All New Introduce Yourselves thread!

B) Hmm. I'm kinda digging the SUPERMAN SHOWCASE volume right now. But that may be because I'm cheap.

C) I am not a nutter for either polls or lists.

a) A friend told me about ILX. ILC has totally superceded ILE as my favouritest board (folk are so much more friendly here)

b) Not much really, I'm a bit out of the loop. I've recently been buying the Powers and Y trades, which I've been enjoying but not blown away by. My next purchase will be that Howard the Duck Essentials that everyone's been ranting about.

c) I'm quite partial to the odd poll and list.

d) September 1939, with the annexation of Poland.

e) No sugar, a splash of milk.

b) basically everything i've been reading cuz i was away from comx for so long. but my shortlist:
-kirby/lee FF
-morrison x-men
-whedon x-men
-Y
-gotham central
-supreme

c) i hate polls & lists! EXCEPT for the ILC character poll

2) Lucifer: really good stories, good characters (except Jill Presto who is an ass) and one of the best leading characters in comics. Besides it's all building to something important, I think. It's a shame the art is so bad, though.

3) Yeah!, the Greatest Comics Poll was great and the best characters too, if it's ever finished.

2 - I am (believe it or not) really getting into Love and Rockets for the first time.

3 - Yes, I am a total dork for this stuff. See also Deathmatches.

2) I really enjoyed reading the complete Bone recently, and I'm also reading Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol for the first time as the trades come out.

3) I hate polls. Except for the ILC Best Comics Evah poll!

first and last time this will ever be spoken

I am trying very hard to seduce my boyfriend into comics. He likes manga and I'm trying to get him to post on the Samurai Jack thread, since it's like his favorite show ever.

Someone on ILE mentioned that we should have a board like this, then one day it was there! (Who was it who originally set up this borad, I can't remember?) I immediately started posting here, though lately my posting has been rather sporadic, since ILC is balanced towards the sorts of comics I don't read much (i.e. superheroes) (this is not a complaint, just an observation).

What's the latest find (current or new to you) you're gaga about?

Lately I've been nust about Isaac le Pirate by Cristophe Blain - it's about a 17th century painter who, by half-accident, joins a ship of pirates led by visionary captain, who's decided to make a name by discovering the mysterious continent in far south (i.e. Antarctica). It's poetic and wonderfully drawn, and, judging by the two books they've translated into Finnish, has all the makings of a classic.

Another French comic I've been enjoying is Monsieur Jean by Dupuy and Berberian. In principle it has the sort of slice-of-life stories a lot indie comic artists do, but it's rather French in it's approach: colours and clear line instead of claustrophobic black and white, humour and joie de vivre (though there's serious stuff in it too) instead of depression and angst.

Are you a nutter for polls and lists?

I guess they're fun, but the greatest thing about them is always the conversation they raise, not the lists themselves.

2. Queen and Country

3. Usually yes. (Exception: ILM, for some reason).

2. Same as some others here - the Showcase volumes, currently Metamorpho.

3. Yeah, almost always.

2. Have just glommed onto Tezuka's stuff -- Phoenix is awesome, Adolf a bit less so -- and am cursing myself for not reading him earlier. Otherwise, the usual. I'm going to try and post a YSI file of Zenith on ILC sometime this weekend...

3. Sure, why not.

4. I've just moved back to London after some years away in Canada. Who are the London ILCers? (except Martin of course) Went to Poptimism last night, but it's feels kind of geeksome to ask people who they are (plus I am a little shy).

5. Huk, I miss Canada.

2) i borrowed persepolis from my friend so i'm reading that now. also halfway through locas, a lot of which i'm reading for the first time.

3) i like lists a lot and make them all the time. polls are fun.

I = longtime b-league ILX0r; didn't find out about this thing until quite some time tho.

What's the latest find (current or new to you) you're gaga about?

I bought the first "Dennis The Menace" anthology and that thing's great. Also golden age "Blackhawks"!

Are you a nutter for polls and lists?

top5 comic characters to post in an animated gif, with a speech baloon saying "Daniel loves polls & lists!" and also possibly a santa hat:

1-Snapper Carr
2-Gladstone Gander
3-Azrael
4-Cub
5-Emma Frost

2. um. I liked Fell #1.

3. reading yr answers is more fun than voting on my own.

2. The run of Flash that I came across recently. I'm a bit nervous to start the Johns run, seeing as how he seems to be Mr. Captain Yesterday, but the Waid/Loebs/Baron stints were a great read.

3. Lists are fun, if mainly for the discussion rather than the list itself (exception: old DC covers, which often have no explanation…).

I'm a Londoner, and I think Tom and Vic Fluro are as well, amongst others.

2. Haven't checked out the Showcases yet, I suppose I'll love them too since I'm currently in love with tons of DC Archives. Plus, I just got myself the DC Imaginary Stories TPB. Even more, I've just received LOSH 4, which was a hole in my collection, so I'm gonna read issues 4-8 right about now, and I know I'm gonna love them (sadly, the hole has moved now to issue 9...)

3. I like lists, though it's torture for me to make them. I find it really painful to have to make a decision like "who's the better character, Kitty Pryde, Spirou or Superman"?

I just can't say that with a straight face...

Gaston LaGaffe is probably a better character, though.

http://www.sceneario.com/afficheCouv.php?idAlbum=3855

and I think I never will...

2) I have no latest finds. It's been a long time since I've stumbled on a new comic that blew me away. But I admit, I don't really try. Although I don't really enjoy the superhero comics, I really really enjoy the superhero comics through the filter of ILC. I am generally more interested in strip comics and in indie stuff that shares certain similarities with strip comics.

3) Well, the lists are better on this board than any other. In part this is because I often have no idea about -- well, I don't recognize most of those Best Characters so far, other than Black Lois or whoever. But it's interesting to read about them and to hear them lovingly made fun of.

4) ILC is the best board on ILX.

5) I miss Canada too.

2) probably the last new thing I went gaga for was She-Hulk (which I never would have read if it hadn't been for people on here talking about it)

3) Lists are fine

4) I am also a Londoner

2) I'm reading "The Advenrures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius". It's not big, it's not clever, but it is fuckin' hilarious.

3) I'm always up for a poll (ooh-er!) but then I find, when it comes to actually voting, that I just can't be arsed.

2. True Porn 2. Some of the stories are hilarious and I'm convinced Jhonen Vasquez is one of the artists but drew under a false name (the style is so "Vasquez", I can't believe otherwise).

3. Polls = meh. Lists = yes.

4. Medium rare.

5. Yellow.

5.

2) Haha like all the other OLD FARTZ on ILC I like the Showcase Superman, it has the right amount of boggle-eyed madness for a comic.

3) On ILM I think lists are a bane and polls are overcooked but here lists seem to bring out more of the good in us.

2) Not surprisingly, I'm kinda burnt out on most of what I've read of late (i.e. THIS OLD HOUSE OF INFINITY stuff), tho my curiosity re: where it'll end up is keeping me on board. The one thing RIGHT NOW that's doing it for me is the Queen & Country novel. The last left-field book(s) I read that gave me the warm fuzzies = Action Philosophers, The Bakers & Silent Dragon. Will probably be jumping on the Showcase bandwagon momentarily.

3) I'm cool w/ polls & lists, tho the fact that I've been procrasturbating on a poll means I should possibly not answer this question for fear of people mocking my scoliosis & halitosis. &, ILX-wise, the ILC list threads are the best by far.

2) A webcomic by the name of Sigh Whatever. It's about two seperate plot strands, one with a guy who creates another guy by some sort of mind power, and two hopeless improv comics (one of which always wears a paper bag on his head with the word "EVIL" written on it). It is great, but the last update was ages ago and I'm worried that the cartoonist responsible has lost interest. Which would be a huge shame...

3) The polls here are always a lot more interesting to me than the sort you tend to get on, say, ILM, so yeah, I like them.

2) Aside from buying as many books every week as David, there's nothing new in my reading that makes me want to evangelise. This week I have been re-reading High Society, which is great (obviously).

3) I am in no position to comment any more on other people's abilities with polls, as anybody who reads I love Cooking can testify.

2) Having recently started, there is an enormous back catalogue for me to dive into, and you guys and gals have (unknowingly) pointed me to some things i've really liked : Sleeper, Runaways, She-Hulk etc. At the moment i'm thoroughly enjoying Morrison's Doom Patrol. Thanks ILC !

3) I love lists and polls, but have no intention in participating due to abysmal knowledge of comic history.

that doesn't stop me!

-- Tom (freakytrigge...), October 18th, 2005.

ditto.

I think my preference is clear.

Nor me!

2. Zenith and Marvelman, two of my few non-shit finds via the above shameful process.

3. Yes indeedy. But they cause me angst, too - should I have put _that_ one above _that_ one, or the other way round? Help!

I thought I may as well add one of these...

1. It was there, and I thought "ooooh, comics!". I was intrigued to see what sort of conversation was going on that wasn't about music, or indeed, everything. Also, ILC brings the ROFFLES.

2. Actually, I'm really not in to reading comics. I like drawing comics, and reading comics is either a) Argh! This is terrible! or b) Argh! This is terrible! I'll never be this good!

I mean, I've simplified that a bit, but I get so frustrated either way that I've actually started avoiding it a bit. Seriously, I have a whole shelf of books I haven't read because of this. Stuff like Jimmy Corrigan and Hicksville and whatnot. I've had them for over a year, and never tried to read them.

I put this down to the fact that the last time I really read a whole collection, I felt compelled to draw an entire comic, and I try to avoid that. So yeah. The last comic I read was All-Star Superman 1, but I forgot to buy the rest. Also after that I spent a whole week working out if I'd written anything with big revealo splash pages in, and worrying that maybe I'd missed a trick. Oh shit no, it was Optic Nerve 9! It made me get obsessed with girl's hair.

3. Yeah, why not?

1) I do believe that Matthew P. first pointed me in the general direction of the ilXor-mania. I used to haunt Barbelith fairly regularly back in the day until it became a withered old mummy filled with shit. I was looking for better comics discussion, and lo! ILC!

2) My most recent gaga-inducer was the Kirby Fourth World stuff, which I've found online in .cbr format and, most importantly, IN COLOR. There are a few spreads amongst that lot that made me actually gasp slightly, such was their awe-inspiring beauty.

I think I thought that Kirby was vaguely brain-damaged or something when I was young. I think I maybe still think that, except now in a good way.

3) Polls? Eh... Lists? YES, PLEASE.

I'm an unashamed X-Men fan and so I'm systematically attempting to correct the gaps in my indie comic knowledge. I am the only female comics fan I know to loathe Strangers In Paradise. I'm a moderator on The Engine, Warren Ellis's comics board. I don't have a comic book tattoo but I don't know how long that will last. Once I bought comics out of a quarter bin just so I could lounge around on them for a photo shoot. If my house caught on fire I would save my cats, then my comics, then myself. And I'm geek enough to have applied for jobs at DC, Dark Horse, and Pantheon (with no results).

Poor Jordan!

HAH!

:D

2) Nothing much recently - I rather loved Mouse Guard but am finding it insanely difficult to track down issue #2 (although this may possibly be due to the fact that it might not have been published yet - but I'm sure I've seen it somewhere, dammit!)

3) I can take 'em or leave 'em. If they're going, I'll participate. If not, I'm not going to agitate for them.

1) via my recent discovery of ILM, which at first impressed and then disillusioned me (I doubt any of the fine folk here would be inclined to call me retarded for expressing a deep love for ABBA and The Pipettes...) ILC, in contrast, is a place of overall fun where nobody takes themselves too seriously and people are obsessed with Lois Lane - I can relate.

2) Lotsa little things - SHAOLIN COWBOY, SPIDER MAN AND HIS HEARTING OF MARY JANE, Kevin Huizenga, George Perez' run on WONDER WOMAN (which I just discovered), my obsession with Grant Morrison which hasn't waned since I was 15, those wacky Hernandez brothers, YOTSUBA&!, and various ETCs...

3) Participation in such activities is something I'm fairly indifferent to, but I'm reasonably willing if cornered. Being an audience to them is another story - I'm always happy to learn of anything that may give me an edge, taste-wise, over my peers...

2. Umm I guess I just jumped on board the Scott Pilgrim gravy train, for some reason I was not drawn in by and even a little put off by the previews I read but I bought #3 on a whim just because it was cheap and the art was way cute and I ended up really enjoying it.

Oddly I am kind of re-evaluating the George Perez Wonder Woman comics I bought out of the quarter bin and really dug when I was younger. It may just be that I had it pointed out to me that like every single female superhero has sexual assault in her background and this is no exception and THAT IS LAME, but man, that run gets kind of super boring sometimes and no fair having the big girl superhero be the boring one. I know that this problem of snoozedom is not exactly unique to that one specific run of Wonder Woman but you know.

3. HELLYEAH

1. through ILM, of course. and yes, ILC is far, far better.
2. been reading old '60's Thor the last couple weeks, Essential volume one last week and now Essential volume 2. The lead stories sucked before Kirby took over the art for good, and they can still be pretty iffy. Tales of Asgard, though, is pretty awesome, even if they crap all over the mythology.
3. I am not entirely averse to polls and lists.

Kooky! I'm only up to issue three of Perez' run, so I'll be wary of any sad sex that appears.

And, yes, SCOTT PILGRIM is awesome. I shoulda included it on my current faves.

1. Through ILM. Those dudes take the word "nerd" to places I didn't know existed.

2. Believe or not, All Star Supes. I've been buying the issues but hadn't had time to read them until the other night and now I think it's one of my favorite comics ever.

3. Heck yes. Mainly just for reading the results. I've learned a lot about comics from the ILC Best Ever Poll.

My history with comics: When i went back to college at 23 a good friend i met there collected X-Men Comics and had an wasome action figure collection. Having no originallity of my own, I attempted to copy his collecting habbit. Once when I wondered into a comic store to see if they had any good figures, I noticed Batman Wardrums with Steph Brown on the cover. I thought is was Carrie since I had never read comics but knew of Carrie. The guy told me no, that it was someone else and I picked it up curious. Long story Short Now I Buy Everything

Young Avengers is pretty awsome Thats my most recent find.