I bought a car and began to assume my "adult" lifestyle.
I graduated college, got a job and a cozy little one bedroom apartment. I had friends, school, girls (gasp!) and a million other things to occupy my time and limited funds. I still re-read the comics in my collection but wasn't as into it as I once was. So my weekly trip to the comic shop became a bi-weekly trip, then a monthly trip, then stopped all together. Coupled with a lack of money (I had two jobs, sometimes more, but was trying to pay for college all by my lonesome) and the comics glut of the early '90s, fewer and fewer books appealed to me and I had less and less money to buy the ones I did like. I moved out of my folks house, went to college, got a couple of jobs and then the dreaded event happened that occurs to many people at that age: my passion for comics began to wane. The collection grew and I graduated high school. (For the sake of this being posted on my website, at least). We enjoyed hitting the local comic shop on Wednesdays after school, we'd lend comics to each other and invariably get into heated "Marvel vs DC" arguments. In junior high and high school, I met others who shared my passion for graphic storytelling (AKA "comics"). Time went on and the number of titles I read grew. Bless her for putting up with me and my incessant begging for comics because once I started turning those pages, I couldn't stop. Booster Gold, GI Joe and Blue Devil were three early favorites with the always-present Superman, Justice League and Batman comics that always seemed to pop up on those trips to the grocery store with my mom. Paul Levitz (now President and Publisher of DC Comics) deftly handled the Legion of Super-Heroes and its cast of 30 (sometimes more) characters, weaving together complex storylines that challenge, stimulate and still manage to entertain.įrom there, I began to search out titles of my own. Marv Wolfman's well-written and mature scripts, coupled with George Perez's stunning pencils, showed me that comics were nothing like the Richie Rich and Archie comics I'd grown up with to that point. I was young, six or seven years old, when my brother let me read his Teen Titans and Legion of Super-Heroes comics. You could say that Bridge City Comics started back in the early 1980's.
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