The Beano, The Dandy
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books and Funny Fortnightly, then Star Wars comics, Rogue Squadron in particular. After that it's been mostly sci-fi or horror, 2000AD in particular. I've never read superhero comics apart from Hellboy and Watchmen. I don't think Judge Dredd counts as a superhero, does he?
edited 23rd Dec '11 7:15:56 AM by InverurieJones
'All he needs is for somebody to throw handgrenades at him for the rest of his life...'I believe it was Radioactive Man.
There were a lot of shout outs to comics that I wasn't old enough to catch yet — notably the invisible Superman pushing Clark/Lois apart.
It's actually a good send-up of Silver Age heroes, if you want to check it out.
I'm a skeptical squirrelMy first comic was the first issue of Cable and Deadpool.
Imagine Rakan applying Calling Your Attacks to doing paperwork.~Anarchy Rakan for the hell of it COMMISSION THIS BRIDGE!~EHKIt was an issue of Superman from in the early '80's. The cover showed Superman being pinned by the Frankenstein monster while Dracula, accompanied by an ominous word balloon, prepared to bite him on the neck. I remember nothing at all about the story, except that it also had the Phantom Stranger in it.
Dredd is debatable, but I don't think he is. Johnny Alpha, on the other hand...
edited 13th Jan '12 7:49:04 AM by VampireBuddha
Ukrainian Red CrossIt was probably an issue of the Beano. Either that or Sonic The Comic.
A TPB of Kingdom Come, given to me by my uncle.
That was the last time I saw him before he passed away really suddenly, so, yeah, it's kind of a treasure to me.
edited 18th May '13 8:25:50 PM by HamburgerTime
Oh man. I was like 8. It was "Spider-Man's Pal - Gus Beezer." It was about this kid who lived in the Marvel Universe and was a huge comics geek and kept running into superheroes. Like for example, his sister was a mutant, so he got a visit from the X-Men, and Peter Parker was his distant cousin or something.
I re-read it not too long ago. The writing's still really sharp, and there are several moments that made me laugh out loud, like Gus' confrontation with J. Jonah Jameson. I was curious to see who wrote the series, so I looked at the credits... and it was Gail Simone. No, really. I was so shocked.
edited 19th May '13 12:08:28 AM by RedM
The very best, like no one ever was. Check out my Spider-Man fanfic here! [1]When I was about 10 or 11 (maybe 12, not sure), when the Spider-Man and X-Men movies were coming out, I went online and found the Marvel website. At that time, Marvel had free issues of their new Ultimate Universe line available for viewing. So Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men were my first comics. I got banned from accessing Marvel after my parents learned the content of Ultimate X-Men.
I only really dabbled in comics for the next few years, being vaguely aware of comic events, but not actually reading anything. I picked up a couple graphic novels during that time, like borrowing Sandman collections for the library, and after I rediscovered Invader Zim, I got Johnny the Homicidal Maniac for Christmas, but it was Fables that really got me back into the medium. I bought the deluxe edition Volume 1 from Barnes and Noble after seeing a commercial on TV and becoming curious (this was, I think, late in my senior year of High School, so between 3 and 4 years ago). From Fables, I moved onto Y: The Last Man, and then from there to a bunch of other stuff.
When I was really little, I had the Maximum Carnage video game and I really loved it. For my birthday, my grandparents surprised me with a collection of the entire storyline from the comics. I was thrilled. From there, I gathered a few Spider-Man issues here and there, but never really got into it, and eventually just sort of drifted on to other things.
A few years ago, I was hearing about the Civil War storyline that was going on in Marvel, and it got me really intrigued, so I started reading again. I've been an avid Marvel Comics reader ever since.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Either a Mexican reprint of Little Lulu or The Fox And The Crow.
Superhero-wise, the first run of The Batman Adventures. I actually taught myself English with that run and an English-Spanish dictionary, because I wanted to expand on the exploits of the characters I knew from the cartoon. I remember being confused by the ''Knightfall' ads and how they implied Joker had killed Robin at some point. 'You mean the other comics don't have Robin anymore?'
My first mainstream superhero comic (that is, not cartoon tie-in) was Batman 450, where the Joker returns after Death in the Family, and he's in such a sorry state I actually felt pity for him. Funny thing is, I never got Batman 451, that story's conclusion, until 2009. That was a hella long wait to see exactly how it ended (although the Internet had long ago spoiled me on the overalls).
edited 19th May '13 8:00:28 AM by NapoleonDeCheese
Looking back to my childhood, I'm pretty sure my first comics were a mix of Archie!Sonic, Loony Tunes, and Scooby-doo, but it wasn't then that I truly got into comics, or at least no Super-hero comics. That was actually a few years ago when I was 19. I had been watching Justice League for the past year, and got a decent feel for the DCU from that, but I also knew that I didn't really know the Marvel Universe that well in comparison. Plus, I didn't have much of a life at the time. So, I hunkered down for 8-12 hours a day, and just read Marvel-Marvel-Marvel, all day long, whenever there wasn't anything else I needed to do. I manged to get up to 1977 in three-four months before getting tired of it all, and swore off Superhero comics altogether for another four months. After that, I came back to Marvel, but focused mainly on the two series I liked the most — Avengers and X-Men — and that's how it's stayed to this day. I can dabble in other series, sure, but until I'm caught up, Avengers and X-Men are my main books. Or should I say, franchises.
Of course, I've read stuff from other companies too, including DC, as well as 'important' books, like Watchmen, but DC's alienated me for the moment by proving that it just can't let continuity stick for long these days; you get attached to the verse and it's characters, and then, BOOM; they sweep the rug out straight from under you. Marvel doesn't have that problem. Does that mean I'll stay away from DC forever? Probably not, but I'm likely only going to be reading pre-DC Nu books. I still haven't finished JLI or JLE, and there's a lot of classic DC I've yet to read. But that can wait for another day. Maybe when I've caught up in Avengers and X-Men.
edited 22nd May '13 11:22:10 AM by kkhohoho
My first comics were the Bionicle comic books, which I got with LEGO Magazine. But the first two comics that I ever bought (well, my dad bought them, I guess) were Robin Vol. 4 #2, and Detective Comics Vol. 1 #610. They introduced me to Tim Drake, the good old guy.
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edited 22nd May '13 11:15:56 AM by XRay
Care to critique my villain's prison escape plan?I think the first comic I followed with any sort of regularity was the UK Transformers comic that followed the live-action movie. After that, there was a 3-4 year gap until I discovered 2000AD.
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A bunch of Asterix and "Les aventures potagère du concombre masqué" (The Garden adventures of the Masked Cucumber), a comic too fucked up for words.
Like seriously, the title alone doesn't actually do credit to how weird this thing is. A Masked Cucumber is like the simplest thing about this comic.
edited 14th Dec '11 9:36:25 AM by Ghilz