I've loved comics since I was in high school. The comic book store about a block from my high school was my sanctuary. I was a nerd, a dork, a geek, I was the outsider in a school that was filled with smart people and smart people who conformed. But I wasn't one of the sheep.
The basement was filled with manga and those were the stories I loved. The cliche average kid thrown in to extraordinary circumstances and rising above all of it, yeah, I fell for it. I got absorbed in the stories. Because from the age of 13 - 17 I was so sick of my world I wanted to escape from another. But being an adult in a teenage body was what always pulled my nose out of a book and face life ... no matter how insufferable it was sometimes.
My bro was in to Marvel and DC but I didn't start getting in to it until later. I have to say, Batman the Animated series, Justice League, Batman Beyond, those got me hooked. Just ordered a bunch of Batman comics (most by Frank Miller). But things like the video below, and articles like these:
http://www.yesbutnobutyes.com/archives/2007/03/top_15_unintent.html
http://wiw.org/~jess/?category_name=apropos-comics%2F
really get me addicted.
Being a teenager doesn't last long, (though it feels like it) and one of the important lessons I've learned? Quoting Mae West:
Mae: I used to be ashamed, then I got over it.
Cowboy: What happened? you reformed?
Mae: No, I got over being ashamed
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