chadster1975

I'm the parent of a 16 year old girl as well as a huge comic book fan. I would love it if she spent the money I give her on comic books instead of the junk she buys. Her interests revolve primarily around her boyfriend, her friends, and girly trinkets on pinterest. There are so many negative things you could be doing with the money they give you. Nearly any book outside of pornorgraphy is better than no book at all and comics and graphic novels are legitimate literature. In college I had at least three courses that included graphic novels in the curriculum, one if which was a creative writing course that spent more than a month on Maus: A survivors tale. As a parent the best advice I can give you is go to the library and check out a few high concept graphic novels like Maus (Pulitzer prize winner), Asterios Polyp, or maybe even Ghost World or Persepolis and show them comics can be highly intellectual and mentally gratifying. If your parents aren't the type to respond to reason and rationality I might advise waiting the year and a half until your 18 and buy all the comics you want. You can easily fill your time reading great non-comic book literature that have comic book subtext until then. Anything by Neil Gaiman is good, Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, or books written about the comic book industry like Stan Lee's The origins of Marvel Comics or Tales to Astonish: Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American Comic Book Revolution and Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book are all great ways to spend time until your freshman year in college. Good luck.

Technically the Green Lantern Core was introduced in 1959. The Guardians of the Galaxy didn't show up until ten years later in 1969. With the way the Green Lantern movie bombed why does Marvel want to do a Guardians of the Galaxy movie? Movies are made in order to make money. Comic book movies are often green-lit because they have an already built-in fan base. While a lot of rather hard-core comic book readers are aware of Guardians of the Galaxy, it doesn't seem like newbies or occasional readers know who they are. Seems to me investors in GotG are taking quite a risk on this one.

I read comics SPECIFICALLY to escape the fact that in the real world, bad guys win all the time. I love the patience and detail and heart that artists put into these books,  but for me I love that the good guys will always save the day in the end. 

Love it!