Comics Primer

Hello, My Name is George and I'm a Marvel Zombie.

BY GEORGE CAVALENS

I was born in the early 80's so my introduction to comics, like most people born then, was the 90's X-men cartoon(1992). I'm not sure if Marvel made a concerted effort back then to market to tweenies but it worked on me. At first, I didn't even know comics existed. My first comic that I can remember buying with my own money was Darker Image # 1 (and only one, march 1993). That was it for me. For the next 15 years I was reading Marvel and Image books. Of course I dropped in and out of comics (After all, I had hundreds of worthless Wetworks and Heroes Reborn comics). When comics crashed, so did I.

I started playing in bands and drinking beer. Comics were the last thing on my mind. Then something happened. I started hearing about this guy Brian Michael Bendis. At the time, Ultimate Spider-Man (oct. 2000) had just come out and he was doing a book calld Powers over at Image. I came in at around issue 6 or 7 but I tracked down the back issues (this was before trades had become so popular). This is what got me back into comics. After that I was reading everything I could get my hands on. Wednesdays had become a ritual and everything was awesome. I was of course reading only Marvel and Image. The other company never interested me. And lets face it, DC had done some pretty fucked up things. In 2000, when I came back I didn't know anything about DC but now I can go back and find out stuff and I can see why I just never got intrested in it back then. But thats not what this article is about.

Now you know my history as a Marvel Zombie. In the last six months I have read a couple of DC books that i really enjoyed: Starman Omnibus 1 and 2 and Gotham Central HC vol 1. These were fucking excellent! So, I'm not against reading DC books. And now that Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, and Greg Rucka are saving this company I may be ready to read a couple books. Every monday here on storiesinmedium.com you will get:

-Awesome comics articles

-My DC progress

-What I'm reading every week

-Reviews in 7 words or less

-Recomdations

In addition to all this, feel free to leave me recomendations on what to read with my DC "quest".

Coming up, I've got Starman Omnibus 3, Gotham Central HC vol 2, and Green Lantern: Rebirth

on my plate. Now lets get to what I read this week and some 7 words or less reviews.

SGT. Fury and His Howling Commandos by Jesse Alexander and John Paul Leon(Marvel $3.99)

Horrible story telling meets gorgeous art.

Dominic Fortune #1 by Howard Chaykin (Marvel $3.99)

1950's James Bond punches and fucks.

Ultimate Spider-man #2 by Brian Michael Bendis and David Lafuente (Marvel $3.99)

I'm Confused. I didn't read it before.

Invincible Iron Man #17 by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca (Marvel $2.99)

What Captain America was 2 years ago.

Irredeemable #6 by Mark Waid and Peter Krause (Boom $3.99)

Kind of creepy. Give me more.

Sweet Tooth #1 by Jeff Lemire (Vertigo $1.00)

Great! Buy it assholes!

Detective Comics #854-856 by Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III (DC Comics $3.99)

Wow. That's art. I'm in.

Lost Dogs by Jeff Lemire (Ashtray Press $????)

Jeff knows how to make people sad.

Cat Getting Out Of A Bag and Other Observations by Jeffrey Brown (Chronicle Books $12.95)

Hilarious! Right on the money.

The Walking Dead Hardcover Vol. 4 by Robert Kirman and Charlie Adlard (Image $29.99)

Holy shit.

That's it for this week. Read Invincible Iron Man or you're and asshole!!!!!

Next week: Spider-man.