Ed Norton Won't Be in The Avengers

Garlic Bread

Everything I've seen of Herbie looks amazing

wirehead26

Blankzilla wrote:

that is weird

Why am I not surprised this is Alan Moore's favorite superhero.

BlankZoe

The Lovely Bastard wrote:

Blankzilla wrote:

that is weird

THAT IS AN AD

Doesn't make it any less weird!

Seriously I am not saying Herbie is bad! It just isn't something I particularly dig nor want to buy.

But if you are telling me that it isn't a weird comic you are insane

The Lovely Bastard

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

I used to own and still to this day absolutely love the 14 part Maximum Carnage series and I don't care who knows.

read it again

Garlic Bread

Everything I've seen of Herbie looks amazing

Centipede Damascus

I dunno those pages look pretty funny to me

Raijin Quickfoot

The Lovely Bastard wrote:

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

I used to own and still to this day absolutely love the 14 part Maximum Carnage series and I don't care who knows.

read it again

I did recently and it's TERRIBLE but I don't care because now it's forever nostalgic to me and I will always love it.

Crimson King

went and saw that alan moore documentary yesterday!

he's completely fucking morbid and mental

The Lovely Bastard

I am not saying Herbie isn't weird, I'm saying all comics come off weird out of context. Nature of the mediun.

Antimatter

i would never buy herbie but i would totally read it at a library

meanwhile, I would buy essential man-thing vols 1 and 2 if i had the dough

The Lovely Bastard

I made @jordyn and @framling read some herbie

Garlic Bread

You know what's a great, weird comic?

Teen Titans: The Lost Annual

it's amazing

Raijin Quickfoot

When I was a kid I was a complete sucker for anything with a foil embossed holographic cover.

The Lovely Bastard

keith didn't I give you the teen titans lost annual

Crimson King

i can see why moore likes herbie, they have the same sort of weird deadpan intensity

Garlic Bread

The Lovely Bastard wrote:

keith didn't I give you the teen titans lost annual

Something like that

Tox

godmode wrote: »

My first thought when logging into the forums: "Whitney Houston Won't Be in The Avengers"

(Seriously though, RIP)

@DrIanMalcolm

The Lovely Bastard

only this past year did I part with any of my comics from when I was a kid

Centipede Damascus

I didn't own any comics when I was a kid

but my local library had some collections of old Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Captain America comics

they were pretty great when I was eight

Garlic Bread

I only started reading comics in 2005 after Batman Begins

got me to buy Batman: Year One

I remember being pretty mad that it was such a quick read and cost like $18

Antimatter

Centipede Damascus wrote:

I didn't own any comics when I was a kid

but my local library had some collections of old Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, and Captain America comics

they were pretty great when I was eight

i had this, but with avengers in place of captain america, and i had a bit of thor and a large amount of x-men

Dichotomy

my only experience with an actual comic book is I flipped through a friend's civil war trade(?) once

Raijin Quickfoot

My entire giant comic collection, which had a nice mix of comics from the 50's and later, was destroyed in a flood back in...1995 I believe. I have never bought a comic book since.

Now I just buy them in graphic novel form.

Like seriously, a $20,000 collection just gone forever.

I cried for like a week.

The Lovely Bastard

as a kid my favorite books were suicide squad, marvel two in one, and anything with deathlok or hulk or batman

I had full runs from 1991 - 1998 of X-Men, Generation X, Amazing Spider-Man, and The Incredible Hulk because I subsrcibed to them in lieu of an allowance.

Then I'd go to the comic store and pick up big story tie-ins and sneak issues of hitman and spawn home

Garlic Bread

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

My entire giant comic collection, which had a nice mix of comics from the 50's and later, was destroyed in a flood back in...1995 I believe. I have never bought a comic book since.

Now I just buy them in graphic novel form.

Like seriously, a $20,000 collection just gone forever.

I cried for like a week.

god damn

The Geek

I read a Green Lantern collection from the library about a year back. It was a set of the first few Hal comics. Oh dear me, old comics are awful. Exposition much?

Dichotomy

Blankzilla wrote:

Dichotomy wrote:

back in my day there was a spider-man cartoon and all I really remember about it is spider-man turned into a werespider once and also I think there was a vampire in it?

spidey's adventures with the classic monsters

blank why was spider-man hanging out with a dracula

The Lovely Bastard

also my first comic?

Antimatter

Dichotomy wrote:

my only experience with an actual comic book is I flipped through a friend's civil war trade(?) once

i got civil war in singles when it came out

good god i regret that

there's some good comics you should read, dich

do you have a library card/a library with trades?

Raijin Quickfoot

Keith wrote:

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

My entire giant comic collection, which had a nice mix of comics from the 50's and later, was destroyed in a flood back in...1995 I believe. I have never bought a comic book since.

Now I just buy them in graphic novel form.

Like seriously, a $20,000 collection just gone forever.

I cried for like a week.

god damn

You know this story, Keith.

BlankZoe

Keith wrote:

I only started reading comics in 2005 after Batman Begins

got me to buy Batman: Year One

I remember being pretty mad that it was such a quick read and cost like $18

Yeah I didn't read till 05 either and started with the Ultimate Universe

I would buy a new volume each week from Borders. It was so great.

Garlic Bread

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

Keith wrote:

Raijin Quickfoot wrote:

My entire giant comic collection, which had a nice mix of comics from the 50's and later, was destroyed in a flood back in...1995 I believe. I have never bought a comic book since.

Now I just buy them in graphic novel form.

Like seriously, a $20,000 collection just gone forever.

I cried for like a week.

god damn

You know this story, Keith.

I know

but it's still god damn

Raijin Quickfoot

Between the ages of 10-14 I was on a first name basis with the comic shop in town, Comics in the Attic.

The Lovely Bastard

I absorbed so much tv and movies and video games and comics as a kid, I really sometimes wonder how I ever had a social life

then I remember I never friggin' slept so you know, there was time

I still remember my tiny black and white tv, watching conan o'brien and random uhf channels all night

JayKaos

Yeah I actually started reading with civil war because I read an article about it and it seemed weird.

Then I went to wikipedia up find out who song random character was and two nights later I knew who everyone was and had a while list of dc and marvel things to read.

Garlic Bread

Comic shop owners have some incredible (creepy) memory

I told this one my name once, and then stopped going to his store after a few months, then I was browsing his stuff at Wizard World Philly a good 3 or 4 years later and he was like "Hey Keith how's it going"

Antimatter

civil war was the first thing i read in singles, but good god i read the essentials volumes/random trades of spider-man like crazy

i still remember morlun like it was yesterday

BlankZoe

Dichotomy wrote:

Blankzilla wrote:

Dichotomy wrote:

back in my day there was a spider-man cartoon and all I really remember about it is spider-man turned into a werespider once and also I think there was a vampire in it?

spidey's adventures with the classic monsters

blank why was spider-man hanging out with a dracula

Morbius is a Science Dracula

To get around the whole "NO VAMPIRES OR ZOMBIES OR UNDEAD SHIT" ban from the Comics Code Marvel had him create his condition via radiation after attempting to cure his rare blood disease

The Lovely Bastard

I always feel kind of weird around people who have only started reading comics later in life

They are always younger than me and I always wonder why they didn't earlier

So chumps, why didn't you?

Dichotomy

I am compelled by the idea of a science dracula