Did anybody else NOT grow up with comic books?

[MartyMcFly]

I read everything I could get my hands on when I was a kid, including comic books. My best friend put me on because he'd read spider man and x men and that was the gateway. That was like kindergarten

 

[MenacingMonk]

I started reading mid 2012. It was the Avengers flick that got me hooked.

I had a few books growing up, but never read them. Like everyone else, I grew up with the cartoons. Of course I watched the movies, but they never influenced me to read.

Watchmen was the first book I read after the movie dropped. But I didn't become a collector until years later.

I was sleeping

 

[Bigbigguy]

Got into comics when I was 16. I've always been a fan of the characters in the movies and cartoons so I decided to get into their source material

 

[Deltron]

comics never really interested me, so never really read'em.

Based all my shyt off the early ass cartoons and of course the 90's cartoons.

I've read a handful since then...but still don't really fukk with'em.

like you, I was growing up (and to a lesser extent still am) a gamer

 

[Jax]

I used to read Donald Duck. Wish I fukked around with marvel shyt but they didn't sell them around my ways.

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

I was born in 91, so most of my exposure was the TV shows and action figures

 

[JerseyBoy23]

I agree with you. Comic books went bust in the mid 90s so a lot of us late 80s and early 90s kids grew up differently from people born before and after our era.

Our generation has more of an affinity towards Pokemon, Wrestling, and DBZ than physical comic books. With that said, I watched every comic book based cartoon I could find growing up.

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I grew up in a strict religious family who believed comic book were from the devil and pretty much all my friends and family were from the same religion


So no one I knew has comics

Islam?

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

I lost interest in comics same time I lost interest in wrestling , 12, 13 yrs old. but I kept em all, funny how all those books I have are now movies but I don't get overly excited for the film's anymore.

 

[DLo]

I collected as I'm older as well.. maybe older than you since you said were in HS in the 90s and I graduated 90..

Comics fell off in the 90s because shyt turned to gimmicks... I got tired of the constant #1s then #0 then the Variant Cover and this new separate mini series.... as a collector it got expensive and I know a few others who felt the same way...

the 90s cartoons (xmen, spiderman, ironman, etc) just added to my comic lore.. its not the only lore I know (insert Bryan Singer here)

That is what killed it for me. All the variant issues and foil embossed covers. It was just a cash grab and I got tired of wasting my money. Plus they kept raising the prices and I didn't want to pay that shyt. They were $.75 when I started and $2.25-$2.95 when I stopped.

I might pick up a few trade paper backs.

 

[Jx2]

Collected them around 2nd and 3rd grade because we had a dope little shop right around the corner from me (this was when trading cards were HUGE too). After the shop closed, I didn't pursue it very much and as a hobby, it got lost in the shuffle to everything else I've been interested in since.

Two summers ago I picked up Infinity Gauntlet and reading that was like my initial trip and stumble back down the rabbit hole. Glad I'm back in it

 

[Soundbwoy]

Growing up in Europe the only I saw on the reg was a weekly Disney comic featuring Donald Duck, Scrooge, Mickey Mouse and such characters.

did you ever read this?

 

[StraxStrax]

did you ever read this?

The style reminds me of TinTin and Asterix but no I've never seen this.

 

[boskey]

I agree with you. Comic books went bust in the mid 90s so a lot of us late 80s and early 90s kids grew up differently from people born before and after our era.

Our generation has more of an affinity towards Pokemon, Wrestling, and DBZ than physical comic books. With that said, I watched every comic book based cartoon I could find growing up.

Yup. I watched it all. Batman TAS might be my favorite show ever. Watched the Hulk cartoon and used to get up at like 6AM on Saturdays just to catch Ironman and Fantastic Four.

And you are def right about wrestling, that shyt was HUGE. Pokémon hit when I was a freshman in high school I didn't fukk with it at all

 

[Soundbwoy]

The style reminds me of TinTin and Asterix but no I've never seen this.

its the same editor as spiroux but I remember reading this as a kid I was addicted