Welcome and introduce your geeky self, you nerd!

Oooh.

Superhero: Wolverine, probably.

Series/collections: Uncanny X-Men, Punisher, now Daredevil. and TEH SHIELD

Writers: Claremont, recently Bendis

Artists: Jim Lee

Websites: ILC

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: When The Punisher gets his face all scratched up by Jigsaw,

TPBs or issues?: Issues

Conventions/cosplay?: What?

Filmic adaptation: X 1&2!!!!!

One liner: Dunno

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Kitchen sink realism, lack of morals, Americana.

Superhero: Flex Mentallo

Series/collections: Doom Patrol, Kirby's Fourth World, Miller's Daredevil, Hellboy, Moore's Swamp Thing, Sam and Max

Writers: Grant Morrison, Steve Gerber, Alan Moore, Ed Brubaker, Darwyn Cooke

Artists: Cameron Stewart, Darwyn Cooke, Dave McKean, Jack Kirby, Becky Cloonan, Guy Davis

Websites: Lots of 'em. Newsarama, Comicon Pulse, Broken Frontier, Millarworld, various Delphi fora and a few comics blogs.

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Micronauts #29. The Micronauts get shot into the brain of a comrade, featuring SHIELD and the villany of Nighmare! Also, Origins of Marvel Comics, the big 'ol collection of a random sampling of pure gold '60s Marvel.

TPBs or issues?: Trades where I can. I buy too damn many floppies, too.

Conventions/cosplay?: I attend conventions. That's it.

Filmic adaptation: Superman I or II. The rest are pretty much total ass.

One liner: "You don't get it. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me." Or is that three lines?

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): AIM or the Hordes of Hydra.

I can't say I think instant messaging is a great subject for comics, Matt. Not much action.

BowB4DOOM: hi r u m or f?
StretchArmstrong: m
BowB4DOOM: oh um do u have any hot pix of your gf?
StretchArmstrong: yes
BowB4DOOM: send them to me? I'll trade for Philip Glass bootleg mp3s
StretchArmstrong: omg ok!!

[StretchArmstrong has sent you a file]

BowB4DOOM: hey wtf it's just a picture of a bed!
StretchArmstrong: yes my gf is invisible, ha ha on you
BowB4DOOM: oh no! wtf omg r u my nemesis Reed Richards?
StretchArmstrong: yes u luser i am Reed, got you again Vicky
BowB4DOOM: stfu! omg! i am going to hax0r your country now with my negative zone robot virus! fucko!

I'd buy it.

Advanced Idea Mechanics, silly Martin!

But I've had some interesting AIM chats about comics, does that count?

Tep you GOLDEN GOD.

Tep is my hero.

I have had good AIM chats with you about comics, Matt! I mentioned chatting on AIM with friends to some old comic friends a few weeks back, and they immediately thought of that other AIM. I said "Should I have been suspicious when the engineer who came to install it had no body and a giant head and hovered?"

tep: funny shit, man.

the more i re-read it, the funnier it gets.

bump

I think we've got a few new regulars now, take the 1.5 minute to make introduction!

(Hi. I am a lurker on ILComics, though many of you know me from ILE. I know almost nothing about comic books, which is why I only lurk here. But I'm here.)

Knowing nothing never stops you from posting on ILE!

Ha-HA, you've been MANN-handled!

Are Canadians allowed on Last Comic Standing?

The hot and funny girl I'm in love with is Canadian, that Bonnie McFarlane.

Duh on me!

I smell a cute meet!

Like ham with pineapple rings on it?

Cute meat?

Favorite:

Superhero:
I suppose I'm a sort of regular by now but I thought I filled this out months ago.....

Series/collections: Watchmen, V For Vendetta, Y : The Last Man, Zenith, the Invisibles, the Ultimates, Captain Britain, Charlies War, Hate,ohmigod too many memories....
Writers: Alan Moore, Grant Morrison, Brian K. Vaughan, Roger Stern in the 80s, Stan Lee in the 60s, Doug Moench in the 80s, Pat Mills.
Artists: Bill Scienciwicz, Mazzuchelli, Ditko, Bruce Timm, Steve Rude, Toth, Bagge, Hitch, Lapham, Gil Kane, Windsor-Smith, Moebius...
Websites: The Fourth Rail, Sequential Tart..
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Marvel Team-Up - isssue Number unknown. Claremont/Byrne Spiderman/Capt Britain teamup.
TPBs or issues?: TPBs.
Conventions/cosplay?: what?
Filmic adaptation: Spiderman. Made me feel 12 again in lots of uncomfortable ways.
One liner:
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Bwight colours!! Big Blurbs!!

Chris - lurker, mainly. Periodic poster and appreciative reader. Hello!
Favorite: Superhero: Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu
Series/collections: X-Men, Preacher, Sandman, and Powers TPBs
Writers: Garth Ennis, Brian Bendis, Doug Moench
Artists: Gene Colan, Jim Lee, George Perez, John Romita Sr. (best Spider-Man)
Websites: Newsarama, X-Axis
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: an issue of Amazing Spider-Man with the Spidermobile (# 142?, the villain was Mysterio). Opening page has the Spidermobile screeching on two wheels around a corner with cops in pursuit.
TPBs or issues?: TPBs, I haven't bought comics since '94, aside from Optic Nerve. Now I'm borrowing TPBs from the Seattle Library. The "Part 1 of #" trend is a huge turn-off. Why not individual issues that fit into a larger whole?
Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Never been to a convention. Cosplay - did buy a pair of white Levis and a black turtleneck as a kid because Shang-Chi looked cool in that outfit, for not quite the same effect.
Filmic adaptation: Hellboy (though haven't read the comic), X2, The Phantom
One liner: "I'm the best there is at what I do...", for lack of a better one.
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): lush Jim Lee art.
Favorite single panel: either the "Mom?" panel from Preacher. Or the Cyclops / Phoenix "love on the mesa" panel where he's able to take off his visor.

Hi, Chris! Are you by chance the same Chris Hill that used to work at a comic book store in Milwaukee, WI?

Milwaukee ILC FAP!!

Oh gosh, an ILC FAP could be the best thing ever. I wish the Midwest were as small as I think it is.

Fellow Chris - nope, not me. I'm in Seattle. But now I've got "schlemiel, schlemozzle..." running in my head, thanks to the Milwaukee reference.

I'm also a Chris, and I think comics are great in theory although I don't like many of them in practice. I have kinda specific tastes. I grew up on comic strips rather than comic books and I think my tastes reflect that.

Also I used to have a webcomic.

Oh, if only there were a Milwaukee ILC FAP...

Too bad, Chris. The other Chris Hill was my favorite comic book shop clerk, before I gave up comics for the first time.

New people, intro yourselves!

My name's Joe, I'm 25, I'm writing my first novel (i.e. unemployed) and I live in London. I've been on here for a month or two so you know what comics I like. I just spent ten minutes writing a profile for myself in the style of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe then realised it wasn't in the slightest bit clever or funny and stopped. That's all you need to know about me.

Favorite:

Superhero: marmaduke, enid coleslaw, toybox
Series/collections: gotham central, y: the last man, eightball, identity crisis
Writers: alan moore, daniel clowes, adrian tomine, brad meltzer
Artists: adrian tomine, winsor mckay, henry darger
Websites: http://ape-law.com/GAF/index.html , http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7160/league1.html
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: captain carrot
TPBs or issues?: tpb
Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: i own a green lantern tee
Filmic adaptation: x-men 2
One liner: "i make stabby"
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): high concept bs 'what if?...' comics done very seriously (cf. alan moore, gotham central)
Favorite single panel: http://ape-law.com/GAF/Page26/baseball7.jpg

Superhero: The Question, I guess, although he's neither very super or very heroic
Series/collections: The Frank Book, Krazy Kat Anthologies,
Writers: Chris Ware, Jim Woodring, Alan Moore (when he's trying), uh...Dostoyevsky and Orwell...
Artists: Chris Ware, Jim Woodring, R. Crumb, Ben Katchor, Jules Feiffer, Ed Gorey, Geo Herriman, uh...Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Andy Goldsworthy, Gerhard Richter, Franz Klien, Alfred Jensen...
Websites: salon, slate, american prospect, spitgroove
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: It was peanuts, when I was just a tot.
TPBs or issues?: I thought I answered this already
Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Oh, HELL no!
Filmic adaptation: Most suck pretty badly, but the first couple Blade movies were pretty juicy. Ghost World was pretty different from the comic, but still awful good.
One liner: Lil Ainjul.
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Pantomime, or at least great body language and gestures.
Favorite single panel: Charles Addams, probably.

i mainly like writing abt stuff no one else remembers or has heard of, and have not read - though like readin abt - all the stuff you guys DO know abt

Like Tintin?

Bump because I invited a friend to ILC.

Character: Dr. Strange, Martian Manhunter, Mazikeen, Jakita Wagner

Series/collections: Planetary, Lucifer, Y, Ex Machina, Optic Nerve, Jimmy Corrigan, mid-to-late '80s Uncanny X-Men, JLA in all permutations

Writers: Grant Morrison, Brian Azzarello, Brian K. Vaughan, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore

Artists: Mike Mignola, Jae Lee, John Cassaday, Chris Ware, Christopher Moeller

Websites: Newsarama

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: An issue of Legion of Superheroes I read until it disintegrated.

TPBs or issues?: Issues almost exclusively.

Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Not so much.

Filmic adaptation: Hellboy, Superman II, Ghost World, Sin City

One liner: Elijah Snow: "He's your special Bat-friend."

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Ellis reimagining all the classics in Planetary -- partucularly when he turned John Constantine into Spider Jerusalem.

Favorite single panel: The full page with 2 leaping in the last issue of WE3.

Hmm. My choices seem to skew rather unfortunately towards the recent. Anyway, my name's Matthew and I've been lurking here a while -- long enough to check out She-Hulk and become a Dan Slott booster based on all the props he gets on here. I definitely plan to try Queen and Country for simiilar reasons. Job well done, you lot!

Hi Matthew! It sounds like we have pretty similar tastes.

Ellis reimagining all the classics in Planetary -- partucularly when he turned John Constantine into Spider Jerusalem.

I don't remember this, but it sounds great! What are you referring to?

It was in Planetary #7, where Jack Carter (the Constantine stand-in) dies and the three of them go to his funeral (which was nice too, for the cast of pre-"Vertigo" Vertigo characters in attendence -- discussed in another thread, I believe). Then it turns out he's faked his own death, has shaved his head and acquired some Spider Jerusalem-esque chest tattoos. The Hulk origin retelling in the Planetary preview is another favourite along the same lines.

Back to my Legion of Substitute Heroes-style super hero alter ego...

I remember that. That was pretty cool.

And welcome, Ob-Lad.

That does sound familiar, yeah. I'm going to have to read through Planetary again, it was one of the first things I read that got me back into comics a few years ago (along with Invisibles and New X-Men).

Me too! I stopped reading comics in '91, and started again around '98, with Planetary, the Authority, all the ABC books, and Morrison's JLA. That was a killer time, and I don't for one moment regret missing out on the birth of Image comics and the nine-collectible-foil-cover-variant madness of my lost years.

Ha, ha.
Same here. Except I didn't start reading again until 2003. And I may have continued reading Hellblazer until 92.

Gosh...What are my faves...I'm not sure I know myself. Okay, this list is subject to change because, as with most people I should think, my favourite anything is fairly dependant on what mood I'm in.

Superhero: Oooh, difficult...Jenny Sparks, Crazy Jane.
Series/Collection: From Hell, Sin City, Planetary, Global Frequency, The Killing Joke, Marvel/Miracleman, Top 10, Sandman, 300, Akira, Lone Wolf and Cub, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright...God, I could go on forever.
Writers: Grant Morrison, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, Alejandro Jodorowsky
Artists: John Cassaday, Katsuhiro Otomo, Steve McNiven, Geof Darrow, Frank Quitely, Bill Sienkewicz, Dave McKean, John Totleben, Cam Kennedy, Moebius, Gimenez...this could take a long time.
Websites: comicbookresources/com (and no, I don't know how to insert URLs)
TPBs or Issues? Issues, of course. What sort of weirdo do you think I am? Although it is nice to have a story all in one place.
Cons/cosplay? Cons, in my youth. I'm a bit long in the tooth for that kinda shit nowadays.
Filmic Adaptation? Hellboy, Blade or X2 (Haven't seen Sin City yet it looks like it may be up there)
One Liner: "Moo" from Morrison's New X-Men, "Clean thoughts, chum.", from Alan Moore's Superman story; 'For the Man Who Has Everything'
Comic Book Kink: Grant Morison (unfortunately) closely followed by Warren Ellis.
Favourite Single Panel: At the moment it's the one in Planetary #19 (or is it #18) with the corpse of the pseudo-Galactus, but I'm guessing that might change if McNiven gets to draw the Ultimate Universe version in Ultimate Secret.

hm a bit late i guess.

hi i'm tom i'm nineteen i study american literature i lead kind of a dull life and comics help -

yadda yadda yadda:

superhero - martian manhunter!
websites: here, i guess.
first comic you bought/remember most vividly: actually i remember having a kind of thing for the x-men based mostly around the cartoon series: and any random 80s-90s issue of the comic i actually happened to see would fall into part of this vast tapestry of potential literature i couldn't wait until i was old and moneyed enough to read all of because obviously it all be so great..
TPBs or issues?: i have no opinion on this matter.
one liner: i am a total sucker for any comic that gets in "who WAS that masked man?", especially if the speaker is taking the piss
biggest kink: the whole re-evaluation of the superhero bizniz.
favorite single panel: "look UP!" at the end of flex mentallo maybe. or the angry genius postreptile lizard at the end of enigma.

Oh well, started posting here and didn't know I was supposed to introduce myself first. But I learned the lesson and just did it in ILM. Ok here we go:

Superhero: The Flash (Wally West)
Series: All time: Animal Man, Doom Patrol, New X-Men, Invisibles (All circa morrison), Shade, The Changing Man, Human Target, Transmet, Hate, Madman, Eightball, Spirou (circa Franquin), Starman, Fantastic Four, New Teen Titans, Uncanny X-Men, Justice League International, The Flash (obviously, but that's the only one I follow no matter who's doing it)
Writers: Grant Morrison, Peter Milligan, Mark Waid, Keith Giffen, James Robinson (when he was a DC Hack, before becoming a Hollywood hack), Ann Nocenti.
Artists: Chris Bachalo (in Shade-Death-Generation X), Frank Quitely, Brian Bolland
Writer/Artist: André Franquin, Frank Miller, Dan Clowes, Peter Bagge, Kyle Baker, Sam Kieth, Bill Watterson, Winsor McCay, Alex Raymond, whatever.
Websites: ADLO! Novelti Librari
First comic I bought/remember most vividly: I think it was a pre-crisis Superman which I got second hand (i'm not that old, i could barely read when the Crisis happened!) It was about Superman on a trip back to Krypton and taking Lois Lane with him, showing him the wonders of his home planet, etc etc etc. The cover said something like "Lois, I introduce you to my family!".

The first one I bought and still keep must be a local edition of Batman and the Outsiders #1, circa 1989.

TPBs or Issues: Issues all the way. I don't understand the people who prefer TPBs. I mean, I would if TPBs were cheaper than the sum of its issues, but they certainly aren't. So it's the same money (or more), but just in one payment. It makes no sense to me.

Conventions: I went to one in 1996, and another one in 1998. That was the end for me! Too many people...

Filmic adaptation: Superman, Ghost World

One liner: "There's gotta be a better world", the last Doom Patrol by Morrison.

Favorite single panel: Buddy Baker shedding a tear for his resurrected family in Animal Man 26, Danny The World giving the welcome for Crazy Jane, Shade's daughter/son looking at the sky in Shade 70...i'm a sucker for emotional endings. I should also mention one panel from Justice League International 8 (Moving Day) but the description would be too long.

Favorite:

Superhero: don't have one, really.

Series/collections: I rilly liked the interconnectedness of the DC and Marvel universes and I guess I really dug Teen titans, X-Men, and lotsa team books but a.) then Chris Claremont ruined comic books for me in the mid '80s, b.) Watchmen pretty much made me not need to read any more comics, and c.) I needed to get some pussy.

Y'know what was really good? Bruce Jones' Ka-Zar.

Writers: Roy Thomas, Moore, Doug Moench, lotsa others…

Artists: sorry… I liked John Byrne…Neal Adams, Perez, Kirby…lotsa others…

Websites: umm, this one?

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: I think it was an late '70s legion ish…

TPBs or issues?: TPBs

Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: never been to one…

Filmic adaptation: I guess Batman Begins got it right…

One liner: no idea…

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): gee…good dialogue? characterization?

Favorite single panel: no idea…

Favorite:
Superhero: Silver Surfer. By a fucking mile

Series/collections: Vagabond, Slam Dunk, Invisibles, Nemesis, Finder, Y the Last Man, Stray Bullets, Blue Monday (bet I'm the only one here), Maakies, Black Order Brigade, Son of the Gun.

Writers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Grant Morrison, Pat Mills (before he lost it), David Lapham [am more of an artist person than a writer person]

Artists: Inoue Takehiko!!! Frank Quitely, Kevin O'Neill, Jack Cole, Paul Pope, Jim Mahfood, Jhonen Vasquez, Eduardo Risso, Pierre Christin, Georges Bess, David Lapham

First comic you bought/remember most vividly: 2000AD. First US comic was Squee. First Jap comic was Akira. First one I read was Tintin.

TPBs or issues?: Issues, cos I'm impatient. But TPBs are undeniably better to read (I hate the ads, Marvel in particular are choked with 'em). Actually the real answer is manga collections. I like the paperback format.

Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Nope never done it. Used to be on Barbelith a lot tho!

Filmic adaptation: Gotta confess to a deep love for Xmen.

One liner: "Guess we've got to win now, huh guys?" Hanamichi Sakuragi talking to the Shohoku team after he's jumped on a table and told the entire stadium that "Sannoh's going down". Or "Are you one of those wussie emo bands?" from New Xmen.

Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Quirky art.

Favorite single panel: The aliens debating who gets to keep Squee. Or Uozumi wearing an apron and shaving a radish onto the basketball court to remind Akagi that he is "a flounder not a star, and you need to get down in the mud: no-one else can do that".

Hi Jacob! I think you'll like it here!

Barbelith! I've been flirting with the idea of defecting there.

Welcome Jacob, you've motivated me to do something that's been on my mind for a while: All New Introduce Yourselves thread!

Superhero: Thing, Superman, Adam Warlock, Silver Surfer, Captain Marvel.
Series/collections: Fantastic Four, Love & Rockets, Yummy Fur, Dirty Plotte, Defenders, Avengers, Warlock, Captain Marvel, Eightball, Hate, Doctor Strange, Thor.
Writers: Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Steve Gerber, Steve Englehart, Alan Moore.
Artists: Jack Kirby, Robert Crumb, Steve Ditko, Alex Toth, Harvey Kurtzman, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Chester Brown, Jullie Doucet, Gary Panter, Charles Burns, Jose Munoz, many others.
Websites: Mile High Comics.
First comic you bought/remember most vividly: Superboy, Batman? Something like thant. Back in 1972.
TPBs or issues?: Both, I guess. Depending on what it is.
Conventions (aka nerd congregations)/cosplay (aka costume play)?: Not since 1989.
Filmic adaptation: Ghost World, Crumb (if that counts).
One liner: "Nothing matters and what if it did."
Biggest kink (what you most consistently fall for in a comic): Wit? God help me...
Favorite single panel: The usual panel(s) from FF #40.