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Post by Red Oak Kid on Jul 19, 2016 17:36:10 GMT -5
Are there any comic books that you refused to buy when they came out but later changed your mind and became a fan of?
I refused to buy any Kung-Fu or Horror comics in the 70s, but after about 30 issues of Tomb of Dracula, I finally broke down and started buying it for the Colan/Palmer art and decided the stories were pretty good too.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 19, 2016 17:39:59 GMT -5
I turned my nose up on many of the independent titles from the 70's-80's like Cerebus, Usagi Yojimbo. This year I finally read them and I find them to be enjoyable. I have an aversion to Black and White books.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 18:39:08 GMT -5
Around 2010 or so I was not a fan of Dynamite Entertainment and my dear friends at the Comic Book Store urges me to take notice of it and around mid-2015 - I became a fan of Dynamite Entertainment and started reading 20-25 titles off and on and enjoyed the stories and the artwork that they brings.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2016 19:17:20 GMT -5
Dynamite Entertainment List
Dark Shadows
Dawn Vampirella
Dynamite Art of Alex Ross
Flash Gordon
Green Hornet
Green Hornet Golden Age
Ian Fleming James Bond 007
Kato
Kirby Genesis
Lady Rawhide
Lady Rawhide Lady Zorro
Lady Zorro
Lone Ranger Green Hornet
Lone Ranger Vindicated
Mark Waid Green Hornet
Owl
Pantha
Queen Sonja
Red Sonja Conan
Sherlock Holmes
The Art of Ramona Fradon
The Shadow
The Shadow Green Hornet Dark Knight
The Spirit
Vampirella
Xena Warrior Princess
Zorro
27 Titles altogether.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 19, 2016 19:56:42 GMT -5
1) Comico. When I was a kid, my friends had a bunch of D list Comico comics in their collection (they were twins) that looked really cheap and lame. For years after, I assumed all Comico comics were garbage.
2) Love & Rockets. Yes, really. I still don't know how, but I had Love & Rockets confused with Liberty Meadows for quite a while and, not having been impressed by the latter, stayed away from the former for entirely too long.
3) Peter David's X-Factor. I was a huge fan of the original run and, when all the X-titles realigned in the early '90s, it didn't take me long to realize that David wasn't playing in the same yard as the other creative teams. As it wasn't my X-Factor and it wasn't matching the tone and scope of the other X-Titles, it became dead to me pretty quickly. I still haven't gone back to read these issues, but I'm well aware that I should.
4) Gaiman's Sandman. I was still too immature when I picked it up for the first time, and it was SOOOOO hyped by people who liked things just to seem cooler than everyone else, so it took me a long time to turn around and give this thing another chance.
5) The Avengers in general. When I was growing up in the '90s, The Avengers were the place in the Marvel Universe where the absolute least interesting stuff was happening. I'd always equated them with "lame" and "boring." and I carried that bias with me until disturbingly recently. It wasn't until we did the CCF Top 100 Sagas back in April 2014 that I suddenly saw all the love people I respected had for this franchise. Since that time, I've managed to piece together an impressive run that I fully intend to read and review within the next year, but it just hasn't happened yet.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 19, 2016 21:35:41 GMT -5
The only thing I can think I actively refused to buy was any Spider-Man title post 90's Clone Saga. I was so irritated by that money making scheme of a story that I didn't read a Spider-Man title till someone convinced me to read Ultimate Spider-Man. So like a 10 year grudge?
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 19, 2016 22:08:59 GMT -5
Valiant - I thought the line was a super lame ripoff of Marvel by Jim Shooter. Didn't get in until about the third year when I was trading with a guy. Read an issue of Magnus Robot Fighter and was really impressed. John Ostrander was a writer I'd liked and he delivered in spades here. The art wasn't the flashiest, but with a solid story it all kind of pulled together. I grew to love the entire line and now love the current Valiant more than any other.
Milestone - Sort of like Valiant, I passed on this when it first came out. Didn't try it until about a year later when the LCS had a sale on them cause they'd overbought. Thought I'd try them for a quarter a piece. I'm ashames to admit that I just felt that DC was taking a cheap shot at political correctness, but this line was way more than that. Seriously, lots of people know Static Shock, but again, the entire line was really, really good.
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Post by berkley on Jul 20, 2016 1:03:32 GMT -5
MoKF was one of mine, for sure. Without even giving it a chance I arrogantly dismissed it as nothing more than a cynical effort to cash in on the kung fu craze. When I finally, for some reason I can't recall, opened up an issue - MoKF #49 - to have a look, I was as blown away as I've ever been by a single issue of any comic and after buying and reading it became a die-hard fan of the series.
Another one that comes to mind is Alan Moore's Big Numbers. In this case I was so shocked that they were charging 5 bucks or whatever it was for a single issue that I couldn't bring myself to pay that much for a comic, even though I was already a huge fan of Moore's writing. It still bugs me that I wasn't able to overcome this feeling, in spite of the fact that the series only lasted 2 issues so I didn't end up missing much, from one POV. I do have the 2nd issue but have never seen another copy of that first one ever since.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jul 20, 2016 12:02:51 GMT -5
Milestone - Sort of like Valiant, I passed on this when it first came out. Didn't try it until about a year later when the LCS had a sale on them cause they'd overbought. Thought I'd try them for a quarter a piece. I'm ashames to admit that I just felt that DC was taking a cheap shot at political correctness, but this line was way more than that. Seriously, lots of people know Static Shock, but again, the entire line was really, really good. Sadly, I made the same judgement call, largely because I didn't know any of the creators. But Blood Syndicate turned out to be a great read and Xombi was fantastic. |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 20, 2016 14:11:42 GMT -5
Because I'm currently reading it, Charley's War immediately comes to mind. As a kid, it used to bore me silly whenever I would encounter the strip in a Battle Picture Weekly annual or in the school rainy day comics box. The truth is that it was probably a bit too sophisticated for me as a young 'un. A lot of what it had to say on the nature of war, class and politics went over my head.
These days I love the strip and consider it to be the best war comic ever.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 20, 2016 16:02:31 GMT -5
Not that I was likely to buy it anyway, but I refused to buy X-Factor because I didn't like that they brought Jean Grey back from the dead. I've still never read the book. And it seems unlikely I ever will at this point.
I also avoided all of Marvel's monster books, Tomb of Dracula, Werewolf by Night, etc, because I wasn't into that sort of thing. I have now read and liked most of them.
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Post by String on Jul 20, 2016 17:36:14 GMT -5
Astonishing X-Men comes immediately to mind.
That's mainly due to Joss Whedon. Back then, my impression of Whedon was a Golden-Boy-Who-Could-Do-No-Wrong. He did the highly popular Buffy the Vampire Slayer which I've never watched to this day (because I remember Swanson and Perry and that's all I needed to see). He did Firefly (which I've never watched due to my previous aversion to his work on Buffy) which was then cancelled but then he somehow finagled the studios into letting him finish the series in a big-budget film.
Then he had the audacity to take on my beloved X-Men. I was adamant about not reading it till I read soooo many other great reviews for it on X-boards from fellow fans that I finally broke down and bought & read the first TPB of the title.
Afterwards, I quickly read the rest of the TPBs, catching up and following the series till he and Cassaday finished their run. I still grudgingly admit that they were absolutely right, with a few hiccups, a fantastic series.
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 20, 2016 19:37:28 GMT -5
In the 60s and 70s, when I was actively buying everything in the superhero, adventure and horror genres, I didn't buy or collect war, western, romance, or cartoony humor comics. I still don't have many war comics, or Richie Rich etc, but I've been happy with the romance and western comics that I've read in recent years.
Even in my completist phase, I never bought the Eerie Publications line of magazines and I'm still not interested in them. For different reasons, the first comics I dropped as my completist phase ended were the DC "horror" books edited by Murray Boltinoff - Ghosts, Witching Hour, and Unexpected. Those books had better eras under different editors, but Boltinoff rubbed me the wrong way.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 22:44:05 GMT -5
Bone
I thought it was too cartoony and the first issues I saw were under the Image banner and I hated early Image to the point I refused to buy most anything they did. It wasn't until the series was done and the all-in-one volume was out for a while that I read it, and it became one of my all time favorite comic stories.
-M
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Post by batlaw on Jul 20, 2016 23:27:19 GMT -5
The Walking Dead. Normally there's nothing about it I would give even a second thought to. But after a couple seasons of the tv show I gave the first trade a try and was quickly hooked.
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