LURKERS DELURK!

But yeah, lurkers, say hi if you like. Who do YOU think is the Identity Crisis killer? Did you like Blankets? Taking Sides: Love Hina vs Maison Ikkoku, Giant Scorpions vs Drowning, Watchmen vs Dark Knight Returns, Crumb vs Pekar.

But, anyway, I started reading comics again (after a 15-16 year hiatus) about a year ago. Do you want to hear the reason why I started again? It's a little embarrassing.

Seem to remember the FF fighting someone called the Lurker, but no luck on an image search.

And speaking as a semi-Lurker, it's nice reaping the benefits of ILC's enthusiasm, learning about and catching up on series & characters through the posts here.

Well that hasn't stopped me.

Oh wait, it has.

I used to read Justice League, LSH, Morrison's Doom Patrol and all the X-Books in the late 80s but then stopped reading comics for ages and only recently started again. I currently read JSA, Flash, Hot Chicks of Prey and pick up odd trade paperbacks like mystique or She-Hulk or whatever. I used to read loads of indie stuff like Love and Rockets, Optic Nerve, Dirty Plottte etc too, but now I am happy just to stick to retarded superheroes.

I just cannot believe that the Atom killed Sue Dibney by stamping on her brain with his evil tiny feet.

Temporarily uncaring as to who the IC killer is due to weeping in a corner. (Okay not really, but me = loves the Bats. And I don't know enough about Ray Palmer's character to have any idea WTF his motive could be other than getting his ex to sleep with him again. Which would make stomping Sue Dibney's brain into some kind of stroke and making Tim Drake into an orphan kinda... excessive.)

And hell, you want embarrassing confessions? I buy Nightwing.

Welcome, Mark and D, glad you're here.

This is such a fantastic sentence. This is probably how they pitched IC.

Actually I'm getting a bit bored of Flash and JSA at the moment - I'll wait and see what their new big storylines turn out to be like...

... and, yes, what Marc C. said.

The second story arc is fun too - Babs is arrested under the Patriot Act while BC goes globe trotting with a couple of psycho ultravixens (who are also, surprisingly, hot). I think they are releasing the trade of that next year.

There's gratuitous T&A in in BoP? WHY DIDN@T ANYONE TELL ME BEFORE?

(plus I require Huk-L to find out which issue of B&B it is, scan it and send it to my gmail)

Still, 'twas not always thus. Like a lot of others here, I'm sure, my first comics love was 2000AD (started reading at Prog 263, with Robo Hunter and the Beast of Blackheart Manor on the front, and towards the tail-end of the Apocalypse War). From following 2000AD writers and artists (particularly Alan Moore and Brian Bolland) I got into some American comics too, and also came across the magazines which had to take the place now occupied by ILC - like Arkensword and especially Martin Skidmore's Fantasy Advertiser or FA, to which I was a keen subscriber for years. I couldn't believe it when I started seeing Mr Skidmore's name on ILX threads, but still wasn't totally sure it was him 'til discovering ILC. It was so nice to know he was still around, though - his magazine meant as much to me in my comics years as Melody Maker and John Peel would later when I really got into music.

Anyway, I went through things like Watchmen, Neat Stuff, Yummy Fur, Dark Knight, Cerebus, etc, but ended up giving up on all comics except Hate at about the age of 17/18 (my last 2000AD being Prog 750, as I thought it'd be a neat cut-off point and all I was reading was Dredd by that point).

I've drifted back into comics recently by catching up on Alan Moore things I'd missed out on, then ... ahem... "DK2", and am currently exploring a good few trades based on ILC recommendations.
Tom's entries about ABC Warriors and particularly Nemesis books one to four (though I'd pretend two didn't exist myself, just like Titan did) have really brought back the fond memories. Reminds me that I should have posted on that 'ultimate cliffhangers' thread about the episode in book four in which Torquemada beheaded Nemesis!
And they ended up with most disappointing cop-out I've ever seen "ha! tricked you with my ectoplasm clone!" (or whatever he was made out of...)

PS - Howdy!