Explored Comics

What kid in the last fifty years doesn’t remember getting up on Saturday morning to watch cartoons over a large bowl of cereal?  Of course, some of those cartoons were super hero cartoons like Spiderman and His Amazing Friends or the Super Friends.  These cartoons were always simple and shallow.  No one questioned the motives of the villains.  They were just villains and always up to no good.  And that was good enough for us. Back when I started my first real stint collecting comics in the early 1990’s, every comic book generally looked the same.  The books were littered with huge muscled men with shoulder pads larger than what football players wore and females who looked like they stepped right out of a science fiction porno.  And it was accepted and loved.  But it was all the same (and a little ridiculous.  I remember a one-shot parody put out by Grant Morrison mocking the style of these comic books.) Luckily enough, comic books have dive...

My Comic Book History I remember my first foray into comics. It began when I was in middle school. A fellow school mate of mine had in his possession what I took to be a magazine of images of one of my favorite animes, Robotech. It was produced by a publishing company called Comico. (I don’t think it is publishing anymore.) Now, mind you, I had knowledge of some of the comic book super heroes through Saturday morning cartoons and other television shows and movies. I remember loving to watch Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends and the Super Friends. I faintly remember watching Spider-Man movies and the Hulk and Wonder Woman television shows. But I never made the tie between these shows and comic books. Before seeing the Robotech comic book, I never really understood that these books existed. I had to have it, and I made a deal with my school mate to purchase the book from him. Later, I would gain employment as first as a lineman officiating at soccer games and eventually as a referee to ...