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When I was I kid I was into comics. I collected the action figures, watched the saturday morning cartoons, and read the comic books. This was in the early 90's when the X-Men cartoon was on Fox, so naturally I was a Marvel guy. The first comic I bought was Venom #1 and my friend who was with me at the time bought The Death of Superman, which I also read and which remains timeless despite his subsequent resurrection. Meanwhile, Venom #1 is slightly outdated.
Years passed and I stopped reading, collecting, and watching. With the new boom of comic book movies that started with Blade (which at the time I didn't even know was a comic book character) I got back into reading comics to see what had changed and where these movies were getting their inspiration from as most of them were quite good.
When Batman Begins came out in the theater I enjoyed it so much that I started reading Batman comics even though I had never gotten into DC Comics before. I liked the comics so much so that I started reading other DC titles such as Superman and JLA. Then I found DC's Vertigo Comics and got into Fables, Watchmen, and Transmetropolitan. Most recently I have started reading Wildstorm's Ex Machina.
In terms of reading the comics, I collect them in trade paperback form for the most part, which can become quite costly. The best thing to happen to negate this effect was the CD/DVD-ROM collections that Marvel used to put out, but recently stopped. I hve alway wished that DC would do something similar and allow me to read their entire archives for $50-$60
Years passed and I stopped reading, collecting, and watching. With the new boom of comic book movies that started with Blade (which at the time I didn't even know was a comic book character) I got back into reading comics to see what had changed and where these movies were getting their inspiration from as most of them were quite good.
When Batman Begins came out in the theater I enjoyed it so much that I started reading Batman comics even though I had never gotten into DC Comics before. I liked the comics so much so that I started reading other DC titles such as Superman and JLA. Then I found DC's Vertigo Comics and got into Fables, Watchmen, and Transmetropolitan. Most recently I have started reading Wildstorm's Ex Machina.
In terms of reading the comics, I collect them in trade paperback form for the most part, which can become quite costly. The best thing to happen to negate this effect was the CD/DVD-ROM collections that Marvel used to put out, but recently stopped. I hve alway wished that DC would do something similar and allow me to read their entire archives for $50-$60
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