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How I Got Into Comics
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5:21 am
04/27/2011


-B.

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Great thread….!

 

As for me, I think I was in about 8th grade when, on the bus home from school, I saw a kid reading Electric Warrior #1, published by DC.  I knew nothing of comics at the time other than the Sunday Funnies.  A short time after, I found my first LCBS, in Red Bank, NJ.  I forget the name, but it was in what we called the Mini-Mall.  I remember seeing all the comics up on the wall and in the bins, and being amazed at it all.  I bought the first issue of The Dark Knight Returns, along with a few horror comics (for mature readers, hehe), and took them to the beach to read.  I can recall getting sand pebbles in my copy of The Dark Knight, and being a bit upset.

 

I branched out into some sci-fi, also for mature readers.  And I think it was then that my mother found them and threw them out.  Including The Dark Knight.  Argh!  If only…

 

Flash forward a mere 20 years later, in 2006, and I was wandering around Barnes and Noble with a wad of cash and a depressed attitude.  I needed something to cheer me up, and what did I find but a copy of the tpb The Dark Knight Returns.  I had to have it.  As well as The Dark Knight Strikes Again.  Oh, and Knightfall.  And The Long Halloween.  And The Haunted Knight.  And The Batman Chronicles Vol 1.  :)  Sure, it was a bunch of money, but like I said, I was depressed and didn't care.  It was my way of saying "F—- it!" to the world.

 

That spending spree was actually on a lunch break from work, and I went back to my office and showed my friends Steve and Rob what I had purchased.  Unbeknownst to me, the two of them were into comics and they told me all about what I was about to read.

 

Rob added his two cents on what comics I should get, and it was Steve who informed me that comics come out on Wednesday's.  So the next Wednesday I went to Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, also in Red Bank, NJ, although by this time the Mini-Mall had closed down.  I think my first buys were some issues of 52 and the issues that would make up Batman: Face the Face.  Great stuff.

 

Heh, that was fun thinking about how I got into comics.  I guess you could say I'm a late bloomer, as I really didn't get into any of it until 2006.  I'm still waiting for an Electric Warrior trade.  hehe.

 

-B.

11:53 am
04/27/2011


Ian

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not so bad a way, especially with a stopover at the Secret Stash. I always wanted to go there.

It's amazing when you think of how much awesome stuff hasn't been collected. I want Damage Control and Chase!

 

Or the rest of the milestone stuff, of course.

1:43 pm
04/27/2011


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What I wouldn't do for more MIlestone stuff. I finally have gotten into the universe after it has ended and trying to get it all is tough. I wish they would release it in more trades!!!!

 

Anyway, how I got into comics. I remember growing up without many comics in my life, I vaguely remember a sonic one I had but I just never really had a ton of money for it. When I came home from school I would watch the Adam West Batman and that started it all. 

 

From there I really got into cartoons. Obviously Batman TAS propelled me, but I loved x-men 90s and evolution, batman beyond and static shock as well. I had all these awesome Batman TAS toys which have now done missing (I figure my dad got rid of them by accident, groan) and so superheroes have always been a part of my childhood without comics in my life. 

 

It wasn't until right before I went off to college that I got hooked. I had broken my hand and had surgery and was kind of bummed that I wasn't supposed to do anything active. I went to my local library and found Green Lantern Emerald Allies. I always said GL was my favorite, though thinking back I have no idea why, but since then I was hooked. I started catching up on Ultimate x-men, and from there I was hooked. I started getting monthlies of that through a subscription (what a mistake, I swear half the issues didn't come) but boy was it fun. I started collecting all that I could around my three favorites, GL, Batman, and X-men.

 

The fact that I was able to branch out was thanks to my brother. For my birthday that year he got me watchman and that made me explore all kinds of Allan Moore. What a great brother huh.

 

The following year he got me five of my favorites, The first volume of fable, the first volume of y the last man, the first volume of bone, and the first volume of ex machina, as well as pride of Baghdad.  I AM SOO LUCKY! And since then its been everything I can read from libraries, discount bins, ebay auctions and the like, all genres all publishers. What a great addiction I have gotten myself into. Now I read comics and am constantly working on my own writing which brings me so much joy, if only I could put all my ideas into a cohesive project right now….

 

And thats how I got into comics. I still watch cartoons all the time and I am not ashamed!

2:13 pm
04/27/2011


Ian

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sounds like you've got a pretty awesome brother!
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