Do you read comic books?

[elfwitch]

Poll question: Do you read comic books?

If you do, which ones do you regularly buy?

[elfwitch]

1. A small list

Our regular list of comics in our sub box are:
Green Arrow
Wonder Woman
Teen Titans
Superman / Batman team-up
Superman Birthright
Tom Strong

and many more...

Used to read (but no longer available)
Young Justice
Scary Godmother
Impulse
Barry Ween - Boy Genius

Will read someday:
The Adventures of Rex Raygun
(the comic adaptation of the HIT show!)
shameless plug for my hubby's art

[GOPisEvil]

2. I don't, but I don't think they're for kids, either.

Not necessarily anyway. I think there's some real talent in comic book illustration.

It's not for me, but to those that enjoy them, knock yourselves out.

:hi:

[Faygo Kid]

3. Add another category: Used to, and here's my favorites.

Well, here were mine (the '60s, understand):
Batman
Superman
Justice League of America
Uncle Scrooge
Dennis the Menace
Flash
Green Lantern
Woody Woodpecker

[elfwitch]

4. added just for you...

New Category.

[Faygo Kid]

9. "Gosh, folks, I'm speechless!" (thank you, Cowardly Lion)

Gee, I am humbled. Actually learned to read on comic books in the '50s, so thanks a lot.

[elfwitch]

10. that is how my hubby did it...

His reading skills were greatly helped by reading comics. he always had to go look up stuff and therefore developed a HUGE vocabulary.

[Bronco69]

5. Do "Treason" and "Slander"

by Ann the man count as comic books?

[Wonco_the_Sane]

6. Yes but when I was a kid

P.S. I consider kid to be 10-25 :)


-X-Men
-Batman
-Spider-Man
(all before they were movies)
-secret wars (series)
-X-Factor
-Wolverine

[durutti]

7. I love indie/alternative comics.

And anything on Vertigo.

When I was little, it was strictly Marvel.

[Archae]

8. Extinctioners

www.extinctioners.com

[eleny]

11. I've been a Little Lulu fan since I could read n/t

[Kamika]

12. Used to buy the simpsons

dont think they sell anymore

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. I owe my proficiency in English to American comics (DC, Marvel).

And that's why listening is the most difficult for me.

[LeftistGorilla]

14. I used to....

then I started to smoke weed...
then I started to pay for university...
and that's where I am today...

plus comics are expensive nowadays...

[Whitacre D_WI]

15. I read comic strips.

I like "Maakies."


"Being drunk is the best feeling in my poor world!" -- Drinky Crow

[DS1]

16. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

[Redneck Socialist]

17. Sure do

There are some great writers working in that medium now. For you doubters out there I encourage you to pick up anything by Alan Moore or Neil Gaimen and give it a try. You just might like it.

Currently I am reading Lucifer, Fables, Y: The Last Man, and 1602.

[elfwitch]

18. Moore and Gaimen Rock!

n/t

[FunBobbyMucha]

19. I still read, used to devour.

But I've been phasing out of comics a bit lately. I was interested in some freelance work pencilling, and now other opportunities have opened up and I doubt I would have time to meet deadlines, etc, so I've withdrawn a bit.

I loved comics as a kid. Read Marvel religiously during the best period of Marvel's history (mid-to-late Seventies, when they broke every boundary while DC was still fixing bridges with frozen super breath). Turned away from them for years and got interested again in my early 30's. An adolescent pursuit to indulge in at the end of a busy workday.

While I think there is great, important work being done in the industry (Pekar, Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, the mighty Alex Ross come to mind immediately), I've come to view mainstream (DC, Marvel, even Image to some extent) as being in virtually the same boat as blockbuster movie making. There's such a reluctance to take any real chances with storytelling, story arcs, characterization and character growth. They'll tease an "important" story arc, but it'll end up right back at square one (Batman:Hush is the most recent example), because, as one of the Supes writers once told me, Supes, Bats, Spidey--these are franchises, not characters, and entire committees choose every last detail of their adventures--they've even taken to test audiences, the very same marketing ploy that led to a recent production of "Scarlet Letter" (w/Demi Moore) end happily (!)...

So what does that leave? Indie comics? Okay. Well, for every one decently drawn, interestingly paced/scripted indie (Bendis' "Torso," being the best example in mind) there are 30 line art POS's produced by people who cannot draw. CAN. NOT. DRAW. These same self-indulgence-a-go-go's also tend to be all about the artist scripting out his own not-very-original/compelling neuroses, and dammit, that's what painting majors are for!

I still follow some artists/writers faithfully (if you like, for instance, Bendis' voice, then any title he authors will probably entertain you, regardless of genre, and Alex Ross can even make Wendy and Marvin look cool), but I've found my receipts from the local box are now 7 and 10 dollars instead of 30.

[Bertha Venation]

20. No, but not "comics are for kids." n/t

[Khephra]

21. Just about anything by the following writers

Alan Moore
Grant Morrison
Neil Gaiman
Brian Bendis
Warren Ellis
JMS
Mark Millar

And Rex Mundi, by errrrr...can't remember their names at the moment.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Morrison. Oh my.

His Doom Patrol and Animal Man are now an integral part of my psyche. Robotman's trip into Crazy Jane's mind. That was completely delirious.

The Coyote Gospel. Never looked at a Roadrunner cartoon the same way since then.

He could pick up stories from the comparatively bubblegum DC superhero universe and do something... what? Mind-blowing? Epic? Poetic? Demented? All of the above?

[bubba_fett]

22. I have pretty eclectic tastes..

I like manga, but I'm very picky about it. There are only a few books that I really read.

I'm getting more and more into underground comcs from the 60's and 70's, in America and Japan. And I try to read a lot of indie comics from today.

[thingfish]

24. On again, off again. (nt)

Nt