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    I used to like reading/collecting when I was younger and recently bumped into my old collection running thru storage.
    I gotta admit I started looking at them again the past week or so and man, they got some cool stories

    I like Silver Surfer and the whole cosmic beings stuff. The comics I have aren't too old more like mid 80's early 90's.
    I got Wolverine's first limited series, Punisher #1, first appearance of Sabretooth etc...

    Moral of the story is............... I still like comics

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    I liked comics and collected comics when I was much younger but I gave it up a long time ago. My favorite comic book character back then was Spider-Man. I also liked collecting the following comic book superheroes:

    Batman

    X-Men

    Incredible Hulk

    Avengers

    Superman

    NFL SuperPro (12-issue mini-series)

    I also wanted to be clear here that when I said that I collected comics, that included reading them. I took them out of the plastic and cardboard and actually read them. There were some collectors that bought old comic books (golden-age and silver age comics) and kept them in the protective cardboard and plastic thinking that they might go up in value. There is nothing wrong with that since some of them did go up in value over time but those were the main superhero characters. When I collected, I just wanted to read them and I did not know that much about their worth (if any).

    I gave up comic book collecting back in the mid-1990's, however, I will still occasionally buy and read a comic book graphic novel. Watching the comic book-based movies that came out in the last several years (X-Men, Spider-Man, etc.) brought back a lot of memories for me because I still remember the characters and the stories behind them. I had as many as 2500 comic books before I sold most of them. I still have a few comic books that I will occasionally read but not very many.

    Not too long ago, I went to a bookstore in town where they had the current issues of some of the major characters and I looked through one of them and I will say that the current graphics in the Batman comic books (Batman and Detective Comics titles) are crappy in my opinion. Back when I was reading Batman comics, the graphics were much better and it made for a good reading experience. I looked through the other titles and I realized that I was so far behind, that I am totally clueless on the current storyline on several of them. I also had to tell myself that I gave up comic book collecting over 15 years ago
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    I never collected them but would often buy them to read and to practice drawing with some of the cooler illustrations. Spawn and punisher come to mind.

    I enjoy watching the action comics on netflix, kind of a cartoon but not really.

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    Never collected but loved them. My comics period predated the Marvel era though Superman was around then but I think my favorite was Scrooge McDuck. I still read averaging two books (not comics) a week.

    Just a couple of months ago I did read a graphic novel that I thought kicked ass, The "Sandman" series written by Neil Gaiman and illustrated by several artists over a multi-year period.
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    I love comics also. Never got into the super hero stuff.

    "The Unwritten" is a great series. A very powerful story about stories.

    Sam Kieth did some great Batman graphics. Zero Girl was great.

    Yes, TomD, Sandman does kick ass. I have the whole Tim Hunter Books of Magic series from the Sandman world.
    Another related series is House of Mystery, which I did not like as much.

    Strange Girl was a good series from maybe 5 years ago. Air was a good series that ended a few years ago. Alan Moore did
    Promethea, which was an experience to read.

    And it is really cool to see the Buckaroo Banzai coming out occasionally.

    Milo Manara is always worth picking up.

    There are many others I cannot remember right now.
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    I bought comics for a while as a lad.
    In my attic I have the first couple issues of Nick Fury agent of Shield.
    It was frustrating because they came out I believe, only every other month
    Jim Steranko drew cool stuff that at the time was what I thought LSD trips must be like.
    Of course I also wanted to be Peter Tork & have girls like me.

    When the Marvel movies introduced Samuel Jackson as Fury, It struck me wrong.
    A young Bruce Willis would have been better.

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    I forgot about underground comics, I've got a ton of those including all the Fabulous Furry Freek Bros, all the Zaps and a bunch of others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomD View Post
    I forgot about underground comics, I've got a ton of those including all the Fabulous Furry Freek Bros, all the Zaps and a bunch of others.


    Used to run a head shop in ft worth tx in the mid 70,s. Used to have the complete collections also. Think I still have some of Crumb's work around here somewhere.

    Now tom, you make me wonder where your head was at back in the day!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by dogman View Post
    Used to run a head shop in ft worth tx in the mid 70,s. Used to have the complete collections also. Think I still have some of Crumb's work around here somewhere.

    Now tom, you make me wonder where your head was at back in the day!!!


    You know where my head was but I had to hide it after I graduated with an engineering degree and had to get all respectable and sh**. Here's an R Crumb, think the board can handle S Clay Wilson as in Ruby the Dyke meets the Checkered Demon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomD View Post
    You know where my head was but I had to hide it after I graduated with an engineering degree and had to get all respectable and sh**. Here's an R Crumb, think the board can handle S Clay Wilson as in Ruby the Dyke meets the Checkered Demon?


    Only in the doghouse, but would have to be censored first...LOL!
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    Well, I like reading some of the stories but I consider myself a collector too.
    If the story is good enough to my taste than I might just buy copies or the TPB.

    ONe story that isn't too old (early 90's) is with Thanos (one of silver surfer's enemy's) and how he got the "infinity gauntlet/soul gems" and wiped out half of marvel in a comic series. Pretty wild.... but the story how he actually attained the gems with his wily/cunning genius from different cosmic entities ("Thanos quest") is what was really awesome. I don't have all the comics leading up to it but hopefully pick them up and maybe even the complete story in TPB.
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    You guys might open a new horizon for me on some of these other "graphic novels" you're mentioning.

    I just like the comic/marvel thing for fun, keep that imagination/kid alive i guess.

    A comic is to a video game what a book is to a movie
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    Quote Originally Posted by illuminate10 View Post
    You guys might open a new horizon for me on some of these other "graphic novels" you're mentioning.

    I just like the comic/marvel thing for fun, keep that imagination/kid alive i guess.

    A comic is to a video game what a book is to a movie
    About Sandman from Wikipedia (link more):

    "The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Beginning with issue #47, it was placed under the imprint Vertigo. It chronicles the adventures of Dream (of the Endless), who rules over the world of dreams. It ran for 75 issues from January 1989 until March 1996. Gaiman's contract stipulated that the series would end when he left it.

    The Sandman was one of Vertigo's flagship titles, and is available as a series of ten trade paperbacks. It has also been reprinted in a recolored five-volume Absolute hardcover edition with slipcase. Critically acclaimed, The Sandman is one of the few graphic novels ever to be on the New York Times Best Seller list, along with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. It was one of five graphic novels to make Entertainment Weekly's "100 best reads from 1983 to 2008", ranking at 46.[1] Norman Mailer described the series as "a comic strip for intellectuals."[2]"
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    Quote Originally Posted by TomD View Post
    About Sandman from Wikipedia (link more):

    "The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics. Beginning with issue #47, it was placed under the imprint Vertigo. It chronicles the adventures of Dream (of the Endless), who rules over the world of dreams. It ran for 75 issues from January 1989 until March 1996. Gaiman's contract stipulated that the series would end when he left it.

    The Sandman was one of Vertigo's flagship titles, and is available as a series of ten trade paperbacks. It has also been reprinted in a recolored five-volume Absolute hardcover edition with slipcase. Critically acclaimed, The Sandman is one of the few graphic novels ever to be on the New York Times Best Seller list, along with Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns. It was one of five graphic novels to make Entertainment Weekly's "100 best reads from 1983 to 2008", ranking at 46.[1] Norman Mailer described the series as "a comic strip for intellectuals."[2]"
    This one actually caught my attention. I think I'm going to check it out, thanks TomD.
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    I use to collect comics as a kid. I eventually stopped buying them. Over the last five years or so I found out you can dowload excellent scans of them on the internet. I now have almost every comic I ever had as a kid and a ton of new ones. One place you can download them through Vuze.com (torrents) is...

    http://freecomicsdownload.com/

    I usually use newsbin, the usenet because it is faster/easier.

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    One of my favorites...
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    I really like comics. I like Cathy, Family Circus, Ziggy, and Mary Worth. I don't like Garfield because it's too sexually suggestive.

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