Timothy
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Post by Timothy on Mar 30, 2008 20:40:20 GMT -5
I guess you could say that both my mother and father got me into Batman at an early age. Since I was about seven or eight years old, I've read, collected and enjoyed the respective worlds of both the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel. I founded DC in the hopes of meeting new fans and discussing what continues to fascinate me to this very day.
What started your love for either Batman or Superman and why?
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Post by Papa Smurf on Apr 23, 2008 1:46:03 GMT -5
To be honest, I didn't get into those two until Batman: the Animated Series came out alongside of Superman: the Animated Series. I saw a bit of the original series(es? the plural is silly being the same) and found them too light to capture my interest. Now I watch and read what I can and am slowly growing my knowledge though they cost the money I don't have.
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Timothy
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Post by Timothy on Apr 24, 2008 20:59:12 GMT -5
To be honest, I didn't get into those two until Batman: the Animated Series came out alongside of Superman: the Animated Series. I saw a bit of the original series(es? the plural is silly being the same) and found them too light to capture my interest. Now I watch and read what I can and am slowly growing my knowledge though they cost the money I don't have. No worries about the cost of collections and such; that's why we're all here... To benefit from each others' experiences, knowledges and materials.  |
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Post by diggidydave420 on May 14, 2008 9:27:28 GMT -5
when I started reading comics I picked up a Superman (can't remember which one) and loved it, didn't really get into marvel, though I love Spiderman and X-Men, Superman appealed to me more, I guess cause I always wanted to fly
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Timothy
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Post by Timothy on May 14, 2008 10:08:49 GMT -5
when I started reading comics I picked up a Superman (can't remember which one) and loved it, didn't really get into marvel, though I love Spiderman and X-Men, Superman appealed to me more, I guess cause I always wanted to fly I love Spider-Man and X-Men as well, although if I were writing them I'd change a few things creatively... Yeah, that ol' desire to fly, it's just one of the many things that makes Superman so appealing generation after generation. |
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Post by arkhaminmate on Jun 24, 2008 21:15:31 GMT -5
I honesty can't remember a time when I didn't love Batman. It's like something embeded in my skull since birth. But it was either B:tas or Batman Returns that started it; that I can be sure of. For awhile it was just the movies & the series. When I was 7 I discovered comic books, it was Superman: Man of Steel. I can't remember the exact number, partially because I was 7 & mostly because I lost it later that week. I wasn't that compelled, Superman was too cheery for my tastes. I was always a weird kid, & I loved dark, gothicfilms. So when I picked up an issue of Batman it was like OMG! this is amazing. it was a back issue. 375? OR 376? something like that. It was the 2nd appearance of Killer Croc. & that's what sparked my compulsiveness to collect.
I should stop before I finish writing a full autobiography.
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Post by joshrob1995 on Jun 24, 2008 21:21:01 GMT -5
I'm a huge Batman fan. I read Batman:Year One years ago and I was instantly hooked! I've been a devout fan ever since as I shall always be.
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Timothy
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Post by Timothy on Jun 24, 2008 21:47:50 GMT -5
I'm a huge Batman fan. I read Batman:Year One years ago and I was instantly hooked! I've been a devout fan ever since as I shall always be. I'm definitely with you on Year One; to me, it's better than The Dark Knight Returns because it realistically brought Batman back after "Crisis" and has since then led to Batman Begins |
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Post by Jack Napier on Jun 26, 2008 11:28:02 GMT -5
My parents got me Tim Burton's Batman on VHS for a cheap price at Target. I saw it so many times as a young one- I don't even remember my first experience watching it. But I do remember knowing the lines well enough to recite them, even if, at four years old, I had no idea what they meant (which ended up in a bit of a lecture from my mom when I recited Nicholson's Joker's "C'mon, you gruesome son-of-a-" when playing with toys in the bathtub. No joke).
At the same time, I also had a dramatization on tape of The Untold Legend of The Batman. Traditionally, I would watch the movie and then listen to the tape afterwards that night and kind of envisioned it set in the same world as the Burton film.
Doing this, immediately ingrained the idea in my head that the movies and the comics were different- Joker still lives in the comics, Joker didn't kill Bruce's parents- Lew Moxon hired Joe Chill to kill the Waynes, etc.
Around the time Batman Forever came out, my parents got me a few comics (which, I think, they were surprised to find, were not the comics they grew up with).
But it wasn't until Batman & Robin became a disaster that I really got into the whole mythology. Mind you, I was too young to really look at the film and think, "What a terrible piece of crap," but I did miss the tone and world that I grew up with in the first film and was disappointed in how that had degraded.
We had just gotten the Internet and reading rumors of a "Batman 5" really excited me. When news broke out of an adaptation to Batman: Year One, I wondered, "What's that?"
Then, I started reading the major Batman comics. Around freshman year of high school, I started posting on message boards. The rest, as they say, is history...
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Timothy
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Post by Timothy on Jun 26, 2008 14:38:17 GMT -5
My parents got me Tim Burton's Batman on VHS for a cheap price at Target. I saw it so many times as a young one- I don't even remember my first experience watching it. But I do remember knowing the lines well enough to recite them, even if, at four years old, I had no idea what they meant (which ended up in a bit of a lecture from my mom when I recited Nicholson's Joker's "C'mon, you gruesome son-of-a-" when playing with toys in the bathtub. No joke).  That is karma worthy; enjoy more karma for a great anecdote! Those continuity differences must have really messed with your paradigms! I basically grew up with Batman: The Animated Series, so that was the primary source of inspiration for me. Same here; I used to get made fun of all the time after that movie. But instead of abandoning something that means the world to me, I just explored deeper into the stories that gave me such joy.  I hear you; Burton's Gotham (to be fair, Anton Furst's) from the first Batman movie was the Gotham for me for the better part of 10 years. ;D I remember that time as well. In fact, to this day, I remember sitting in my basement after watching "The New Batman Adventures" and imaging Clayface and The Scarecrow (both were, at the time, mentioned for the next movie) in the new movie... It makes me feel weird to say that I have absolutely no memories of hearing about the project until after Batman Begins was released. Same here, although I think it was sophomore year for me. After joining and becoming frustrated with several message boards where tyranny was the norm, I finally decided to take action. The result was this message board I love discussing anything and everything here with, well, everybody, and it is my sincerest hope that everyone who frequents this site enjoys chatting here too |
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