Hello everyone!
At the beginning of this month Matheus talked about how he started collecting and I thought it would be fitting if I did the same and talked a little about how my 'story' with comics began...and to do that we have to go waaay back to the beginning of the 90's (yeah, story time coming, sit back hahaha). My parents were fortunate enough to be in a position to put me in English classes early on so I began taking classes when I was around 7 years old. I had classes two times a week for an hour and at that time I hated going not because I was not enjoying but because it took time away from my playing time and that was a big deal since I had to do my homework first and only after I was finished I was allowed to play. So to me it was not only one hour, it was more like 2 hours because I would walk to the school (not my regular school, it was a separate one where you could learn spanish or english) and that took 25 to 30 minutes and that's where I would read comics because while I waited for the class to begin I would read a comic called 'Turma da Monica' (Monica's gang is the US), in portuguese obviously, and that got me going.
At first I would read only Monica's gang but I slowly transitioned to superhero stuff because every sunday I would go to a club to play football (soccer if you are in the US) and there was a newstand where I was allowed to buy one comic. And that was how I collected for a while, Monica's gang to superhero stuff when I as a bit older with stuff like batman, superman, spider-man, watchmen... and the funny thing is that since I wasn't regularly buying them I would always not know what was going on but would still enjoy in my own terms and create scenarios if something was missing and was not explained, and that was fun for me too!
That’s the exact newstand.. I’m surprised it’s still going till this day.
When I was 17 I moved to another city to live by myself to study for college and completely stopped buying and reading comics.. I remember one of my friends from college trying to make me read Akira but I didn't and I still haven't (he still bugs me because of it) because I was not much of a manga reader. And that 'break' lasted a while up until 2017-2018 and I, very slowly, started reading comics again and 99% superhero stuff. I considered my real comeback a bit before covid hits and I was back for good! I had never thought of it before but by then I could read in English after years taking classes and since I was very burned out and not really enjoying superhero stuff I made the transition to buying and reading comics in English, that way I didn't have to wait years and years for some publisher to finally release something I was craving to read and that was everything I needed! Up until this day I barely read any superhero comics because, in my opinion, nothing really matters, there's no stakes really (if they kill someone important they just revive them in a month), everything needs to be an event and you need to buy ten different titles to keep up with everything and that genre just didn't make sense to me anymore. And that's the part where Matheus's recommendations really came in handy and to this day I haven't read a comic that he recommended it that I didn't like. Let's keep this up, shall we Matheus? No pressure!
So that's it for today's post, it's a bit different and I think it's a bit long but that's the whole story! Feel free to share in the comments how your journey began!
And a friendly reminder: Roderick and the city of Morhil #2 came out last week, go read it!!!
Thank you everyone! Have a nice week!