Comics That Brought You Back

[B-Smooth]

Reading some Beavis and Butthead comics brought me back to collecting.

[kidcolt]

the 1st Aliens vs Predator mini series and gulp!! the buzz surrounding Valiant. It may have sucked but it sure put a buzz in my LCS

[Zonker]

I've never been completely away, but there definitely have been times when I've been much more casually involved in the hobby than now.

 

When I went to college in the early 1980s I had stopped following anything outside of New Teen Titans and Legion. By the time they moved those two series to their Baxter versions, I stopped picking them up as well. But sometime in 1985 I came across back issues of Alan Moore's Saga of the Swamp Thing in the quarter boxes. This was the cross over with the Demon, #26 or #27. I got hooked again in a big way, and managed to gather up the Moore back issues before the hype really hit with #34 or so. Fortunately that reeled me back in, just in time for Crisis, Watchmen, Dark Knight, Miracleman, etc.

 

Then by the 1990s I was down to pretty much Sandman and the very occasional "Legends of the Dark Knight" arc. When James Robinson's Starman arrived I picked that up every month as well. But what re-ignited my interest in the DC Universe proper was Grant Morrison's JLA #1 revamp in 1997. And ever since I've been pulled in more & more: DC One Million, JSA, Superman/Batman, Identity Crisis, Seven Soldiers, Infinite Crisis...

 

(And Astro City, America's Best Comics and the Ultimates have done their share as well.)