Comic Books!

I used to read

New X-Men

one of the Spider-Man

Superman

Batman

JLA

I was never really into comics growing up, but when I did read them I always was drawn toward the villains. With that said my favorite villains are:

VENOM
Red Skull
Saber Tooth
DR. Doom
and Grim Reaper

Well its been many many years but when I was little I used to read The Phantom whenever I got a hold of a copy but nowadays my comic reading goes as far as the ones in the newspapers and the odd web comic.

Originally posted by pekau Does anime count as comic series?

No, because anime refers to Japanese animation, whereas manga refers to the Japanese comics (or Korean, I know you guys make this stuff too).

Unlike a lot of my friends I've never been a huge manga fan, although I have read some. I tend to prefer the animes.

As for American comics, my favourite series, as a kid at least, was Conan the Barbarian. Apart from Conan I also read innumerable other comics; Disney, Marvel (my favourite character is probably Thanos or Galactus even), the Phantom, Spawn. I've also been a big fan of the French/Belgian comics, such as Tintin, Spirou and Asterix.

Originally posted by red clay As I hail from the era before the Comics Code, [which almost destroyed the comic book industry]  most of my favs wouldn't be known commonly.   Two that might be are,  Blackhawk and Plastic Man.

I've heard the code was bad, but I didn't know it almost killed the industry! I have actually heard of Blackhawk and Plastic Man, but I don't know much about them.

I remember Plastic Man and Blackhawk...my favorite was Aquaman and of course Wonder Woman!

I grew up reading tons of comics. Mexico had pretty cheap comics. And I sad to see how expensive they are now. I wouldn't be able to afford them now if I were a kid today.

There was a comic called Memin Pinguin made in the 1950s and 1960s in Mexico which is republished over and over again. It was a serial of hundreds of issues. When I went to Mexico I saw it again. The main character is drawn in a racist way. Mexicans are defensive about this, but it is pretty hard to argue about it. The stories are good, and many of them were stood against discrimination, but there are other elements in the stories that most Americans can identify as racist. Memin Pinguin

There was also another serial, quite amazing actually, called Karmatron y los transformables. It was a story inspired on Star Wars, Ultraman, Giant Super Mecha manga, and other staples of sci-fi, but with heavy, heavy elements of Eastern Religions, mainly Zen Buddhism and some elements on Hinduism, together with strong doses of dualism drawn mainly from Star Wars. Although it may sound awful, the heavy religious undertones of the action comic was its main redeeming quality, together with great story telling. Karmatron

I read Superman while I was in elementary school. This was the more anxious Superman of the 80s, where Lex Luthor is a rich tycoon CEO. It took me a while to get used to it, but eventually I read the stories for a while.

The last comic book that I read a lot was Punisher when I was in high school. Back then it was more or less shocking to have such gritty stories with an anti-hero vigilante. The stories were not really super hero stuff but closer to police mystery thrillers.

I also like Batman, but I only read them in spurts. A friend wanted me to hold his massive collection, and I got to read a lot of it. The bad guys are interesting since they went from campy to psychopathic. And the writers of Batman poured horrible events after another, making it fun to see Gotham go through an epidemic, earthquake, and a post-apocalyptic world. But one gets tired of so much mental illness after a while

I have 12 issues/volumes of Asterix!!!!!!

Comic books rotten your mind.

That is what my Pastor told me

Edited by Ponce de Leon - 26-Dec-2007 at 05:12

My favorite was "BLACKHAWK!" sacre' bleu! And "AQUAMAN!", and "Plastic Man" or as I have been told it is really "Elastic Man!"

Edited by opuslola - 29-Dec-2009 at 14:51