#fourcomics

#fourcomics – Prominent Childhood Comics

The #fourcomics hashtag burst into life – thanks Jim Zub – and it’s the sort of thing I love seeing, and love doing. So, I chose 4 comics I can remember that were prominent in my childhood. I’d love to do plenty of other #fourcomics pieces but time only permits one, and nostalgia is king.

Now, doing this was hard – I cannot remember a time when there weren’t comics around. There is no remembering…

#fourcomics unleashes a stream of comics we love on Twitter

Jim Zub kicked it off:

Tweet four comics that influenced you when you were growing up. #fourcomics pic.twitter.com/qAqfLLOfst

— Jim Zub (@JimZub) January 22, 2015

And then the hashtag spread like wildfire. What four comics would you pick as the ones that influenced you? While I’m often preoccupied with the business machinations of the industry it is, in the end, something we read that moves…

The premise is simple, you share four comics either from your childhood and/or ones that had a formative impact on your love for comic books. So I did,

https://twitter.com/thenerdtheword/status/558555623697432577

Akira Volume 1

Astonishing Spider-man #18

Batman: Hush Volume 1

Superman Red Son

I would say out of the many, many, many comic books I have read over the years these four books have had the biggest impact on my life. Both as an enthusiast for the art form and my tastes as a fan of fiction.

Astonishing Spider-Man #18 is the line up because it is the first “proper” comic book I ever read. It started the ball rolling for a life long obsession. Astonishing is the long running UK re-print of the normal Spider-Man comics by Panini Comics and I have a lot of love for the work they do.

Akira Volume 1 is in there because it blew my mind when I read it. The level of detail, the foreshadowing for later volume’s events. The mystery, the intrigue, action, comedy and drama it is all perfect. Also the fact that this one volume is 1000 times better than the film (which is still very good). If you have not read this truly brilliant series, go correct that now!

Batman: Hush is there because I love it to bits for greatest hits style vibe and that it is still the perfect intro comic to the Batman family of books. I have also talked about it at length already if you want to find out more.

Red Son is there because it opened up my eyes about what a Superman story is and can be. By shifting the perspective and origin of the character you learn about his core and what makes Superman, Superman. Again I have already written about Red Son at length in the past.

So dear reader, what are your #fourcomics?