irishred

October 3, 2012 5:09 pm I'm 44 years old so I probably go back further than most of you. I'm going to pick some highlights of my comic book reading "career". Fantastic Four #200 was given to me by an older cousin, who was big into Scrooge McDuck and like titles, gave this one (and all the super hero comics his mom and dad bought him) to me and I still love it. Just an awesome battle between Doom and Reed. I was 10 years old and loved the Fantastic Four more than any other comic. They were the perfect blend of sci-fi, comedy and drama. Amazing Spider Man #200 blew my mind. I read comics before this one but I understood that comics could be something more after this one. 12 years old and bought it at the Rexall Drug Store off their comic spinner. I still have that comics. Daredevil 181 was another turning point for me as I started to search out comics by the writer and artist, not just by the title. Frank Miller was so outside the box. The comic landscape had to catch up to his genius. Marvel Secret War was a HUGE comic. The first event I collected. I was swapping comics with my wrestling coach/Geometry teacher at this time. Pretty much the only way I passed Geometry. So many changes happened in this series. Ben staying behind, the black costume for Spidey, the Molecule Man becoming a game changer, HULK HOLDING UP A FREAKING MOUNTAIN!!! It was so awesome. Green Arrow the Longbow Hunters, Watchmen and Batman the Dark Knight Returns were with me my freshman year of College and introduced me to a group of friends I still have in my life to this day. We would swap comics, drink cheap beer, eat cheap pizza...and discuss comics. Sandman showed me comics could be grown up. Sandman #9 was the first comic I shared with a girlfriend. Preacher brought me back into comics as a married man and kicked my ass. Comics had changed so much since I started reading in 1975 or 76 that I barely recognized them beyond the vibrant colors and panel storytelling style. Strangers in Paradise #90 and Y: the Last Man # 60 made me cry. Scott Pilgrim made me laugh out loud. Fables #1 captured me and it has not let go.... 36 years of comic books and I haven't stopped reading. I now share them with my 5 year old son, starting him even earlier than I started. The journey continues. ~Shane

September 7, 2012 12:08 am I have thought about this and I think it's a Deadpool book. Deadpool without his healing powers but doing the same things needs to actually fight and struggle to survive now. The spattered blood....all day I've been thinking Deadpool.

October 31, 2011 6:57 pm Rutger Hauer as Cable Summer Glau as Domino

October 17, 2011 9:29 pm Elijah Snow - Kiefer Sutherland Jakita Wagner - Merrin Dungey The Drummer - Scott Grimes Ambrose Chase - Richard T Jones Randall Dowling - Colin Hanks Kim Suskind - Peta Wilson William Leather - Dax Sheppard Jacob Greene - Adam Baldwin Axel Brass - Don Johnson Anna Hark - Ziyi Zhang John Stone - John Lithgow Jim Wilder - Josh Randall

December 1, 2010 10:55 am @SuperMoore.  I am an avid reader.  I have been since the start.  I usually have a novel going too (just finished crooked little vein last night). 
To be fair I probably have more time than most, I have a very serious disease (graves) and have been on disability since August so I spend a lot of time reading. 
Even prior to that though I had a weekly pull list of 8-10 comics plus random pick ups and would read 10-12 trades a month.  I enjoy reading.  I don't watch much TV beyond sporting events and a couple serialized shows.  I love the sequential art form.  I do talks and programs at the local library, have been on the radio here doing call in Comic Book shows and like I said consult for the library on what books to order.  That gig has been nice for me forcing me to branch out beyond capes.
If you are not using interlibrary loan to check books that you may not want to purchase or read books that have been on your list but just haven't found or have been over priced I highly recomend it.  I get books from all over the US. 
So long answer...sorry.

Shane

November 30, 2010 5:00 pm In November:

read all of Scott Pilgrim and watched the DVD, both great translates better to DVD as it is such a strong sound effect driven piece.  Plus ramona sigh.

Read all of Young Avengers.  Simply amazing even when it is reaching it is at least reaching in the right direction.

Read the 3 Locke and Key trades and think it is better than anything his dad has put out in 15 years. 

Read American Vampire and I am intrigued.

Read Blackest Night and was bored.

Caught up on the Morrison Batman stuff and was near orgasmic.

Re-Read TransMet and was stirred to start writing again.

Re-Read the first 4 of SiP and fell in love again.

Re-Read Millers Batman Stuff and decided I really really miss Frank Miller.

Finished my yearly reading of Sandman and this time fell in love with Delirium instead of Death or Dream or War or Lucian or Cain or Abel or Lucifer.

Who knows what December will bring.  I have a ton ordered from inter library loan and just put in an order for our library to buy another 75 trades.  I get to choose cuz I'm their on call comic nerd.

Shane