Have you got your significant other into comics, and if so, what was the gateway?

My wife likes indie books BOX OFFICE POISON and TRICKED, and mainstream book RUNAWAYS (she's read all the digests). I'm having her read the original NEW MUTANTS graphic novel next and then the Demon Bear Saga TPB. (Were those the only Claremont New Mutants runs collected in color?) She doesn't like the B&Witevness of the Essentials.

I want to pick up indie book TRUE STORY, SWEAR TO GOD and see if she likes that. I probably would.

TSSTG is cute. Heartwarming even. But ultimately, inconsequential.

Sounds perfect.

I have tried several times, never with any success.

I have tried several times, never with any success.

Pick up more indie books, and you might! Most ladies tend to like non-superhero stuff.

Tracey likes Astro City and anything with The Thing in it.

But she only likes 'em when I read them to her.

She's only read comics that I've created. Her childhood comic reading was mostly Dot and Little Lotta.

My daughter was a big Archie fan (without my involvement).

You guys might like True Story Swear to God. It's a bit more personal than Alex Robinson's stuff. If you think you'd like a more pornographic version of Box Office Poison, I suggest Bob Fingerman's Beg the Question. It has a similar feel to it, but is also more biographical.

Hmm, I might have to check that out, Kurt.

We read Blankets also. Neither of us liked the ending much.

Steve, if you'll send your mailing address to my pm box, I'll mail you a copy of my Young Geeks in Love mini-comic. At the indie cons that I go to, it seems to sell best to women and couples.

My girlfriend got me into Star Trek, so I returned the favor and got her into comics. She's not as into them as me, doesn't read very many, but she does on occasion. I had her read Rising Stars, she loved it. Except the end, it was too rushed. Liberty Meadows, Strangers in Paradise, mostly independent stuff like that. And the short lived series Captain America and the Falcon. That she liked that is still a mystery to me.
But I'm most proud that I got her into video games. I mean real games, not like Myst or The Sims. She beat BioShock on Monday this week. She plays Halo online. She'll also play Grand Theft Auto, Katamari Damacy (does that count?), Metroid Prime and other hardcore games.

Honey will listen when I talk about them now and then and thinks it's cool that I get them for the library. But no interest in reading them.

Ah, so you noticed the pattern with me and Jeff, eh?



I want her to read my stuff so we can talk about it and argue if the Hulk's gray form can still beat the Thing, darnit!

And so that she'll appreciate those Ditko Spidey poses that he throws in during sex.

Haw.

Paul's GF is a rare breed. Most like different comics and different videogames. My wife plays AstroPop on the 360 a lot. I just picked up The Longest Journey for PC and she's a total addict. We'll be getting Dreamfall when this one's done.