What was your entry point into comics

...hmm.

Probably Archie Sonic or The Walking Dead. Archie Sonic comics were available on Sonic Genesis Collection, but Walking Dead is what made me really start looking at comics and not just going "ooh, Spider Man!" If that makes sense.

Edited by FOFD on Oct 12th 2020 at 3:34:32 AM

Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).

Blackest Night: At the time I read it I didn't fully understood it, but the fights and all the mythology it brought to the Green Lantern Corps and its related characters were more than enough for me, especially the part of the Lantern Deputies and the emergence of the White Lantern Corps.

The first comic I can remember getting was Superman #344, "The Monsters Among Us," in 1980. I was 5. I'm pretty sure it was not actually my first comic, but it's the first one I can remember getting. I genuinely can't remember a time when I couldn't read or didn't read comics.

An old Web of Spider-Man issue where Peter had to rescue Mary Jane (wearing pretty much only a nightshirt) from an energy-siphoning ESU student that he had been helping to tutor.

I think my first exposure to comics happened when my mom brought home a big pack of comics from Costco (they still sold them at Costco back then, in these little cardboard pallets.) Unfortunately, it didn't really impress upon me, because the comics were all in the middle of their various runs, so I had no idea what the hell was going on in any of them. Years later, I bought comics from the local grocery store, and that was when Marvel's comics had those flaps in the covers telling you who everyone was and what had recently happened, and I think that was where I started to get hooked.

By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.

I was already a fan of heroes from movies and cartoons but my real entry point was Marvel Essentials collections. First got Chris Claremont's X-Men and then Stan Lee's Spider-Man.

The Archie comics for me.

Originally, Archie's Sonic #50. A doozy of a starting point for anything.

After the point where I had disposable income was the Rocket Raccoon solo comic. It was at either #3 or #4. Really good series.

Edited by Zeromaeus on Oct 20th 2020 at 3:24:35 PM

My dad had his Big Box o' Comics he collected over the years. But as a child, I couldn't reach it because it was too tall of a box, so instead he let me read some turn-of-the-century comics he'd just bought.

One of those was the "Welcome Back, Frank" run of The Punisher.

"I think if you're capable of entertaining people, then you are doing a good thing. - Stan Lee

There's a lot to tear down. The characters, comics as a whole, American comics, comics from different countries.

My first comic was Tintin. My first comic from the Big 2 was Remender's Venom. Manga was Kumakura's King of Bandit Jing. Comics not attached to properties was Vaughan's Saga.

For me, only Tintin has held the test of time. Repetitive anime and comic tropes are now more prevalent and frustrating. Pacing and vulgarity can easily throw off my perception of a work. I'm now more leaning on creator owned comics that have a grounded premises.

Edited by ChicoTheParakeet on Nov 6th 2020 at 12:22:42 PM

Can't remember. I learned to read when I was 2 years old. I began with a huge bag of old comics my mom had left—Donald Duck comics, assorted humor comics... That kind of thing. I'm European, after all. Almost everybody here reads some sort of children's humor comic growing up.

Garfield was my entry point into comics, but Batman: the Long Halloween was what made me obsessed with comics

The ouvre of Manuel Garcia Ferre.

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Edited by AegisP on Apr 27th 2021 at 12:19:51 PM

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My entry point was a giant yellow book full of newspaper comics that went from 1890 to 1960, however I do not know the name of the book exactly.

Maybe, but not sure exactly, as I can't find it now. It used to be at the end of the hall at my house, but I'm not sure if it is still there as I didn't see it.

Edited by pikafan on Jun 7th 2021 at 7:35:37 AM

The Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics?

Tintin as a kid. King of Bandit Jing as a teen. Avengers Academy as an adult.

It was Donald Duck & Co.

Yup!

Edited by Delibirda on Sep 5th 2021 at 12:06:38 PM

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”

A Scandinavian, I can tell!

I started reading more comics when I was in middle school and high school, so I had three primary ones:

• Teen Titans 2003 - I got interested because of the cartoon so I would occasionally read the trades of the Geoff Johns run.
• New Mutants 2003 - Around the same time, I also wanted to read the X-Men, and this was the teenaged team so I ran with this book.
• Ultimate Spider-Man - Probably the big one. Spider-Man was always my favorite character and this was ultimately the first one where I was also searching for the floppies.

I read a friend's Archie and Wonder Woman comics as a kid. My first comic purchase was New Teen Titans. From there, I moved on to X-Men and New Mutants. This was the 1980s. I'm dating myself, aren't I?

We got a bit off-topic on the Spider-Man thread and discussed how hard some people find it to get into comics, so I figured, hey, why not rez this thread as I cross-post what my experiences were, at least regarding superhero comics:

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Honestly, when I was getting into comics (specifically Marvel through my enjoyment of The Super Hero Squad Show, I really got into DC a bit later on, though I always liked Batman and Superman through my dad, who was an especially big Superman fan) for the first time as a kid, I just read whatever books and characters I wanted to (mostly whatever my local library had, including plenty of collections of the classic Lee/Kirby/Ditko stuff. My personal favorites from there included the Kurt Busiek/George Perez Avengers run, The Dark Phoenix Saga, a lot of the 70s/80s-era Spider-Man stuff, the Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four, and the John Byrne and Warren Ellis runs of Iron Man.) and any continuity questions I had I went to Wikipedia to solve. I also had a few DK visual dictionaries for Spider-Man and Iron Man that went over most of their respective histories up until the books were published (the Spidey one covered everything up to the beginning of Civil War, the Iron Man one everything up to about halfway through Dark Reign). I also visited local book sales a lot when I was young and purchased any old individual issues I could find that they had. It really isn't as daunting as it may appear to get into comics, and nobody expects you to have read absolutely everything.

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What this doesn't cover is that, before that, my dad also had some Calvin and Hobbes collections he let me read, so I guess that's my real first step into the medium; I also enjoyed reading Peanuts, Garfield, Foxtrot, and Big Nate as a kid, with some Dilbert and Far Side getting mixed in as I got older. I also read a few of the DC Scooby-Doo and Dark Horse Star Wars stuff as a kid, in terms of non-superhero books (though Scooby did occasionally team up with Batman in those).

Edited by lbssb on Oct 26th 2023 at 11:18:53 AM

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For Marvel, it was reading my dad’s old Spider-Man and X-Men comics, which is probably why those are two of my main favorites for Marvel. For DC, I honestly don’t remember the exact story, but I know it was a Batman comic.

Sonic The comic

New theme music also a box

I got into comics outside of superheroes through IDW’s Transformers. I don’t remember it too well.