Conan (real Conan)

[thormagni]

Man, I am writing a lot of crap. I hope you guys aren't bored to tears by my rambling. I think I really need to rein it in.

Shorter answer from now on:
I'm right about everything. Everyone else is wrong about everything. Trust me on this.

Super short answer:
U suk. I rul. U R a tul. Pwnd!

 

[Fyrestryke]

Naw, keep it up with the long posts. I have to admit I'm daunted by them, but I still read them and enjoy them.

This is a wonderful discussion. I don't really have anything to add except that I love comic books.

I have been superbly impressed by Josh Blayloc and the whole team over at Devil's Due. The new G.I. Joe comics are awesome. They're true to the originals, yet new and exciting. Trust me on this, I'm a fairly good G.I. Joe historian. Vince = 100% Conan Historian. Me = 60-70% G.I. Joe historian.

One night I was naming off characters in the opening sequence of G.I. Joe the Movie. I think I impressed Bob that night with my knowledge. I was naming characters by only seeing a part of their legs on the Statue of Liberty.

Thormagni, if you ever want to borrow my Conan comics, just ask. They're all written by Kurt AFAIK.

OH! I've also been reading the new X-Force series. Man, what a ride. Rob Liefeld is back doing what he does best.

I remember the hayday of Image when all those guys started the company. I need to dig all those out sometime and read 'em again. Spawn, Youngblood, Savage Dragon, Shadow Hawk (now, that was an awesome comic), et al.

But as I've said before, when I pick up a comic and read it, I don't care about plots, characters, art, or anything. If I am entertained at the end of it, then it was seventy-five errr... two-dollars and ninety-five cents well spent. There's a little FYI, when I started in on comics, they were $.75 and the first comic I ever owned and read was G.I. Joe 39.

EDIT - Wow, that's a long post for me. If Thormagni is too wordy, I used smileys too much.

 

[thormagni]

There's a little FYI, when I started in on comics, they were $.75 and the first comic I ever owned and read was G.I. Joe 39.

Well, I don't remember my very first comic book. It was probably either a The Mighty Thor treasury edition or one of the Marvel superhero holiday grab bag comics. However, I distinctly recall my first comic books that I bought when I realized that there was a continuing story from issue to issue and the first time I actually COLLECTED a comic series. Those were She-hulk #1 (first series) and Iron Man #131, which I bought at a grocery store across the street from a pizza place where my dad was buying pizza. The next month I found and bought She-hulk #2 and Iron Man #132 and I was hooked.

I am pretty sure books were 40 cents each then.

Hey, through the miracles of the Internet, I found an link to a cover of that Iron Man issue (Feb. 1980, don't you know?):
http://www.lwstuff.com/DaveHuber/IM131.jpg

I eventually bought enough back issues to take me all the way back to the early teens of Iron Man and had all the issues of the series until I quit collecting comics in 1993 or so. Then I started again in 1996 or 1997. To this day, Iron Man is my favorite comic book character.

 

[Fyrestryke]

I have a whole buncha Iron Man comics. I don't think I have that one. Now, mind you I never collected Iron Man, but a friend of mine had a bunch in his collection. I traded him my bicycle for all of his comics once.

 

[Odovacar's Ghost]

Man, I am writing a lot of crap. I hope you guys aren't bored to tears by my rambling. I think I really need to rein it in.

Shorter answer from now on:
I'm right about everything. Everyone else is wrong about everything. Trust me on this.

Super short answer:
U suk. I rul. U R a tul. Pwnd!

No matter, I was mostly skipping this stuff. Once the topic got to comics, I get bored quickly. I never even got into comics as a kid.

The only comic I did get into was Lobo. But, that also soon got boring.