Civics are awesome little tinkering toys. I used to have one a year or so ago (00 Civic Si) and it was boosted with a fully built engine. I used to live on Honda-Tech before I came back to car audio after it got stolen and stripped.
It was very reliable and I drove it daily and beat the hell out of it. Even before I had the engine built it was tough when I was running the Vortech Superchager (I wouldn't recommend getting a supercharger, although there is a guy working on putting an Eaton Blower on a B16 on Honda-Tech right now that should be very high HP).
Everyone jumps on rice this and rice that, and yeah it's kind of played out and it is a Honda, but when you can smoke some 600 street bikes, I don't care what you drive. Moving fast is moving fast. Here's a couple of pics of mine. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of my college project car and did put a lot of time and money into it. All in all I would say I would do it again.
If you boost it, you won't be disappointed with the funness factor, and still great gas milage depending on which size turbo you get and how good your tunner is.