More Weird Dreams
Aug. 16th, 2007 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseMason has been very into comics of all kinds. I've been reading him New Avengers and Fantastic Four ....and Calvin and Hobbes. Last night, I had several really restless dreams about BEING Bill Watterson (or, sometimes meeting him, you know how dreams are.) The dream should have been nice, but it wasn't. I was being kept from turning in a Sunday strip by all sorts of strange nefarious (and mundane) events. I lost it. I lost the color plates. I had to go pick something up somewhere across town. Things like that. It was very weird. I also think Captian America showed up, but I can't be certain. (Yes, I know he's dead. I often dream about dead people.)
Speaking of Captian America, Dreamhaven certainly has my number. I used to be a comicbook addict. I'm sure Lance (who is one of the comicbook guys at Dreamhaven) doesn't remember, but Shawn and I used to have him pull our titles once a week and we'd go buy them. I had to stop because I was in college and couldn't afford to collect all the X-Titles that were floating around in the early 90s. Also, the art, IMHO, had started to deteriorate and, for me, if I'm going to read in a visual medium I want the art and the story to be equally good (though I found I would much more easily forgive a stupid story if the art knocked my socks off, but not in reverse.) Anyway, I had some credit at Dreamhaven (from all the remaindered books I trade them), and when Mason got into the Fantastic Four, I thought, hey, here's an easy way to buy him more and see if he likes them. Well, of course, I found some adult comics I liked too.
Now I'm addicted again.
The hillarious part is that the storyline I'm attached to is one that is pretty much universally deplored by comic fans. I'm really enjoying Brian Micahel Bendis' New Avengers. Apparently, comic fans are ticked because Bendis appears to have slapped together a team for the pure marketing effect of putting a bunch of big-ticket people together. I was so out of it, that I had no idea and I really love the banter that happens between characters who (at least in the storyline) have been thrust together by fate. Captain America and Spider-Man, for instance. Two different guys you couldn't find, and, IMHO, Bendis makes the most of this by having some fairly hillarious dialogue.
Anyway, I'm off to Dreamhaven again today because.... well, it's Thursday, and on Thursday new comics come in. Thank God(dess) Elizabeth needed more AngeLINK books or I'd be broke.
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Date: 2007-08-16 05:41 pm (UTC)So I've been catching up in recent years.
Believe me when I say this gets very expensive!
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Date: 2007-08-17 01:43 pm (UTC)I read nearly every superhero title when I was a kid. I have a cousin, Laun, whose father started the collection and Laun continued it. I've read X-Men #1 and the Amazing Stories that Spider-Man made his first appearance in. The only bummer about having started with comics that way is that I have half-remembered storylines in my mind and no way to go back and check them (since Laun and I are somewhat out of contact.)
*even bigger sigh*
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Date: 2007-08-16 11:41 pm (UTC)Mwahahahaha. ;)
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Date: 2007-08-17 02:22 pm (UTC)They probably know me as "that crazy woman who had them mail books to England and Australia," should you wish to blame me by name.
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