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[bubosquared]

OKay. Fine. Fine. I give!

Hey, comic people on my friendslist? Anyone want to give a girl some pointers on how to get into this fandom? You know what kind of thing I like, I'm assuming, and I've sporadically read X-Men in the past, so I at least know who the players are, there. Well, sort of.

ETA: If it helps, from reading scans_daily, I seem to be developing an odd affection for this Bart fellow. Hm.

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[katemonkey.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is just what I've seen and figured out. I could be wrong.

But there's Marvel fandom and DC fandom. And each of those is broken up into a variety of subfandoms, but that separation is pretty heavy.

So that's what you have to decide first -- if you're into the Superman/Batman/Justice League blah blah blah that everyone and their dawg seems to be in now, or if you're into the X-men/Spiderman/Fantastic Four that people were in big when the X-Men movie came out, but have died back down to a nice mellow way.

If you're leaning to X-men, the first rule is this:

You will never understand the canon.

You can't. It's a mess. Characters are dead and then come back and then oh, there's an AU that has the characters alive, and oh, evil clones and mirror universe and time travel and YOUR HEAD WILL EXPLODE.

But a good place to start, if you're gonna read the comics, is the latest Astonishing X-Men (Joss Whedon writes mutant snark. We are in love.) and the Grant Morrison New X-Men graphic novels (superstarstruck glamoristas). Those are the ultimate in mutant cool. For comedy, pick up the jumbo black-and-white early X-Men compendiums, especially for Uncanny X-Men (the first, written in the early 60s, and boy howdy, does it show).

And then, if you're gonna read fic, head straight to Comicfic.net and fall in love.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

i'm gonna second those jumbo black and white compendiums; they're what i'm collecting right now. cheap fun, totally awesome plot devices, and nightcrawler!!1! ahem.

and a lot of people are into teen titans right now, which i believe is what bart is from? but i know nothing of it, alas, as even i must limit my weekly monthly comic intake to six or seven series. <3