tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471698.post7643625712623533355..comments2024-02-06T07:55:24.303+00:00Comments on Pai: How did you all get into comics?Sarangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03545162612237984546noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471698.post-73343716791553677952011-07-16T14:07:20.353+01:002011-07-16T14:07:20.353+01:00When we would visit my grandparents, there always ...When we would visit my grandparents, there always seemed to be comics upstairs in the bedroom we would sleep in. There was a convenience store down the street and one time we noticed a spinner rack....<br /><br />8,000 comics later....MOCK!https://www.blogger.com/profile/02854497329647596811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471698.post-28642121495439044012011-07-15T04:00:43.521+01:002011-07-15T04:00:43.521+01:00When I was a kid, I bought and read the Care Bears...When I was a kid, I bought and read the Care Bears comic every week, then my mother decided I was reading them too quickly and "upgraded" me to Mandy and Judy and the associated teen romance graphic novels, (remember the Debbie books?). Again, they stopped when my parents decided I wasn't getting enough reading out of them. For a long time afterwards I had this weird veiw of book-buying economics: that a book's value for money should be judged on how long you spend reading them for each pound spent.<br /><br />Fast forward through my comic-less teen years to 25 year old me, the year after Buffy the Vampire Slayer finished, and I was missing the show. I was vaguely aware that spin off comics existed, but comic snobbery prevented me from reading them, until I bought Tales of the Slayers and Fray for a friend (and luckily, those were by far the best Buffy comics in existence pre-season 8).<br /><br />I fell instantly in love with Melaka Fray and become actually involved in fandom for the first time, bringing her into online roleplaying games, where she met such characters as Stephanie Brown, the turtle Michaelangelo and Fables' Snow White.<br /><br />I actually go into DC comics when my now-roommate brought in Barbara Gordon. <br /><br />"Wait," said I, "Batgirl is in a wheelchair, now?"<br /><br />"Yes," he said, "and she's WAY MORE AWESOME. You should read these comics." And he thrust on me (pirated, digital) Birds of Prey.<br /><br />Fifty comics later, I told him, "yeah Babs is awesome, but I wanna talk about this lady in the fishnets!" And then a complete love affair with the DCU was born. I started my first monthly subscription when I was completely caught up with BoP and wanted to complete reading on day of release. My pull list has only increased since.Debihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05852233139848200640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471698.post-3726785769653598372011-07-14T13:28:37.623+01:002011-07-14T13:28:37.623+01:00I was born in the US, and although I do not rememb...I was born in the US, and although I do not remember it fully, I do have a distant memory of having read kid comics like Archie, Richie Rich and Casper. We moved back to Ireland when I was 7, and I got into the UK kids comics: Beano, Dandy, Whizzer and Chips, Whoopee, Cor, all those comics that had exclamations as titles lol. I moved on from that to sports comics like Roy of the Rovers and Tiger. I sort of stopped reading comics in my early teens when I started reading adventure books by the cartload - must have gone through all the Hardy Boys books at that time!<br /><br />When I started college, the first Batman film was just coming out. I remember watching the old TV series and luckily, the newsagents had the Titan reprint magazines, which were starting to reprint the early Wagner/Grant/Breyfogle tales. At that time, they also had a Superman/JLI reprint magazine, and the Giffen/deMatteis/Maguire tales had me hooked. Through college, I found a place in town that sold US originals and was hooked on DC characters ever since.JimmyMcGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23471698.post-65015938423445971202011-07-14T12:14:41.101+01:002011-07-14T12:14:41.101+01:00I was 9,I had been watching and had fallen in love...I was 9,I had been watching and had fallen in love with the xmen cartoon show,I got videos(showing my age) and toys for christmas and needed more,it was my 9th birthday andas a treat my mum and dad took me shopping.I bought two things that I remember to this day, xmen adventures-the comic book collection of the animated tv show,and xmen god loves man kills-this second volume in particular has had a MASSIVE impact on my life.if you are going to jump in,jump in at the deep end!<br /><br />Ive been hooked since?after discovering the comic shops in town a little later,I became a full fledged comic book geek!theyallfalldownnoreply@blogger.com