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Is it strange that I'm getting into Comic Books at 27?
ScrimMaltese
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So, a couple weeks ago, I downloaded ComiXology on my Android Phone and I have been hooked since. I've downloaded quite a few free ones and I've only bought a couple cheap ones, but I am absolutely hooked.
They don't have Marvel, but they have DC and a few others. So far, I've found that even though I love Super Hero movies and games, I'm not really that big into the whole Super Hero thing. I've tried quite a few different Super Hero comic books and the only one I've really like was the Dark Knight. I tried hard to read Infinite Crisis, which was one of the top rated comic books I could find, but it bored me to death. Other than that, my favorites have been:
Hack/Slash (Supernatural), Corrective Measures (supervillan graphic novel), and Daomu (Chinese Supernatural/Assasin.. I think)
I've only bought a few Hack/Slash's for $0.99 and Corrective Measures for $10. I REALLY want to buy some more of the Daomu series, but they are standard sized comic books and they cost $2 on their store. I'll be damned if I pay almost full price for a digital copy of something that will only keep me entertained for 15minutes, but meh. The app seems new, and hopefully they reduce their prices to a reasonable level soon.
I love them, but I don't think I would love them so much if I couldn't keep them in my pocket, like I do on my phone.
Is it weird to get into comic books at 27 years old? I've never really been into them heavily in the past, I read a few as a kid, but that was just mostly because I got the comic books for Christmas or w/e.
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Comics were not directed at children when they were created or when they became popular. Look up Will Eisner. Nothing he's done has ever been for children but he created a lot of the general presentation style used in today's graphic novels. Before him all comics were created in static rectanglular images like that seen in today's newspaper. His style changed that.
Well, today it seems quite a few of them are. The older style, of the flashy cartoony comic book hero with ultimate super powers, is very childish to me.
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The "older style " you appear to be referring to is only from the sixties. Will Eisner started his work in the thirties and became well known in the forties with his drawings used in U.S Army instruction manuals and his main creation, The Spirit.
The type of comic books we know today started as free filler in Sunday newspapers just like the 'magazines' you find in Sunday papers today.
If you don't want super heroes look up Mad! magazine. It's from the sixties too.
Well, I guess I was referring to the costumes, than to art style.
The whole bright color undewear worn over tights, seems rather childish.
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Less strange than it'd be if you were getting into novels and movies at 27 maybe, but only less strange due to comic books not being everyone's thing.
There's nothing strange when it comes to being an adult reading comics though. Like novels, things happens in comics lawmakers would go ape about if it made it onto the big screen or videogames.
The last three or four years I'd gotten heavy into comics. I've started to slack off some in terms of pure amount of money I've spent on weekly prints. I'm not "collecting" so I'm starting to hate having that many comics around, I'm thinking I should follow your lead and look into an app to start building a digital collection.
Oh it's great having an entire collection that fits in your pocket, with it's own lighting, that can be ready anywhere you are at.
The thing that gets me, is most comics are around $1.99, where their real print counterparts are $2.99. (there are some more expensive than $1.99)
I don't mind giving them my money for something I enjoy, but the real thing may increase in value some day, or at least you can resell them as an entire collection for close to what you paid for them. Digital copies will never increase in value and are really good for nothing, but the enjoyment of reading them.
Plus, it takes me about 15minutes to read a standard 20-30 page comic book. At $2each, that's $8hr. I'm just not that rich. That's about the same price as seeing a movie in IMAX, in my area.
I've heard the Marvel Website, has a system where you can have a subscription to their comic books and you just pay a monthly fee. I haven't looked in to it, simply because I'm not interested in comics I can't take to the bathroom with me. lol
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Getting into comic books isn't strange, but worrying about it enough to ask what others think IS strange.
Meh, some IRL friends were making fun of me for it. lol
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Yeah, you're a freak. Come on everybody, let's ostracize him! Let's ostracize him for being different!
When your forum name and avatar is modeled after a 5th dimensional supervillain imp/trickster like mine then you might be considered weird....but hey who wants to be "normal"?
Nothing strange about it. I first read Preacher when I was in my early 30s. I grew up with Asterix and Tintin (and Commando comics) but nothing "American", you know, like Batman or Superman, or even more recent stuff like Watchmen or Stranger in Paradise.