Mr. Jez knows he must not touch my comics with his doritos-stained fingers.

Mr Jez used to collect comics up to his late teens, almost entirely from the Big 2 and likes that he can indulge in mine when he wants to catch up on something. But he's left the 'collector' and 'investor' aspect to me and doesn't mind that some books can be pricey.

My ex-girlfriend, who's now my best friend, is quite the comic fan; I gave her some of my books to start her collection and she's got her stuff down; better than the comic nerd-come-lately.

My wife was a ST:TOS fan before we even met, but has never been a comics fan. She did enjoy the X-Men and Spider-man cartoons in the 90s (neither of which I've watched!) probably because of the kids, but never was interested in the books themselves. Her tastes run more into European stuff, when she reads comics at all (she's a devoted crime fiction fan, though).

She's not that much into comic-book movies either, although she naturally doesn't hate the sight of Hugh Jackman's abs and glutes.

When I met my wife, her X-Men collection was bigger than mine. She doesn't read many comics anymore, but loves the characters and follows them in other mediums.

The reason she doesn't read more comics if you ask her is that the same "fanboys" who used to stand around in the back of comic shops throwing out one bad idea after another because it was "kewl" and wouldn't know a good story if it bit them on the ass are now running the companies and writing for them and no one is there to tell them those ideas suck and that they need to tell good stories and that they should probably read something that isn't a comic book once in a while to get some perspective on storytelling. She also is famous for saying if you want to sell more comics, stop telling stories only fanboys can appreciate and ignoring the other 99.9% of the population who might buy comics otherwise. She thinks that's where most of the movies and tv shows get it right and the comics themselves get it wrong, hence the movies and tv show draw big audiences and the comics won't as long as they keep repeating the same mistakes. Her term for it is taking great characters and stories, and cleaning off the fanboy barnacles so the rest of the world can appreciate them. 

If you tried to ask her who is Superman or some such question, she would look at you with one of those death stares (which I have I have learned to avoid) because you're probably assuming she won't know because she's female and then walk away from you shaking her head in disgust. 

But if you want to ask her, I can arrange it...be my guest, I'll get my popcorn ready....  

-M

Mine will watch the movies with me, liked Avengers, Thor, Man of Steel,an Iron Man, disliked the first Captain America, and the SHIELD series and absolutely loved Guardians of the Galaxy. Wont read comics though(apart from Vaughans Pride of Baghdad), though in her defence was a fan of Vampirella 20 years before we met.

My wife is from Chile and never read American comics. She knows little Lotta , though.