Comic books

[Tigadee]

I used to be a crazy collector in '92 to '94, back when Image Comics first started - turned up every week at the local comic store to buy hot-off-the-press X-Men, Superman, Spiderman, X-Force, Thor, Iron Man, Justice League, Batman, WildCATs, Gen13, Stormwatch, etc (the uni town I was in was just a hour away from the print presses in Detroit, so the comics literally were hot off the press!). The likes of Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Rob Liefield, Frank Miller, etc were the top-of-the-line artists then... I stopped in '95 after I got married, different priorities.

When I graduated in '94, I could've applied for a job with Image Comics as a digital colourist (back then, Photoshop was so new and few used it), alas family responsibilities and girlfriend pulled me away from that. Now I realise I could have made a lot of moola $$ and got to live in California...

Have not picked a comic up since, mainly because there's too much to catch up on, there's a lot of recycling of plots (how many times do heroes die?) and while the technology behind the artwork is amazing, the oversall feel of the artwork is too busy, cluttered and schizo - almost like children who had ADHD grew up to be this generation of artists.

Childhood comics were Asterix and Obelix, Tintin, and WW II war comics.

[BuzzardNZ]

Childhood comics were Asterix and Obelix, Tintin, and WW II war comics.

Same here, loved those old Commando comics.

[SMOKEU]

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Same here, loved those old Commando comics.

...had my tonsils removed when I was about 11...my cousin dropped off a huge box of war comics...a couple of hundred easily...I had my nose stuck in one from early morning until night while I was laid up recuperating from the slash to my throat...I was in some kind of boyhood dreamworld and can still remember that time now with some kind of yearning for those cool times, growing up in my safe little town... I have never read a war comic since then...the poor krauts were not getting a lot of good press but the soldiers of the imperial forces of the rising sun were always drawn as close to monkeylike as possible it seemed...zum teufel...mein gott...banzai...Hurricanes got as much exposure as the Spitfires which was cool...but The Beano and Dandy were my favourites by far...I could never come to grips with the Phantom though...he was always thinking and so was his dog...

[superjackal]

I hag the first 40 or so issues, bought with my pocket money way back when. Have to agree wirh rhw Strontium Dog character. Gave them to a neighnours kid when I got into bikes. I was thinking a while ago what would a mint 2000AD number one be worth these days

Best not to think about it. Very, very hard to find too....

[Swoop]

I hag the first 40 or so issues, bought with my pocket money way back when.

Likewise. Had a stack about 30cm high of 2000AD comics all bought new from the shop with some pocket money.
I remember throwing them into a jumbo-bin during the 1980's, still in mint condition.