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ITT: What was your very first comic?
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I mean you only live in the worst country imaginable
a country that is not America
You can never be as handsome or strong or clever or well-liked as me
Or really ever any of those things
Because you are from Sucksville, Earth
(there is no Sucksville in America)
It's okay if you are too poor and too awful to be allowed to come here
But if you have the means
And still choose not to
It's like wanting to be terrible in every conceivable fashion
I always thought you were Team Iceland instead of Team USA because you were wooed by the blonde teacher instead of the secret hot USA teacher.
I bleed red, white, and blue
I eat patriotism and shit freedom
I am 1/16th Eagle
Thank you.
It was given to me by a little person dressed up as a familiar character during my first trip to Disneyworld.
I was like 9, and I've been hooked since.
The Vac - My Science Fiction Epic
Fortune Pancakes - My Gag-A-Day Comic
Well, I will admit not living in a country that had the shit bombed out of it for 30 years is appealing.
I'd rather live here than in the US.
I mean, if you like being awful and all that
Some people like being awful
It's cool
I guess
and our bombs are bigger
I was 12. I had thumbed through some Marvel Comics Presents: Wolverine that a friend had loaned me and it kept talking about some team he was on called the X-Men. So I went to the local bookstore/comic shop and tried to pick out an X-Men one from the rack.
I got this one because it had this huge two page layout with all the characters with thier names listed next to them. (It was a showdown with the Marauders). Got it so I could learn all the names of the characters even though I had NO clue what was going on.
My uncle my started me with this series. Now, if only I kept these in good condition. I still have them all, but my god, missing covers and whatnot. As well as ASM #298-301. Oh the things you learn about comics as you grow older.
I will bring it by not saving your ass in the next war you lousy tea drinkers get in over your heads in
The sun set on the British Empire a long time ago
All glory and honor to AMERICA
Scotland is the home of all that is awesome in the world. You should want to live here.
And yes, this is another long term GV lurker decloaking in this thread
When I was a kid I used to get the Eagle and the Action Force comics weekly, but the one I really remember as a kid was a Spiderman annual from 1980 or thereabouts. (This was the UK annual, a hardback that reprinted a few comics and as a kid were usually given as Christmas presents). It had 2 stories I remember - a Kraven the Hunter one (including a line I remember to this day "that Whump I just Whumped you with is the same kind of Whump that once staggered the Hulk. Get the message jungle man? *Kraven collapses*He got the message" - and a vulture one that featured Spidey with the flu losing his powers and the original Vulture dying in hospital while a criminal persuades him to hand over his wings and suit and becomes a new, younger vulture.
I lost contact with comics and returned to them in the nineties - a bad time for superhero comics, but a great time for other stuff. The standout comic of this return to comics was from the Sandman. Issue thirty five or thereabouts. It was a one shot tale, a bed time story told by a grandfather to his granddaughter about the old country. The story was full of magic and it became apparent over the course of it that the grandfather was a werewolf and a lot older than he looked. It was beautiful and magical and invoked echoes of every fairy tale I had ever read as a kid. It still feels magical rereading it now.
I gave up on comics altogether later on in the nineties - it was costing me a lot and so much of it was complete crap. I returned in the last couple of eyars or so and now buy trades of all the cool stuff I haven't read over the years. And a lot of that is all your fault GV.
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Ed & Larry : "Doesn't matter."
I recently was gifted a thing in Steam. If it was from you, thank you very much!
I remember that Spidey annual! Good times. The Eagle and Action Force get thumbs up from me as well, particularly 13th Floor, Doomlord and Combat Colin.
Little did I know I was about to be plunged into the Knightfall saga! My first acquired comics came a little earlier, my dad gave me a stack of old Marvels his late brother owned. Mostly early Amazing Spider-man (none in really good condition, however). The one I remember reading was Amazing Spider-Man 27, where he had to buy a toy costume to replace his and it shrunk in water:
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Don't look at me that way. I had no idea my city even HAD a comic book store until then.
Don't sweat it. I think, generally, comic book fans like to hear when new people come into the hobby with recent books. It starts to look dreary and dangerously stagnant when all the fans have been around for a while.
She was fucking adorable. She tries to speak English and read and act normal, living a new life in Bludhaven. All while being a butt-kicking vigilante at night.
Late to the party but I got into comics like I was born for it.
I read comics sparingly as a kid, when I was around 5 years old my aunt bought me a toy of the Flash that came with a comic (which my dad still has 20 years later). Around 10 years old, my friend and I used to walk to the comic shop every Saturday and he would buy the comics with his allowance and I would read them when he was done. Then I was on hiatus for quite some time, I read an article on IGN almost a year ago that really got me interested again: http://comics.ign.com/articles/102/1026877p1.html I thought the artwork was really cool and the story ideas were interesting. I lurked the forums a bit and after some suggestions eBayed ASM American Son. Then ended up picking up all of BND from the beginning and read the whole thing. After more and more immersion in the forums I branched out and picked up a handful of new titles. I now own ~400 comics and happily go to my LCS every Wednesday to pick up more. You can see my stash: http://www.stashmycomics.com/html/publicview.asp?username=mikefleischner&viewswl=mystash
That is some really ugly art. Robin looks like Frankenstein.
Kelley Jones cares not for your human physics!
In the 90's just about every Batman cover (or was it Detective Comics?) had Jones' distinct artwork. He liked to give his Batmans a brooding, over-the-top dark, feel (ie, Batman brutally beating a guy with a spike). Come to think of it, I'm shocked my mom let me walk into the house with this!
But with the rise of digital coloring, Jones' sort of lost his edge for a while:
notice the heavy use of airbrushing. yuck.
nowadays, with there being such a versatility with Photoshop, his stuff has more of a subtle, retro feel, imo:
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