It took me a while BECAUSE of the comic book format. I don't follow the titles I read from month to month, like most people do. I wait until they gather up a few issues and put them into a TPB then buy that. I have the entire collection of X-Treme X-Men and the new New X-Men: Academy X like that. It takes forever to get through storylines, which is why it's hard for me to get into an ep if none of the characters I like have much screen time. Luckily, I'm a big Claire and Nathan fan, so odds are, usually one or the other features heavily in an ep.
Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
It took me a while BECAUSE of the comic book format. I don't follow the titles I read from month to month, like most people do.
I read monthly comic books every month faithfully for... *stops to do math in her head* ... eighteen years. I dropped my X-Book subscriptions in 2001, but I guess if you count in my subscriptions to Mixxzine and Shojo Beat I've been a reader of monthly formats for 20 years. I love the chapter format, and cliffhanger endings.
Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
I told my dad I couldn't help thinking if Hiro had been face to face with Stan he'd have gone all fanboy on him. I mean Hiro has a Merry Marvel Marching Society card. I love, love, love Hiro. But, I like most of the characters at least some of the time. O:)
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
*Nods.* I'm sure I've given it more than one episode, and it just hasn't appealed to me.
I was seriously addicted to comic books until a decade ago. I'm talking $20-$40 a week, depending on what came out and what caught my fancy in the store.
Then, I moved to California, and didn't have a car, and it was more expensive to live here. I wasn't willing to spend 1½ hours plus each way on the bus to go to the local comic book store. That, and a storyline started in the X-Men books that made me quite wanting to read them... OK, a few story lines. Of course, that meant I spent $10-$30 a week on comics. :) I get all my comic book fixes from web comics. That, and a pharmacist where I work tells me what's happening.
And, my brother hates that I moved, because now he can't bum my comics from me. He has to buy his own now... Hah!
I was seriously addicted to comic books until a decade ago.
*Nods.* My interest in Marvel Comic Books died a slow death that I think started over a decade ago. I mean I bought my first in 83'. They included Red Sonja and the Elfquest books they published under their Epic imprint. I bought my first X-Book, The New Mutants, in 86' and it was X-titles I bought until the end. Sometime in the 90's three things happened that added up to my eventually giving the books up in '01 --
1) The ease with which I could get the books drastically declined. I lost the ability to buy the books off the Newsstand. I had to buy them from an actual comic store or subscribe. The comic book store closed and I had to subscribe. Sometimes issues got lost in the mail.
2) The storylines stopped appealing to me. The last storyline I remember really liking is The Age of Apocalypse.
3) English translated manga started appearing where I could get it. I bought my first issue of Mixxzine at a newsstand. It's also where I bought my first issue of Shonen Jump. What I buy these days is mange from Viz and Tokyo Pop mostly in tankobons, but I've got a subscription to Viz's Shojo Beat I purchased for Yuu Watase's Absolute Boyfriend. American comic books lost me to Japanese ones. :D
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Date: 2007-03-06 04:41 am (UTC)From:no subject
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Date: 2007-03-06 04:56 am (UTC)From:Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
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Date: 2007-03-06 05:26 am (UTC)From:I read monthly comic books every month faithfully for... *stops to do math in her head* ... eighteen years. I dropped my X-Book subscriptions in 2001, but I guess if you count in my subscriptions to Mixxzine and Shojo Beat I've been a reader of monthly formats for 20 years. I love the chapter format, and cliffhanger endings.
Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
I told my dad I couldn't help thinking if Hiro had been face to face with Stan he'd have gone all fanboy on him. I mean Hiro has a Merry Marvel Marching Society card. I love, love, love Hiro. But, I like most of the characters at least some of the time. O:)
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
*Nods.* I'm sure I've given it more than one episode, and it just hasn't appealed to me.
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Date: 2007-03-06 11:08 am (UTC)From:Then, I moved to California, and didn't have a car, and it was more expensive to live here. I wasn't willing to spend 1½ hours plus each way on the bus to go to the local comic book store. That, and a storyline started in the X-Men books that made me quite wanting to read them... OK, a few story lines. Of course, that meant I spent $10-$30 a week on comics. :) I get all my comic book fixes from web comics. That, and a pharmacist where I work tells me what's happening.
And, my brother hates that I moved, because now he can't bum my comics from me. He has to buy his own now... Hah!
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Date: 2007-03-06 10:26 pm (UTC)From:*Nods.* My interest in Marvel Comic Books died a slow death that I think started over a decade ago. I mean I bought my first in 83'. They included Red Sonja and the Elfquest books they published under their Epic imprint. I bought my first X-Book, The New Mutants, in 86' and it was X-titles I bought until the end. Sometime in the 90's three things happened that added up to my eventually giving the books up in '01 --
1) The ease with which I could get the books drastically declined. I lost the ability to buy the books off the Newsstand. I had to buy them from an actual comic store or subscribe. The comic book store closed and I had to subscribe. Sometimes issues got lost in the mail.
2) The storylines stopped appealing to me. The last storyline I remember really liking is The Age of Apocalypse.
3) English translated manga started appearing where I could get it. I bought my first issue of Mixxzine at a newsstand. It's also where I bought my first issue of Shonen Jump. What I buy these days is mange from Viz and Tokyo Pop mostly in tankobons, but I've got a subscription to Viz's Shojo Beat I purchased for Yuu Watase's Absolute Boyfriend. American comic books lost me to Japanese ones. :D