tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378156793055966104.post6138182813089141098..comments2023-09-15T10:47:37.106+01:00Comments on The Reluctant Hypersomniac: On Reading Comic Books Pt.1Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07483317028123580083noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378156793055966104.post-23533097525976122032012-07-19T02:01:35.613+01:002012-07-19T02:01:35.613+01:00i love this post. i like yourself was a Trekkie bu...i love this post. i like yourself was a Trekkie but it kinda goes over my head a bit now and I got into comics a few years back and even though I wouldn't call myself a big comic geek I do know about Marvel and DC as well as smaller Imprints like Dark Horse (who I love) and such and it's made me explore visual stories more.<br /><br />Astonishing X-men is one of my fans and I'd really recommend Runaways too.SisterSpookyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455482753356400363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6378156793055966104.post-15586490006424611452012-07-19T00:21:33.220+01:002012-07-19T00:21:33.220+01:00I must put my hand up and admit it - I am a Star T...I must put my hand up and admit it - I am a Star Trek fan, but the old school, 1960's Star Trek. I like the characters better and watching and wondering 'How did they get THAT effect?'. It's surprising how many times I can do that in a series famous for having a dodgy lizard-man costume :)<br /><br />Trek moment over and as for comic books... my first comic books were the Tintin books when I was about 5. They were the first books I 'read' - I read the pictures. I've got a soft spot for comics ever since, although the worlds of Marvel and DC frighten me. I do have a set of compendiums of the Essential X-Men series so I can read them roughly in order but I find that huge chunks of the storyline go missing, presumably because the X-Men joined up with Spiderman or someone that Summer and the storyline just got picked up again later in Essential X-Men. <br /><br />I get your point about the universe being huge for comic books and that being to it's advantage, that you can just rewrite what you didn't like (no one EVER completely dies in comic book world do they?), but equally if your story can be spread out over a whole universe it gets very hard to read it! That and if you find yourself wanting to follow a particular character you may have to employ Ninja Research skills to be able to trace all their stories and back stories. <br /><br />Also, if anything can happen in a comic book universe, doesn't that mean there's always a happy ending? Like you said, the uncool characters can always be made cool again, some superheroes can come back to life and while their deaths and lives can be, as you said, ferocious (I still remember the cover of one book with Robin's death. Shocked the life out of me) and more real in a sense than anything on tv, there's always the little thought in my head that, because they've done it before, someone could always just rewrite this bit, or that bit, or just ignore the whole book altogether.<br /><br />I often come to comic books through tv too, hence the few Buffy comics I have. Or through regular books, such as the copy of Hatter M I have on my shelf waiting to be read as a result of reading The Looking-Glass Wars..Laurahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01821766209132805208noreply@blogger.com