What Trade do you use to convert newbies (preferably a GF or Wife)?

[vaillant]

Copper: the Roger Stern tenure on Avengers it’s great. His characterization of female characters is wonderful (especially Wasp and Monica, i.e. Captain Marvel).

[Ken Aldred]

 

... but if it has to be something relatively modern, and thoughtful, I would suggest Grant Morrison's WE3, one of his best works ever.

 

Quite a while since I read this, but I recall the first issue being extremely violent. I'd probably think about easing them in a bit more gently.

[Smoak//Frost-migration]

I'm glad to see some people have found girlfriends/wives who accept or even like comic collecting. I've been verbally abused to no end about being "a grown man who collects comic books" by some of the women I've gone out with. Enough so, in fact, that now I usually don't tell the women I date.

 

I've been there too man, cleaning up the man cave before a first house visit.

 

However, when she said "i have a confession, i am a hardcore WoW player" I knew I had a shot to let my comic freak flag fly. To bad most WoW comics suck and Battle Chasers never ended.

 

Oh wait.... Rat Queens duh!

[jsilverjanet]

I haven’t been able to properly grasp what your girlfriend might like

 

[divad]

I haven’t been able to properly grasp what your girlfriend might like

 

 

hm

[divad]

I've just started dating a new lady friend, who's in love with tons of "fandom" related things, and has a decent knowledge of comic lore thanks to the Batman Animated Series, MCU, and Nolan's Batman Movies. However, she's expressed, much to my joy, a wanting to get into the books themselves as I have.

 

Generally when I would buy a gift for a sister or female friend I'd go with Spider-Man Blue by Loeb/Sale, unless they really liked Batman in which case I tended to go wtih Hush (Killing Joke or DK Returns always seemed a bit much for a first read.)

 

Any advice would be appreciated, feel free to throw out some books yourselves. It doesn't have to be the new Captain Marvel or Ms Marvel/Bat Girl, just because she's a girl either. I was thinking Hawkeye, or maybe even the Ultimates.

 

I'd go with some Cherry Poptart . . .

[Smoak//Frost-migration]

I haven’t been able to properly grasp what your girlfriend might like

 

 

hm

 

[Logan510]

I'm glad to see some people have found girlfriends/wives who accept or even like comic collecting. I've been verbally abused to no end about being "a grown man who collects comic books" by some of the women I've gone out with. Enough so, in fact, that now I usually don't tell the women I date.

 

 

Been there and done that sir, it certainly can suck when someone you like puts down your hobbies.

[paperheart]

I'm glad to see some people have found girlfriends/wives who accept or even like comic collecting. I've been verbally abused to no end about being "a grown man who collects comic books" by some of the women I've gone out with. Enough so, in fact, that now I usually don't tell the women I date.

 

should've responded in your best Hulk voice: "If you think i'm grown now, wait until you see me angry."

[divad]

Wife: "Don't you have any more Hulk 181s?"

[jsilverjanet]

maybe a Carnage storyline or one that involves symbiotes?