I'm right with you, Mala. A friend has been working on me for a few years, lending Astro City and Powers (Retro Girl) and Planetary and Watchmen, but I still wasn't a regular at the comic store until Fray and 1602. Now I'm back to being hooked again.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.
Volans - May 09, 2004 4:14:26 pm PDT #2457 of 10000
move out and draw fire
shrift - May 09, 2004 4:54:12 pm PDT #2458 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I found myself thinking "Maybe I should just skip ahead to something more recent - something darker."
Um. Well, if you really think you want to try reading Batman linearly from "the beginning"... well, I'll try to visit you in the loony bin when your brain implodes from all the crack.
In other words: I'm also an anal-retentive completist, and am quite enjoyably jumping around in canon, content to catch up on major events. Because the other way lies insanity.
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2004 5:05:25 pm PDT #2459 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Powers (Retro Girl)
That was my very first comic book. Well, probably not technically, but officially. It's what my pusher started me off on.
Volans - May 09, 2004 5:14:20 pm PDT #2460 of 10000
move out and draw fire
See, I was a HUGE Batgirl fan, and would buy anything with "Bat" in the title as a kid, just in case she was in it. (Yes, even Man-Bat). Then I dropped comics completely for years and years. My pusher started me out on Astro City; Retro Girl was a bit more experimentation after the gateway comics.
Kiba Rika - May 09, 2004 5:14:50 pm PDT #2461 of 10000
I may have to seize the cat.
Um. Well, if you really think you want to try reading Batman linearly from "the beginning"... well, I'll try to visit you in the loony bin when your brain implodes from all the crack.
Yes, I do plan to skip around some.
Because you see I don't have enough time to read all the comics I want to read.
...so tired...
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2004 5:20:54 pm PDT #2462 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Retro Girl was a bit more experimentation after the gateway comics.
Ah, see, Powers was my gateway comic, and since my pusher was a Bendis whore, he also got me on Daredevil (and I made him cry for liking the Kevin Smith arc more than Frank Miller's The Man with No Fear) and Alias (now The Pulse). 100 Bullets, Fables, and Ultimates for good measure, along with some diversions like The Killing Joke and Dark Knight Returns. He gave me Watchmen for graduation.
shrift - May 09, 2004 5:46:32 pm PDT #2463 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Yes, I do plan to skip around some.
Oh, good. Because, really, I was worried.
P.M. Marc - May 09, 2004 5:57:59 pm PDT #2464 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
So, this probably should be in lit, but the novelization of No Man's Land is really kind of excellent. Much better than a comic adaptation has any right to be. I was expecting the exposition to be clunky, but it wasn't. For those without the time to pick up the comics to get all the backstory, it's a damn good starting point.
Kiba Rika - May 09, 2004 6:03:47 pm PDT #2465 of 10000
I may have to seize the cat.
Because, really, I was worried.
No no. I'm a fan of continuity but a) I realize that comic universes rarely have that and b) I know better than to injure myself for it.
For example - I've read all of the Essential X-Men books, but I'm not about to run out and read every X-related book since the 1980s just to be ready for Joss's.
Michele T. - May 09, 2004 7:28:53 pm PDT #2466 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Powers rawks.