Really, my whole love affair with this canon can be traced back to the statement, 'My favorite comic ever is Cable & Deadpool #19, 'Why, When I Was Your Age''. It no doubt isn't the best comic written in the history of comicry - there are way too many amazing comics on this planet - but it is my personal favorite.
But to take it back to day one... I'd once read a crazy Hellblazer/Sailor Moon crossover in my youth, which got me interested in watching the Constantine movie that was coming out back then. I actually liked it quite a bit, and finally told myself that I'd have to Read The Real Thing or I'd wind up feeling like a douche if I ever wrote in the fandom.
So I took my first - literally terrified, because I thought I had a bullseye drawn on my back the moment I came in - steps into the comic book world with Hellblazer... I think it's issue #104 or #106, 'Cross-Purpose'. Got into Vertigo for a while, read almost every series - except for Fables, funnily enough - they published, and finally got drawn into the world of Superhero Comics through the Superbuddies - the series Formerly Known as the Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not THe Justice League.
Of course, then DC had to go and kill off Ted Kord, one of the main characters from those series. I got disillusioned by DC, started poking around Scans_Daily complaining, and stumbled onto some Deadpool scans. Okay, funny, fine.
Then I ran into Deadpool scans that involved him being involved in a bonafide serious conversation, without ruining what of his characterisation I had picked up so far, with an old, grizzled, yet optimistic guy in a bar while he grew back to his old self after a quick deaging incident. It was very serious, and yet not, there was joking back and forth, there was real comradery jumping off the page in a very... I don't even know what the word is. Thorough? Way. They wound up taling about their childhoods. A lot.
The flashbacks we saw in the background showed that they were both lying their asses off. Making things seem more rose-coloured than they were.
And they called each other on it on the last page.
And then they just walked off together.
I was lost. Here were two guys who had been enemies for as long as they'd known each other - and that was a long time - and they knew each other so well. Bought the comic. Did not stop buying the comic. It became my favorite thing to look forward to every week.
I can't find the full issue anywhere online where you don't have to just download the full thing, so have some scan snippets (http://community.livejournal.com/cabledeadpool/81988.html#cutid1) instead.
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But to take it back to day one... I'd once read a crazy Hellblazer/Sailor Moon crossover in my youth, which got me interested in watching the Constantine movie that was coming out back then. I actually liked it quite a bit, and finally told myself that I'd have to Read The Real Thing or I'd wind up feeling like a douche if I ever wrote in the fandom.
So I took my first - literally terrified, because I thought I had a bullseye drawn on my back the moment I came in - steps into the comic book world with Hellblazer... I think it's issue #104 or #106, 'Cross-Purpose'. Got into Vertigo for a while, read almost every series - except for Fables, funnily enough - they published, and finally got drawn into the world of Superhero Comics through the Superbuddies - the series Formerly Known as the Justice League and I Can't Believe It's Not THe Justice League.
Of course, then DC had to go and kill off Ted Kord, one of the main characters from those series. I got disillusioned by DC, started poking around Scans_Daily complaining, and stumbled onto some Deadpool scans. Okay, funny, fine.
Then I ran into Deadpool scans that involved him being involved in a bonafide serious conversation, without ruining what of his characterisation I had picked up so far, with an old, grizzled, yet optimistic guy in a bar while he grew back to his old self after a quick deaging incident. It was very serious, and yet not, there was joking back and forth, there was real comradery jumping off the page in a very... I don't even know what the word is. Thorough? Way. They wound up taling about their childhoods. A lot.
The flashbacks we saw in the background showed that they were both lying their asses off. Making things seem more rose-coloured than they were.
And they called each other on it on the last page.
And then they just walked off together.
I was lost. Here were two guys who had been enemies for as long as they'd known each other - and that was a long time - and they knew each other so well. Bought the comic. Did not stop buying the comic. It became my favorite thing to look forward to every week.
I can't find the full issue anywhere online where you don't have to just download the full thing, so have some scan snippets (http://community.livejournal.com/cabledeadpool/81988.html#cutid1) instead.