Comments on: First Comic Week http://spandexjustice.com/2006/04/10/96 Fighting Crime And Looking Good Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:36:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Chris http://spandexjustice.com/2006/04/10/96#comment-328 Chris Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:46:14 +0000 http://spandexjustice.com/2006/04/10/96#comment-328 Man, now THAT was how to do an anthology/reprint comic! I picked up a couple of these in quarter bins awhile back, and you're exactly right --- the sheer variety of creators and characters meant that you were bound to like SOMETHING in there. Man, now THAT was how to do an anthology/reprint comic! I picked up a couple of these in quarter bins awhile back, and you’re exactly right — the sheer variety of creators and characters meant that you were bound to like SOMETHING in there.

]]> By: RAB http://spandexjustice.com/2006/04/10/96#comment-326 RAB Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:40:24 +0000 http://spandexjustice.com/2006/04/10/96#comment-326 That was an awesome comic. Agreed, there was something odd about having a Legion of Super-Heroes story in a Batman-titled book...but somehow the Doom Patrol and Sargon the Sorceror seemed like a good fit. Nelson Bridwell had a huge effect on a whole generation of fans through his approach to choosing reprints for those Super-Spectaculars. You got a real variety of stories and therefore were pretty much guaranteed of finding something you really liked in the mix...meanwhile you were also getting an education in comics history and seeing stuff that you'd never be exposed to otherwise. Not to knock the Archives series or the new Showcase books...but to even pick up one of those, you have to already know the characters or have some reason to think you'd like them. Bridwell was the guy who saw how to get new readers hooked; we need someone like that today! Anyway, thanks to you, I just did <a href="http://estoreal.blogspot.com/2006/04/is-it-first-comic-week-already.html" rel="nofollow">my own entry</a> on the same theme... That was an awesome comic. Agreed, there was something odd about having a Legion of Super-Heroes story in a Batman-titled book…but somehow the Doom Patrol and Sargon the Sorceror seemed like a good fit. Nelson Bridwell had a huge effect on a whole generation of fans through his approach to choosing reprints for those Super-Spectaculars. You got a real variety of stories and therefore were pretty much guaranteed of finding something you really liked in the mix…meanwhile you were also getting an education in comics history and seeing stuff that you’d never be exposed to otherwise. Not to knock the Archives series or the new Showcase books…but to even pick up one of those, you have to already know the characters or have some reason to think you’d like them. Bridwell was the guy who saw how to get new readers hooked; we need someone like that today!

Anyway, thanks to you, I just did my own entry on the same theme…

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