battle in a world gone generic.

New X-Men #something or other. Jean Grey disassembles Cassandra Nova with a simple observation.

Daredevil #something or other. Frank Miller writes the Avengers better than anyone else.

Watchmen #5. Alan Moore writes a symmetrical comic and it just dawns on me.

Fantastic Four #sometime in Byrne's run. Black Bolt lifts the city of the Inhumans to the moon with a syllable.

Oh yeah, I meant to add a link to the word "this," to the specific entry, so it'd be more clear it was a general meme. It's a groggy Monday morning.

That Black Bolt moment is one reason why I can't dismiss Byrne's writing en toto.

Hmmm...

The rumble of the century! Batman vs the One! True! Green! Lantern! Guy Gardner a knock-em-down, drag-em-out battle of epic pro--one punch? ONE PUNCH! (justice league #5)

The Martian Manhunter watches cartoons and Batman makes children cry (DC: The New Frontier #2).

Green Arrow watches helplessly as his Arrow Car is auctioned off (World's Finest #254, and again in Green Arrow [current series] #31)

A few off the top of my head:

Church & State Vol 2: 'Accelerating smoothly, the Black Tower begins to revolve.' Also the page where we see Cirin for the first time.

Tintin in Tibet: Haddock tries to sacrifice himself by cutting the rope by which he is anchored to Tintin. Quite deeply moving. Apparently this is an anology for Herge's marriage.

Some John Byrne FF annual: In the first half, the FF are normal folk living in a small town. There is a magnificent double-page reveal of an enormous Doctor Doom looming over the town.

The Invisibles vol 1: Jack Frost faces the Archon.

Swamp Thing: At the conclusion of the Swamp Thing's funeral the 'camera' pans into deep space to reveal Alec standing on a distant planet, composed of weird alien vegatation.

The Dead Man: The Dead Man is... Judge Dredd. Practically made me hyperventalate when I was 11.

There may be more to come!

What is mighty Matt Maxwell's mightyblog again? We should link it on the Wedge.

Some 2000AD favourites (cos that was my first comics love)

- "This cursed earth will not break me...I am the law...I am...JUDGE DREDD", totally iconic Mike McMahon cover with JD half-dead and crawling towards Mega-City Two, I can't even remember if it exactly happened that way in the story but it summed up the whole epic so well, when I actually got to read it I was so excited (and it pretty much lived up to it).

- Zenith answers doorbell. Outside stands a huge robot with a smiley face painted on it. "Acid Archie the Anarchist Angel! Speed Speed Ecstasy!". This in a 'kids comic'. In 1989. Halfway through the Acid House panic. (see also: "Kylie is Vera Lynn for third world war!")

- Mad Tommy stops talking funny in Bad Company.

- Charlie rises from the sea to stop the Terra-Meks in Ro-Busters

- The fate of Steelhorn. "Scream, robot, scream! Your life will be one long scream now you have become...THE MESS!". See also "He wanted to be a fireman...now he is the fire!"

- And one last Pat Mills gem, Mek-Quake vs Torque-Armada!

- "Guh-guh-goodness no. Moab's Warzone One."

- Skizz: Cornelius has his pride.

Wooden SO OTM with the Swamp Thing (and indeed Cerebus) moments!

Ha, I love Pat Mills' hyperactive use of ellipses and bold type.

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Thank you Tom.

Two absolutely filthy moments from the League of Extrodinay Gentlemen:

Vol 1: The Invisible Man loose in a girl's bording school.
Vol 2: Mr. Hyde buggers the Invisible Man to death.

I honestly don't know how they got away without a 'mature readers' label.

Well, there's nothing to see!

I'll have to fully come up with my list later. It may require a post each for Morrison and non-Morrison :)

Matt Maxwell's mightyblog = http://highway62.blogspot.com. You might also want to post a BW link to the Comic Weblog Updates page, even if they won't add me to their blogroll (sniffle).

Wooden, that FF scene you described (a killer scene!) was from the TRIPLE-SIZED FF #236.

Mighty Matt Maxwellblog:

http://highway62.blogspot.com

Mr. Hyde's death nearly made me break down. I was stunned at how easily Mr. Moore turned him into a fleshed-out, utterly three dimensional and empathetic character, despite his obvious flaws (his antisocial attitude being primary among them.)

Wasn't that FF the 20th anniversary issue?

X-POST OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

From a re-reading of JLA:

- Batman beats the Martians
- the ENTIRITY of Issue #12
- "Professor Stephen Hawking!"
- the Armies Of Man in the last issue

Those were great times - a pity the pendulum swung back to yawny soap-opera nonsense...

Argh I still can't quite remember the quote that I was going to stick in my post, but I'll have to attempt it or go mad. It's the bit in The Anatomy Lesson after the big reveal: "He'll probably run back to his office, to take stock of the situation and decide what to do. It's what any man would do. And a big mess of rotting weeds that thought it was a man? It would probably do exactly the same thing."

XPost: Stephen Hawking would definitely be on my list. Now off and finish the Top Comics of 2003 and stop stealing my ideas.

Is issue 12 Tomorrow Woman?

Blimey, Tomorrow Woman was #5, they really did crack through them.

God I hope not.

It's Wonderworld isn't it?

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Yes. But I'd actually pick the one after it.. no, I have to stop now or I'll never get out of here.

"No! Let me die before the GIANT SCORPIONS get me!" (from Flesh Book 2. the official greatest ever 2000AD cover)

er, that is a list of one, I know.

Twattish pedantry alert: Isn't it 'Let me drown?'

I may be wrong, come to think of it.

-- V for Vendetta, when Evey's incarcerator is revelealed to be... V.
-- DR & Quinch kill Barry Norman (or was it Clive James?)
-- Despero kills a bunch of old characters in JLI (issue 38-ish)
-- Wolff kills himself in Explorers on the Moon

Oh: Letterman knocks out the bad guy (somebody ... Stankowicz? the guy who kept trying to take down the Avengers) with his giant doorknob, in the Avengers issue of Assistant Editor Month.

And the silent issue of G.I. Joe!

You're not wrong. It's 'let me drown' - and that isn't pedantry, you're speaking of a sacred artifact.

*Hellboy punches out baddie
*In Blade of the Immortal, when Shira returns in #70-something and reveals that ***SPOILER*** he's sharpened the bones sticking out of his forearm into a weapon ***SPOILER ENDS*** and the rest of the arc (3-4 issues?) is one long fight.
*Guy Smith at the end of the second to last issue of X-Force when he puts the gun to his head after Edie dies.

Sweet jesus, look what I just found -

http://www.2000adonline.com/?zone=covers&page=coversindex

This makes me very happy.

You realise that cover isn't in the top 20?

Yeah, the top twenty's a bit shit actually. Love the Ezquerra one with Dredd and Alpha, though.

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This one has it all!

What is that ywllow thing on his arm? Please tell me it's not some sort of furry sidekick.

It's the mangled remains of his eagle shoulder pad. Dredd does actually have a furry sidekick in 'The Cursed Earth', though.

From childhood, Transformers UK:

#88: Impactor takes the bullet meant for Xaaron. I was almost crying. "You always were…a wily old buzzard"

#113: Death's Head makes his first appearance and disintegrates Bumblebee. Good form.

#186: Metroplex!

#204: Time is collapsing, the Earths of 2009 and 1989 are dying, the Autobots and Decepticons of both eras have been defeated by a Galvatron who's missing half his face. In the final page, Optimus Prime jumps out of limbo, and the next seven days were some of the longest of my life.

The "forget Baden-Powell" sequence in The Invisibles.

The Devil's Pants in Black Panther

All of the Spider-Man/Iron Man of 2020 story, but specifically the parts where he walks out of his apartment in costume, and that ending with Arno Stark kneeling in a crater that was once LA. (If nothing else, the ending gives away that it's Priest hiding behind the pen-name)