Collecting Comics, Popular, Independent and Other
Collecting Comics, Popular, Independent and Other
I visited D & B Comics many times over the Summer and purchased a lot of comics. I would often rummage through the boxes looking for random and interesting titles. I ran into a comic that really intrigued me for sometime, but it became more difficult to find. The name of the comic was Critters.
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| This particular issue included a LP with a song written by Alan Moore named Sinister Ducks and on the reverse side had a song by Teddy Payne and the Bluebears |
Growing up with 80's cartoons I was used to anamorphic characters and themes. Critters was packed with them and this was the particular appeal. The created the comic in a effort to appeal to the growing fans of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Two stories stand out as being the most fun for me to read. The first was Birthright.
Birthright was created by Steve Gallachi and featured a dystopian world which at first glance appeared to be a modern Russia and the main character was a prince that had been for some reason disenfranchised from his throne. I'll admit I wasn't able to follow the story to closely due to having such a hard time collecting them. I still wonder (I should track them down) how that story went but I did like the comic and what I had read.
Critters featured a series stories that appeared off and on in each comic. The next story that I liked featured a sword wielding ronin rabbit named Miyamoto Usagi "Yojimbo" by Stan Sakai. The style of the story was comedic but the content was a bit serious and insightful. Usagi proved to be one of my favorite character of the Critters series. I would later see the character featured in an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and at the time I thought it was kind of cool having inside knowledge of the character.
Sakai also was the letterer for another series I would pick up named Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés. On a side note during the San Diego Comic Con 2012 I met Sergio Aragones and he did a sketch of his iconic character. Sergio Aragones is also known for his contribution to MAD Magazine.
Looking back on this period of time and years prior I can tell you that cartoons and toys had a high influence on me and contributed toward my interest in comics. I was an interested reader from an early age and this was simply another medium. I collected comics of a full range. Some of them I think back specifically and wonder what I was thinking (Smurfs I'm talking to you!). Actually I know exactly what I was thinking "This will be rare some day and the value will increase." I would by #1 as quickly as they would come out and in a rare occasion of stumbled upon genius it actually worked. I tell that later too. :)
I remember getting Savage Dragon #3 where he fights Bedrock from Youngblood . I really can only speculate what was going on in comics during this time, but what ever it was the creators knew what to sell to kids. Though I hadn't read Savage Dragon up to this point Savage Dragon #3 was a good issue, seeing the characters slug it out and then what happens at the end is fun.
I collected comics from cartoons I knew and enjoyed like Pirates of Dark Water, Talespin, Ducktales and Thundercats. I would randomly collect Batman and X-men looking for something to hook me X-men did for a short minute, but something always seemed missing. I look back now having read many novels and I think I can articulate a bit of what it is, but I will save that for later to.
Finally the next comics to really keep me reading were Star Wars. I always liked Star Wars. After G.I.Joe they were my next favorite toy followed by Legos. The original trilogy I would watch over and over along with Indiana Jones, to this day I know the dialoge of each film verbatim. Star Wars Dark Empire was an awesome comic and it was produced by Dark Horse and they make some of the best comics even today! Then they followed that with the 'Heir to the Empire' series and this was exciting because the novels were so good. However neither of these topped the Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi and later Star Wars: Tales of the Sith, do yourself a favor buy these in graphic novel and read them immediately. I will not ruin the story but Tales of the Jedi has to do with two Jedi that go rouge and one of which that will later oppose Luke Skywalker in the Jedi Academy novels. Tales of the Sith tells the story of Sith in-fighting and individual struggles for power giving great insight into the culture of the Sith.
I usually try to keep these blogs short and easy to read. They may seem a bit simple but I'm trying to not go on for to long but tell a story and give some details at the same time. If you have any questions of me or any of the comics I have read drop a comment I'm always looking.
Thanks again,
CoolCatM
Critters featured a series stories that appeared off and on in each comic. The next story that I liked featured a sword wielding ronin rabbit named Miyamoto Usagi "Yojimbo" by Stan Sakai. The style of the story was comedic but the content was a bit serious and insightful. Usagi proved to be one of my favorite character of the Critters series. I would later see the character featured in an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and at the time I thought it was kind of cool having inside knowledge of the character.
Looking back on this period of time and years prior I can tell you that cartoons and toys had a high influence on me and contributed toward my interest in comics. I was an interested reader from an early age and this was simply another medium. I collected comics of a full range. Some of them I think back specifically and wonder what I was thinking (Smurfs I'm talking to you!). Actually I know exactly what I was thinking "This will be rare some day and the value will increase." I would by #1 as quickly as they would come out and in a rare occasion of stumbled upon genius it actually worked. I tell that later too. :)
I remember getting Savage Dragon #3 where he fights Bedrock from Youngblood . I really can only speculate what was going on in comics during this time, but what ever it was the creators knew what to sell to kids. Though I hadn't read Savage Dragon up to this point Savage Dragon #3 was a good issue, seeing the characters slug it out and then what happens at the end is fun. I collected comics from cartoons I knew and enjoyed like Pirates of Dark Water, Talespin, Ducktales and Thundercats. I would randomly collect Batman and X-men looking for something to hook me X-men did for a short minute, but something always seemed missing. I look back now having read many novels and I think I can articulate a bit of what it is, but I will save that for later to. Finally the next comics to really keep me reading were Star Wars. I always liked Star Wars. After G.I.Joe they were my next favorite toy followed by Legos. The original trilogy I would watch over and over along with Indiana Jones, to this day I know the dialoge of each film verbatim. Star Wars Dark Empire was an awesome comic and it was produced by Dark Horse and they make some of the best comics even today! Then they followed that with the 'Heir to the Empire' series and this was exciting because the novels were so good. However neither of these topped the Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi and later Star Wars: Tales of the Sith, do yourself a favor buy these in graphic novel and read them immediately. I will not ruin the story but Tales of the Jedi has to do with two Jedi that go rouge and one of which that will later oppose Luke Skywalker in the Jedi Academy novels. Tales of the Sith tells the story of Sith in-fighting and individual struggles for power giving great insight into the culture of the Sith.I usually try to keep these blogs short and easy to read. They may seem a bit simple but I'm trying to not go on for to long but tell a story and give some details at the same time. If you have any questions of me or any of the comics I have read drop a comment I'm always looking.
Thanks again,
CoolCatM
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