Welcome and introduce your geeky self, you nerd!

Series/collections/graphic novels: Bone, Queen & Country (really anything Rucka puts out), DKR, Batman: Year one, Sin City, Cages, Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Hellboy

Writers: Frank Miller, Craig Thompson, Greg Rucka, Mignola, Scott Morse

Artists: Miller, Mignola, McKean, Sienkiewicz, Scott Morse, Enki Bilal

Websites: X-Axis (thanks Daver!)

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Sin City -- blindsided suckerpunch in the gut

TPBs or issues?: tpbs

Conventions/cosplay?: Conventions

Filmic adaptation:

One liner: "Speak quickly! I am aching to destroy you!" -Hellboy

Biggest kink: I have no clue what I meant by this

And also add Favorite single panel: In DKR, Batman holding his guts together standing over Joker's body.

Series/collections: Invisibles, Preacher, Fables, Y: The Last Man, Courtney Crumrin, New X-Men, Queen & Country, etc.

Writers: Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Brian Azzarello, Brian Vaughn, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore

Artists: Philip Bond, Steve Dillon, Jim Lee

Websites: X-Axis, Ninth Art

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: No idea...when I was a kid, my friend's dad worked at a publishing plant and so he would get free trades of some Batman, Punisher, I think something called 'Harbinger', etc.

TPBs or issues?: Issues because I'm impatient, and it's nice to have a weekly ritual, but TPB's are more enjoyable to read.

Conventions/cosplay?: Went to a convention in Madison once. It was pretty poorly attended, so my girlfriend and I got to have a nice chat w/Neil Gaiman.

Filmic adaptation: X2! Or the aborted JLA live action series. :>
One liner: "You and whose knees?" (Fantomex from one of the recent N-X-Men issues...sorry, couldn't think of anything else)

Biggest kink: Girls who read comic books?

Superhero: Dunno really!

Series/collections: First 10 years of 2000AD. Morrison's Doom Patrol and JLA. Hate. Eightball. Love And Rockets. Kirby 4th World. Lee/Kirby FF. Moore's Swamp Thing. Tintin.

Writers: Pat Mills before about 1984. Jack Kirby. Grant Morrison when being a hack. Herge.

Artists: Crumb when drawing women. Jack Kirby. Jaime Hernandez. All the classic 2000AD bods. Herge.

Websites: I used to read rec.arts.comics but couldn't take it.

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: EAGLE #1 in 1982 - photo stories!!! And Tintin - "The Shooting Star" with the HUGE SPIDER, FLOATING BRICKS, EXPLODING MUSHROOMS etc etc.

TPBs or issues?: I don't buy anything any more really but I have bought a couple of TPBs in the last year.

Conventions/cosplay?: Nein danke.

Filmic adaptation: I like the X Men films. And Batman Returns.

One liner: My favourite ever scene is in ABC Warriors, Book 1 (around Prog 125 or so), when Steelhorn, the most handsome robot in the world is transformed into THE MESS and the captions go completely bananas. "He said he wanted to be a fireman...NOW HE IS THE FIRE!!" etc.

Biggest kink: Basically I like comics which look like they were written at great speed and which are willing to discard plot, characterisation etc etc for cool bits. I hate comics that do this but haven't actually thought of anything cooler than a bloke with a big gun or ninja suit.

Superhero: It's been ages since I read those, can't say.

Series: Corto Maltese, Tintin, Concrete, Enigma, Asterix.

Collections: Ghost Town, Uncle Scrooge/Donald Duck by Carl Barks.

Strips: Krazy Kat, Peanuts, Konrad & Paul, Les Frustrés, Calvin & Hobbes, Moomin.

Graphic Novels/Albums: The Nikopol Trilogy, Stuck Rubber Baby, Maus, Der bewegte Mann (by Ralf König).

Writers: Hugo Pratt, Hergé, George Herriman, Ralf König, Alan Moore, Clare Bretechér, Bill Watterson, Alison Bechdel, Roberta McGregory, Joakim Pirinen.

Artists: Hugo Pratt, Hergé, George Herriman, Enki Bilal, Carl Barks, Moebius, Julie Doucet, Joakim Pirinen, Katja Tukiainen.

Websites: don't know any.

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Donald Duck by Carl Barks.

TPBs or issues?: I rarely buy comics nowadays because public libraries in Finland have very good supply of them.

Conventions/cosplay?: there's two yearly conventions in Finland, one of them is in Helsinki, and I haven't gone even there every year. I find it rather boring, it's mostly people selling/autographing comics. Occasionally there might be some interesting guests, like Mézierès and Christin a couple of years ago.

Filmic adaptation: American Splendor, Corto Maltese, The Maxx (okay, it was a TV series, but a damn good one).

One liner: don't know.

Biggest kink: what's that?

There might be for all I know, but I still can't actually GET them here in the U.S. for the most part (at least not at the comic store that I go to).

As to the superhero-centrism, I make no bones about it, I love spandex, more than indie/Euro/manga. Obv. spandex is so pervasive in the US in the industry that almost inevitably any person who gets into comics got into it because of superheroes -- they are a gateway to other genres if they choose to branch out. But like Jorden says, it's hard for us to find them. The enduring popularity of superheroes among adults may very well be fanboyism, which I don't take as a pejorative term, since I don't believe that critical discourse is mutually exclusive to loving the X-Men.

The lack of women creators, though, that definitely is a problem, at least so far as mainstream/superhero comics are concerned, for fairly obvious reasons. Unfortunately, in this context, it's inevitable that most names mentioned will be male.

Superheroes / Characters: Spidey, The Thing, Hobbes, Opus, Hellboy, Tara Chace, Slam Bradley, U Go Girl, Elijah Snow, etc etc etc

Series/collections (recent vintage): Y: The Last Man, Greg Rucka's Wonder Woman, Daredevil, Runaways, Alias, Finder, Birds of Prey, Stray Bullets, Supreme Power, Stormwatch: Team Achilles, Top Ten / SMAX, Legion, Berlin, Silver Surfer (no foolin'!), Ultimate Spidey, etc etc etc

Series/collections (old schoolish): Alan Moore's Swamp Thing (when it avoids prose overkill), Giffen & DeMatties' Justice League, Avengers (Stern / Buscema / Palmer), Spider-Man (Lee & Ditko // Defalco & Frenz), FF (Lee & Kirby & early Byrne), George Perez's Wonder Woman, Priest's Black Panther, Grant Morrison's JLA, Uncanny X-Men (somwhere between #120 and #180), yadda yadda

Writers: Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Grant Morrison (partial to Tom's preference), Peter Milligan, BMB, Brian K. Vaughn, Mike Carey, Carla Speed McNeil, Sean McKeever, Christopher Priest, Gail Simone, and I'll stop at 48.

Artists: John Cassaday, Cameron Stewart, Mike Wieringo, Andi Watson, Ed McGuinness, Jason Lutes, Mike Mignola, Gene Ha, Bryan Hitch, Darwyn Cooke, Frank Quitely, Chris Bachalo, Eddie Campbell, Peter Snejbjerg ...

Websites: The X-Axis, Journalista, Ninth Art, Previews Review

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Marvel Tales #150 (a reprint of Spider-Man Annual #1) - age 10, @ Arthur Drug, Windsor, CT; second place would be an unknown issue of DC Comics Presents featuring Superman & Robin - age 5, Italy (via Bradley Airport, CT)

TPBs or issues?: Issues; call me an old-fashioned pack rat in luv with serials (semi-compressed, that is).

Conventions/cosplay?: I haven't conned in nearly 15 years.

Filmic adaptation: The X-Men flicks, Hulk, Batman (age 14-19), Ghost World

One liner: "The whole world is watching us now. We must
be nothing less than fabulous." (Emma Frost, New X-Men) (I think this quote is quickly becoming a cliche on the level of Robert Frost's "road less traveled" line) (in certain circles, that is)

Biggest kink: Recognition of and adherence to continuity; resurrection / revamp of second-tier characters; Kirbytech; eschewing superhero realism for cool, vaguely defined ideas

Fair enough. It just seems so weird that me, who lives in a small and distant country, would have wider access to comics than someone living in the US. Of course it's different regarding superhero comics, there are only a few of those around here. But what about comic strips? I don't see much of strips on your lists, though availability shouldn't be an issue with them.

Anyway, hello, I am me, as follows:

Superhero: The Thing
Series/collections: Fantastic Four, Captain Britain, Asterix, Calvin & Hobbes, Everything Ever By Alan Moore Ever.
Writers: Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Ian Edginton, Stan Lee
Artists: Alan Davis, Mike McMahon, Steve Yeowell, John Byrne (a long time ago)
Websites: the usual
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: An issue of Marvel Superheroes with The Avengers fighting (i think) Dragon Man - about two months before Captain Britain started. I took it on Holiday and read it twice a day for a fortnight, it was GRATE. Also the last issue of 2000AD before it merged with Starlord, as i was a STARLORD reader and wanted to see what i was getting into. I was AFEARED, it all seemed rather ROUGH.
TPBs or issues?: Issues!
Conventions/cosplay?: Eh?
Filmic adaptation: Spiderman. And LOEG wasn't _that_ bad...
One liner: VAAAR!
Biggest kink: Superheroes! I know it's wrong, but if i want tales of everyday life i can watch Eastenders. I wanted 100s of GRATE NEW IDEAS, EXCITING THORTS and BRANE SUNDERING ACTION, and only comics can truly DO this - from the Lee/Kirby BEAT Fantastic Four to Promethea, THAT is what comics are best at.

Oh yeah, and from 1992 to 2002 I didn't buy one single comic, except maybe 3 issues of 2000AD. This seems to have been a very wise move indeed.

Series/collections: Optic Nerve, Artbabe, Blankets, Y: The Last Man, The Fixer, Alias, 100 Bullets, Preacher, Kill Your Boyfriend, From Hell

Writers: Jessica Abel, Dirge, Joe Sacco, Clowes, Azzarello, Ware, Grant Morrison, Garth Ennis

Websites: My own, of course (although not exclusively comics). I miss Savant.

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Sandman. I'm a girl. What do you expect?

TPBs or issues?: TPB

Conventions/cosplay?: I've only ever been to one, and I made an ass out of myself in front of Neil Gaiman. Although, in retrospect, I guess I should be proud I didn't vomit on his shoes.

Filmic adaptation: X2

Biggest kink: Girls who write comics

Is it true that the mainstream North American comic scene is as male-centered as it seems to be? I know in the alternative scene you have people like Roberta McGregory, Alison Bechdel, Julie Doucet etc. I guess it's due to the rather masculine world of superheroes; there shouldn't be anything inherently male about comics, should there? Back here in Finland maybe 40 percent of comic writers/artists seem to be female.

Superhero: Batman, Catwoman, Death, Veronica Lodge

Series/collections: Sandman, the Invisibles, Catwoman, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Blue Monday, Kabuki (I also used to read Strangers in Paradise but God is that series frustrating!)

Writers: Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Jhonen Vasquez, Andi Watson, Chynna Clugston-Major

Artists: Phil Jaminez, David Mack, Chynna Clugston-Major, Andi Watson

Websites: Slave Labor Press

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Betty and Veronica digest. Veronica rules!

TPBs or issues?: Death - The High Cost of Living; Johnny the Homicidal Maniac; the entire series of The Invisibles

Conventions/cosplay?: Wizard in Chicago

Filmic adaptation: Tim Burton's Batman, Ghost World (Does Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere count?)

One liner: "Not so fast, Joker!" -- from Neil Gaiman's Batman/Joker behind the scenes story

Biggest kink: kick-ass chicks and/or pretty boys practicing chaos magic... either one is good with me

Series/collections: Quimby The Mouse, Jimmy Corrigan, Ghost World, Maakies (do collections of newspaper comics count?), Krazy Kat (ditto), Oink! (remember this? It was fantastic, a halfway house between Whizzer & Chips and Viz... co-edited by Marc Riley, had regular strips from Frank Sidebottom... ah...)

Writers: Alan Moore, that guy who wrote Tank Girl, Harvey Pekar, Sam Henderson

Artists: R. Crumb, Peter Bagge, Jim Woodring, Herge, Dan Clowes, Chris Ware, Uderzo, Mat Brinkman, Mark Beyer

Websites: Serializer (for Smell Of Steve, Mjau Mjau and Achewood Sunday Edition), Comics Journal (particularly Journalista), Paperrad

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: A copy of the Beano, from 1981 or thereabouts. Spent hours looking at the back cover - remember Dennis and Gnasher running around a football pitch, IIRC...

TPBs or issues?: I only got into comics again about a year or so ago after a long period away - I haven't bought any issues but I have bought TPBs, so I guess that. I am still attached to the idea of buying issues, tho.

Conventions/cosplay?: Neither.

Filmic adaptation: The first Batman film was good.

One liner: "THE LIVING THANK YOU TOO" - "Frank", Jim Woodring

Biggest kink: Weirdness, surreal humour

I thought I might do a more general intro to me too, but it looks as if I know almost everyone here already.

re: the superhero-centric thing first: Ultimately, superheroes are why I read comics, for the simple reason that it's a genre that really isn't played anywhere else. Yeah, there's the occasional superhero movie, nearly always based on a comic; there is the increasingly frequent TV show with superhero elements (the first three seasons of Buffy, some episodes of Angel, among others). But this is where the genre lives, even if bits of it occasionally expatriate.

Superhero: Batman, even if I complain he's so rarely well-handled; Spider-Man is a close second, but Batman's the only character who can make me go "oohhh yeah" with a single well-done panel (when Electric Tropical Blue Superman "reapplied" to join the JLA and Batman ignored the results of the tests and just said, "Of course he's in, he's Superman," I went, fuckin A, that's exactly what Batman would say).

Series/collections: I have every issue of Swamp Thing from the beginning of Alan Moore's run to the end of Millar's (didn't pick up the Daughter Of Swamp Thing bit or this new thing they have now), and Steve Bissette drew an Anton Arcane on one of them for me.

Writers: The Steves (Englehart, Gerber), Stan Lee, Bendis, JMS when he's really on, Marv Wolfman, Frank Miller, Priest, many others who aren't jumping to mind.

Artists: Steve Ditko's Spider-Man and Dr Strange work is probably still my favorite comics art.

Websites: I think Newsarama is the only comics-related website I read.

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Marvel Team-Up number somethingth, Spider-Man and the Invisible Girl; Spidey has to help her rescue her kidnapped son. This was before John Byrne gave Sue balls and a new name, of course.

TPBs or issues?: Some stuff I know I'll forget to pick up in tpb, and don't want it spoiled for me, or whatever, so issues. I still have not internalized the "nearly everything ends up collected" trend.

Conventions/cosplay?: I haven't been to a comics convention since 1990 or earlier -- when I lived in suburban New Hampshire, it made sense because it was one of the only ways to get back issues, old graphic novels, Omaha the Cat Dancer, or the Hobgoblin action figure from the Secret Wars line. Post-internet and so forth, eh.

Filmic adaptation: Spider-Man.

One liner: No idea.

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Probably the "if superheroes were realistic / new takes on superheroes" meme, even if I often think it's overdone, overhyped, underthought. I have a Brat Pack tattoo, for Christ's sake, and never miss an issue of Powers.

Superhero: Wolverine, probably.

Series/collections: Uncanny X-Men, Punisher, now Daredevil. and TEH SHIELD

Writers: Claremont, recently Bendis

Artists: Jim Lee

Websites: ILC

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: When The Punisher gets his face all scratched up by Jigsaw,

TPBs or issues?: Issues

Conventions/cosplay?: What?

Filmic adaptation: X 1&2!!!!!

One liner: Dunno

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Kitchen sink realism, lack of morals, Americana.

Series/collections: Doom Patrol, Kirby's Fourth World, Miller's Daredevil, Hellboy, Moore's Swamp Thing, Sam and Max

Writers: Grant Morrison, Steve Gerber, Alan Moore, Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke

Artists: Cameron Stewart, Darwyn Cooke, Dave McKean, Jack Kirby, Becky Cloonan, Guy Davis

Websites: Lots of 'em. Newsarama, Comicon Pulse, Broken Frontier, Millarworld, various Delphi fora and a few comics blogs.

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Micronauts #29. The Micronauts get shot into the brain of a comrade, featuring SHIELD and the villany of Nighmare! Also, Origins of Marvel Comics, the big 'ol collection of a random sampling of pure gold '60s Marvel.

TPBs or issues?: Trades where I can. I buy too damn many floppies, too.

Conventions/cosplay?: I attend conventions. That's it.

Filmic adaptation: Superman I or II. The rest are pretty much total ass.

One liner: "You don't get it. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me." Or is that three lines?

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): AIM or the Hordes of Hydra.

[StretchArmstrong has sent you a file]

BowB4DOOM: hey wtf it's just a picture of a bed!
StretchArmstrong: yes my gf is invisible, ha ha on you
BowB4DOOM: oh no! wtf omg r u my nemesis Reed Richards?
StretchArmstrong: yes u luser i am Reed, got you again Vicky
BowB4DOOM: stfu! omg! i am going to hax0r your country now with my negative zone robot virus! fucko!

But I've had some interesting AIM chats about comics, does that count?

the more i re-read it, the funnier it gets.

I think we've got a few new regulars now, take the 1.5 minute to make introduction!

Ha-HA, you've been MANN-handled!

I smell a cute meet!

Superhero:
I suppose I'm a sort of regular by now but I thought I filled this out months ago.....

Series/collections: Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Y : The Last Man, Zenith, the Invisibles, the Ultimates, Captain Britain, Charlies War, Hate,ohmigod too many memories....
Writers: Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Brian K. Vaughan, Roger Stern in the 80s, Stan Lee in the 60s, Doug Moench in the 80s, Pat Mills.
Artists: Bill Scienciwicz, Mazzuchelli, Ditko, Bruce Timm, Steve Rude, Toth, Bagge, Hitch, Lapham, Gil Kane, Windsor-Smith, Moebius...
Websites: The Fourth Rail, Sequential Tart..
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Marvel Team-Up - isssue Number unknown. Claremont/Byrne Spiderman/Capt Britain teamup.
TPBs or issues?: TPBs.
Conventions/cosplay?: what?
Filmic adaptation: Spiderman. Made me feel 12 again in lots of uncomfortable ways.
One liner:
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Bwight colours!! Big Blurbs!!

Also I used to have a webcomic.

Too bad, Chris. The other Chris Hill was my favorite comic book shop clerk, before I gave up comics for the first time.

Superhero: marmaduke, enid coleslaw, toybox
Series/collections: gotham central, y: the last man, eightball, identity crisis
Writers: alan moore, daniel clowes, adrian tomine, brad meltzer
Artists: adrian tomine, winsor mckay, henry darger
Websites: http://ape-law.com/GAF/index.html , http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/league1.html
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: captain carrot
TPBs or issues?: tpb
Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: i own a green lantern tee
Filmic adaptation: x-men 2
One liner: "i make stabby"
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): high concept bs 'what if?...' comics done very seriously (cf. alan moore, gotham central)
Favorite single panel: http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page26/baseball7.jpg

Series/collections: Planetary, Lucifer, Y, Ex Machina, Optic Nerve, Jimmy Corrigan, mid-to-late '80s Uncanny X-Men, JLA in all permutations

Writers: Grant Morrison, Brian Azzarello, Brian K. Vaughan, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore

Artists: Mike Mignola, Jae Lee, John Cassaday, Chris Ware, Christopher Moeller

Websites: Newsarama

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: An issue of Legion of Superheroes I read until it disintegrated.

TPBs or issues?: Issues almost exclusively.

Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Not so much.

Filmic adaptation: Hellboy, Superman II, Ghost World, Sin City

One liner: Elijah Snow: "He's your special Bat-friend."

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Ellis reimagining all the classics in Planetary -- partucularly when he turned John Constantine into Spider Jerusalem.

Favorite single panel: The full page with 2 leaping in the last issue of WE3.

Hmm. My choices seem to skew rather unfortunately towards the recent. Anyway, my name's Matthew and I've been lurking here a while -- long enough to check out She-Hulk and become a Dan Slott booster based on all the props he gets on here. I definitely plan to try Queen and Country for simiilar reasons. Job well done, you lot!

Ellis reimagining all the classics in Planetary -- partucularly when he turned John Constantine into Spider Jerusalem.

I don't remember this, but it sounds great! What are you referring to?

Back to my Legion of Substitute Heroes-style super hero alter ego...

Superhero: Oooh, difficult...Jenny Sparks, Crazy Jane.
Series/Collection: From Hell, Sin City, Planetary, Global Frequency, The Killing Joke, Marvel/Miracleman, Top 10, Sandman, 300, Akira, Lone Wolf and Cub, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright...God, I could go on forever.
Writers: Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Artists: John Cassaday, Katsuhiro Otomo, Steve McNiven, Geof Darrow, Frank Quitely, Bill Sienkewicz, Dave McKean, John Totleben, Cam Kennedy, Moebius, Gimenez...this could take a long time.
Websites: comicbookresources/com (and no, I don't know how to insert URLs)
TPBs or Issues? Issues, of course. What sort of weirdo do you think I am? Although it is nice to have a story all in one place.
Cons/cosplay? Cons, in my youth. I'm a bit long in the tooth for that kinda shit nowadays.
Filmic Adaptation? Hellboy, Blade or X2 (Haven't seen Sin City yet it looks like it may be up there)
One Liner: "Moo" from Morrison's New X-Men, "Clean thoughts, chum.", from Alan Moore's Superman story; 'For the Man Who Has Everything'
Comic Book Kink: Grant Morison (unfortunately) closely followed by Warren Ellis.
Favourite Single Panel: At the moment it's the one in Planetary #19 (or is it #18) with the corpse of the pseudo-Galactus, but I'm guessing that might change if McNiven gets to draw the Ultimate Universe version in Ultimate Secret.

hi i'm tom i'm nineteen i study american literature i lead kind of a dull life and comics help -

yadda yadda yadda:

superhero - martian manhunter!
websites: here, i guess.
first comic you bought/remember most vividly: actually i remember having a kind of thing for the x-men based mostly around the cartoon series: and any random 80s-90s issue of the comic i actually happened to see would fall into part of this vast tapestry of potential literature i couldn't wait until i was old and moneyed enough to read all of because obviously it all be so great..
TPBs or issues?: i have no opinion on this matter.
one liner: i am a total sucker for any comic that gets in "who WAS that masked man?", especially if the speaker is taking the piss
biggest kink: the whole re-evaluation of the superhero bizniz.
favorite single panel: "look UP!" at the end of flex mentallo maybe. or the angry genius postreptile lizard at the end of enigma.

Superhero: The Flash (Wally West)
Series: All time: Animal Man, Doom Patrol, New X-Men, Invisibles (All circa morrison), Shade, The Changing Man, Human Target, Transmet, Hate, Madman, Eightball, Spirou (circa Franquin), Starman, Fantastic Four, New Teen Titans, Uncanny X-Men, Justice League International, The Flash (obviously, but that's the only one I follow no matter who's doing it)
Writers: Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Mark Waid, Keith Giffen, James Robinson (when he was a DC Hack, before becoming a Hollywood hack), Ann Nocenti.
Artists: Chris Bachalo (in Shade-Death-Generation X), Frank Quitely, Brian Bolland
Writer/Artist: André Franquin, Frank Miller, Dan Clowes, Peter Bagge, Kyle Baker, Sam Kieth, Bill Watterson, Winsor McCay, Alex Raymond, whatever.
Websites: ADLO! Novelti Librari
First comic I bought/remember most vividly: I think it was a pre-crisis Superman which I got second hand (i'm not that old, i could barely read when the Crisis happened!) It was about Superman on a trip back to Krypton and taking Lois Lane with him, showing him the wonders of his home planet, etc etc etc. The cover said something like "Lois, I introduce you to my family!".

The first one I bought and still keep must be a local edition of Batman and the Outsiders #1, circa 1989.

TPBs or Issues: Issues all the way. I don't understand the people who prefer TPBs. I mean, I would if TPBs were cheaper than the sum of its issues, but they certainly aren't. So it's the same money (or more), but just in one payment. It makes no sense to me.

Conventions: I went to one in 1996, and another one in 1998. That was the end for me! Too many people...

Filmic adaptation: Superman, Ghost World

One liner: "There's gotta be a better world", the last Doom Patrol by Morrison.

Favorite single panel: Buddy Baker shedding a tear for his resurrected family in Animal Man 26, Danny The World giving the welcome for Crazy Jane, Shade's daughter/son looking at the sky in Shade 70...i'm a sucker for emotional endings. I should also mention one panel from Justice League International 8 (Moving Day) but the description would be too long.

Superhero: don't have one, really.

Series/collections: I rilly liked the interconnectedness of the DC and Marvel universes and I guess I really dug Teen titans, X-Men, and lotsa team books but a.) then Chris Claremont ruined comic books for me in the mid '80s, b.) Watchmen pretty much made me not need to read any more comics, and c.) I needed to get some pussy.

Y'know what was really good? Bruce Jones' Ka-Zar.

Writers: Roy Thomas, Moore, Doug Moench, lotsa others…

Artists: sorry… I liked John Byrne…Neal Adams, Perez, Kirby…lotsa others…

Websites: umm, this one?

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: I think it was an late '70s legion ish…

TPBs or issues?: TPBs

Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: never been to one…

Filmic adaptation: I guess Batman Begins got it right…

One liner: no idea…

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): gee…good dialogue? characterization?

Favorite single panel: no idea…

Series/collections: Vagabond, Slam Dunk, Invisibles, Nemesis, Finder, Y the Last Man, Stray Bullets, Blue Monday (bet I'm the only one here), Maakies, Black Order Brigade, Son of the Gun.

Writers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Grant Morrison, Pat Mills (before he lost it), David Lapham [am more of an artist person than a writer person]

Artists: Inoue Takehiko!!! Frank Quitely, Kevin O'Neill, Jack Cole, Paul Pope, Jim Mahfood, Jhonen Vasquez, Eduardo Risso, Pierre Christin, Georges Bess, David Lapham

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: 2000AD. First US comic was Squee. First Jap comic was Akira. First one I read was Tintin.

TPBs or issues?: Issues, cos I'm impatient. But TPBs are undeniably better to read (I hate the ads, Marvel in particular are choked with 'em). Actually the real answer is manga collections. I like the paperback format.

Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Nope never done it. Used to be on Barbelith a lot tho!

Filmic adaptation: Gotta confess to a deep love for Xmen.

One liner: "Guess we've got to win now, huh guys?" Hanamichi Sakuragi talking to the Shohoku team after he's jumped on a table and told the entire stadium that "Sannoh's going down". Or "Are you one of those wussie emo bands?" from New Xmen.

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Quirky art.

Favorite single panel: The aliens debating who gets to keep Squee. Or Uozumi wearing an apron and shaving a radish onto the basketball court to remind Akagi that he is "a flounder not a star, and you need to get down in the mud: no-one else can do that".

Welcome Jacob, you've motivated me to do something that's been on my mind for a while: All New Introduce Yourselves thread!