My Role as a comic reader

This idea was put into my head a few months back by the guys at the CGS podcast, "What is our role as comic book readers and fans?" I have been thinking about this a lot since i heard that episode, and i feel that at the very least my role as a comic reader and fan is to spread the Gospel of comic books. I realize that i have been doing this for years, mainly by getting comics into the hands of non comic readers. Basically, if i know you and you show even the slightest bit of interest in the Spider-man ill give you a trade of current Spider-Man with the slightest hope you'll buy another(yes im the pusher man of comics). I think i have given almost all of my friends at least one comic with those hopes in mind. This has worked better with some than others. One friend recently started collecting spider-man comics pretty hard after years of reading some stuff that i gave him and seeing me collecting. Another friend just got caught up on the current deadpool series, when in the beginning he liked the random deadpool internet memes and i gave him the first issue. Others just mooched off me for walking dead issue by issue.

Also i try and work comics into conversation with people i work with that have interest in the movies, and also let people know when local comic events are going down (gave local con flyers to my wife to give out at work).

I feel that it should be the duty of all comic fans to let non comic fans know about this stuff cause comic only advertise in comics, comic conventions only advertise in comcs, and people barely know that comics are still around except for when Captain America dies or Spider-Man takes off his mask.

Invincible #77 (Image) and Genius #1 (Top Cow)

Recently read both these issue and i thought they were both awesome. Invincible took a huge turn that i did not see coming, and Genius is just an original book; one that I have been seeking for some time now.

Starting with the newbie, Genius is a book about a girl leading an LA gang towards taking over there neighborhood (and eventually the city?) to make things better for themselves, the city's "cancer" as they are viewed. I think i am really going to like this book because it takes a point of view you don't see very often in comic books, and one I have wanted to see. The idea of a not so common street gang taking over, with good intent (despite the means), is cool to me. The art in the book is cool, everything has a still photo feel mixed with cell shading cartoon thing. The writing and story of this first issue is very good, the slang is not over the top and you know what is going on without the pilot season book (still want it though). One thing i did not like about the book was toward the end the main cop guy that saw this coming goes into this whole long thing how he thinks the person leading this uprising is this centuries strategical genius, which is kind of a stretch for hims to make in this first book because he bareley knows it is one dude leading all this. It just felt really forced for them to try and tie in the title of the book. Over all though the book was really cool, hopefully top cow puts it out one time.



Invincible did not disappoint me. The first few page of the issue was like getting kick in the groin if it was attached to your face. I don't want to spoil anything so I'm gonna try and be vague. Kirkman i don't think could disappoint me if he tried. This issue just took a very drastic turn that is did not see coming and i really want to see where it is going. What will Mark do from now on? Will his dad stay on earth? Will anyone else know what is happening? I really just cannot wait.