What got you into comics?

[Darthphere]

Theres a 100% chance this has been done before, but now its better, because I made this thread. Simple question. What got you into comics?


I remember it was 1989 and I was barely 3. It was around Christmas time so im pretty sure id just truned 3 recently. It was a Saturday and my mom was at work and my dad was taking care of my two older sisters and I. He had a video and sat me down with him to watch it. The video just so happened to be Batman. At this point im not sure if it was a bootleg but it really doesnt matter. I have a fuzzy memory of it you know being 3 and all but my dad tells me I had a smile on my face the whole time. Which worried him because he thought it was a bit too scary for me but he was too lazy to put me to sleep or something(My dad is a great parent). All I remember after that is being obsessed with Batman and having Batman bed sheets, backpack, pencil set, shoes, shirts, the works. Then when I was 5 we walked next to a comic book store and I saw a Batamn stand up and begged my dad to let me go in. Now, I know this place was full of fanboys. it was about 1993 so this was the apex of the comic boom. And I saw Batman comics all over the place. Funny thing is I didnt buy any and ended up buying A Power Ranger comic. My first comic ever. Thats how I got into comics. Batman and Power Rangers.

Whats your story?

[Anubis]

Well, I had read comics before when I was younger. You know, here and there. But I was never really into them. Well, It was like, 1998, maybe 99, and I was just out of high school and I had gotten my first real job so like, I was looking at my pretty much my first paycheck here. So, I cashed my check at the bank, but the teller gave me all 50's. I didn't care at the time, I was too happy to have some cash. (If you've been dependent upon others for so long, then suddenly get your own money to spend how you see fit, you'd be geeked too.) That was, until I had to get on the bus to go home and all I had was a bunch of 50's. So, I went into a Walgreens near the bus stop to try and get some change. I was browsing around. Thought maybe I'd check out the Video game magazines, when I saw a comic book rack. Which is kinda rare in a Walgreens after the crash. I figured, why not. So I grabbed a couple of Spider-Man issues. Lucky for me they were all part of one story arc in PP:SM involving this villain who seemingly had all the powers of every superhero and villain you could think of. So, I bought it, and enjoyed it surprisingly. So much so that I wanted more. I went to another Walgreens and grabbed some more comics. Avengers, Superman, Batman, Spidey, and I also saw an issue of Wizard. Now, say what you want about wizard, but this was the first time I ever read a mag devoted to whats going on with comic books. It was an eye opener to say the least. Because of that one issue I was exposed to books I hadn't even heard of with characters I probably never would have heard of. Spidey might have sparked my interest, but Wizard made me a comic book fan.

[Silver Sable]

From the Batman,Spider-Man,Wildcats,etc cartoons.I then started reading their comics and that's how it started

[Dr. Mid-Nite]

My dad owned this box of really old comics from his time as a kid and used to read them to me during most of my youth, after he took me to our local shop when I was about 8 and I rember seeing this poster of Dr. Mid-Nite and the JSA that I just had to have. Ever since then I've been reading comics, and for the life of me I don't think I'll ever stop reading them.

[Xofenroht]

Hmm, it's pretty hard to pin point. My mother was always a fan of comicbook characters in the 60's and 70's. When she had me in the mid-80's I came along for the ride. My cousins were the ones who really got me into them. One in particular was really big into the X-Men franchise, so I would sneak behind his back and flip through the comics whenever I got the chance. In addition to that I watched old reruns of the Adam West Batman show, then fell in love with the Batman movie of the 80's AND Prince's "Batdance". Some time later my cousin convinced my mom to get me some X-Men action figures for my birthday, these were to support the cartoon they had coming out in the 80's (with Storm, Colossus, Aussie Wolvie, Kitty, Nightcrawler, Dazzler, Cyclops). I specifically remember not even being able to read around this time. Afterwards I learned to read from reading the backs of the action figure card packaging.
Everything just sort of took off from there.

[TheFalcon]

I can remember starting to read some Donald Duck comics here in Norway when I was 6 or 7 and then I guess it just developed from there.
I started reading american comics in 2004 after I joined this board to read about the new Batman film that was coming out.
I decided to pick up Year One and DKR and after that I've been hooked.

[Honey Vibe]

I started reading comics for the first time when the Spider-Man 90s cartoon came out, as ...uninteresting as that sounds.

[deathshead2]

Well I read comics for awhile go to the gas station with my dad to buy them. I didn't know how to read so I would just make up my own words and story for each page. I really got into them thanks to cartoons you know B:tas,S:tas spider-man x-man,iron-man,hulk, and FF. I never really started reading comics until I my mom took me to the movies and there was a ad for a comic book store. When I saw the ad I begged my mom to take me she did I bought some transformers comics and later after dreamwave died out I stated buying other non transformers comics.

[XwolverineX]

I started readin' comics when my dad was into 'em. Then I quit. I got back into 'em when Spider-man 2 came out. I started readin' USM, then all of Ultimate. Then I went big an' started gettin' alot.

[Lackey]

What started my love of superheroes was the Superman movies. One of my earliest memories is seeing Superman II in the theatre and getting a Superman pin they were giving out to people as they walked out of the theatre. Later on my dad bought me a Superman action figure that was my favorite toy for years. As a kid, I watched every superheroh tv series or cartoon series there was... Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Incredible Hulk, The Flash, Superboy, even The Greatest American Hero.

What started my love of comics as a medium is the Sunday newspaper "funnies"...I would read the Sunday comic strips from the time that I learned to read. My first comic books were an Archie Double Digest and a mini-size reprint of Amazing Spider-Man #1 that I received as part of a contest for school in 4th grade.

What started me in collecting comics was the Death of Superman, it was such a big event, that my dad went and reserved a copy of Superman #75 for me and started picking up the comics that lead to that issue. Afterwords, he continued to buy me Superman comics until Superman's return. I always looked forward to my dad coming home from work with a new comic book to give me. I found out that my dad was heavily into comics when he was a kid, but that most of his comic books were thrown out by my grandmother when "he was too old for them." My dad had even won a "create a superhero" contest with his entry "Mr. Excellent." I couldn't have been more proud of him. :)
Even after my dad stopped buying me comics regularly, I would go to the grocery store and read the ones on the rack and buy a few here and there whenever I had money to spare. I stopped keeping up with comics when I went to college, but when I got out and had a job, I picked up the habit again in full force since now I had the money to support this addictive habit...and I don't see any signs of slowing down. :)

[Elijya]

The Marvel Trading Card series 2. Loved those things. They taught me all the characters, then I jumped to the comics

[Sentry2005]

As I was starting secondary school ('96-97) I randomly found an issue of the collectors edition UK reprints in my local news agents (for the same price as a regular comic, you get three reprinted in normal size... pretty sweet to get you into comics).

So I was reading these old Spider-Man and X-Men stories (Spider-Man was telling the Clone saga at this point, and X-men was was in the middle of Age of Apocalypse) for about a year, until suddenly they started producing a book reprinting the Heroes Reborn saga; now say what you will about the Heroes Reborn era, and i'll agree it did suck, but it allowed a new generation of readers to get on board, and I actually really enjoyed it.

It was at this time I found a comic shop in my local shopping centre, and picked up some more pretty bad comics (unfortuantly A-Next was among them, but I also managed to grab some issues of Volume 3 of Iron Man, who thanks to Heroes Reborn was fast becoming my favourate super hero).

I calmed down on the comics until my third year of school, where my art teacher encouraged me to draw like the books I still picked up when i had some change. I got back into comics heavily as an Avengers reprint series began, beginning with the Busiek/Perez era (My FAVOURATE run on anything EVER).

Now for the next three years I picked up the reprint titles semi-reguarly (with the exeption of Avengers, which I got consistantly every month), until I stopped as I began college (2001-02). Then last summer I found a new comic shop. And my curse began.

So now i'm back into comics, and have been for coming up a year, and thus far I am picking up around 8-12 titles a month from each company, as well as a few image titles. All of this and the fact I started university last september, am in debt by around 1200 pounds, and rather than food I buy comics with my loan. But, it has made me realise that I want to write something in this medium. I always wanted to be a writer, but comics just seem the perfect medium now. Anyway, thats my reasons for getting into comcis :D boring really :)

[The Question]

Well, you know how parents read their kids story books before bed? Well, my dad read me the latest issue of Superman. :O

[Elijya]

aww

[Silver Sable]

The Marvel Trading Card series 2. Loved those things. They taught me all the characters, then I jumped to the comics

How old you were then?

[Elijya]

nine

[co2]

I loved the Superman movie and Hulk TV show as a wee one, so I would say that got me into comic heros. I was a little too young to read comics at that point, but did pick up a few. Then later, I got into G.I. Joe cartoons and toys as a kid of the 80's. To my memory, that was the only time a commercial has ever ran for a comic book. They would run that commmercial during the show. I started picking up the Joe comics and collecting them. Very soon after, my dad took me to a comic store, and that just opened the whole world right there. I got away from G.I Joe and embraced the Marvel Universe stuff, particularly Spider-man and Hulk. I stopped after high school and didn't read a comic for over 10 years. Now the movies have renewed my interest and here I am posting on a message board.
I have embraced my geeky roots.

[yenaled]

Pretty hard to pin point, going round to a cousins and reading all his old comics when I was young originally got me into comics, but I got pretty bored of them after a while, after all I was only young. I think the early cartoons like the Spider-Man and X-Men and the Batman cartoons cefinatly. But those characters comics bored me, it wasn't till I moved out from those when I got interested.

Eventually I ended up picking up a Kyle Rayner Green Lantern book, and I was hooked.

[XwolverineX]

Well, you know how parents read their kids story books before bed? Well, my dad read me the latest issue of Superman. :O




Awwww, how cute! :O:O

[C.F. Kane]

Freedom Force by Irrational Games

[Rez]

Pop Tarts and Jesus.

Don't ask.

[Darthphere]

Pop Tarts and Jesus.

Don't ask.


Im sorry, im going to have to.:p

[Whirlysplat]

1974 and I saw a copy of Iron man at the Newsagents, I thought he looked so cool. I had to have it. It cost all my pocket money that week! I only got 10p!

- Whirly

[Anubis]

heh, I love that term the English use. News Agents. Makes the job sound so sophisticated.

[Whirlysplat]

heh, I love that term the English use. News Agents. Makes the job sound so sophisticated.

:) Yes it does, doesn't it

- Whirly

[kiuju2k]

Spiderman and his amazing friends.... yes i know its a cartoon.

[AnnoyingSilence]

first time I've heard it put that way(newsagent)

[AnnoyingSilence]

Anyway... My story:

This August will be my second full year of reading comics... My wife and I and Her sister and her husband all needed a place for cheap for a while to get some bills caught up.... Her aunt bought a new house, so all four of us movved in her old one. (For those of you who do know him) JewwisHobbit is my brother in-law. One day he was telling me about this new "DTL" that he joined and some people were dropping out(at the time i had read 0 comics and only knew them from the Cartoon Series), so i figured I'd give it a try(it sounded really cool).... After joining in mid July, I was getting pounded on, couldn't defend or object for my team. (JH(JewishHobbit) wanted a friend with comics knowledge anyhow(conversational matters)) After about two seconds of talking with JH, he agreed to set me up with some stories and see how it goes.

I've read all the X-titles from 1985 to present, a bunch of minies, plus All the DC comics that i've been collecting my self(around 2,000), reading mainly the recent stories.

after reading for a year i started branching off into different types of powers(cosmic, magic, mutant, meta, etc..).

I would venture to say that i've read ATLEAST 3 to 3 1/2 thousand comics

[Darthphere]

I think we all have lull periods, where we all stop buying comics for a while. Its happened to me twice in my life. Once in middle school where I was worrying too much about what other people think. Comic books werent cool, hands down. When I got into high school, I started reading again. The second time was after Avengers Diassembled. I dont know what happened, it was just a pure disgust of what was going in the comic industries, however snobby that sounds, but I stopped buying comics for like 6 months, I missed them too much and came back.

[Whirlysplat]

I think we all have lull periods, where we all stop buying comics for a while. Its happened to me twice in my life. Once in middle school where I was worrying too much about what other people think. Comic books werent cool, hands down. When I got into high school, I started reading again. The second time was after Avengers Diassembled. I dont know what happened, it was just a pure disgust of what was going in the comic industries, however snobby that sounds, but I stopped buying comics for like 6 months, I missed them too much and came back.

Good post and true, I had 5 years off at one point.

- Whirly

[Darthphere]

Good post and true, I had 5 years off at one point.

- Whirly


Thtas a long time, and especially with comics nowadays, a character could be totally different when they come back. I just imagine those people who stopped buying Cap and came back and some guy John Walker was Captain America. WHAAA? When did you stop reading comics?

[Silver Sable]

Spiderman and his amazing friends.... yes i know its a cartoon.

That's how I got into comics also but by the 90's series :up:

[AnnoyingSilence]

yea. Once i started reading comics and watched a couple of the old episodes, i realized how under played they were.

[KingOfDreams]

I don't remember. I think I was around 8 when I first started reading comics. I'm thinking it must have been the cartoons though.

[antonydelfini]

the uncanny xmen cartoon series got me into it. wolverine just seemed so cool when i was a kid.

[Prognosticator]

When I was 2-3 years old, I had some Superfriends action figures that are some of my earliest memories...those w/Fisher Price toys and LEGOs. To this day I still have a strong appreciation for the fun I had w/them as a BABY and I'm sure that nostalgic desire keeps bringing me back to comics and superheroes! That's the "earliest" reason i have.

[Rob H]

My brother and the original Flash television series/movie. Never really got too into comics until a couple of years back though.

[nite-owl]

I used to get comics when I was younger at the newsagents but after a while they just stopped getting them in, it was only after I saw x-men 2 I got back into comics.

[UK_Stu]

I got into comics way back in 1980. During the summer holidays, my Grandad used to look after me for a couple of days a week. He'd take me into town and buy me a comic book from the newsagents (probably to keep me quiet) and then read it to me in this small cafe before we went home. He continued to buy me a comic book each week - various titles usually DC. Anyway we moved house when I was about 11, one of the things my mum chucked away in the move were all the comics I owned:mad:

So I was still into comics, but unfortunately lived no where near any comic book shops and had very little pocket money. I was reduced to buying the odd issue here and there - literally one or two issues every 6 months/year or so. (I found holiday camps were a real treasure trove for old comics though, and picked up plenty of issues here for a about 5p each, though my Mum moaned i was wasting my money).

While still at secondary school - i found out about mail order, while I couldn't afford a regular subscription, I began to buy back issues when I could (Ah Justin Ebbs and Just comics).

Then I went to Uni, and my comic purchases finished altogther (generally a lack of funds) and I spend about 4 years buying no comics. (though I swore I would catch up when I got a job)

And now I have a job and have been catching up:up:

jeeez 1980 seems like a long time ago

[WOLVERINE25TH]

1991, was in Poughkeepsie visitin' relatives and we went to an arcade. Played Konami's X-Men and got hooked (Wolverine of course, whom I thought shot electricity through his claws thanks to his "berserker rage" special). My 'rents would later fuel that at Xmas with my first batch of comics.

[Sequential76]

I've been drawing for as far back as I can remember. I'd always had a small stack of comics in the Rec room and my mother seemed to pick them up from garage sales frequently. They'd be battered with the price written onto the cover with a magic marker.

I'd always been the artist kid in school then we moved and I was placed in a school with about 3 other really good "Artist kids." Honestly everybody seemed to be better than me at everything at that point. Around the sixth grade (1988) Herb Trimpe (Hulk, GI Joe, Etc,) came to school to tell the class about his job has a comic artist. I loved it and was hooked. I absolutely knew what I was going to be when I grew up from that point.

All the artist kids went crazee making up their own comics. Their's where always better than mine but I'm the only one that's still here.

I love comics :) :doom:

[Whirlysplat]

I got into comics way back in 1980. During the summer holidays, my Grandad used to look after me for a couple of days a week. He'd take me into town and buy me a comic book from the newsagents (probably to keep me quiet) and then read it to me in this small cafe before we went home. He continued to buy me a comic book each week - various titles usually DC. Anyway we moved house when I was about 11, one of the things my mum chucked away in the move were all the comics I owned:mad:

So I was still into comics, but unfortunately lived no where near any comic book shops and had very little pocket money. I was reduced to buying the odd issue here and there - literally one or two issues every 6 months/year or so. (I found holiday camps were a real treasure trove for old comics though, and picked up plenty of issues here for a about 5p each, though my Mum moaned i was wasting my money).

While still at secondary school - i found out about mail order, while I couldn't afford a regular subscription, I began to buy back issues when I could (Ah Justin Ebbs and Just comics).

Then I went to Uni, and my comic purchases finished altogther (generally a lack of funds) and I spend about 4 years buying no comics. (though I swore I would catch up when I got a job)

And now I have a job and have been catching up:up:

jeeez 1980 seems like a long time ago

Nice story my friend. I used to clean a copper bar at the local pub before school in the late seventies and early eaighties to feed my habit when pocket money stopped being enough. Like you University meant I could not afford comics. I also used to hide comics from Girlfriends :lol:. My present partner doesn't understand but she accepts. I bet some of the comics you threw away I still have, although my Mum who was a teacher gave some to a kid she taught who was into comics when his dad died and I was at Uni, I certainly don't mind though.

Thtas a long time, and especially with comics nowadays, a character could be totally different when they come back. I just imagine those people who stopped buying Cap and came back and some guy John Walker was Captain America. WHAAA? When did you stop reading comics?

At uni and just after girls and money and buying comics wasn't something I could afford!

- Whirly

[Erundur]

Freshman year of highschool I had invested in Marvel's company by purchasing stock through one of my business classes. This got me excited about the MU, it wasn't until the first spidey film when I got my first comic.

ASM #350 :cool::up:

[PWN3R]

What really got me reading comics every month is when I learned that loads of hot women would hunt you down and sleep with you.

So I guess since then, I've been an avid reader...:cool:

[twylight]

When I was 5 I meet my life-long best friend, and she came with an older brother who was an avid Btaman fan. I remember him going through the comic book rack at the grocery store and buying comics. Sometimes my friend and I were allowed to look at them, and we used to watch the 60's Batman reruns together.
I also learned a sketchy knowledge of Spider-Man from him.

When I got older I got a fuzzy knowledge of them because my brother bought the big information books like Spider-Man, JLA and X-Men, after the first X-Man movie came out. X-Men were what interested me so I used to do 'info' searches online to find out more about them.


Then I joined Hype.
It went down hill from there. I read all the Essential Spider-Man, and a friend on Hype soon turned me to DC through extensive IM 'lectures' on each DC character, team or story line. *I should have kept those*

The first DC Graphic Novel I read was Watchman, borrowed from the local Library.

My first comic I bought was JSA #79


The rest is history...

[Captain Kirk]

I got into comics by watching my favorite movie of all-time, Superman the movie. I developed my lifelong love of Superman because of that film. I first discovered Superman comics in 1986 in a 7/11 store. I remember it was the comic where Superman was fighting Dragga on Warworld,and I had never seen Superman with a beard before! The next event that got my interest was 1992 when Superman 'died'. I remember tears building in my eyes as I finished reading Superman #75. Now things are full circle ,and Superman is set to 'Return' to the big screen. What a great time to be a comics fan!:supes:

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Ya know, I wanted to buy stock in Marvel when it was at $3.83 years ago, but I never got around to it. Then when it got to $37 I kicked myself.

[Dwarf lord]

Well, I was in Eigth Grade when the second X-Men move came out and I loved it (not so much anymore, now that I'm a fan of the comics). And me being a weird kid decided to look for graphic novels of older issues (I was so shocked to find full stories in trade paperback form). So I saw the Marvel Masterworks of Chris Claremont's first few issues in paperback form so I snapped that up quickly. I was going on the eigth grade trip, so I read that all in one sitting on the bus. It was so good I went and got the second one right after the trip. Then I started getting some X-Men comics (Chuck Austen's and Grant Morrison's). Now, I didn't have a comic book store near me, so my grandma offered to pick them up for me. A she picked up my X-Men comics, she started getting me other things that she thought looked cool. So then I started reading Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers, Captain America, Thor, Daredevil, Fantastic Four, ect. There was a time when I was reading like every Marvel hero.

A year later, still being a rather stupid comic book fan, I followed Claremont and Byrne to JLA. That was a god awful storyline, but at that time I decided to try Batman and Superman too. Now those were some good comics (to me at least). That I was looking around on dccomics.com and I saw a person by the name of Geoff Johns was writing The Flash, JSA, and Teen Titans (This was after he left Hawkman). That name sounded familiar, so I looked at my collection of comics and saw that he wrote Avengers, which was my favorite Marvel title for a while. So, I started getting those three books. And they really opened me to the whole DCU. Now, I'm practically reading all DC and little Marvel.

[ampersand]

When I was in seventh grade, a friend of mine was at my house and he wanted to draw pictures of Spider-man. We went online and printed out pictures to copy. After he left I was still sitting there copying picture after picture from the internet. I had always loved art and drawing, but never really had any direction in it. I found my direction that day, I wanted to be able to draw like a comic book artist. Soon I wanted more pictures to look at, copy and learn from, so I started buying comics. That was around eigth grade. I collected comics for about two years then completely stopped buying them because I was frustrated by how much I hated the stories even though I loved the art.

Earlier this year I started reading comics again, mainly because a Barnes and Noble opened up down the block from me and I can read there for free. Now I read only those stories that people suggest. My brother still buys comics semi-regularly though, so I do read some stuff monthly.

[drastic_quench]

I remeber reading old torn up comics at the barber shop in the 80's. Jonah Hex and an unusual amount of comics featuring Modok.

During the early 90's I was only able to get my hands on one to three comics a year. I lived in a small town with no access. Mostly Marvel, Spider-Man, Hulk, random X titles and one or two Ghost Rider and Deathloks. I liked comics I just couldn't get my hands on them or follow any storylines. I'd read any one issue about a dozen times. The highlight of this era was managing to get all three issues of Batman vs Predator at a town fair.

Then, in high school (mid 90's) a teacher randomly handed me a beat to hell copy of DKR that someone had left in his classroom.

"You like comics, don't you?"
"Sure."

Well, I knew Bats from the BTAS, but I didn't have any idea who Frank Miller was or who this Alan Moore character who wrote the introduction was. I had no concept of what a graphic novel or tpb was. I could only tell my friends that I read this weird and awesome BIG comic where Batman was an old hardass and the Joker actually dies and Batman fights Superman. I loved it, but I still had limited access to comics. And I was put off by the difficulty in following a stories.

Years later I dug out DKR and re-read it. I wanted to find more great comics. Now I had the time, money, and availability of comic book stores. And more importantly I had the internet and places like this and wikipedia to read up on characters and storylines. So at this point I was ready to get into comics and I got in through the movies. First Hellboy - read all the trades before the movie came out, then Sin City (same deal), and then Batman.

From there I got into the DCU and Infinite Crisis/COIE. I really feel like there's never been a better time (in my lifetime) to be reading comics.

The Pull List:
DC
52, Action, All-Star Superman, Aquaman, Batman, Blue Beetle, Checkmate, Detective, Infinite Crisis, Justice, Superman, Teen Titans

Marvel
Incredible Hulk

Wildstorm
Astro-City

[Hairlesswookie]

My dad has a pile of old Iron Man comics in his room and when I was in the very young he gave them to me, those and the Death of Superman issue, that was the frist time I read any type of comics.

What started the comic craze for me was in first grade, walking down Toys 'R' Us and seeing the Spawn toys... yes thank God for Spawn and the free comics that came with each figure.

Last year or so when I was done with class and went to eat lunch. Me and a friend were walking down the street and I saw a comic book store, I walked in... and walked out with about 20 issues of Spawn. Then House of M came out and I lost my mind on that, and it's been down hill from there.

[Heretic]

I was real young...no clue on the age...but I was insane about GI Joe (still am really) and had bought the entire first wave of toys or so that had been released...Anyway, i was sick or hurt or something and my dad was coming to visit and asked if I wanted anything while he was on the way and I asked for a GI Joe comic, because Id heard they were around.
He brought GI Combat...
Thanks dad, you *****.
But I liked it enough to keep buying comics and that led to a comic book love that kept me from having sex with a real live girl until well into my teen years.

Then I stopped reading for years...

So heres how I got BACK INTO comics...

I think my brother had moved out for awhile but then moved back in...he had started buying comics and I read all of his IMPACT comics that DC put out and decided to go buy my own books...I walked into the store, completely ignorant of everything except IMPACT and asked the store owner if any new superhero books were out that people seemed to like...
That day, coincidentally had seen the release of the first ever Image comic, Youngblood #1...I bought it, and didnt really like it but the ads for other books looked cool so I bought the other Image books when they came out (having enevr even heard of Tod McFarlane or Jim lee I wasnt even aware Image being a big deal at all. I bought everything Image released and nothing else...and eventually realized I was bored as hell with this crap...

I told all that so i could tell this...the true birth of my adulthood comic life...I walked into the comic shop and told the owner that I wouldnt be shopping there anymore because even though hed been a great guy I just couldnt waste my money on horrible comics anymore. He told me that he knew this day would come for me and he handed me the first Madman miniseries and told me to trust him...I did and bought it...It was the best purchase I have ever made. I went into the store the next afternoon and asked him to give me something else...and he sold me on 1-9 of Bone...and the next day i was back for more...he suggested Tales Of The Beanworld, Strangers In Paradise, Hepcats and Sin City...I have trusted the stores owner ever since.