Any COMIC BOOK fans?

[thecorndogwalker]

HEY LOT,

I was just wondering if there is any COMIC BOOK readers on the LOT. I am a big DC fan, but grew up in Marvel household. Any current readers on the LOT?

Because "52" rules!




http://www.dccomics.com/sites/52/

[blueerica]

I'm not the biggest comic book fan, but I know we have at least one or two hiding around here somewhere... one of whom I bumped into at Comicon. However, she's a busy gal - she only pops around here once in a while.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Uh oh...

[Jughead P. Jones]

All right...prepare to hand over the 2007 Golden Pocket Protector award to yours truly here.

I am an avid collector of comic books, but not so much the super hero type books.

I read and collect Archie comics. (As if you couldn't guess already from the screenname, right?)

But, a lot of you probably don't know that Archie comics were instrumental in my being able to read circles around the other first graders in my class, and saved me from living life as an illiterate. While it was fun to see Archie and Reggie fighting over Veronica, I also increased my word power (Take THAT, Reader's Digest), and had a lot of laughs along the way.

Although, since I started reading them back in March of '87, I've amassed a ton of comics...My current count is well over 1,600 books.

Now, where's my Golden Pocket Protector Award? I have to thank Dilton Doiley, Bill Gates and the cast of Beauty and the Geek!

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Jughead P. Jones

Although, since I started reading them back in March of '87, I've amassed a ton of comics...My current count is well over 1,600 books.

Now, where's my Golden Pocket Protector Award? I have to thank Dilton Doiley, Bill Gates and the cast of Beauty and the Geek!

Oh I will have to take that award from you. My collection is in the range of around 100,000.

[Jughead P. Jones]

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

Oh I will have to take that award from you. My collection is in the range of around 100,000.

Uh...um...ah...okay...you win...

*knocks out Bornieo with Urkel's secret cheese wheel and steals the award*

[thecorndogwalker]

Originally Posted by Jughead P. Jones

All right...prepare to hand over the 2007 Golden Pocket Protector award to yours truly here.

I am an avid collector of comic books, but not so much the super hero type books.

I read and collect Archie comics.

Kudos,, hey I hear they are getting some new artists on some of the archie books, and making it a little more comtemporary! I was an avid Archie reader... Of course Jughead was my fave. Moose, Big Ethel and the whole Jughead world as well...

[Alex]

I probably spent a third of my childhood in comic book stores but I think the number of issues I've actually read is less than two dozen.

An issue of the Transformers that I bought while in Canada to see the World's Fair in 1986. An issue of New Teen Titans that I bought at Pegasus Comics in Vancouver, WA., later in 1986.

Those two are the only two I've ever actually purchased, and I don't remember why I did, just that they were still on my bookshelves when I was packing my stuff into the garage when I went off to college in 1992.

The rest were a half dozen Disney comics that were in my dad's closet and I read over and over on the odd weekend we were over there. Because there were no books in my dad's house. The rest were read during odd moments of nothing to do while working at the public library since they were kept close to the circulation desk.

It is odd that I wasn't into comic books because every single person in my social circle was heavily into them (thus a lot of time in comic book stores). But in the same way my constant reading and book accumulating pushed out any interest in music it seemed to do the same with comic books (plus I grew up in a household where there wasn't much in the way of discretionary cash and what little I received or stole mostly went into the Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon machine at the IGA).

But I've always respected the form and find its history to be pretty interesting.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by thecorndogwalker

The comic 52 is about 10 different storylines, pretty much focusing on alot of minor characters (who now because of 52) have become major characters, and new superheroes and villians that all played a pivotal part in the missing year after INFiNITE CRISIS. It will be coming out in Graphic Novel later this year...

Its great. But jumping into it later is confusing... (issue 40) is out now.. first time in a while they have done a weekly comic book in a while...

Originally Posted by Bornieo: Fully Loaded

My collection is in the range of around 100,000.

CDW, I wouldn't pick a comics fight with Bornieo...

[Jughead P. Jones]

Originally Posted by thecorndogwalker

Kudos,, hey I hear they are getting some new artists on some of the archie books, and making it a little more comtemporary! I was an avid Archie reader... Of course Jughead was my fave. Moose, Big Ethel and the whole Jughead world as well...

Yeah, the new look of Betty and Veronica is supposed to make its debut in Betty and Veronica Double Digest #151, which comes out in May. I belong to another site that has a forum devoted to Archie comics, and we have an Archie comics employee who has posted sneak previews of the art. The reaction to the change is split...some love it, others despise it. I'm leaning towards the side where I kind of like it...but I'm hoping that it doesn't replace the cartoony art I grew up reading and liking!