As a huge comics fan, my taste in what kind of comics has morphed and mutated over the years. When I first started “reading” comics (which mainly consisted of reading a word balloon occasionally, focusing more on the flashy and cool art since I was around 4 or 5), I was a young Marvel zombie who ventured into DC territory with BATMAN. I stayed loyal to Marvel through my teenage years as I moved from reading such classics as Spiderman, The Avengers, Captain America, and Conan to new titles like Uncanny X-Men, ROM, New Mutants, and Daredevil.

It was during these teen years when independent comics got my attention. I can thank this to reading one of my favorite comic news magazines COMICS SCENE. There was no internet back then (well, no internet for the general public), so for me, reading COMICS SCENE was like heaven. I would find out about all the latest news from a month or two months ago, read interesting articles and interviews with creators I not only followed but also with ones I never heard of like Dave Sims and Matt Wagner.

I was fortunate that the same store which carried COMICS SCENE also had a spinner rack. This spinner rack was usually filled with only Marvel and DC Comics but one week, they started carrying titles from the now defunct comic publisher, COMICO. So one weekend trip to this store proved to be a turning point in how I looked at comics. Stuffed between the latest issues of DIAL H FOR HERO and DAREDEVIL was the first issue of Matt Wagner’s GRENDEL. I only had enough allowance to get two comics, sometimes more if I got to mow my granddad’s yard. So I got my favorite UNCANNY X-MEN by Chris Claremont and John Byrne and this new indy comic which I remember reading about in COMICS SCENE.

My love for comics hasn’t been the same since. Read More…

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