52. The Emerald Head of Ekron.
51. a DC comic where Batman doesn't play a major or even significant subsidiary role.
50. J. G. Jones's covers. Absolutely stunning.
49. Kathy Kane-- nothing like an inexplicably hot red-head lesbian dark knight.
48. The fact that unlike Countdown, there is a collection of tight stories following several different heroes/groups that you can count on moving along steadily every issue or so and that you are invested in because (unlike Countdown) they are like, um, well-written and stuff.
47. Pretty much every scene on Oolong Island (hello, mad-scientists from around the world, collected and given an infinite checking account?)
46. The just plain weird shit that consistently happens. I'm looking at you Grant Morrison.
45. The roller-coaster ride that is following Booster Gold.
44. The depth of knowledge this series has given me about the DC Universe. Seriously, the writers must have read every issue ever on every character ever written ever.
43. Egg Fu. hehe.
42. The fact that I have listed 10 things before even referring to Black Adam in the slightest.
41. the fact that Black Adam is one bad mother.
40. Watching Black Adam finally fall in love and start a family (this is going to work out so well! Um, right the Hulk?)
39. Those gruesome and totally awesome (sorry for unleashing my inner fan-boy) depictions of the latter 3 Four Horsemen. They would give my nightmares nightmares.
38. Pretty much every scene Animal Man is in.
37. Speaking of, the fact that there is that whole rad space opera story-line with Animal Man, Adam Strange, Lobo, and Starfire.
36. the title "Rain of the Supermen"
35. the fact that even though there is no Joker, we still get an honest to goodness Big Bad in Luthor and his...
34. Infinity, Inc. Yeah, just Luthor being totally altruistic. right. sure. nothing evil about it.
33. The bad-ass noir stylings of the Question.
32. the fact that i can go 20 items deep before even mentioning the plight of Elongated Man.
31. Speaking of Dibny, that one moment where he's defiantly busting up what he thinks is a hoax resurrection of his wife and he realizes it would have worked.
30. More floating heads, i.e. the helmet of Dr Fate as Dibny's personal guide.
29. Sobek. a talking, sheepish giant crocodile.
28. the group of Chinese superheroes whose complicated and drawn-out names I cannot remember but who are all freaking great.
27. The sheer number of characters in the cast and the fact that it never feels overwhelming or cheap (ahem, unlike Countdown). the reader understands when a character is a side character and doesn't feel worried when his/her part is limited, likewise readers are encouraged to read ferociously close to anything having to do with the bigguns.
26. Black Adam totally rips a guy in half in the third issue.
25. Not really big on the John Henry Irons/Natasha plot-line but the family-esque drama is definitely needed a) to off-set some of the bigger, global and galactic story-lines...
24. b) to run parallel (and echo) to the family-esque drama of the Black Adam Family. You see, evil and good are really the same, silly folks and their pride...
23. Aquaman cameo! bearded, lost, left for dead!
22. Lobo's new 'faith.'
21. the return of the metal men!
20. the whole conception of Skeets and his HAL-like uber-evilness.
19. Rip Hunter.
18. Renee Montoya's very gritty, not quite 'realistic' story-line (this is a comic book after all) but a less cape-y plot that grounds all the silliness transpiring elsewhere.
17. Adam Strange's crinkly empty eye-sockets.
16. the (unlike Marvel) complete gender balancing act. There are so many important women involved in this series, very refreshing.
15. the everyman program being a subtle and very funny (if unintentional) giant fuck you to Marvel's paranoid registration and concurrent civil war. Marvel: hey, the people of our world fear and hate strange capes and tights, let's make them all into paid goons and have the really cool characters fight this law and go underground. DC: we understand that everyone in our world thinks that superheroes are totally fucking awesome and that everyone would want to be one if possible.
14. no Superman, no Wonder Woman, no Bat. And this was supposed to be a bad thing?
13. the fact i'm still a full quarter left in the tank and I'm this happy.
12. World War 3 right around the corner.
11. that (unlike Countdown) this series doesn't force connections with every other DC property operating at the same time. (or if it did, that the story's in this collection function totally on their own and stand up just fine).
10. the truly epic, globe trotting feel of several stories. You really get a sense of the DC globe and all of the many strange places, e.g. Nanda Parbat, Atlantis, etc.
09. All the things going on 'off camera.' name-dropping, letting the reader fill in gaps, all of it works.
08. Osiris's brief but poignant relationship with the Teen Titans.
07. The sheer love and broken-ness of Elongated Man's struggle.
06. The Specter's cameo in said struggle.
05. The whole mystery and reveal of Supernova's identity.
04. all the cool 'easter eggs' in Rip Hunter's lab detailing all of the neat things cooking in DC's future, now, present.
03. so. much. evil. seriously. makes heroes really feel like people up against an impossible task.
02. Good guy's who are good guys. fuck that batman noise. yeah, they are well rounded and sometimes do bad things and get confused, etc, but these guys (Animal Man, Elongated Man, etc) are heroes through and through, you want to root for them forever.
01. that (unlike Countdown) its not Countdown.
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