31 Days of Scans - Week 2 - My first comic

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I'd be really hard-pressed to remember my first comic, or the first comic that made an impression on me, for three reasons:

1) The 1980's were a looong time ago :p
2) Having lived in Brazil I had access to some local comics (Turma da Mônica) since my early childhood, and I am almost positive I learned to read from those books;
3) I have two equally strong contenders from American comics.

But let's put those three in the equation after the cut:

( Miller and O'Neil and de Souza )

There you are. Can't wait to read your testimonies :)

AMC's Walking Dead Post-Finale Discussion

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Spoilers for the finale...

( Spoilers )

Injection #15

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I have a feeling I was spending a lot of time in America when I came up with this, so some of it is probably about having distance from the mother country and its folklore and landscapes. But a good deal of it comes from the talks I’d been doing at digital, futurist and philosophical festivals over the last few years — a lot of them are collected in an e-book called CUNNING PLANS — which discussed the relationships between folklore and technology, science and magic, the future and deep time. It was essentially where my head was at, and it was natural to try and extend all that into fiction, to perhaps unpack and develop the central notions more. -- Warren Ellis

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Mod Post - 31 Days of Scans - Festive edition Week 2

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Good evening to all you guys, gals and non-binary pals (To borrow a charming turn of phrase from Thomas Sanders)

Thanks to all who suggested titles to recommend as seasonal gifts!

We now move on to Week 2 of the festive Edition - Your First Time

No, not THAT sort of First Time, we're not that sort of a community (though I imagine there are some stories to tell), but what comic or story first drew you into comics?

It doesn't even need to be first one you actively read, just the first one to make you think "I want to read more like this"?

If you can share the scans and tell us WHY it hooked you.

Infinity War #3

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31 Days of Scans: Your First Time: G.I. Joe 69, and Action Comics 252

[ozaline]

I can't remember my first comic, nor even the one that really got me intrigued. I remember being a little kid, and not quite getting the difference between Marvel and DC, being disappointed when an environmental Imax film starring Marvel Superheroes (it was the Watcher talking about the effect of pollution) didn't have Superman.

I either got my comics at the convenience store, or the flea market, the latter was usually on trips with my Grandma. So I read a lot of older comics I got there or in grab bags that mainstream retail stores used to clear out old product.

I tended to like older comics, because I gravitated towards comics about women (though I was nowhere near consciously aware that I was trans), and there wasn't a lot on the shelf that did that for me (other than GI Joe as an ensemble comic with lots of awesome women).

One of the finds that I first remember amazing me at the flea market was a reprint of Supergirl's first appearance.



I mean just how awesome was that? Superman was the most powerful, the best, and here was a girl who was just as good!

So let's take a look at that

( the Maid of Might is here )

Though I didn't have much more exposure to the character outside of this and the movie (which I love even if it is silly) until she appeared at the end of PAD's run in my teens, a life long love affair was struck with Kara.

I find her relationship to Krypton and Earth to be more compelling and interesting than Superman's in a way. And now that I have them collected I find a lot of her early Silver Age stuff, and her Bronze Age appearances really compelling as well. There hasn't been a Supergirl title(Kara, Matrix, or PAD's Linda) since the Death of Superman that I haven't at least tried to follow.


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Now onto GI Joe. I can't remember if I was exposed to the cartoon or the comics first. My Cartoon experience was through VHS rentals which were cherry picked 'good ones,' (I had a much higher opinion of the caliber of both it and Sunbow's Transformers than was warranted... I actually saw Jem on TV so I knew that was good at least). If it was the show I was drawn in by the high stakes action, and commanding (literally the first two minis both show women giving orders especially when Duke gets kidnapped in both) female characters scene in the mini-series. The politics of certain writers on the show did not jive with me though.

If it was the comics... well though I probably didn't understand the politics of the comic at the time, everything I read just seemed right and just to me. I read a lot of Larry Hama without realizing it (never paid attention to who made these things as a kid), and I have to say his politics influenced me a lot more than my family's. (so this next set of scans doesn't even have any women, but it as a flea market find that really stood out to me).

( Support our troops, but not the industrial-military complex )

So apparently at a party Art Spiegelman accused Larry of being a fascist for writing GI Joe. To which Larry asked if Art had even read it. Art said that he, "didn't need to read it to know it was fascist."

Black Panther #16

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