| May. 27th, 2006 @ 08:16 pm Sometimes even super-heroes get thirsty |
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Current Mood:  content
Pat asked me, when did I first get into comics?
The best dating tool i have, is probably the cards. I have most of the Marvel Series 2 trading cards. These are all dated 1991. I also have alot more comics from that year than I usually remember. All Marvel stuff. I've got the Infinity Guantlet, a short run of Adam Strange from '92, a couple of West Coast Avengers, and perhaps most notably, although i woldn't have noted at the time, a few issues from McFarlane's run in Spiderman. Huh, i guess those Super Mario Brothers comics are from '91 to. Funny to think that all of those are from the same year.
Anyways, i always read cartoons, like Farside, Calvin and Hobbes, Dilbert, and I used to read the ones in Dragon Magazine, at the library.
In '95, i picked up a whole bunch of DC comics from "Zero Hour", and from 96 I have a few Superboys, and a Batman annual, future thing.
Almost forgot; In 1993, i had a subscription to Spiderman 2099. That one was about new versions of the traditional Marvel heroes in the year 2099, mostly dealing with a society in which giant corporations had replaced governments. Corps controlling the world, what imaginations those writers had! Ha. ha. ha. sigh. I remember choosing that title because it was a whole new thing: I have issues 1-13, and issue one of Doom 2099 (Doctor Doom reapears spontaneously in the middle of Latveria, and sets out to retake his country from the big evil company. Ended up taking over, and saving, the world).
Which is funny, because just this past week, i suddenly decided to subscribe to 52, DC's new weekly comic which will run for 52 issues to fill in the gap between "Infinite Crisis" (IeIeIe-I, Superboys dead) and "One Year Later", when Batman, Wonderwoman and Superman come back. Having a decent job lets me do crazy stuff like that. I probably won't get any more subscriptions, or renew that one, but that's just because i realised it's simpler and cheaper just to go to the shop in the Mall, which is right across from the library. Where I coincidently also borrow various graphic novels. Also going to be getting Shadowpact, about a team of magic-related superheroes, including Detective Chimp. He's a talking chimp, who's a detective! And an alcoholic. Going to check out some other new series in the near future. For example, Garth Ennis has written another Kev miniseries. Oh, Mr. Ennis. You are so fucked in the head.
Why am I doing this all of a sudden? Well, it's a hobby that, doesn't cost too much, get's me away from the computer screen, and doesn't rely much on having other people around. That, and the major characters of 52 are Booster Gold and The Question. Booster is funny,and I love the Question. He's like Batman, only instead or having Bruce Wayne's wealth and childhood, he's got no facial features and paranoia. |
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