Jersen - The Guy Who Likes Deathmate
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Jersen
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Jersen - The Guy Who Likes Deathmate
Been visiting this site and the forum for the past several months, and while I have some downtime I thought it would be fun to start joining in the conversations and starting a few of my own.
My very first exposure to Valiant Comics was a 1st issue of a Super Mario Bros. comic I bought when I was in 3rd grade (1990). I was just beginning to get into comic collecting as a hobby, and my best friend and his Mom took me to the nearest comic store, about 30 min. away from where we lived. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a store JUST FOR COMIC BOOKS, I was picking them up from the racks at the grocery store.
I was much more interested in what was going on in the Marvel Universe (the X-World especially) and actually didn't pay attention to Valiant Comics again until I got exposed to their characters with Deathmate. I had read about some of the Valiant characters and what was going on with some of the books in issues of Wizard that I managed to pick up along the way, but Deathmate was the first time I got actual exposure to these characters through the stories. I, of course, came to Deathmate by way of Image Comics, of which I was a huge fan, but the Valiant characters seemed so interesting that I decided I was going to start getting into Valiant books.
My problem, though, was that I didn't like to just pick up a series and start reading. In my mind I needed to find a good breaking-in point so that I wouldn't feel as if I were coming into the middle of something that I couldn't understand what was going on. The best places to do that are with #1 issues and big event stories, so I got in on Secret Weapons #1, which tied into Solar, I picked up every #0 issue I could, and every 1-shot issue, like Eternal Warrior Yearbook. I picked up Dr. Mirage when I came out, and managed somehow along the way to get a copy of the Alpha & Omega TPB and the 4-volume Unity collection.
As the mid-90s approached, I decided that comics were becoming too much of a hassle and not worth the money I had to pay for gimmicky covers and so forth, and my hobby switched from comic collecting to music collecting when I was in Jr. High (ending my Valiant collecting with the conclusion of The Chaos Effect).
In 2008, I came across an ad for a new comic store in a nearby city, visited it to see what was going on with comics and maybe pick up a few things, and ended up becoming completely reeled back into the world of comic books. In summer 2009 I ended up doing some eBay searches for some Valiant books that I was looking to complete stories/runs on, and saw that complete/near complete runs on books were extremely affordable, and started gobbling them up. I even picked up those Deathmate issues that came with the Previews catalogs back in the day!
Actually being able to find and afford the pre-Unity books was SO EXCITING and reading them has been even better! And now that Jim Shooter is relaunching Magnus, Solar, and Turok again at Dark Horse, this is a good time to dive into their former home in the Valiant Universe!
My very first exposure to Valiant Comics was a 1st issue of a Super Mario Bros. comic I bought when I was in 3rd grade (1990). I was just beginning to get into comic collecting as a hobby, and my best friend and his Mom took me to the nearest comic store, about 30 min. away from where we lived. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a store JUST FOR COMIC BOOKS, I was picking them up from the racks at the grocery store.
I was much more interested in what was going on in the Marvel Universe (the X-World especially) and actually didn't pay attention to Valiant Comics again until I got exposed to their characters with Deathmate. I had read about some of the Valiant characters and what was going on with some of the books in issues of Wizard that I managed to pick up along the way, but Deathmate was the first time I got actual exposure to these characters through the stories. I, of course, came to Deathmate by way of Image Comics, of which I was a huge fan, but the Valiant characters seemed so interesting that I decided I was going to start getting into Valiant books.
My problem, though, was that I didn't like to just pick up a series and start reading. In my mind I needed to find a good breaking-in point so that I wouldn't feel as if I were coming into the middle of something that I couldn't understand what was going on. The best places to do that are with #1 issues and big event stories, so I got in on Secret Weapons #1, which tied into Solar, I picked up every #0 issue I could, and every 1-shot issue, like Eternal Warrior Yearbook. I picked up Dr. Mirage when I came out, and managed somehow along the way to get a copy of the Alpha & Omega TPB and the 4-volume Unity collection.
As the mid-90s approached, I decided that comics were becoming too much of a hassle and not worth the money I had to pay for gimmicky covers and so forth, and my hobby switched from comic collecting to music collecting when I was in Jr. High (ending my Valiant collecting with the conclusion of The Chaos Effect).
In 2008, I came across an ad for a new comic store in a nearby city, visited it to see what was going on with comics and maybe pick up a few things, and ended up becoming completely reeled back into the world of comic books. In summer 2009 I ended up doing some eBay searches for some Valiant books that I was looking to complete stories/runs on, and saw that complete/near complete runs on books were extremely affordable, and started gobbling them up. I even picked up those Deathmate issues that came with the Previews catalogs back in the day!
Actually being able to find and afford the pre-Unity books was SO EXCITING and reading them has been even better! And now that Jim Shooter is relaunching Magnus, Solar, and Turok again at Dark Horse, this is a good time to dive into their former home in the Valiant Universe!
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