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I’ve been reading comics for a long time now: some of my first memories are those early 70s comics my brothers would leave lying around. DC 100-Page Super Spectaculars were always at hand, with those adventures of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel (and others) keeping me company. My brother John would let me tag along to the store, where he’d pick up Kamandi and OMAC. Eventually, we were reading all sorts of things: Warlord, Ragman, Shade: The Changing Man, Firestorm, Black Lightning. If it was part of the DC Implosion, I read it.
As I grew older, I kept reading comics, with weekly trips to pick up the latest issues of Batman and the Outsiders, the New Teen Titans, the Legion of Super-Heroes. I was firmly a DC Comics guy: for some reason, Marvel Comics were not on the reading list (though my brother grabbed a lot of Marvel comics as well: he was an equal opportunity reader, as long as it had a #1 issue out).
In college, my like-minded friends and I would walk the 4-5 miles to the comic store every Wednesday, in hope of finding an issue of Watchmen or The Dark Knight Returns. Between the three of us, we had a lot of territory covered: I was the DC guy, another was primarily a Marvel Zombie, the third was the anything else buyer. We had Sandman, X-Men, Usagi Yojimbo, Justice League (America, International, Antarctica), A Distant Soil, West Coast Avengers, Whisper, etc.
After college (which I will always remember as the best decade of my life), I moved to New Jersey and also moved in with someone who did not share my love of comics, but indulged my habit by not complaining. In fact, I had her reading and buying A Distant Soil and Elfquest trade paperbacks. Still can’t get her to read Watchmen; I married her anyways.
The problem is that I don’t buy a lot of comics these days. From the reviews below, you’ll see that I really only buy Justice League with any regularity (and that’s solely due to the writer/artist combo). I bought the first couple of issues of Identity Crisis, but that’s not the type of story I want to read (same for Countdown to Infinite Crisis). The only other comic I pick up regularly is Planetary (regularly, of course, being relative in this case). But I’m still a big comic book fan.
So, this site will probably have the occasional new comic review (and who knows what I might pick up in the coming weeks). I’ll also probably complain about how my favorite comics are all crap now, and how Hollywood’s love affair with comics will just make us all miserable. I’m sure to review some older comics, as well. In the short term, however, I hope to update the look of the site from the generic Wordpress look and feel.
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