Damn marketing gurus.

So I've been playing Marvel: Ultimate Alliance a lot lately. The new characters are pretty cool, but the game was great to begin with.  I was a comic fiend as a young lad--I had subscriptions to The X-Men, Indiana Jones and a few different Spider-Man comics over the years.   Plus I was a fiend for any sort of miniseries.  Yeah, if only I'd kept all those comics rather than carrying them around in my back pocket, ripping off the covers and smearing the pages.  I still remember how much I loved that Rocket Raccoon series.

Over the years I've forgotten about the comics but apparently they've been getting along just fine without me.  Curse this damn game, it's ignited my curiosity again with its MODOK and its Grey Gargoyle. So I've been checking out the comic section at Borders and the other day I actually went into Atomic Comics. I've always been a bit apprehensive about it because well, I'm thirty-something. I was kind of afraid that I'd walk in and the Comic Store Guy from the Simpsons would be in there waiting to pounce on me as soon as I walked in.  Fortunately, it's just like any other store where you can walk around and browse unmolested.

So now I've gone through The Ultimates and Avengers Disassembled, read a couple different Ultimate Fantastic Four and some other new ones, plus I've refreshed myself on a few of the oldies--Days of Future Past, some old Moon Knight, and my all-time favorite, Secret Wars. I'm looking forward to checking out Civil War eventually, but that's one of the things that kept me out of comics so long--it so hard to figure out where to start with those big events!  Crap, I think I'm hooked again. I liked Deadpool in the game so much, and I've never read his stuff, so I picked up Deadpool & Cable and it's just fantastic.  I could see this being a serious money sink for anyone trying to collect seriously.  Ah if only I had all those old comics stored away somewhere...

There's not much point to this blog obviously. If anyone has suggestions for cool books for me to check out I'd love to hear them. I've checked out the comic forum a little bit but not too much.