Growing older and still collecting comic books

By admin · Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Just as playing video games as an adult is more fun than ever so too can comic book collecting still be fun and wonderful.

I am not embarrassed at all to say I have been collecting comic books on and off for twenty years. I love the stories and I love finding out about new comic books.

It should not matter if you are an adult collecting comic books because nowadays most comic book collectors are adults or young adults.

The same thing can be said about those who write and illustrate comic books.

There is a buzz and excitement to comic books that I had not felt for years.

I went into a shop about three and a half years ago after I had stopped collecting for a few years.

I was in for a big surprise. Comics had grown up and gotten even better.

All of the comic companies, major and minor were putting out top notch titles with interesting subject matter and adult content.

In the DC Universe the Infinite Crisis grabbed my attention and did not let go, and I enjoyed the 52, and as of late Countdown.

I also got into Jack of Fables and Fables, both of which are hysterical, and a book called The Boys, which is way over the top. Kabuki is a brilliant, metaphysical book, and Tarot is a wonderful independent comic about sexy witches.

There was also the Messiah Complex and the whole Mutant madness with the Scarlet Witch, and of course Marvel’s Civil War.

The last few years have been very exciting, and with the set up for Dc’s Trinity, their Superman Batman Wonder woman comic book, as well as Marvel’s Secret Invasion, their are many exciting developments in comic books.

In America comic books are often overlooked and seen as child’s play. No one tends to see comic books as real art. The illustrations are considered low brow and the stories are considered mere fan fare.

They are not. Recently Stephen King allowed a comic book interpretation of his Dark Tower series to commence and I was pretty impressed with the results. Laurell K. Hamilton’s vampire stories have also become comic books and they are pretty good.

Novelist Jodi Picoult did a short run as the writer of Wonder Woman, and Reginald Hudlin did a run on Black Panther. Also, Kevin Smith has done a run on both the Green Arrow and Daredevil, and Rob Zombie has also done some comic books.

Comic books are respected and highly consumed pop culture objects in Japan. They sell in a week what we sell here annually. Their comic artists are called manga ka and are revered and referred to by name

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