Comments on: When Fans Go Pro

By: chummy

chummy — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:24:13 +0000

Good day sir,

I think you have summed up all the feelings I have with the plight of comics nowadays. The last time I was interested in comics was Sam Kieth’s The Maxx and Warren Elis’s take on Stormwatch, after that comics got boring for me and also, it was getting harder and harder for me to buy one due to the increased prices.hehehhe.

By: Gerry Alanguilan

Gerry Alanguilan — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:52:16 +0000

CHRIS!! Hey, long time no see, man!! Thanks for the visit!

Oh my GOD, John! I think I have the very same comic book! Captain America, Falcon, and Scorpion! Drawn by Sal Buscema! It was the 70′s and it’s probably one of my first Marvel comic books. Does it by chance also have Namor in it? And Viper? And a crown of snakes that puts the wearer in a kind of trance?

Actually, there’s a part of me that wants to read at least SOMETHING. It really doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it’s good, not too dark, it has an inker, it comes out regularly with steady creators and doesn’t cross over into other titles and basically just fun to read.

By: John Beatty

John Beatty — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:38:13 +0000

I have the same feelings, Gerry…I just don’t feel the “excitement” anymore in what’s out there.

I still buy ‘Captain America’ each month, only because I remember that was the first comic I can remember my Mother bringing home to me one day.

It was drawn by Sal Buscema, had the Falcon in it and the Villian was the “Scorpion!”

I still think the character is such a classic design in uniform…but now with the “new” look uniform by Alex Ross…I just don’t have the same emotion for it.

I hope the uniform is only temporary!!!!

-JB

By: Chris Noeth

Chris Noeth — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:28:12 +0000

Hey Gerry,

I feel so with you after reading this. You know I have followed your early work, like your cable drawing for the Wizard contest for example :)
The same time I wanted to break in and I totally feel the same here. I’m still into comics as a creator but it is hard to read them like the ‘old’ comics.

Best wishes!

Chris Noeth

By: Rey

Rey — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:52:10 +0000

Hi Gerry, It was nice to see your view about this. Me, being an Avenger freak at college has also been alienated by changing cast and darker story lines of the book. especially with members dying and that. Though I’ve always blamed work for the waning interest in reading comicbooks.

Off topic:
A singaporean friend who used to self-published his stuff gave me a box of his comics collections from the 90′s (all mint and still in their protective plastic case). Most of it are number 1 issues of Image comicbooks (Savage Dragon, young blood, etc.)and Intity comics. and included in there are some pages of Aster: The Celestial Knight, including issue #1 that you have inked. :)

By: auggie

auggie — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:42:38 +0000

Rod,

Pareho pala tayo, I buy comics because of the art, secondary lang yung story/plotline, kaya bonus talaga pag parehong maganda, gaya ng output noon ng WARREN PUBLISHING.

By: Rod Samonte

Rod Samonte — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:48:19 +0000

Gerry,
I never really bought comics to read but to appreciate the art. There is a certain easy flow to the story in a well-illustrated comics. You really should read Birthright, Silent Dragon, High Roads, this last one I bought without knowing they were drawn by Pinoys, but because of the excellent artwork. I was never really attracted to the overblown superheroes typified by the Liefeld/Lee school. And so I stopped buying comics around that time. Now they seem to be out and a whole generation of young artists (some are shown in my blog — http://rsamonte1.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-03-25T21%3A47%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=7) are now making waves, with anatomically correct superheroes, and plus the enhancement of computers, I am actually excited again and buying comics.
Rod

By: gilbert monsanto

gilbert monsanto — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:58:50 +0000

This is one sad story for all of us. Where is the magic then? In my case, I still love comics the same way, although I can’t buy them all because I have now my family and bills to think about.
I can only buy TPB every now and then. I also buy those classic storylines when it was easier to follow back then hehe.

If I have the money? I’d still buy all those new storylines.

By: Robby Villabona

Robby Villabona — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:52:45 +0000

Personally I went through this maybe in the timeframe of about 4-6 years ago. The last comic I really got excited about was SUPERMAN: SECRET IDENTITY. Then nothing since then… and very few and far between before that.