Dusk
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Post by Dusk on Jan 6, 2014 15:41:26 GMT -5
When I was six <in the mid 80's> my father took me to a local comic book store. I was always watching the old animated Marvel features when I was younger. The Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four and Incredible Hulk always had a place in my VCR. So naturally when I was taken to the store, the first thing I bought was Amazing Spider-Man #238. Oh man, That cover alone was enough to scare the hell out of me. That was enough to get me hooked. I've been buying ever since.
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Post by Huw on Jan 6, 2014 15:49:42 GMT -5
For me, it was my uncle Rhys. There was a table in my grandparent's living room with a bench around it and there was always a stack of his comics in the corner. I think the first issue of any comic I ever looked at (that I can actually recall) was the first issue of Frank Miller's Robocop. I remember it was pretty horrific (I was about 7 at the time!) but it made me keep checking that stack of books. From random issues of X-Men to his Star Wars special edition comics, that was where I got my start. I haven't stopped since!
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inhuman
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Post by inhuman on Jan 6, 2014 15:59:06 GMT -5
I won a bag full of phantom comics at a fair in the late 90s and fell in love.
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Post by rosscarter on Jan 6, 2014 16:02:17 GMT -5
I don't feel like my intro to comics is super interesting, lol. Read Watchmen for a Sci-Fi class in college, moved on to Dark Knight Returns, got a few trades, then jumped in headfirst with the New 52.
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Post by monkeywithamonocle on Jan 6, 2014 16:04:55 GMT -5
As a kid it was my local newsagents occasionally getting random american comics in every now and then and I particularly got into Ghost Rider and DareDevil, I also used to get the Transformers comics as well.
I then got into playing Football and spent all my time either training or playing, many years later, now living in York I went into my local Travelling Man with a geeky mate from work and started to build my collection up, jump forward to 2007, me and the former Mrs Monkey broke up and in moving out I had a choice, either take my DVD's or take my Graphic Novel collection, there was no way both would fit in the car, and the DVD's won - now we're in 2014, I'm engaged to the new and improved Mrs Monkey, living in Manchester where we have a Forbidden Planet (if you've ever seen the scene in Clerks where Randall goes to the better video store - you'll know what I was like the first time I visited FP) as well as a Travelling Man and I have a full bookshelf full of Graphic Novels that I've picked up from ebay or in the stores.
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Post by thephantomwelshman on Jan 6, 2014 16:06:47 GMT -5
I grew up reading the Beano and Dandy as a young kid (Calamity James is still awesome), didn't really bother with comics in my teens apart from Akira, Dominion Tank Police and the odd 2000AD comic. Forward to my mid 30s, and as a Kevin Smith fan who had a new job where I could listen to my iPod all day, and listened to loads of Smodco podcasts, and eventually got round to the Fatman on Batman dark knight returns animated film episode. As a result I bought the blue ray, followed by the comic book, followed by year one, then picked up a few of the New 52 trades, and that was it. My wallet now hates me. Huw - you're not the token welshman, lol.
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Dusk
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Post by Dusk on Jan 6, 2014 16:15:07 GMT -5
I grew up reading the Beano and Dandy as a young kid (Calamity James is still awesome), didn't really bother with comics in my teens apart from Akira, Dominion Tank Police and the odd 2000AD comic. Forward to my mid 30s, and as a Kevin Smith fan who had a new job where I could listen to my iPod all day, and listened to loads of Smodco podcasts, and eventually got round to the Fatman on Batman dark knight returns animated film episode. As a result I bought the blue ray, followed by the comic book, followed by year one, then picked up a few of the New 52 trades, and that was it. My wallet now hates me. Awesome!! I am a huge Smodco fan...been listening to a variety of their shows for years. It's so great that from Kevins love of the Bat and the way that he talks about the older material with such grace, that it brought you in as a reader. So cool.
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Dusk
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Post by Dusk on Jan 6, 2014 16:17:15 GMT -5
I don't feel like my intro to comics is super interesting, lol. Read Watchmen for a Sci-Fi class in college, moved on to Dark Knight Returns, got a few trades, then jumped in headfirst with the New 52. Hehe it doesn't have to be interesting, although it is. I love how there are still college classes that have Watchmen and other TPB's on the curriculum. I wish I could have taken one of those classes.
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Post by joroak on Jan 6, 2014 16:19:56 GMT -5
I started reading around the age of 10. On the way home from a long road trip I went into a gas station and mom said pick something out. So I grabbed a web of Spider-Man comic ( one that I found this year and am having framed). I read until the clone saga and lost interest. Years and years later I'm in Times Square and at the virgin megastore and in the book section they have ultimate Spider-Man vol 1. So to kill time I read it. And that hooked me in. I started picking Spider-Man back up. Then once he was in new avengers I got that. And from there I dove head first back in to the marvel universe. DC, image, and vertigo came a few years later.
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Post by arcticbeast on Jan 6, 2014 18:50:29 GMT -5
I grew up reading the Beano and Dandy as a young kid (Calamity James is still awesome), didn't really bother with comics in my teens apart from Akira, Dominion Tank Police and the odd 2000AD comic. Forward to my mid 30s, and as a Kevin Smith fan who had a new job where I could listen to my iPod all day, and listened to loads of Smodco podcasts, and eventually got round to the Fatman on Batman dark knight returns animated film episode. As a result I bought the blue ray, followed by the comic book, followed by year one, then picked up a few of the New 52 trades, and that was it. My wallet now hates me. Awesome!! I am a huge Smodco fan...been listening to a variety of their shows for years. It's so great that from Kevins love of the Bat and the way that he talks about the older material with such grace, that it brought you in as a reader. So cool. Ha. My mother is English and my Grandparents would send me the big year end Specials of both Beno and Dandy every year for Christmas. I loved those things.
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Post by arcticbeast on Jan 6, 2014 18:55:47 GMT -5
My parents wanted me to read but of course as most young boys I had little interest in books. I loved comics though and just couldn't get enough. I had bought comics before but when I was 9 my dad got me Amazing Spider-Man 319 at a convenient store and that was it. I would check constantly at our local shop to make sure I never missed an issue. Things just blew up from there and while I have has peaks and valleys I have general always been buying at least one on going series at all times except when I lived abroad cause they were tough to find.
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Post by thephantomwelshman on Jan 6, 2014 19:19:38 GMT -5
Awesome!! I am a huge Smodco fan...been listening to a variety of their shows for years. It's so great that from Kevins love of the Bat and the way that he talks about the older material with such grace, that it brought you in as a reader. So cool. Ha. My mother is English and my Grandparents would send me the big year end Specials of both Beno and Dandy every year for Christmas. I loved those things. I still get the end of year annuals every christmas, I had my uncles handed down to me and own every one from 1972 to the present.
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Post by arcticbeast on Jan 6, 2014 19:49:21 GMT -5
Ha. My mother is English and my Grandparents would send me the big year end Specials of both Beno and Dandy every year for Christmas. I loved those things. I still get the end of year annuals every christmas, I had my uncles handed down to me and own every one from 1972 to the present. That's awesome bud. I had a good string of them from the 80's into the 90's.
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Post by xtjmac510x on Jan 6, 2014 20:02:10 GMT -5
I mentioned it in my introduction but I can elaborate more on my story.
As a kid I grew up watching Batman the Animated Series and the 90s Spider-Man show. I bought a history of Batman/Spider-Man book when I was young and pretty much memorized those books front to back. That being said, I never really read comics growing up, save for Archie Double Digests I picked up at the grocery store or what they published in the newspaper. It wasn't until Christmas 2009 that I finally started reading comics, or at least non Riverdale comics.
I walked into a Borders randomly one day to pick up something to read for an upcoming trip. I was milling around the book section when I stumbled upon a book called Chew. I started flipping through it and instantly fell in love. From there I picked up any and every trade I could get my hands on which included The Walking Dead and American Vampire. But the idea of buying single issues still scared me. That was until DC announced a thing called The New 52. From there...the rest is history.
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Post by drocat on Jan 6, 2014 23:08:06 GMT -5
My dad self-publishes his own books. So when I was a kid he was constantly drawing, writing and reading comics. I of course looked up to him and wanted to do what he did, which is why I started reading comics.
But even before I was aware that some people didn't even know anything about comics I just figured that it was what was cool. When I was really young I would wear a batman cape that my grandma made for me. I'd run around all day pretending to be Batman and reading B-Man comics. I was traumatized when I started 5th grade and my teacher wouldn't let me wear the cape in class. It was a rough time for me.
Honestly I can thank Batman and my dad for all my love of comics. I'm so glad I was raised the way I was. It's nice knowing what you love from the start.
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