skoden
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Post by skoden on Sept 12, 2021 23:25:52 GMT
Earliest memory is coming across my dad's stash of Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics in a box in the garage when I was 5. Seeing the Freak Bros. for the first time definitely blew my child mind wide open and I remember marveling at how detailed and tiny the drawings appeared.
Another huge milestone was getting the leather-bound copy of The Dark Knight Returns from Longmeadow Press when I was 7. They had the leather-bound Joker collection too, but I could only get one at the time. Getting to read TDKR so young was probably not the best parenting move, but they always encouraged reading and probably thought the book was just a bunch of harmless Batman funny strips. Little did they know I was learning about the world through an aging billionaire's ultra violent crusade against mutants, a sadistic Joker, and Superman as a Reagan acolyte with his teen sidekick while in the second grade. Who else thought Batman's relationship with Carrie Kelley was a little sketchy/unusual even way back in the 80's/early 90's?
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Post by MilleniumDibber on Sept 12, 2021 23:28:56 GMT
Lol. We can't change our history, but we can learn from it. |
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Post by thetouchtonetuner on Sept 13, 2021 20:09:06 GMT
Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts collections quickly led to a generalized obsession with the funny pages, which eventually turned into X-Men and Spider-Man from the library, and eventually a Shonen Jump subscription. All of this would ultimately culminate into college-aged trips to SPX every year, which really turned me onto to indie comics and the like in a more meaningful way.
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Post by musclegirl2666 on Sept 13, 2021 20:37:05 GMT
Older cousin's Foxtrot collection. Mom teaching me to read with Tintin. Remember staying up late one night at (british) family's house & reading through tons of back issues of Beano and Dandy and thinking "I don't understand this english humor at all."
First full obsessions came in middle school w/ Naruto & Azumanga Daioh.
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Post by thetouchtonetuner on Sept 13, 2021 23:46:39 GMT
Older cousin's Foxtrot collection. Mom teaching me to read with Tintin. Remember staying up late one night at (british) family's house & reading through tons of back issues of Beano and Dandy and thinking "I don't understand this english humor at all." First full obsessions came in middle school w/ Naruto & Azumanga Daioh. Wow, it's never really hit me how formative Azumanga was for me until this moment. Seeing 4 panel newspaper style gag strip as a manga totally blew my mind as a teen. |
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Post by maxhuffman on Sept 14, 2021 3:41:47 GMT
One of my earliest comic encounters was a trade paperback of the 1984 Marvel A-Team "series" (ran for three issues). Revisiting it now, it's a total hack job (apparently all three issues shared a deadline so they could bundle 'em for drugstores???) but still way more fun than the TV show, which I didn't watch until years later and built up in my head accordingly. The first issue is a nice, if rushed, Marie Severin/Chic Stone team-up.   Other than that, a lot of the usual suspects...ran into Foxtrot, Calvin & Hobbes, Tintin, Asterix, Archie Sonic, Bionicle all around the same time. |
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Post by bayls171 on Sept 14, 2021 4:28:10 GMT
One of my earliest comic encounters was a trade paperback of the 1984 Marvel A-Team "series" (ran for three issues). Revisiting it now, it's a total hack job (apparently all three issues shared a deadline so they could bundle 'em for drugstores???) but still way more fun than the TV show, which I didn't watch until years later and built up in my head accordingly. The first issue is a nice, if rushed, Marie Severin/Chic Stone team-up. View AttachmentView AttachmentOther than that, a lot of the usual suspects...ran into Foxtrot, Calvin & Hobbes, Tintin, Asterix, Archie Sonic, Bionicle all around the same time. ngl I kinda love that page. the first panel on the second tier particularly |
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Post by maxhuffman on Sept 14, 2021 4:54:54 GMT
oh yeah, it rules. suit guy in the last panel is a perfect drawing. marie severin forever underrated.
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dcp
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Post by dcp on Sept 15, 2021 10:21:58 GMT
My brother being 13 years older and kinda into comics, it was probably something he had which I don't remember. But the first comic I've ever latched to was a Sunday strip that ran on a Spanish paper, called "Leo Verdura" about a vegetarian Lion. Next step was probably the time my brother gifted me a Calvin and Hobbes book and being amazed that paper strips actually were available in bulk, I must've been 6 or 7 then. Final big one was probably the first two volumes of Blacksad? Which I got immediately after my mum took me to a show where I got to see the original art. I was 11 then, which some mothers would've probably considered too young for those books. Gotta be thankful she wasn't patronising in that way.  |
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Post by benjaminlclark on Oct 20, 2021 22:48:36 GMT
Earliest days: Sunday comic section, He-Man mini-comics that came with the toys, a few years later, whatever comics leftover from my Dad's childhood that my older cousins hadn't already taken from our grandparents' house ...
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