lemay@lorelei.Eng.Sun.COM (Laura Lemay - IWTFM) (12/15/90)
Well, I used to be a *serious* comics reader. I started when I was 10 with some select marvel titles and just went berserk from there. For eleven years I collected religiously everything I could find, to the point where I was reading 50 or so titles a month in college. And then, I graduated. And the comics dropped off. What resulted was what I now call "the dark age", two years of a comic-less existence. I'm finally becoming a little more englightened now, having dragged my four foot lockers of comics out of storage and gleefully sat amongst them reading for most of the past few nights. So now I'm back, and I want to know what I've missed and what I should look out for. For some background, here's what was going on when I left: Jaka's Story in Cerebus had just begun. I think I was 3-4 issues into it. The X-titles were all scummy, although X-Cailbur was pretty durn cool. X-Men were bi-weekly, new mutants had brought whats-his-name back from the dead in porbably the most tasteless story line in a comic I've ever seen, and I don't remember much of anything from X-factor. The "Fall of the mutants" was over, and boy was I confused. Sandman had just begun (I had bought issue #1, but had never read it. Stupid git.) Hellblazer had been cool for a while, but seemed to be drifting ever downward. Constantine had just served as a host for Swamp Thing and whats-her-name having a child. The "big new thing" was something-Orchid. Everyone was raving about this, but I never understood it. I did buy four issues of #1, tho, since everything seemed to be so into it. Bill Seink%$r&$^ was doing "Stray Toasters." "The Pitt" came and went real quick. Warlock 5 had just gone completely down hill when the artist and writer left. Justice League was the funniest title around. But the Tick was close. Tenn Titans was suffering from x-men-itis...too many titles of not very good quality. I can't remember what was going on when I was reading it. "Blood" had come from being kinda arty and wierd to completely incomprehensible. Elfquest: seige at blue mountain was trying to finish up but the last %*&#(*# issue was really, really late. Thats about all I can remember. Fill me in, pleeez....whats good now, whats worth finding in the "back" bins?? I promise I'll never give up comics again. Really. :-) -- ********************************************************* Laura Lemay lemay@sun.com Redhead. Drummer. Geek. (tm) sun!lemay *********************************************************