So you'd like to get your girlfriend into comics?

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― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 13 November 2004 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't see girls buying *any* of those comics at the comics store I go to, though I don't think any of them are bad choices per se. That store makes a killing with Ronan Dirge/ Jhnonen Vasquez/ Slave Labor Graphics goth comics with the ladies, though.

― ng, Saturday, 13 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend got me into comics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The few girls I know / have seen in comic shops were looking for stuff like The Ultimates & Astonishing X-Men. These ladies might be of the goth persuasion.

And where the hell is Sandman on that list?

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

First SiP joke: it's what you'd want your GF to read if you wanted to break up w/ her in the messiest, ugliest manner possible.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 13 November 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

This might get my girlfriend into comics if I was dating Sarah Lawrence sophomores who sigh a lot and TiVo Inu-Yasha.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(Not that any of them I've read are bad, except SiP, but the combination -- especially as gateway drug -- paints a picture that may as well be titled "Unfuckable and Please Shut Up.")

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife has never even read a comic! She was looking at one over my shoulder the other day and asked why some of the text was in squares and some in bubbles! It reminded me of those stories of Aborigines who couldn't "see" photographs because they'd never encountered such a form of visual representation before!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoa, has she never, like, read the comics page of the newspaper or anything?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 14 November 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never really noticed what girls are looking at in comic shops, I have however noticed girls in comic shops.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 14 November 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my girlfriend into comics. First thing she loved was Preacher, then from there she picked up Sandman, Hellboy, The Goon, and some other horror comics. It pretty matched with her taste in films. She's reading Blankets now.

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm that girlfriend. ^ I also really like 30 Days of Night and The Invincibles and, obviously, Steve Weissman.

Find comics in a genre that she likes and start there. If Jeff had stepped to me with some traditional super hero titles, I would have scoffed and never picked up a comic again (although I have since read and enjoyed Watchmen and would like to read more Alan Moore). But he knew that I'd like the chicken-fucking creepiness of Preacher and started there.

Jeff got me Blankets and Jimmy Corrigan for my birthday. Maybe she'd like Blankets, which is really sweet in kind of a Say Anything way. Or so far. I'm only about a quarter of the way through it. Zombies might eat them all later, which would also be pretty cool.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh duh. You weren't asking for advice, were you? I have read a comic or two on that Amazon list, but for the most part, meh. I need more gore.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Preacher, Sandman, Hellboy, 30 Days of Night -> also several of my girlfriend's favorites (and she picks up the first issue of pretty much any horror comic). That's more like it!

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Zombies improve anything.

Btw, my girlfriend's favorite comics -- Invisibles, Transmet, Preacher, Slave Labor, anything with Rogue.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 14 November 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The few girls I know / have seen in comic shops were looking for stuff like The Ultimates & Astonishing X-Men. These ladies might be of the goth persuasion.

That's what I read. I'd say something about NOT BEING A GOTH, but it would probably look like I'm protesting too much.

I've never read anything on that list...

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Sunday, 14 November 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife likes Simpsons and Powerpuff Girls comics and Tintin, FWIW. I have left New X-Men and Halo Jones collections as bathroom reading and both have got the big 'meh'.

― Tom (Groke), Sunday, 14 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know if Tintin counted as comics here, but I like Tintin as well.

― Leon the Fratboy (Ex Leon), Monday, 15 November 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of my female friends who read comics have liked Preacher as well... Funny, that's not the first thing you'd think of as a comic for girls. Sandman is probably the ultimate "girls' comic", I know only one female comic fan who hasn't read it (and my friends aren't even goths). Bone is a big favourite among my friends as well. I've never met a girl who would've read superhero comics, though they aren't that big in Finland anyway.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't know if Tintin counted as comics here, but I like Tintin as well.

Sure it counts! We've had Tintin threads in here too, though they've probably been overshadowed by the superhero threads.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 15 November 2004 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think If I had all of these comics on a shelf, most guys would run away for fear of the words damaged goods appearing on my forehead.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It might work better as "how to get ~~your~~ a girlfriend through comics".

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 15 November 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend wanted to buy Sandman, which lead to me buying Hellboy, which lead to me buying Sandman, which lead to her buying Promethea, which lead to me buying Y:The Last Man, which lead to me buying Kingdom Come...

I'm considerably poorer (yet richer) for it.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Thursday, 18 November 2004 02:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I started reading comics after a lengthy gap because a GURL pointed me towards Sandman.

I bought Liz a copy of Watchmen a couple of years ago. Since then, she's happily gobbled up most of Alan Moore's back catalogue.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 18 November 2004 10:45 (twenty-one years ago)

b-b-b-but it's just this story about this blue space guy!

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 18 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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