Hey all, Jason here. I thought I should do an introduction post to the Welcome to the Boards thread, even though I've been posting elsewhere. Better late than never, as they say.
I just returned to comic collecting this spring after going cold turkey in '99. I had a pretty good run from 85 to 99, but just got burnt out by to many titles, cross-overs and variants. But all the new Marvel/DC movies and the Walking Dead the last few years got me all nostalgic for comics again. I started out going digital this time around, but dropped that quickly and went back to print. Soon after, I started trolling around ebay looking for back issues and I kept seeing these CGC graded comics, and I though what the hell is this! After a little bit of Googling, I find this site, sign up, and bam here I am.
As for a little about me, I'm 41 and married to a wonderful lady. No kids, but we do have two dogs. My first comics were Transformers and GI Joe bought at a drug store. A few months later I discovered Iron Man. Within a year I had found a comic book store, which wasn't easy in Iowa in the 80s. Soon I was into Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers. Didn't really read anything by DC at the time, other than Batman and some JLA/JLI. But that changed in the early 90s with the Death of Superman and Knightfall. I spent the rest of the 90's reading Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash and the X-books.
These days I'm busy catching up on major story lines of the last 15 years in the DCU and the Nu52 and getting the current stuff. But I plan on getting more into SA/GA collecting too, I never bought much of that stuff back in the day...what a missed opportunity!
I'll be seeing you around the boards.
Hey all, Jason here. I thought I should do an introduction post to the Welcome to the Boards thread, even though I've been posting elsewhere. Better late than never, as they say. I just returned to comic collecting this spring after going cold turkey in '99. I had a pretty good run from 85 to 99, but just got burnt out by to many titles, cross-overs and variants. But all the new Marvel/DC movies and the Walking Dead the last few years got me all nostalgic for comics again. I started out going digital this time around, but dropped that quickly and went back to print. Soon after, I started trolling around ebay looking for back issues and I kept seeing these CGC graded comics, and I though what the hell is this! After a little bit of Googling, I find this site, sign up, and bam here I am. As for a little about me, I'm 41 and married to a wonderful lady. No kids, but we do have two dogs. My first comics were Transformers and GI Joe bought at a drug store. A few months later I discovered Iron Man. Within a year I had found a comic book store, which wasn't easy in Iowa in the 80s. Soon I was into Spider-Man, X-Men and Avengers. Didn't really read anything by DC at the time, other than Batman and some JLA/JLI. But that changed in the early 90s with the Death of Superman and Knightfall. I spent the rest of the 90's reading Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash and the X-books. These days I'm busy catching up on major story lines of the last 15 years in the DCU and the Nu52 and getting the current stuff. But I plan on getting more into SA/GA collecting too, I never bought much of that stuff back in the day...what a missed opportunity! I'll be seeing you around the boards.