I'd love to have some in-person nerd outs. Favorite characters? ongoing books? classic storylines? writers? artists? comic movies?

I do mostly read fairly mainstream stuff (supeheroes, Vertigo, zombies, etc), but I love "indie comics" too. Optic Nerve, Jeffrey Brown, Jason Lutes, yadda yadda. Maybe if you've got some good underappreciated local publishers and creators, bring some of their stuff for trade.

also, I know the Fest tends to attract those of the somewhat lower socio-economic standing, but any chance y'all wanna bring some extra cash and buy comics from me? I'm trying to convert a good chunk of my collection into TPB. Same stories, less shelf space.

If you anything that involves Cable in some way shape or form I would buy it off of you.

I didn't have much of a collection but I lost it due to a house fire so I figured I would just pick my favorite character and start get him all back. Which is convenient since he just got revamped (not sure how I feel about the art yet). Got his Blood and Metal Series and just got Uncanny X-Men #201 in the mail today. It's just going to be a pain getting all the x-force and new mutants ones again.

I'm really excited about the Ender's Game adaption, I hope they don't fuck it up since it is one of my favorite books.
and I need to pre-order imax tickets for Watchmen, going to be amazing.


oh and yes ladies if you were wondering I am single

Ah-haha, well then you'll appreciate that I started going to sci-fi conventions at around the age of 10. Which only led to toy conventions, f/x conventions, horror conventions, and the mother of comic conventions for FL - MEGACON!

When I first started going I could honestly count all the girls there on my 2 hands. Then they started having costume contests, geek became cool, cosplay happened, and anime spread like a plague. Ugh.

Yeah OK, I admit it... I love to dress up. I even dated a guy for a while that I met at MegaCon. He was dressed like a giant robot when we met, no lie.

But you could no longer even walk up and down the rows of booths anymore without feeling like you were at the mall on Christmas Eve, but everyone was dressed like it was Halloween. I mean you'd get covered with body paint!

And to meet your favorite "star" and get their autograph and a photos with them cold take literally HOURS. I loved to actually talk to them and ask questions. Not be shooed away after I had my brief moment.

So yeah, I was once really into underground and independent comics. Went with my "want list" in hand and spend HUNDREDS at each one. But I've been really turned off from it. I felt like the whole scene sold out.

Oh and yes guys, I'm single. haha

Not sure if i'm sharing too much here but I do have a half sleeve depicting the Onslaught Marvel story from a few years back (i think it's just been reprinted actually).
It's a pretty well done tat and I'm still really chuffed with it.

I'm not into comics as much as I was but I still have them all and still buy em now and then, I mostly go for tpb's rather than comics due to the freakin space they consume.
8 comic boxes just will never look tidy in anyones house. I've got half at my Mums and half at my mates house because they simply won't fit in my house
The stories i'm reading at the mo are The Walking Dead, Y-The Last Man and I want to get hold of the Marvel Civil War story that I missed (anyone know if thats any good?)

But yeah, big fan of League of Ex Gentlemen, Hellboy, 1602, Preacher, The Authority, anything by Jeoffrey Brown, Age of Apocalypse and son ans so forth...

i'm a fan of Brian Wood (Demo, DMZ, Local, etc)

i love Vertigo but it always makes me feel like i'm cheating on Marvel with DC.


Teenagers from Mars and Pirates of Coney Island are two great limited series that fans of punk music would enjoy (and i fucking love)


Y: the last man was great....Walking Dead is taking over its spot on current runs. Fables started to become good again (wasn't a big fan of the Arabian Nights storyline)


i started with the x-men and wolverine and ghost rider back in '92 so i'm always partial to Marvel.


anyone reading Secret Invasion?

i wonder if here is the right place to admit that last night i made a spreadsheet of my comic collection...or whether that is something i should never admit?! ultimate geekery.

i have kinda of fallen out of collecting due to having zero money but am now trying to rectify it....my current favourite reads are 'love and rockets' (more the jamie hernadez than the gilbert), 'action girl' comics, 'marvel romance redux', 'supermarket'(brian wood/kristian donaldson), 'phonogram' (jamie mckelvie) and 'local' (brian wood/ryan kelly). i also love 'paris' (andi watson/simon gane).

any recommendations are welcomed!

I can't imagine anywhere being 'the right place' but I reckon this is as close as you're gonna get.

I started reading 2000AD when I was 12, picked up Spawn and Fantastic Four in Forbidden Planet on a whim a few years later, got heavily into them and others.. but kinda lost interest when I went to uni/started spending more money on records. Now I dont really read anything regularly. I read Persepolis recently, and I'll pick up anything by Chris Ware or Jeffrey Brown.

Shit I totally forgot to mention 2000ad.

So many amazing stories in there but the best thing that was ever printed in 2000ad has got to be Zenith.

If you get the chance, read it. A very general and lazy comparison would be to Watchmen only set in the 80's Thatcher-era Britain.

Only drawback is it's a bitch to get hold of because it has never been reprinted so it's either trawl through ebay and find 50 odd back issues or get the HC collections of each phase, (of which there are 5) which ring in at about 40-50quid each at the mo.

But I digress...

ABC warriors was the bomb also. As was Slaine.

nerd alert!

(says the girl who has a 10" Hawkgirl on her desk at work)

Yeah, Slaine was pretty cool. Although my fav's were Future Shocks/Pulp Sci-Fi, Sinister Dexter, Durham Red, Nicolai Dante and Glimmer Rats (which would've made an awesome film) - obviously Dredd killed as well. God I haven't thought about these characters in years. I dont remember Zenith though, maybe it was before I started reading.

Dude you're gettin high fives all over the place!

Yeah, sounds like it was a bit before most of the strips you mention here. I think it went from about 1986-89.

Glimmer Rats is by far my favourite (vaguely) recent 2000ad strip and you are most correct in saying it would make an awesome film, and by 'awesome' I mean 'totally fucked up'. I always imagine the Glimmer to be the other side of the dimension in Event Horizon.
Basically Hell, for all those in the dark.

I quite liked Vector 13 an all, you prob read a few of those. There was a strip in that about Hitler and the Spear of Destiny which blew my mind.

I haven't read as much as I would like

But I have a comic of my own. If anyone wants haha. I was selling them last year.

Angry Asian: Bustin Lips and Shakin Hips.

I'm mostly a DC guy myself. Spending about $35 a week on my habit if that gives you some idea how big of a nerd I am. And I will read anything that Grant Morrison touches.

i'm a comic book heathen and just buy wolverine related marvel stuff when i can afford to, i do love wolverine though