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 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