The first comic I ever bought myself was a black-and-white collection of reprints from an old series called Mystery In Space published by DC Comics SHOWCASE: Adam Strange. This phone book sized tome contained all of the Mystery In Space comics that starred spacefaring super hero Adam Strange. These very campy and zany comics were so incredible to me as a child, and helped create my great love for comics and sequential art. Comics fill me with wonder because they are a wholly unique way of telling stories, a medium where words and pictures are placed in an ink stained crucible that creates an art that is a progression, a wholly new way to communicate from that of its parts standing alone. The stories are wonderful and fantastic tales of heroics that provide a nice diversion from daily life, yes, but these characters and their stories are in many ways, modern myths, an idea that fills me with curiosity about why superhero comics are so prevalent in our culture, more so than ever before. The creativity in comics and their creators fills me with wonder every time I read a comic. Perhaps I am waxing too poetically, I mean what deep lesson about the human experience can I actually get from a 22 page story about a archaeologist who gets teleported across galaxies to fight a space tornado with a laser pistol? You'd have to read the issue to find out won't you?
Hunter Ives, North Carolina
Comics Fan
Hunter Ives, North Carolina
Comics Fan