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Looking back it probably was inevitable I'd end up in comics. To put it some perpective I was born in 1990 and the last comic my Father bought was either Rob Liefeld's first issue of "New Mutants" a good to get off the train if I do say or the end of Gaimen's original "Sandman" series. When your orally given bedtime stories are slightly abridged versions of the "Dark Knight Returns", "Phonex Saga" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths" and every episode of Batman the Animated Series that you watch on Saturday mornings is given in depth lectures on the characters on comercial breaks there is little hope for you.

The first time I read any real comics myself was in about 97 and they were some horrid Image books that a thrift store nearby had. I didn't look back for quite a while.

Years later Dad see is in the bookstore and something catches his eye. A Sequel to his beloved "Dark Knight Returns", now he had been out of the loop for a decade or so, he had no idea that Frank Miller had devolved into hollow shell of his former self so he bought himself a copy of the trade for "Dark Knight Strikes Again". To say he was embaressed by this so called sequel would be an understatement. So much so that he dug out his trade for Dark Knight Returns to reread it and affirm his love for it. While it was out I read it. I thought it was really good and I could now see part pf what those old Image books that horrified me were striving to be. In the end I read it and let it go.

Then came the Justice League and Teen Titans cartoons. They'd been on air before that but we went for extended periods without TV so I hadn't saw them yet. The Perez Titans were one of my Father's favourite books and his indepth lectures like I used to get along side Batman Animated returned. Only this time I was 16 and better able to aprecitate what he was telling me.

Then two things happened really close together. The Watchmen movie was announced and I discovered the TV Tropes entry on "Runaways". This lead to buying myself a Watchmen trade and every Runaways trade that was printed by that time. Naturally once you buy that much you can't stop. It started as just picking up a few trades of non-Runaways series, E-Baying the flopies of ALL the Civil War tie-ins to be able to better understand the Runaways tie-in ($35 a pretty good deal even if the story itself was wasted potential), picking the Runaways floppies, etc

Now I hopelessly adicted to far too many serieses.