30 Day Comic Challenge Day 01

This meme seemed like a good fit for this blog. Keeping up with this will be a second priority to daily reviews, but I'm going to give it a shot.

Day 01: Your First Comic Book















This may be a bit off, but this is definitely among the first comic books I ever owned. Avengers #169 came out in 1978. I was 9 years old and I would spend several weeks each summer with my grandparents in Newport RI. My brother and I would walk to the newspaper store a few blocks down Broadway (that store was located two doors down from the current location of Annex Comics!). I'm not sure how we reached the decision, but we were both firmly in the "Make mine Marvel!" camp. We wouldn't even look at a comic by the "Distinguished Competition".

This particular issues was a self-contained story about a dying man who has planted nuclear bombs in various locations triggered to go off when his heart stops beating. The Avengers split up to locate and disarm the bombs. It's essentially a set of solo stories for Cap, Iron Man, and T'Challa. The issue had a very Cold War feel to it.

From My Creations

Interpreting the meme to apply to the comics I've written, rather than the comics I've collected/read.

My first comic work to see print was the first installment of Exiles, which ran in Kinships magazine in the late 1990s. At the time Marvel had a new comic called Exiles, but I figured it would get canceled in a few issues. No such luck. After Kinships ceased publication, I changed the title of my Exiles to simply the names of the lead characters. It's now the third title in Dandelion Studios' Quarterstaff Comics line under the title Kaeli & Rebecca.

Here's the original intro page as well as the cover of the first issue of Kinships.

























The 30 Day Comic Challenge Page on Facebook is here. Here is the complete list of daily topics:

30 Day Comic Challenge
Day 01 - Your first comic book.
Day 02 - Your favorite character.
Day 03 - A comic that is underrated.
Day 04 - Your guilty pleasure comic or character.
Day 05 - Comic character you feel you are most like (or wish you were).
Day 06 - Most annoying character.
Day 07 - Favorite comic couple.
Day 08 - Best series being published right now.
Day 09 - Most touching comic book/comic book scene.
Day 10 - Dream versus match.
Day 11 - Favorite comic book cartoon series.
Day 12 - A comic everyone should read.
Day 13 - A book you’ve read more than five times.
Day 14 – Most awesome single comic book image
Day 15 - A Picture from the comic you’re reading right now.
Day 16 - Funniest comic book/comic book scene.
Day 17 - Most useless Villain.
Day 18 - Favorite B-list character.
Day 19 - Comic book city/universe you wish you lived in.
Day 20 - Favorite super power or skill.
Day 21 - Favorite writer.
Day 22 - A series that you liked but stopped reading
Day 23 - Your favorite artist.
Day 24 - Dream character team up.
Day 25 - A book you plan on reading.
Day 26 - A comic you wish they would make into a movie.
Day 27 - Favorite comic book movie.
Day 28 - Favorite comic publisher.
Day 29 - A comic you thought you wouldn’t like, but ended up loving.
Day 30 - Your favorite run or series of all time.