The Hembeck Challenge (inspired by the fine folks at SeeBelow.)
1.) Brainiac Five
2.) “This is sick, man. We just smoked Flipper.”
3.) Phil Foglio when he isn’t drawing porn
4.) Uncle Scrooge’s Number One Dime
5.) superheroes who insist on fighting crime with a bow and arrow even though that makes precisely zero sense
6.) Dr. Doom talking in the third person
7.) absolutely everything about Bone
8.) Garry Trudeau’s Pulitzer Prize
9.) The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln
10.) Grant Morrison’s final issue of Doom Patrol
11.) Charles Schulz doing Peanuts every day for fifty years, by himself, with no assistants
12.) that one JLA comic where Plastic Man was hanging out with Ambush Bug and the Heckler
13.) Peter Parker as a high school teacher
14.) Lord Julius in Cerebus
15.) Moebius
16.) Akira
17.) GIs fighting dinosaurs
18.) The names of the characters in Peter Milligan’s X-Force and X-Statix runs
19.) Samaritan making out with Winged Victory
20.) “Condors” in Garth Ennis’ War Stories
21.) Only really discovering Conan comics within the last year and realizing the incredible amount of Conan comics there are for me to read yet
22.) Chester Brown’s biography of Louis Riel
23.) Cuthbert Calculus
24.) “Did you think to kill me? There’s no flesh and blood within this cloak to kill. There’s only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
25.) Maus
26.) Nextwave
27.) James Robinson slyly backdooring chunks of The Golden Age into mainstream DC continuity via Starman
28.) Every comic John Allison has ever done, but especially the ones with robots
29.) Spider Jerusalem’s “filthy assistants”
30.) Phil Hester
31.) Kyoko and Yusaku’s relationship in Maison Ikkoku
32.) Akbar and Jeff
33.) Barry Allen’s death
34.) Brian Michael Bendis when he’s writing Daredevil
35.) the late, great Seth Fisher
36.) the late, great Mike Wieringo
37.) the late, great Mike Parobeck
38.) Superman in general
39.) But particularly how when Lois Lane got conked out and imagined she had Superman’s powers, that in her dream cowardly Clark Kent became cowardly Power-Man and used a fake moustache to maintain his secret identity
40.) Fantagraphics’ deluxe-end reissues of classic comic strips
41.) The Losers (both the classic and modern versions)
42.) the Haunted Tank
43.) The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
44.) Blue N’ Gold
45.) the fact that if I say “Thing Ring, do your thing!” there are people who instantly know what I’m talking about and who will then groan knowingly
46.) the wonderful illogic of Usagi Yojimbo
47.) Howard Cruse
48.) Dominators
49.) Power Man and Iron Fist being incredibly sensible and teaming up full-time when they realized they worked well together as a team
50.) Mr. Bones talking in rhyme
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12.) that one JLA comic where Plastic Man was hanging out with Ambush Bug and the Heckler
Patton Oswalt’s JLA: The Working Week. They help wheel in the beer…
“30.) Phil Hester”
Have you read Firebreather?
“32.) Akbar and Jeff”
Discount Laundromat, Burrito Hut, and Psychic Past Life Services.
45.) the fact that if I say “Thing Ring, do your thing!” there are people who instantly know what I’m talking about and who will then groan knowingly
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh. I never saw this in English but I’m 100% sure I know what this is about.
I don’t know if I’d have 50 things to like about comics anymore and most of them would be offshoots like Heath Ledger’s portrayal of The Joker and the one shots that no one gave a crap about.
“26.) Nextwave”
For H.A.T.E.!
“45.) the fact that if I say “Thing Ring, do your thing!” there are people who instantly know what I’m talking about and who will then groan knowingly”
Yes, I do and yes, I did.
45.) the fact that if I say “Thing Ring, do your thing!” there are people who instantly know what I’m talking about and who will then groan knowingly
Never heard about that. But a quick Google reveals all (as always) and, mein gott!, what were people smoking in the 70s?
The second one has to be from “Zombie Night At The Gotham Aquarium,” right?
@Sean D. Martin: I think the better question is: What weren’t they smoking?
3.) Phil Foglio when he isn’t drawing porn
I was totally expecting “Phil Foglio when he is drawing porn” to be in there somewhere.
Maybe if I take another look….
12.) that one JLA comic where Plastic Man was hanging out with Ambush Bug and the Heckler
They were also together for one panel as the Justice League of Anarchy.
42.) the Haunted Tank
Amen
I have an unnatural love for DC war comics
Nextwave is love.
I agree with most of these, but particularly
1.) Braniac Five
26.) Nextwave
27.) James Robinson slyly backdooring chunks of The Golden Age into mainstream DC continuity via Starman
38.) Superman in general
I think I would have to replace one of the others with an item mentioning my vast love for the Green Lantern Corps.
What is #24?
And Welcome to the Working Week was awesome. He needs to write more stuff. Hell, give him Checkmate before it’s run into the ground.
“What is #24?”
A quote from V for Vendetta.
24) is definitely V for Vendetta.
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Loved this so much I did one of my own. The hardest part was not just borrowing some of yours, to be honest…there’s still some overlap, just because you took so many of the good ones. (’Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium’, hell I could do a Top 50 on that alone. “Does that seem like a mind remotely susceptible to shock to you?”)
1.) Brainiac Five
Who I hope will be in the LOSH ep of Smallville
4.) Uncle Scrooge’s Number One Dime
Funny how whenever he’s swimming in his money the dime stays in it’s spot without moving an inch.
5.) superheroes who insist on fighting crime with a bow and arrow even though that makes precisely zero sense
Only Green Arrow can have a glove punching arrow….or a glue arrow….
9.) The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln
Ok wait what?
26.) Nextwave
Purple Dragon Panties!!!
45.) the fact that if I say “Thing Ring, do your thing!” there are people who instantly know what I’m talking about and who will then groan knowingly
Gods….I’ve seen clips of that online…. Fred and Barney were desperate for work or was it Thing desperate for a plot?
46.) the wonderful illogic of Usagi Yojimbo
Hey now…his name is Myomoto…
Hawkeye has a glue arrow. No boxing glove arrow…
Did my own top fifty, but rather than cluttering up the comments section I’ll just ask people to click on my name to see it.
Sean: Hey, I loved the Thing Ring… Especially when they had Cyborg wear a version of it in the Teen Titans cartoon.
18.) Not to mention their powers. Mutant vomit FTW!
39.) And this would be from??
I want to thank you for doing this list, because I did my own, and it cheered me up so much I wanted to hug my comics collection by the time I was done.
NextWave is possibly one of the greatest books in the last decade.
Sir I see no REX THE WONDER DOG
Have you read any of the Conan books? J/c… but if you’re getting into the comics, they’re well worth looking into.
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50.) Swamp Thing and Abby Cable
49.) Neil Gaiman’s Death
48.) Roast Beef Kazenzakis (webcomics count!)
47.) Spiked bleached hair, tan trench coat, 20 Silk Cut
46.) John Ostrander and Del Close’s Wasteland
45.) The Joker, voiced by Mark Hamill
44.) Batman, voiced by Kevin Conroy
43.) Guy Gardner
42.) Darwyn Cooke’s The Spirit
41.) “Clean thoughts, chum.”
40.) Final Crisis
39.) Batman RIP
38.) Wu Tang Comics
37.) The Question and Huntress
36.) “Oooh, I missed you little yellow boxes! What fun we’ll have together!”
35.) Ironman (AKA Ghostface Killah) and Johnny Blaze (AKA Method Man)
34.) Jim Shooter serving up 191 proof Everclear shots of superheroics on a monthly basis in Legion of Super Heroes
33.) The West family
32.) The Secret Six
31.) Selina Kyle
30.) Casanova Quinn
29.) The Anti-Life Equation
28.) William Moulton Marston
27.) Alan Moore: Captain Caveman
26.) Max Mercury
25.) Keith Giffen drawing Wildfire blowing stuff up
24.) Hellboy
23.) James Robinson and Alex Ross fans, because they’re wrong and they’re fun to argue with
22.) Dash Bad Horse
21.) Floating Head, from All New Atom
20.) Wonder Woman causing Head to become coherent just because
19.) Ed Brubaker
18.) Rob Liefeld
17.) Mr. Freeze in Batman: TAS
16.) Dana White in Japanese manga
15.) Doctor 13
14.) Local
13.) The way Kirby always had to name black characters “Black something”
12.) Abnett and Lanning
11.) Ruins
10.) Ultimate Spider-Man
9.) The Great Outdoor Fight
8.) Sin City
7.) Tales of The Black Freighter
6.) Terry McGuinness
5.) Mr. Miracle
4.) Miracleman
3.) The Kirby Krackle
2.) The Goddamn Batman
1.) “Mogo Doesn’t Socialize.”
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