Ask HN: Do You Still Read Comics (And Do They Inspire You)? How many of you regulars here derive pleasure and draw inspiration from reading comic books? Do you eagerly await the latest X-Men to be put on the shelf of your regular newsstand on your way to work, or have it on order at your newsagent? Do you subscribe to your favourite titles and have them delivered to your home? Or have you set aside the monthly issues, concentrating on collected stories and omnibuses, hanging around in comic shops on your off days haggling over prices and conditions of individual books with fellow comic traders? Do you follow any particular title, such as Batman, The X-Men, Thor, The Avengers - or are you a Brit and a Squaxx Dek Thargo, a hardcore 2000AD addict until your dying day? One of the oldest regular comic readers I ever heard of was 83 when he died. Japanese businessmen read their manga religiously on the commute to work. So nobody is really too old to read comics. Taken in that light, how about you? |