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Comics from the Year 2000!

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Comics from the Year 2000! I continued to collect comics very casually, picking up a comic here and there between 97' to around 2002. Nothing really caught my attention that much. Around 2003 I went to my first comic con in Chicago and it was energetic! Burst with the culture of artists. The usual companies were set up like Marvel and DC but also some new companies like Top Cow and Cross-Gen. Filmmakers and Video game creators, I even met Stan Winston! The whole experience was an awesome and amazing experience, it renewed my interest in comics.  So I started collecting again and met some other collectors at a new job I had recently started and we would talk a bit about them. Particularly a comic named House of M this became my new Infinity Gauntlet . The story involved mainly the Avengers and the X-Men but effected the whole of the Marvel world. Scarlett Witch who is crazy like a fox alters reality recreating it to favor mutant-kind with her father Magneto as the King of...

My First Comic!

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My First Comic! I wanted to post a blog today to help get my motivation flowing. I st ruggled t oday w ith a P hotoshop tutorial that I couldn't figure out so it's best for me to step away. I figured I would have to go home and take a picture of the cover to show everyone but alas I found the cover o nline so I can simply post it. To me it's seems pretty obscure. I bought the comic in 8 6' 87'? for .60 cents when I was at the mall with my Mom. I reme mber it clearly we would often visit what was the n named the Eastbrook Mall and she would tour the different clothing stores with me in tow . I would struggle to find something to occupy my time and would often slip awa y to the book store or the novelty shop located near by. On this particular day vendors had collectable items on display in the center hall of the mall between stor es. You know the type people selling Coins, Toys, random collectable objects and also Comics. I was eyeing some thing s when I no...