As indicated by my writing so far on this site, I have geeky love for a lot of things. Whether it be Nintendo, Aaron Sorkin or fleeting fame, I tend to let largely irrelevant things consume me to the point where I think about them obsessively.

But one of my greatest not-so-secret loves has gone largely unwritten about on this site: comic books.

I really love comic books. I love so much about them. I love the hipster intellectualism side, wherein I can argue for hours that heady independent books by Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware are indicative of a new kind of literature, largely untapped but with unlimited potential, representing a new kind of art that will rocket us into a second renaissance of pictures and words. And then I love the other side. The side with punching and flying. I love the spandex and the one-liners and the convoluted stories that spiral into one another and have done so for years and years and years.

In an effort to give my comic book habit the attention it deserves, I’m launching a new monthly feature wherein I will take a look each month at the moments in comic books I read that, for whatever reason, impacted me. They could be funny, sad, weird or just kind of pretty to look at. There’s absolutely no real logic behind these choices. They’re just the pages I liked the best.

The February 2007 Moments in Comics

Captain America Has Not Had A Good Month

From Civil War #7: Captain America is tackled by a cop, a fireman, a paramedic, others

I think the word spunk is funny by itself

From Y The Last Man #54: The first Hollywood movie produced entirely by women

We Would Think The Same If We Weren’t So Used To It

From Ultimate Spider-Man #105: Aunt May learns that Peter is Spider-Man, then tells him his costume sucks

It’s Still A Question Worth Asking

From Batman #663: Harley Quinn ponders while her boyfriend acts all murderous

Definitely The Funniest Doombot I’ve Ever Seen

From Punisher War Journal #4: Four villains toast to the recently deceased Stilt Man

Reed Richards Got Shot in February Too But He Was Smart Enough Not To Die

From 52 #42: Elongated Man Ralph Dibny is shot fatally, his own wedding ring used as the bullet

Killing Your Wife With Radioactive Sperm: Signs To Watch For

From Spider-Man Reign #3: An aged Peter Parker apologizes to his wife’s corpse for killing her with his radioactive spider sperm

Don’t Worry, Cap, Things Are Bound To Get Better

From Civil War Front Line #11: Journalist Sally Floyd tells Captain America that he should get a myspace account

It Really Doesn’t Look That Bad

From Amazing Spider-Man #538: Aunt May gets shot by sniper, faces imminent death for only the twenty-fourth time in her short history

Come back next month for more! Until then, tell me how wrong I am!