Graphic Novels: Intro

(This is a picture I took of my collection for a school project in April 2007. My collection is has grown since then.)

Well, since I don't know what I want to talk about, I'll talk about some of the greatest stuff in my little collection. If you ever noticed to look at my profile pic and description pic, you probably have figured out that I am a fan of graphic novels. A simpler term for these would be comic books.

I've been a comic fan for a long time. When I was younger, I would get the occasional comic book off the stands at Wal-Mart or any other store that had them. After they pretty much stopped having them in stores, I stopped getting them. I think throughout high school, I only got 4 things: and issue of Spider-Man, and the first three volumes to Essential X-Men.

When I got into college, that was when my collecting really began to happen. I started out with New Avengers #1. Since then, I've collected a bunch of stuff (well, maybe not too much). With the way most single issues are going up in price, I may just have to stop someday. More recently I've been trying to find some good TPBs and good events from the past. For example, I've gotten into Geoff Johns' run on Teen Titans, and it's real good. I also found all six issues of "Infinity Gauthlet" at a small book store in Columbia and that was pretty good too. Well, time for me to shut up and see what i want to say about these GNs and Events.