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The Grey Elf
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May 9 2014, 12:33pm
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Have you ever read comic books?
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I started on Archies as a kid. Years passed and somehow I discovered the X-Men. I loved the strong female characters. I read a few a year or so ago because I bought some for my daughter as a fun stocking stuffer. (She's a big fan of the movies and this was my gambit to get her to embrace reading. Unfortunately, it didn't work. *sigh* )
I do enjoy the movies but with apologies to Halle and Rebecca, I like the comic versions of Storm and Mystique better.
If I had to choose, I think I still prefer the books over the movies, if only for nostalgia's sake. 
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malickfan
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May 9 2014, 1:46pm
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I don't know whether it's a cultural thing, or personal preference but Comic Books don't seem to be a big thing in the UK.
I've always admired the Art, and interesting storylines (I've seen a fair few Comic Book films), but I've never really felt a desire to read any (I did watch the X Men cartoon avidly as a kid).
I have read Watchmen (loved it) but that's a graphic novel and rather different to the usual storylines of the genre, so I;m not sure if that counts.
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Magpie
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May 9 2014, 2:17pm
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I think a big draw was... I loved to read but we didn't have a lot of reading material at home and I didn't have easy access to a library. But I could walk to the neighborhood store (Komarks) and buy a comic book with my 50 cent a week allowance.
I read some that were kind of spooky/mysterious (not sure the names), Fantastic Four, Metal Men, Archie, Superman/Supergirl/Superboy, Little Lulu, and Casper the Friendly Ghost. (I'm sure those came at different ages in my life!)
I stopped buying comics when the stories became serial. I wasn't buying a comic book a week. And if I had to have purchased the previous three comics to understand the story, I wasn't interested. Maybe I just outgrew them, too.
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Otaku-sempai
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May 9 2014, 3:41pm
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Comics actually got me reading above my grade level (how else does a 7 year-old learn words like invulnerable). I still read comics and graphic novels today, although my tastes have changed quite a bit over the years. I doubt that the 10 year-old me would have gottem much out of Sandman Overture.
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Meneldor
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May 9 2014, 4:54pm
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It's not my preferred medium for story-telling, but sometimes it's the only way to read a story that I'm interested in. In other words, I've read all the Firefly comics since the show was cancelled. 
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dernwyn
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May 9 2014, 4:55pm
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I was raised on those - I think my parents got them to encourage my two older brothers to read - and also Walt Disney comics. And Santa always left a comic in one's stocking at Christmas.
I've still got a large collection of those Classics Illustrateds.
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Kim
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May 9 2014, 6:16pm
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My grandparents had a ton of those, so I read them as a kid. But I never got into other comics, moved on to books instead.
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Elizabeth
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May 9 2014, 6:43pm
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...I liked Red Ryder, the Marvel Family, Wonder Woman, and a few others. This was before the Great Comic Book Panic of the 1950's, when a surge in "horror" comics led people to conclude that comics were Corrupting our Precious Children and most of them were banned. They came back later. I know nothing about the current roster of comic book heroes.
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Elessar
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May 9 2014, 8:05pm
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Not as much as I used to but I go through spurts where I will read whole storylines.
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Aunt Dora Baggins
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May 9 2014, 8:28pm
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Very few comic books, but lots of funny papers.
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Unless Pogo and Peanuts books count. We had tons of those at home when I was a kid, and not too long ago I bought an almost complete Pogo collection from a friend.
And I did get hooked on an online comic called "The Dreamer".
From my childhood, I have one Fantastic Four comic book, a couple of Classics Illustrated, and one Archie, I think.
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Donry
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May 9 2014, 8:38pm
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Read more of them when I was younger, I still occassionally pick one up....go through my old stash and re-read a good storyline.....that kind of thing...
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Magpie
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May 9 2014, 8:47pm
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Ah yes... I read some Disney comics, too
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My own kids were really into Disney Adventures which had comic panel stories along with other articles, etc.
We'd go to Tobak and News for fun on a Friday night (lots of magazines, newspapers, pipe tobacco and cigars). The kids would get a Disney Adventures, the husband some car magazine, and me a craft magazine. Then we'd all stream out to the car in a line reading our mags as we went.
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Magpie
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May 9 2014, 8:48pm
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I can remember we had Lorna Doone as a Classics Illustrated
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I don't think I ever read it, though.
My kids loved Garfield books and I figured if they were reading, that was great. I wasn't going to kick. My oldest pretty much moved from Garfield to adult novels (Jurassic Park was his first) in 6th grad. He never messed with the young adult novels.
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sevilodorf
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May 10 2014, 1:37am
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I stopped buying them when the price got to 75 cents
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Since I remember them at 12 cents.... then 15, then 20, then 25, then 35, then 50,
We use to buy all kinds (using money from soda pop bottles), Archie and the DC heroes (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans) were most popular in our house,(though I had a secret passion for the House of Mystery with Cain and Abel -- my mother wouldn't let me buy those, but my uncle did)
My cousins were into the Westerns and the Marvel characters.
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Moahunter
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May 10 2014, 6:44am
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"Seduction of the Innocent" by Fredric Wertham 1954.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/...tion_of_the_Innocent
One of my Psychology lecturers talked about his experience of discussing this with members of an extra-mural class he was teaching. They all declared that they had read horror comics but hadn't been affected.
The class was in a prison!!!!l
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Darkstone
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May 10 2014, 4:30pm
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Silver Age DC as a kid, Marvel as a teen and young adult, The Duck Man (finally revealed as Carl Barks) of Disney Comics, a few Charlton horror and war anthologies, and Mad.
I gave them up in the 70s to save up for a trip to Europe. Kinda easy cause the writers seemed to have stopped taking the characters and storylines seriously. For example a months long very serious rift between Sue and Reed was quickly solved in one page by simply having Namor make a pass at her, and as for the final resolution of the months long mystery of the murderous dwarf in The Defenders by having him simply run over by a bus...
The movies are great, but very confusing. Didn't Pepper marry Happy, and didn't Jane Foster have her memory erased about her romance with Thor? And wasn't Nick Fury white?
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sauget.diblosio
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May 10 2014, 6:40pm
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I was into the Flash as a kid,
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and read a bit of Superman, mainly because of the movies (i loved Superman 1 & 2 from the 80s).
Through college and my twenties i read The Tick, Flaming Carrot, and Cerebus, and loved them all (still do). The Tick and Flaming Carrot are some of the funniest things ever, and Cerebus had loads of atmosphere and just great storytelling which was weird and funny and insightful.
More recently i read The Watchmen in advance of the movie coming out. The comic was pretty great, and the movie wasn't bad.
That's pretty much all my comic book experiences.
Edit: Oh, and these are more of the funny paper variety, but i read a LOT of Bloom County and The Far Side back in the day. There's nothing funnier than The Far Side, and Bloom County had such great characters and brilliant social commentary.
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IdrilLalaith
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May 11 2014, 6:04am
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I've never actually read the Tick
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But I love the cartoon. "Spoon!"
It never occurred to me to read comics as a kid (probably because I didn't have any brothers/close male cousins and my dad was never into them), but I keep thinking that I should start now. I love (most of) the Marvel movies--every time I see one I feel like I want to pick up comics. It's just so overwhelming to know where to start!
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sauget.diblosio
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May 11 2014, 4:31pm
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pretty much a perfect adaptation, with absolutely spot on voice casting.
The comic had a fairly short run (wikipedia tells me just 12 issues), so it's not daunting at all, if you can find them. They're collected in 3 Omnibus editions.
Also, i've heard that the live action series was funny (starring the hilarious Patrick Warburton), but i've never seen it. It only went one season, and is on DVD, i just haven't gotten around to picking it up yet.
I'm kinda over comic book movies. Haven't seen any of them since the first Iron Man. But i do like the X-Men movies, so i'm looking forward to seeing that this summer
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Meneldor
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May 11 2014, 5:54pm
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Patrick Warburton was born to play the role. Sadly, it didn't even last the full season. &*&^% you, FOX network, &^%*& you to %$(*&^!!!
I think there were some legal/copyright issues with secondary characters, so there are some changes; for instance, Fledermaus was changed to Batmanuel. He's a riot.
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Misto
Lorien
May 11 2014, 8:02pm
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Both French comics from the 60ies/70ies and a family pleasure. My father and I can quote from both for hours on and... which is slightly annoying for my mother
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DaughterofLaketown
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May 11 2014, 8:21pm
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I never have but I am curious to look at some graphic novels.
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Mainly out of curiosity.
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Otaku-sempai
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May 12 2014, 5:09pm
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How many have read the graphic novel of 'The Hobbit'?
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Adapted by Charles "Chuck" Dixon with Sean Deming, and illustrated by David Wenzel. The adaptation was serialized in 1989 by Eclipse Comics and is currently published in book form by Ballantine. I've had the trade paperback edition for years and recently found a hardcover edition at my friendly local comics shop published years ago by Eclipse Books.
Who would like to see a similar comics adaptation of The Lord of the Rings?
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