American comics otaku unite!

[Starba]

I can't be the only popular comics slave on this forum. When did you get into comics? What's on your pull list? Do you actually read comics or do you just watch movies and cartoons (and VGs)? Do you go all out? What's your collection like? Let me hear it!

I go to the local comic book shop about once a week and buy about $5 to $10 worth of individual comics, with trades sprinkled in every now and then. I actually started buying comics regularly either freshman or sophomore year in college, but I was a total cartoon and card geek before that (I have the entire 1995 Fleer X-Men and 1992 Marvel Universe collector card sets, plus lots of 96 Spider-Man and various others in between). My first regular comic was Batgirl and I bought up all the back issues so that I have the whole collection now, plus the No-Man's-Land trade and various cross-overs. Since Batgirl's over , there are various comics on my pull list, including Birds of Prey, Superman, Action Comics, Robin, Catwoman, Batman, Detective Comics, none of which I'm totally committed to, even though Birds is something I tend to get frequently. I bought Identity Crisis and hated it, but I'm following Infinite Crisis pretty religiously right now and it's a lot of fun, especially if you go scrounging around the net for backstories and such. Other trades I've purchased are Birds of Prey Sensei and Student and Of Like Minds by Gail Simone, Green Arrow Quiver by Kevin Smith, a pretty terrible Ghost/Batgirl Dark Horse/DC crossover, Loeb's Superman/Batman Public Enemies, Outsiders 1 and 2 by Winnick, OMAC Project, Villains United, and various Batman and JLA arcs and one-shots. I also have about 30 post-No-Man's-Land issues of Batman and the first hardcover of Ultimate Spider-Man. Yeah, money down the drain, but to me it's worth it.

How 'bout you? Think your dignity will stand up to the challenge??

[gray]

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i'm disapointed in both house of m and infinite crisis. however, the aftermath of infinite crisis can't help but be better than the build up. so something to look foward to.



when i got into comics? i dunno. my parents collected comics when they were younger, so the odds are good that was my window to the comic book world. my dad mainly let me read his old donald duck and uncle scrooge comics. my comic book collection, however, is fairly large and begins in the late 80s.



currently i don't have any must buy comics. usually i just pick up anything that looks good.

but I was a total cartoon and card geek before that (I have the entire 1995 Fleer X-Men and 1992 Marvel Universe collector card sets, plus lots of 96 Spider-Man and various others in between)

you wouldn't even belive how freaky it is you brought those up. sitting on my lap right this moment is a binder full of old marvel/x-men cards. i dug it out earlier and was flipping through it. CRAZY!


all the others i have are in a box somewhere.



but yeah, lots of comics, lots of cards, and i'll geek out at a moments notice.

[Nixon]

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I read comics when I was learning how to read!

Both my parents collected books from DC and Marvel and had tons of old issues from the 60's and 70's. My dad had some underground stuff from R. Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. All of this influenced me to start collecting comics when I was very young.

The first comic I ever purchased myself was G.I. JOE #49, the issue before they introduced serpentor. It cost me 75 cents back in 1984-85, and I got it from a gas station.

I've collected all sorts of stuff over the years. During the 90's I got frustrated with the market and decided to turn to manga, at which point I started collecting all the Epic/Marvel reprints of Akira.

I still have three long boxes of comics, but I used to have a whole lot more.

These days I mostly read manga, because the stories and characters are more interesting to me than anything in the US books.

I think having parents that read comics really opens the door for kids to start picking up this stuff. Now we know who to blame for our fanboyishness.

[Goufunaki]

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i used to read comics, but so many of them needed you to buy multiple issues to get the whole story, or the beginning comics were no longer sold so you didn't know how things started, eventually turned me off. I mainly had marvel, like spiderman and the punisher.

[John Mora]

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I read Watchmen and liked it.

[Starba]

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Watchmen was pretty impressive, but I hate the way "good" authors like Miller, Meltzer, and Moore write women as little more than sex-mongers and/or plot devices. Of the three, Moore's exponentially better about it than the others, but the tendency's still there.

[Jamos' Old Account]

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I used to read Garfield comics a while back. Now the only comics I read are on the pavilion. There are some really good ones, you should check them out sometime, Starba. My favs are Nixon's Silent Hill comics and Loki's Poopdeck Swabby. Of course I may have entirely differ tastes compared to your's.

[Starba]

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I do read online comics every now and then, but mostly it's restricted to 8-Bit Theater. Man, that's a good comic. ^_^

[Magus]

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Comics, videogames and old-fashioned BOOKS helped me learn to read. But yeah.

I suppose my first REAL single-issue collection began with the Archie Sonic the Hedgehog comics. Then a combination of growing up and realizing they were ****ing furries stopped that.

But before that I'm sure I read whatever Star Wars, X-Men and Spider-Man comics were around in the late 80s/early 90s, including Ninja Turtles and Transformers. I too have binders of the X-Men/Marvel trading cards.

Now I read whatever looks halfway interesting, mostly trade paperbacks. Here's a list of what I read recently/am reading soon:

Bone (the huge tome. working on it...)
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1 (very fun read. what X3 is modeled after)
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2 (gonna read soon...)
Demo (have most of the series, love the somber style)
Daredevil Marvel Knights by Bendis (it's like Coppola's version of Daredevil)
House of M trade by Bendis (thought it was great till I realized it didn't end)
Wolverine by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller (Logan in Japan = rawk)
V for Vendetta (just in time for the movie)

My dad has several cardboard boxes filled to the brim with old single-issues and fantasy magazines. I especially wanna read more of the Conan the Barbarian books.

All-time favorites include:

Dark Knight Returns
Watchmen
Spider-Man Blue
The Killing Joke
The Long Halloween
various Hellboy stories
Creature Tech by Doug TenNapel (creator of Earthworm Jim)
Transmetropolitan Vol. 1
Arkham Asylum
Sin City


...Uhhh. KEFKA YOUR TURN

[Valkysas]

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Wait until rodak sees this topic. he used to own a comic shop, after all.

[Starba]

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Sweet.

[Jamos' Old Account]

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Wait until rodak sees this topic. he used to own a comic shop, after all.

I'm afraid the pavilion may not be able to handle all that Rodak will post. I'm scared...

[Nixon]

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Comics, videogames and old-fashioned BOOKS helped me learn to read.

I still have the first book I read, too. It's called "Lafcadio, the lion who shot back." I was also very fond of the Lorax.

Wait until rodak sees this topic. he used to own a comic shop, after all.

He got to live the dream.

[RPGD]

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He is also a 400-year-old hippy chemist.

Top that.

[gray]

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truly, he is a god!




i boned up on my vocabulary as a kid reading bloom county and calvin and hobbes. them comics used advanced language. also, they were funny.