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So what tickled the serotonin in the back of your brain when it comes to "four-color funny books"?
Some of my earliest comic memories are going to a grocery store where I used to live (almost always smelled like freshly baked bread) and finding comics (some of which I still have). My favorite was a lesser known book, meant to branch out the DCAU called "Adventures In The DC Universe"
Seven was a great issue! And also served as my introduction and beginning of my live-long love of the "Marvel Family"
Then we moved away and my mom started dating a local newspaper reporter who was super big into comics, getting both me and my mom into it (she has pretty much everything Alan Moore has written up to the early 00's). One that really stuck with me was an annual that took place in DC's Elseworlds. It told the story of "the man who wears the sign of the bat", who's dying and leaves it up to his apprentice, "Little Tengu" as the Catwoman Ninja call him, to aid his Emperor in a war for the throne. I was absolutely hooked and it's what got me into Japanese period dramas
As I got older, I used to poke around my mom's comics stash and found a little title called Judge Dredd. The black humor and biting satire absolutely hooked me. I couldn't get enough of it and chased down as many of the Eagle and Fleetway/Quality colorized American reprints I could find. Later on, and thankfully so, Rebellion started releasing the JD Complete Case Files in the states, which helped fill in many of the single issues I had that were part of larger story arcs like "The Day The Law Died" and "Block Mania"
Also around this time, still dragging my mom to the flea market (which for the longest time was the only continuous comic book store my area had), I'd come across a Howard The Duck mini-series by Ty Templeton. It wasn't really all that great, but it did encourage me to ask for some of the older stuff and I was given a copy of "Howard The Duck Essentials" for Christmas
Much like Dredd, Howard was something that I'd never encountered before with unflinching sharp wit that was unafraid to make mockeries of modern (well, for the 1970s at least) America. I read it cover to cover endlessly, eventually giving it to an old college friend who "lost it in the mail"
Some of my earliest comic memories are going to a grocery store where I used to live (almost always smelled like freshly baked bread) and finding comics (some of which I still have). My favorite was a lesser known book, meant to branch out the DCAU called "Adventures In The DC Universe"
Seven was a great issue! And also served as my introduction and beginning of my live-long love of the "Marvel Family"
Then we moved away and my mom started dating a local newspaper reporter who was super big into comics, getting both me and my mom into it (she has pretty much everything Alan Moore has written up to the early 00's). One that really stuck with me was an annual that took place in DC's Elseworlds. It told the story of "the man who wears the sign of the bat", who's dying and leaves it up to his apprentice, "Little Tengu" as the Catwoman Ninja call him, to aid his Emperor in a war for the throne. I was absolutely hooked and it's what got me into Japanese period dramas
As I got older, I used to poke around my mom's comics stash and found a little title called Judge Dredd. The black humor and biting satire absolutely hooked me. I couldn't get enough of it and chased down as many of the Eagle and Fleetway/Quality colorized American reprints I could find. Later on, and thankfully so, Rebellion started releasing the JD Complete Case Files in the states, which helped fill in many of the single issues I had that were part of larger story arcs like "The Day The Law Died" and "Block Mania"
Also around this time, still dragging my mom to the flea market (which for the longest time was the only continuous comic book store my area had), I'd come across a Howard The Duck mini-series by Ty Templeton. It wasn't really all that great, but it did encourage me to ask for some of the older stuff and I was given a copy of "Howard The Duck Essentials" for Christmas
Much like Dredd, Howard was something that I'd never encountered before with unflinching sharp wit that was unafraid to make mockeries of modern (well, for the 1970s at least) America. I read it cover to cover endlessly, eventually giving it to an old college friend who "lost it in the mail"
