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What is your Favorite Comic Book Genre?

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What is your Favorite Comic Book Genre?  

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  1. 1. What is your Favorite Comic Book Genre?

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The_Man_Of_Steel

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I know that some of you are into other non-mainstream comic book genres, so here is your chance to convice the rest of us why we should give your favorite comic book genre a chance.

 

 

 

My favorite comic book genre is Super-Heroes, but Fantasy (example: Conan) and Science Fiction (example: Star Wars) genres interest me as well.

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lighthouse

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Porn, baby... it's all about the porn... cool.gif

 

Strangely, porn is the one genre where you can find all these other genres represented. I have western porn, horror porn, super-hero porn, sports porn, crime porn, romance porn, sci-fi porn, mystery porn and even religious porn... Mmmmmmm... porn... cool.gif

 

But in the hopes of not ruining your entire thread, my second choice would be Crime... smile.gif

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lighthouse

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The Batman puzzle stories from the 50's and 60's are interesting, but I wouldn't really consider them crime, just as I wouldn't consider Hill Street Blues or NYPD Blue to be crime shows... Now The Shield, on the other hand...

 

100 Bullets, most anything written by Bendis before he got popular, Ruse, there's a fair amount of good Crime stuff out there... I just hope the new CSI series doesn't suck as much as I expect it to...

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The_Man_Of_Steel

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Brian, Super-Hero books are also my favorite type of comic books. If you don't mind my asking why are Super-Hero books your favorite type?

 

P.S. - I'm looking into the reasons why we prefer one genre over another, let's dig a little deeper into this discussion.

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Arty

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Well...so Comedy it is. Yep...I'm into Donald Duck. If you ask why, they there first comics I ever had. I learned to read from these comic books and there actually are some very good stories. Have you ever read stories by Carl Barks? If you haven't give them a try, you are guaranteed to get some good laughs.

 

I also like ASM, Fantastic Four and old DC comics so I'm not only into comedy books.

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The_Man_Of_Steel

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"Well it's all right now, I've learned my lesson well, you can't please everyone, so you've got to please yourself" Sorry Blowout, I used the search by Genre menu in ComicBase (you know the program with the largest database of comics we both use to keep track of our Comic inventory) to come up with the list. So I guess you can take your complaint to Human Computing (what's his name that you've spoken with), and tell them to add a Martial Arts genre. So where would you classify the Punisher? Action/Adventure or War? I would go with Action/Adventure because it's really quite different from war titles like Sgt. Rock. Oh, and I would classify Martial Arts in Action/Adventure, the same as I would classify a Steven Segal movie as Action/Adventure. So maybe you could enlighten the numbskulls like me as to WHY it's different.

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like your example with the punisher shows, action/adventure is too wide a net. if you are making a specific distinction between genres then martial arts is different from general action as the hero is using a very specific fighting style and set of beliefs, which are often religious, that underpin the stories. also there are certainly enough martial arts characters/titles to warant its own catagory.

 

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Still learning the ropes about the genre... but pre moon shot science fiction. Mostly because I was born in '66 and have no conceivable notion other than stories of what American life was like before the moon landing. Dan.

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B/c I believe they have more depth as a character as they have to balance both sides of their lives and make decisions as their alter ego that could impact how they act or can act.

lol, but really I only like Super heros cause the books I read are ASM and Cap..so I guess I don't know why tongue.gif

 

Brian

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Arty

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I don't know - sounds like Anthropomorphics to me!

 

I think you might be right!

 

I had to check my vocabulary, and now when I know what that word means it makes sense. I think that these characters are more humans than animals.

 

Not long ago, I read an interview where Carl Barks said that

in Uncle Scrooge 1 he named his story "Only a poor old man" (instead of duck) because he always considered his characters as humans not animals.

 

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