I wanna get more into comics, but it's hard. There's too much of a pedigree/lineage, and it's a daunting task to try and read what you know you can't finish or fully envelop.
That's why for American comics, I like reading more "one-shot" (I guess is what you call them) comics like Sandman or really influential arcs that shape a lot of the superhero universe.
But I agree that it's a lot about taste as well. Whatever you get introduced to first.
That has been my experience with comics. Pretty much all of the comics I've read were part of the American Superheroes course I took. I really liked the graphic novels like The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, Batman: Year One, and The Killing Joke. I've been to comic stores a few times but then getting into an following the comics seems a really daunting task, because I'll buy a Batman comic and have no idea what the context/backstory is. But, maybe there's ThePirateBay for that? Need to check. I've read selected Batman/other superhero comics from each decade from the 1940s (which includes like 1939) to the 1980s, and they are pretty fun to read. For the American Superheroes class I took, I wrote essays about 1940s Batman comics, The Dark Knight Returns, and Watchmen and how they commented on the American culture of the time -- if anyone ever wants to read those, I can share them. That American Superheroes class was actually one of the most challenging courses I've ever taken, because your writing was graded pretty seriously.
Props to Alex for actually following all the comics.
And yeah, about exposure, I saw Tim Burton's "Batman" when I was like three and there's been a part of me that's been obsessed with Batman ever since, so that definitely applies to me.
Also, Edmond peeps: we need to chill this week.
(daughter made me put the mad face)
