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You know, I might actually have to thank the U.S. educational system for getting me into comics. Because this little gem was the first comic book I ever read/owned. I must have been in elementary school... I think I went through and tried to fix some of the coloring mistakes. With markers -_-;

Also, I've never smoked a cigarette in my life \o/ Thanks, Marvel heroes!

So how did everyone else get into comics/the genre of their choice?

ETA: Actual story for me is that the Batman and X-Men animated series in the early 90s gout me buying comics off the racks in the bookstore. Mad Love was the first comic I really loved, and I started buying Catwoman with issue #3, which I STILL love Balent's art in. I was SO desperate to get the first two issues... I think one friend gave me #2 for my birthday and my dad braved a comic book store to find me #1 <3

Also, I had a HUGE box of my dad's comics from the late 50s/early 60s that I used to read before I helped him eBay them. He was totally a DC guy.

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I got into comics when I was really little. Before I could read little. I liked the pictures. Got a bit older, saw a comic shop at the mall and pretty much dragged my mom into the store to look at the PRETTY BOOKS WITH THE PICTURES. I think the first thing I started collecting was Sonic The Hedgehog. It didn't take long for me to get sucked into Marvel comics though, since two of my older guy cousins collect them, and my mom reads Spider-Man. So I kind of just ran off with their comics (the ones I was allowed to touch). Started collecting Marvel comics a bit later, then slowly learned about the DC universe (only knew what DC was because of the cartoons) when my cousin was like "READ THIS!" It was some Justice League comic. Then he kind of just kept throwing DC comics at me. I don't know why DC hasn't stuck to my brain yet. Clearly I have too much Marvel stuffed in my head.

Discovered Spawn first when I saw Spawn and Violator figures, and was like "OH THAT LITTLE MONSTER VI THINGY IS CUTE!" and I wanted to hug it. I thought weird things were cute as a child. The comics were a bit too dark for me at the time, but at some point in my teens (once I remembered what Spawn was) I went and tracked down the comics. FELL IN LOVE WITH THE OLDER STUFF. Or that may have just been me squeeing over the cute demons. Whatever. Once they had gotten up to 170something issues I spent about 48 hours without sleep rereading the entire series. I still do not know why. I just know I somehow got hooked on Spawn. Even the crappy movie and the very mature cartoon they put on TV at very late hours, that took me years before I actually went back and watched.

As far as Transformers goes. I watched G1 when I was little. I REMEMBERED NOTHING. Was too young to know what the heck was going on. I YET AGAIN BLAME MY FAMILY FOR THAT. So then when I was actually capable of understanding what the heck goes on in a TV show, BEAST WARS started (mmmmm Beasties). And me and my cousins used to sit down and watch it, and play with our little toys and battle and stuff. Beast Wars lead to Beast Machines, which lead to me going "heeeeeeeeeeeeeey I remember a cartoon about these guys" so later found G1 and watched it again. Actually understood what happened in the episodes. Loved it. Fell in love with Shockwave and Blurr. Went looking for the comics. Later DREAMWAVE started. Shockwave is pretty much responsible for EVERYTHING in the Dreamwave universe, so I immediately got addicted to it. Dreamwave went out of business. I was sad. IDW came out, I clinged to it for dear life. Not enough Shockwave. Then was happy that they're rereleasing the Marvel comics and some of the Dreamwave comics. WHICH BRINGS US TO TODAY.

As for Grim Adventures. I was up late one night, and saw a show called Grim & Evil. That was it. One episode and I was SUCKED IN. I then dashed to the computer when it was over to find out when it was coming on again. Watched as many episodes as I could, then they just stopped (WHY CANADA WHY) so I went on the internet. Discovered it was turned into The Grim Adventures Of Billy & Mandy. Proceeded to download every single episode.