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9:58 pm
12/05/2010
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Ian
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I got almost everything I owned from the 10 cent bins and loved looking through them. I didn't take care of anything – it all went in a big wooden box that I shoved under my bed.
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12:01 am
12/06/2010
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Beth
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I knew nothing of comics other than their role as mother media to the super heroes we had powerful times dressing up as. It is good to see there are parents who will be the Batman to your Robin.I started reading Sandman while in college, then League of Extraordinary Gentleman, Transmetropolitan, Batgirl, and Watchmen.
I own the Buffy Omnibus, a silver surfer origin, and a star trek on dinosaur planet comic with accompanying record to hear the adventure of Spock and Jim (who look future adventurous). All of these were gifts.
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12:31 am
12/07/2010
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Christopher Chambers
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My first comic was an Iron Man, sometime in the 80's. I didn't understand it, I remember bits about media commentary and the cover soon went missing. I didn't get into them until I was 12 or 13, and the local comic book store became my favorite place. I remember clearly the Knightfall storyline getting me into Batman, that was a Big Deal. And Superman's death. I got really into the Image titles, Spawn and all that. I don't remember what turned me onto Sandman, but I think that was the big switcher for me, at 14 or 15. Some of the Vertigo stuff, Transmet, any and all Frank Miller.
Since the end of high school my interest has come back and out in waves. I go nuts over Chris Ware and Charles Burns now, and that sort of snarky-arty high-brow non-superhero fare.
I don't look too hard anymore, the decent independent store is on the other side of town, but sometimes I'll get turned onto something really great.
Scott Pilgrim (the film, not so much the source) just recently got me back into checking out whats available.
Just now on my 2nd or 3rd round with the Sandman at the moment.
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12:44 am
12/07/2010
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Ian
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Chris Ware is pretty amazing. I've got Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth.
Sandman is a good one to come back to. Have you read Lucifer? It's almost a direct sequel, in theme if not in all plot continuation (though there definitely is a lot for the title character).
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12:46 am
12/07/2010
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Ian
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Major props to my dad for that one.
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10:05 am
12/09/2010
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Christopher Chambers
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Chris Ware's preceding and subsequent Acme Novelty Library editions are very worth checking out.
I've not read Lucifer. Since it was a completely different creative team and Sandman ended so intentionally I didn't think it would be worth it to extending a closed world. Like reading Harry Potter fanfic or arbitrary sequels or something. Though I'd never had a recommendation for it to consider.
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1:56 pm
12/09/2010
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Ian
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yeah, I'd like to get deeper into him when I have a chance. Rest assured that if I ever see any of his stuff used, I'll snap it up in a second.
See, Sandman isn't really a closed world. Gaiman did a great job of creating a full story with a satisfying end within a shared universe, but one of the story's strengths is that it makes amazing use of the DC Universe's existing framework. A lot of the characters that seem unique to Sandman are actually very good in character uses of existing creations (Constantine, Cain and Abel, even Matthew the Raven, etc)
Lucifer can be read as a self contained story on its own, actually, and is just damn good. It's probably the best thing Carey has done. It's really fun.
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1:00 pm
12/11/2010
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duncanpr
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I blame my brother and my sister. My sister got me into Dark Horse's Star Wars trades. Since I was already obsessed with everything Star wars, this made sense. My brother, though, introduced me to the gad damned Batman.
The Long Halloween was my introduction. Need I say more, really? This led me to Dark Victory and Haunted Knight. For Christmas that year, my boss gave me Year One.
I am officially a Batman fanatic. And I'm proud to say this all started about nine years ago.
My interest only grew from there, and as I read more, I started into crossovers, and that's when I knew there was no stopping this addiction.
Now I follow Green Lantern, Booster Gold, Wonder Woman (volume 3), and I'm about to get into Green Lantern Corps and Red Robin. I also enjoy me some Vertigo trades. The Filth. Faker. Young Liars. I dig the crazy stuff.
And of course, I'm still into Star Wars.
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2:59 pm
12/11/2010
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Ian
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I've still got a few Star Wars trades myself. It's one of those things I'd love to build a real reading order for, but I'll have to wait until I've got the other lists up. It's in the back of my mind though – I loved that stuff as a kid. Dangerous, cause I can't afford to get back into it!
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7:42 pm
12/11/2010
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duncanpr
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Dark Horse is definitely a bit pricier than DC is, but I'm addicted. It's not so bad getting the trades as they come out; it hurts because I'm also playing catch up.
If you do go for a reading order for Star Wars trades, too, then don't reinvent the wheel; Wookieepedia has a timeline set up already. We do like to read things in the right order when events overlap as much as they do in the EU. :)
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7:46 pm
12/11/2010
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Ian
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They're not so bad for some things (when it was new, that beautiful Beasts of Burden hardcover was only 20 bucks.)
But I think in general they have smaller print runs, and once they are out it's a lot more expensive to find them used. For a moment the aforementioned book was up to 200 on Amazon. Thankfully it looks like they did another run and it's back to something like 13.
Thanks for the link – very cool. I'd only really need to add some important character tags, make sure everything works for adding to collections, etc.
I was debating the possibility of having a full multimedia timeline (including videogames, even!) but I'm not sure if I could manage that. Of course, I bet someone's already done it.
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9:25 pm
12/11/2010
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duncanpr
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I should clarify that my brother first introduced me to the world of Marvel through Spiderman, Venom, and Carnage as well as The Onslaught Saga, but it was The Long Halloween with Tim Sale's illustrations that really got me hooked.
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12:12 am
12/12/2010
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duncanpr
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I blame my brother and my sister. My sister got me into Dark Horse's Star Wars trades. Since I was already obsessed with everything Star wars, this made sense. My brother, though, introduced me to the goddamned Batman.
The Long Halloween was my introduction. Need I say more, really? This led me to Dark Victory and Haunted Knight. For Christmas that year, my boss gave me Year One.
I am officially a Batman fanatic. And I'm proud to say this all started about nine years ago.
My interest only grew from there, and as I read more, I started into crossovers, and that's when I knew there was no stopping this addiction.
Now I follow Green Lantern, Booster Gold, Wonder Woman (volume 3), and I'm about to get into Green Lantern Corps and Red Robin. I also enjoy me some Vertigo trades. The Filth. Faker. Young Liars. I dig the crazy stuff.
And of course, I'm still into Star Wars.
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12:02 am
12/25/2010
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Christopher Chambers
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Oh total delay on my part, but I'll have to give Lucifer a shot. On my wishlist.
I never realized that Matthew the Raven was an existing character.
This whole conversation has kicked my whole memory back in regarding what I used to read and what I'd like to revisit. I really want to go back to Stray Bullets again, though the trades are kind of confusing.
I just got the big Bone book this Christmas, super pumped about going through that, I only made it through the first couple books as a kid, and recently revisited it and was far more impressed now than before.
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12:20 am
12/25/2010
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Ian
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No worries – one of the things I like about a blog like this is conversations can take place over any length of time without much detriment.
It took me a long time to realize it myself, but Matthew the Raven is Matt Cable from Swamp Thing. Weird, right? Well, if you haven't read Swamp Thing it might not mean anything.
My favorite appearance in Sandman is by Etrigan the Demon, who is worth looking into.
Awesome about Bone – that's one thing I'd like to revisit myself. I read one of the scholastic trades as a kid and haven't gotten back into it yet. Even though it was originally in black and white I still had that memory of color and missed it. But they're doing a full color hardcover soon! Better believe I'll own that eventually.
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5:59 pm
02/02/2011
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12:32 am
02/03/2011
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Chris D.
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Hey Ian,
Just read this via the link from today's post about Milestone. I too remember going through bins as a kid, looking way more then buying….actually its hard to remember buying much…mostly just spending a lot of time looking. I then remember the pivital point where I bought the "Death of Superman" trade on a whim when it came out after all the controversy and being overwhelmingly moved at the end where Lois is holding Kal in the middle of the street with his cape draped over him. Incredible. I still haven't dared reread it for chance of spoiling my memories.
I love the fact that you talk about batmantrades.com on here. I was in love with Supermantrades.com ever since I found it early on in college when I dabbled with the idea of reading comics again. I would constantly check supermantrades.com hoping that there would be updates or even the smallest amount of contact info to tell the owner thanks for the great site. Recently I decided to get into trades seriously and visited that site again after a few years and found that it's fairly out of date. A google search led me to CBR and thus here. So in a strange way I still am grateful for supermantrades.com keeping that burning curiosity in the back of my mind and leading me down a path to my new home of TRO.
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4:48 am
02/03/2011
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Ian
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This site is very much a metaphorical child of those trade lists, along with the Milarworld tplist and a couple others. I only wish the venerable wizards that started those sites were still around – I haven't heard anything from either of them and I'd love to get their opinions on stuff and thank them for all their work.
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5:03 pm
04/26/2011
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Drakul
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Ha Ian, late to the game but why not share.
Mine is a bit particular because I grew up in France and we didn't really have "comics" there.
So as a kid I would read a ton of Tintin, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Les Schtroumpfs (The Smurfs) and other such Belgian/French comics.
I was first introduced to Superheroes with he Superman movie, the Batman Bam POW TV show and most of all the 60s Spiderman cartoon. For some weird reason I had this one single episode from the series featuring Mysterio that I watched all the time as a kid.
As a kid I dressed up as Zorro which was my favorite show.
My two biggest comics turning point came with Batman 89, it still is one of my favorite movies, I've seen it a hundred times and I even have the parts to make a replica costume I bought on Brotherhood of the Bat.
The second huge influence was Spawn the HBO series. WOW! I remember when this came out in 97… I'd never seen anything like it. I became a huge fan and was always very disappointed by how it ended as it was getting epic. I always wanted to get the comics to see the continuation of the story. "you made a deal you stupid son of a bitch! you made a deal for your soul!"
Anyway flashforward to 2005 when I moved to the US. In France I collected Manga but I already had a bunch of series and I didn't want to continue them with different covers/spines (I'm anal). So I figured I may as well get some comics since I was in comics land.
I started somewhat like you."Get the essential Batman"™ I bought Year One of course, Long Halloween and Dark Victory. I became a big fan of the Loeb/Sale team so I also bought Superman For All Seasons. I bought the Batman Chronicles because I wanted to start at the beginning but I stopped after volume 4 or 5.
I also collected the Spawn collections (the thick ones that were coming out at the time).
I started branching out the easy way. I was visiting Batsquad also and Jason's timeline made it easy to get sucked in a "oh I'm missing that one" pattern. I had Batman so I had to get Robin and Batgirl. so I had to get Birds of Prey and Nightwing. That was around Infinite Crisis so I had to buy some Tie-ins. A few Green Arrow here, "oh Geoff Johns' Green Lantern rocks? I'll get some of that too"… Rucka's Wonder Woman of course because I watched all the JLU and I like the character.
I first branched out with Fables. I had heard some good things and I liked the concept so I bought them, so I had to get JAck of Fables.
Then after reading about it everywhere I read Watchmen and again WOW! Became a huge Moore fan instantly so I bought LoEG, From Hell, Swamp Thing. I got the Sandman Absolute Vol 1. so I had to get Sandman Mystery Theater.
This past year I've been reading about the Star Wars MMO so I had to buy the KotOR trades…. dangerous door to open.
My buying habits were easy though. Browse amazon, collected editions, primary ignition and recently-ish your site to figure out what I might want and put it on my wishlist. Once a year come NYCC I'd buy everything I could find at 50% off.
And more or less, here I am :)
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9:55 pm
04/26/2011
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Ian
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Pretty amazing personal history! Thanks for sharing.
I love how one thing always leads to another. It's such an organically growing fandom. Almost every great creator has done something with at least one other great creator – which leads you to that new guy's work. Or the new character's other books. Etc.
Always something to read!
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