Comic, my old friend

After about 15 years, I've started to get back into and buying comics. I think the first comic I ever read was actually a pocket Batman graphic novel when I was about eight, when we were living in Spain and getting my hands on anything written in English that was not school property was exciting. I still remember the storylines and that was around when I decided I wanted to be Catwoman when I grew up. When we lived in England, I was a faithful buyer of the weekly comics such as Beano and Dandy, and WoW! and Whoopee! (which merged), and also the girls' weekly comics like Mandy and Debbie (which also merged) and Bunty. Back in Iran, there was no access to new comics but luckily for me, my cousin had access to his uncle's (on the side we're not related!) DC comics from early 50s to late 60s, which he'd bought while going to school in the U.S. and brought back with him. He'd especially been a fan of the House of Mystery, House of Horror series, Oh, and he also had Atlas' Strange Tales (which got taken over by Marvel), which were my absolute favorite (esp. the late 50s ones). He even had pre-comic code issues of Strange Tales which, from what I can tell, would go for quite a bit now!

Anyway, there is a great comic bookstore near us--right next to our favorite family run ice-cream shop!-- and so I am catching up on old favorites and picking up new ones. So far, what I've been buying has been:

1- Catching up with and now regularly buying BtVS Season 8 series, as well as collections of back issues I never read (The Death of Buffy is my favorite so far of the old ones I've read).

2- Catching up on the Origins mini-series (about Wolverine), as well as starting to read the Ultimate Origins (just started this month). And I think there is going to be another Origins mini-series, this time about Jean Grey.

3- Catching up on the Matt Wagner 2002 Trinity series, as well as now buying the new 2008 Trinity series (just started this month).

4- Buying the new Vertigo House of Mystery series, which I wasn't sure about last night and now I suddenly love this morning.

5- Catching up on Fables, which is SO my cup of tea, given how I love retelling of fairy tales.

6- I think I am also going to give a new series called Air, which was previewed in Ultimate Origins #1, a whirl.