1. All the characters can not be too cartooney.  There are a few characters however that bordered on the too cartooney rule and I added them.  They are the Riverdale characters, Joe Palooka, and Scooby Doo.  These characters for reasons explained below are the exception.  To be completely fair. I added an extra entry for each one of these exceptions so you can make up your mind if they belong or not and still have a top 100 list.
   
2. Only self titled books are counted.  This means that it has to have the character's name and only the character's name in order for it to count.  For example Superman, Clark Kent and Superman: Clark Kent would all count.  Things that would not count would be  Superman in Action, The Adventures of Clark Kent, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen or Lois and Clark.  After all this is a list of characters with self titles books and that is what a self titled book is.
   
3. Team issues are not in this list.  I am looking for individuals.
   
4. I am looking at who the star is for each book.  Take Green Lantern for example.  There have been several Green Lantern books, but several different characters were the star from Alan Scott to Kyle Rayner.  I am going to count the hero who is the star and not count them as all the same for one Green Lantern tally.
   
5. When tallying the number of issues in a series I have added the annuals and specials in.  This is the case as long as they qualify for the self titled criteria.  So a book that has 37 issues 3 Annuals and 5 specials would say that it has 45 issues for the series instead of listing every annual and special separately.
6. Whenever possible I chose the page of the hero instead of the character's real name.  For example I chose the Azrael page instead of the Jean Paul Valley page.  I explained what one I was talking about in the description.
7. I will not count reprints of the series.  Sometimes comics and even whole runs of comics have been reprinted I am only counting the first run.
8. I will not have any non English comics.  The reason for this is only a lack of information.  I have not found a reliable source that lists all the comics from a particular country.  Comicvine is great but still incomplete.  I can also only read English, and a little Spanish and German.  So if anyone has a reliable and complete source they can refer me to I will look closer into it.
9. Lastly, I will update this list from time to time but considering all the work I will not do it every week just because one new issue came out.  If I missed someone or made a glaring mistake let me know.
   

I love the lists and reviews that people make on Comic Vine.  The only problem is there are so many great ones that go unnoticed.  The reason for this is there are over 5,000 lists and probably more reviews.  Unless you are really lucky your list and review go unnoticed no matter how good it is because the highest and most voted lists are the ones that are featured and reviews are subjected to the interest of the user.  Old reviews for example go largely unnoticed because there are not as many people reading the older reviews.  I thought that it would be fun to recommend those great lists and reviews especially the ones that have gone unnoticed.  

Lists
There are great lists, horrible lists and everything in-between.  For example there are the standard lists like favorites, themed and the always classic "Hot Girls"  These are great lists and fun but they are common.  Then one day you find this unique list that is cool and realize that no one or very few have even noticed it.
 
Reviews
The same could be said about reviews.  What is that really great review that stands out more than any other.  Is it one that stands above all the other seven reviews on the page or is it the long forgotten review of a comic that no one has seen?  What is the best of the best.
 
Guidelines
I would love to see a quest that had people vote for a 100 lists as well as reviews.  That would really shake things up and get people looking at things they may never look at.  As a nice substitute I am hoping that this blog will get people voting on the often over looked lists and reviews.  Now here are some guidelines when posting on this blog. 

1. Vote for only one great list or review per post.  You can post as much as you want.  I just don't want giant lists.
2. Tell us why you nominated the list and review for Greatness.
   
3. Don't be lame and nominate your own list or review.  That also includes nominating lists/reviews using a different account.

1. Why does each X-Man have a different power?
2. Why don't multiple X-Men have the same power?
3. Why don't children always inherit their parents powers they way you would think they would?
4. The evolutionary aspect is too dramatic and too diverse?

1. The first is ignorance.  Someone just don't know they were based on other heroes.
2. The second is love of the dark.  Some people just love darker comics and have no interest in other stories no matter how well they are written.
3. The third is laziness.  It is easier to read the Watchmen then find some good stories based on the original Charlton characters they were based on
   
4. The fourth is apathy.  What can be said about apathy?
   

Did I get your attention?  This is an off topic subject about stand-up comics or comedians.  Have have been an amateur comic for a few years now.  I have never attempted to become a professional because I got into it later in life and I am not ready to travel all around the country while my children are little.  So this is just a could have been thing for me.  I revealed that I had done some stand up to another user and I got a similar question that I get a lot.

I wanted to ask you: do you ever get the feeling that "comedy" is sometimes just a matter of being on a mic in a comedy club?  Sometimes, it seems to me that you could say the most un-funny, awful crud on a mic, and people would laugh, because it's a comedy club.  I cannot count the number of times I've seen guys on Comedy Central, where the audience was just cracking up, and I was sitting there going, "What the heck?  That guy's not even remotely funny."  I'm pretty sure I've got a decent sense of humor.  I'm not the funniest guy in the room, but I feel I can recognize funny when it shows up.  So I was curious how you feel about it, since you're actually a comedian.

Well here is the honest to God truth.  It depends on the night, the time of day, the audience, the content and the place.  You can be hilarious on a work night and die on stage.  Most of your audiences are people who have worked all day, they are tired and they don't want to drink too much because they have to work again the next day.  They look at you like "I dare you to make me laugh"   
 
Saturday night is the best night but even then you will do better at an 11:00pm show as opposed to a 7:00pm show.  I remember doing a show who a work group who came.  I have a semi-raunchy act.  Not vulgarer just a little raunchy.  Well no one wants to laugh at a raunchy joke next to all their co-workers.  Worst audience I ever had.
 
Some of your worst comics are the Las Vegas comics.  They will do the same show and it will be jokes like "Don't airports suck?".  Really trite and old jokes.  They get big laughs because the people who go to these shows are not comedy fans and this is probably the only stand up comic they will see in their lives.  Not many comics respect them.  They are also extremely well paid and that leads to jealousy a little bit.  
 

There are also comics who a funny to a small group of people.  Comics who are gay will do a whole act of gay jokes and if your not gay and don't relate you lose interest.  A lot of female comics are like this.  I have seen  many "man bashing" acts that start out funny but turn into "O.K.  I get it. Men suck".  The same can be said for any minority or niche comedian that fails to speak to a broader audience.  
 
We humans all have the same or similar experiences.  The trick is finding that humor.  If you see a comic placating their act to a small group of people and you are not a part of the group watching the special at home then you may think they are not funny.
 
Lastly, content is important.  There are many people who do not like blue comics, prop comics or insult comics.  It does not matter what they say or how funny they are.  If there style don't appeal to you, that you are not going to like them no matter what they say.    
 
If you too had this question I hope this answer helped. 

I write this blog out of confusion and frustration.  I do not understand religion, gods and magic in comics.  I especially get confused in the DC Universe as I only know basic stuff in the Marvel universe.  In the DC Universe there are many religions and religious characters who have interactive gods who do everything from fight with them, give them powers and control their afterlife.  What bothers me about this is the sheer amount of contradiction between the faiths.  Now before I go on let me post a disclaimer.
 

**Disclaimer**

1. Problem number one is that all these religions and many forms of magic exists in the same world.  Even when they contradict each other.  Christianity for example believes in only one god.  If that is true than the others shouldn't exist.  Right?
2. Problem number two is the gods themselves when looking at the many pantheons there seems to be little difference between the powers of the gods and the Superheroes themselves.  What makes them gods?  Do they just declare it.  Look at someone like "The Almighty Darkseid"  Darkseid is continually beaten by Superman who is not considered a god.  That said why is Darkseid a God so fallible.  How about when the gods are killed.  How do you kill a god?  (I mean that theoretically, not literally)  My point is there is nothing that separates them from the superheroes so how are they Gods or what makes them gods?  Is it just there insistence that they are?
3. Problem number three.  Magic.  This is so overwhelming I'm not sure where to start. In comics and DC is no exception there seems to be every form of magic, dark art and bizarre happenstance that it is unquantifiable.   This is also contrary to science and science fiction that also exists.  Take Solomon Grundy who gets his power by being dumped in a magical swamp.  Where is this swamp again and why has no one else been dumped there.  Especially after he came into being and people know what it could do.  Secondly Solomon was dumped there by a mafia style gang.  It seems difficult to believe that they only dumped one body in that swamp.  How about Zatanna?  She can virtually do anything with her magic.  There are so many like Dr. Fate and Morgan La Fay.  They all seem to work so differently and yet they all exist on the same world in the same universe and that is just scratching the surface.

1. I would reboot the entire line.  I know there are a lot of people who hate that but I think It is necessary because DC has bought so many comic universes and have tried to merge them.  With mixed results.  (see other Blog) (http://www.comicvine.com/myvine/liberty/dc-comics-relaunch-it-is-time-to-do-it-again/87-50919/) By rebooting the whole universe we can merge all these different universes more seamlessly than having a Crisis every five to ten years.

2. 

   I would create a new age in comics.  To do this I would have to end the current age.  I would do this by writing a new story arch where a quasi villain is able to wipe out a characters existence by simply touching them.  He would also have a similar personality to Rip Hunter and truly believe he is doing it for the greater good. When this villain touched another character it would mean they never existed.  For example what would the DC Universe look like if Batman or Superman never existed?  With each character that gets destroyed a new world emerges.  Characters would take up mantles of others.  People who were once dead would be alive and vice versa.  As well as characters changing their moral compasses back in forth due to the experiences of their lives.  Costumes would look change.  Chaos would ensue. The whole thing would start with the deletion of more of the bigger characters forcing others to take up the slack.  It would end with the villain being defeated by a small group of odd heroes who are able to stop the catalyst by wrinkling time and ending their universe knowing that it would begin anew.
   
3. All comics would start over.  After the last reboot issue the new age would begin and every comic published by DC would start with issue one.  No one has ever done this before.  It would be unprecedented and start a new age.  I would also only start with a few titles like Batman and Superman and have them come out every week until they were well establish and then turn them back into monthly issues.  They would also never start over again after this point.  For example let's say Booster Gold has a twenty-five issue run and then his series is canceled for ten years.  When it is re-released it starts with issue twenty-six.  This would be the same for miniseries and everything.  This would also create a canon to the comics instead of wonder what from what age is canon or not.
   

4. 

   There would be no golden age.  The characters would start as if they are entering our universe.  Batman and Superman would be the first superheroes ever in this new universe.  Jay Garrick would be the first Flash and his costume would be as modern as Wally's is now.  Alan Scott would be the first Green Lantern and he would look like the Green Lanterns of today along with being a part of the corps and having a weakness to yellow instead of wood.  This would be done with all the golden aged heroes.  The first to wear the mantle would still be the first but they would look like they should.  This has to be done in order to seamlessly merge the universe.  Characters like Wally West and Hal Jordan would eventually show up again as the originals need them to for whatever reason.  This would create a true legacy system.  It would also end the messed up origins of characters like Hawkman.  When Hawkman shows up he will be the first Hawkman.  There will not be any mixed up screwed up origins. 
   
5. I would add Public Domain Characters to the main universe.  All  Public Domain Characters would be added to the DC Universe and grow with the existing characters.  Black Terror would come up fighting crime along side Superman for example.  To give another MIss Masque would come up fighting alongside Batman.  This would create new super-teams.  Imagine having Jay Garrik, Batman, Miss Masque, Alan Scott, Black Terror, Booster Gold, Hawkman and any other combination as the Justice League.

6. 

   There would be no team titles.  Don't panic.  Hear me out.  Every comic would be Batman, Superman, Booster Gold, Green Lantern: Guy Gardner, or Black Terror  They would not be "Batman Detective" Superman in Action" "The Exciting Adventures of Booster Gold", "Green Lantern: Emerald Warrior" or "Black Terror and the Outsiders" for example.  All the teams would still exist just as they do today but the would exist in the comic of the main Hero of the Book.  So if the Teen Titans were led by Superboy the comic would be called Superboy.  There would not be a Superboy and Teen Titans issues.  This does not mean that heroes can't be mixed just like they are today it is only a naming thing.  DON'T PANIC.
7. All DC Comics would cease and become under one umbrella.  If something doesn't fit it would become part of the mutiverse in the regular DC Universe.  The exception would be Vertigo.  It would still exist as part of the universe but it would be mature books in the same world revealing the darker side of the DC Universe.
8. Everything would exist in a timeline.  There are a few ways to do this so that the timeline is slower in the comic world than it is in the real world but the point would be characters would age.  they would not be like Batman having five Robins grow up while he stays relatively the same age.
9. No more man-panties.  In the New DC universe there will be no heroes wearing man-panties.  the briefs would be the same color as the pants.  So Superman would wear blue pants Not blue pants with red underwear over them  and so on. (see other blog) (http://www.comicvine.com/myvine/liberty/superhero-panties/87-50293/)

10. 

    Characters will be modernized whenever possible.  There are many different types of comics and characters.  There are War Comics, Horror Comics, Fantasy Comics, Romantic Comics, Western Comics and others.  When ever possible these will be incorporated into the modern universe some how,  This would be easy with Romantic and Horror comics.  Fantasy comics could exist in other worlds or long forgotten times.  Many places and characters would fit into the Warlord universe.  Western and War comics are a little different.  They can only exist in two ways.  One is they would have to exist but not necessarily known to the general public like Hex living in the old west as a regular bounty hunter.  Other things would have to be modernized, like Sergent Rock.  He could exist in the modern world.  The Black Hawks would also need to exist in the modern world.  No war wheels in the past.  The only things that can exist will have to be explained as a missing part of time.  The war wheel would be the best example.  Something like that couldn't exist as a past marvel.
    

1. Hal is a quitter.  He quit being a Lantern for a time. 
   
2. Hal doesn't get along with his fellow Lanterns.   He took away Guy Gardner's ring and tried to take away John Stewart's. 
   
3. Hal can not be counted on.  He inadvertently trapped Guy into the Phantom Zone and thought he was dead but before his body would have even been cold he hits on Guy's fiance Kari Limbo. a very short time.  Can anyone really blame Guy for his anger...Oh yeah Hal can.
   
4. Hal is not a team player.  When Guy was put in charge by the Guardians during Crisis of Infinite Earth's Hal turns on him.  Again he quit the corps and the League and tried to take other lanterns rings and get members kicked out of the league.
   
5. Hal has a questionable relationship with a very  young woman.  Hal has a serious relationship with Arisia.  Arisia was a young teenager who willed herself to look older.  Hal himself said that he still thought of her as a child and then a very short time later had his relationship with the young girl.  Tell the judge "she looked 18"  and see how far it gets you.  Later, even after the age reboot of Arisia he is seen hitting on an underage Supergirl.  All the while reminding himself that he has food in his refrigerator that is older.
   

6. 

   Hal has problems with Alcohol.  Hal is the only superhero I know of who went to prison for drunk driving.
7. Hal is a weak protector.  Hal is the only hero I know to loose his "protected city" completely.  Other heroes have had tragedies in their city but under Hal's watch Coast City is completely destroyed.  Every man, woman, child and blade of grass is wiped out.
8. Hal is unstable.  Hal went mad with the loss of Coast City and tried to will it back with his ring.  He then went and killed all the remaining Green lanterns and became Parallax.  Yes, I know after the fact a story was written saying he was possessed but that didn't really fit what happened originally.  When going back and reading the stories it never seemed fit.  Lets face facts the Parallax story was made up just to bring Hal back.  I maintain he was too far gone to come back.
9. Hal has an evil soul.  Hal became the Spectre because his soul was in purgatory for his sins.  Supposedly this was for killing all the Green Lanterns.   In the DC Universe the Spectre is the Wrath of God himself.  This brings up many questions.  Is God wrong in having Hal in purgatory?  Was Parallax more powerful than God and was he able to stay undetected for a time?  Did God not care that Hal was possessed and therefore not responsible.  Was Hal in purgatory for something else?  I'm still not sure.  This is just one of the problems with the reboot.
   

10. 

    Hal Jordan is prejudice.  Hal had a friend Tom who he referred to by the racist name "Pieface" or "Pie".  Now in his defense Hal seemed to treat Tom with respect in most cases but calling him Pieface is not that respectable. Hal also had weak relationships with people of color.  (see image)

On a character page what publisher should be used? I am referring to characters who have been produced by multiple publishers.  Take Blue Beetle for example.  He was originally produced by Fox Comics later by Charlton Comics and lastly DC Comics.  Those are the main three publishers but there were more.  When you look at the Charlton Page you will see Charlton's top characters listed and yet none of Charlton's top heroes are really in the list.  This is because DC Comics bought Charlton's top Heroes and whoever posted the character pages listed the publisher as DC Comics.  This can also be said for publisher's like Red Circle Comics or any of the many publisher's produced by DC Comics.  It is also a problem with public domain characters.  They have been written about in so many different publications that they run the gambit.  I have seen some characters list In the Public Domain as their as their publisher.  i don't think that is helpful at all.
 
The reason I find this to be a problem is because of the history of comics.  I am fascinated by the history of comics and how they evolved with time.  When I look at publisher like Charlton, Fox, Red Circle and all the other golden aged publisher's I miss how important or unimportant they were to the comic world.  The best solution in my opinion would be to be able to list multiple publishes on the character page.  For now wouldn't it be better to list the original publisher as a general rule?