surprisingly… i’ve started to read comics again. well that’s not surprising but the fact that i’m reading _new_ comics is. i had this feeling that just all new comics would suck. as basically everything newly “creative” nowadays does. i’ve been reading various marvel titles lately and really enjoying them though.

my own personal golden age of comics is 1991-1994ish, for various reasons i began to lose interest in comics around 1994. i owe comic books quite a bit…i’m positive i would’ve never got into reading novels without first enjoying comic books. sure, i had to read novels in elementary school, some of which i liked. but..things are different when you’re somewhat forced to do something. like a chore or something. anyhow, an issue of uncanny x-men from 1991-ish ended up in my hands. i think this was 5th grade. i immediately loved it despite not knowing the characters and the fact that the issue was mid-saga. so then i was hooked and began buying more issues, especially of the x-men. i collected pretty much exclusively marvel comics for quite some time.

according to my memory, marvel comics suddenly got crappy like in 1993-94 or so. all their top artists jumped ship to image comics at the time. i had a lot of the first image comics and continued to collect those..and guess what they got crappy too. i stumbled upon valiant comics at some point and those are by far some of the best comics ever made. valiant art is average, but the stories are amazing.