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3 years ago
Coffee With The Princess!
Enjoying Comics Once Again!
**Giggles!**
Back in the 1970s, I started with a lot of comics, which were often the gift from Pop as he traveled all over the United States, defending her within the ranks of the Navy. He was one of the pilots of the P3 Orions, the subhunter aircraft, which were also used to study weather patterns He also went to places like Antartica and Greenland as well as Japan, Germany, and even England during these time. He was gone a lot of the time, but always came back with tons of goodies for my Mom, my Big Sister, and myself ... I would imagine from the stuff he brought me, he had more fun shopping for these items. I don't remember getting any manga back then, but he did mention that he was familiar with it, but he bring me comics from all over the world, often comics that were sold here in the US and then traveled to the bases to be sold to soldiers and their families.
Move forward to the 1980s, which does cover some of the last years of the 1970s, I discovered the magic of convince stores a little more than when Pop would run to the store for cigarettes. Now, those trips were fun in the fact that I got to spend time with Pop and enjoy the top down on the AMC Rebel, the car he won in a poker game at Pax River. The trips that I took during the 1980s were far more fun since I had to ride my bike from East Beach to the Village on St. Simons Island to try and get the comics first and then candy and video games later. I would often find at least one day where there were lots of comics I didn't have, but then there were a few months where there wasn't that much there, so the money often went back into my Captain America bank to be probably spent later. Mon was often aghast at the fact that I enjoyed reading "Those horrible comics!" than read some of the books that she loved, though ... most of the books that she loved, I had already read. Some were a little over my head at the age of six, but I had lost interest in them. Books like The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer were lots of fun, though you had to work very carefully to get some of the details ... and I had to keep a dictionary near by to define the words and understand what you were reading. My mother was often too busy with her own work to deal with her precocious child. Pop wa a bit better and often read me stories like Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and even Conan! Those times I enjoyed. But, since I craved high adventure for escape of boring classes, shallow and often thoughtless teachers, and rough rides on a crammed bus, comics were that quick and easy access to such realms.
Roll into the 1990s and you would find that this was the transition to the harshness of life, a good and hard slap in the face with Kait's passing, the trails and tribulations of the unfathomable educational system in both getting a job, teaching those same boring classes and dealing with the same bored kids, dealing with administrators and parents who had little time for the students or the teachers, and then the return to college to be later hoisted with a huge debt of student loans built on the promise of a job and little of anything else. A cracked foundation of life made by poor choices to be sure. It was no wonder I was broken, depressed, and suicidal.
Things changed radically into the 2000s, thanks to the Firm who gave me a good start in preparing that foundation. It took clearing away of problems, straightening out finances, taking responsibility for actions, and treating myself with love and respect again. It did not happen overnight and continued to be that sort of thing that had to be retaught again and again and even again. I had to learn about health as you know during this past couple of years, but also patching and repairing the holes in my spirit and soul. The Firm also helped me to repair the damage I thought I did with my family, to restore the love I had for my folks and yet even understand that much of the garbage of the mind was from my point of view and not theirs, so ... it might be best to toss that out and focus on the good times and discard the bad ones, though I do keep some of those times in mind as teachable moments of wisdom of the ages.
Comics has been a mainstay throughout these times, the good, the bad, and everything in-between. Over the last few years, I had been using Comixology to keep up with some of the classic comics that I grew up with, mostly Marvel since I had a lot of the collections in hardcovers of the DC comics I enjoyed. Stories of great heroism, fantastic realms, high adventure, and even romance with greats like Capitan America, Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, the Mighty Thor, Dr. Strange, the Incredible Hulk, and the Invincible Ironman to get me started in that universe, but later, I kept up with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman too with some forays into the Challengers of the Unknown, Shade the Changing Man, Plastic Man, Justice League, and a few others in the DC realm too. Brave and the Bold, like Marvel Team-Up, allowed me to keep up with either Batman or Spiderman as he teamed up with some of the respected comics hero base, so I got to meet so many other heroes and heroines too. Marvel also had some comics that were wildly different like Rom: Spaceknight, Godzilla, Shogun Warriors, or the Micronauts to break the monotony for me, but DC also had a few I liked: Mystery in Space, Dial H for Hero, and House of Mystery, but those were hard to find as were the odd ones from Marvel. Unfortunately, Amazon recently bought out Comixology and decided that Kindle is the ONLY way to read their comics. Kindle for the Mac sucks in my opinion. While easy to use, reading some of the older panels is a pain in the butt. I also have a subscription to Marvel's Unlimited Comics, but you have to wait for the current stuff to be formatted and uploaded to the site. Much easier to read, but I think you can only read comics that are at least a year old or so. They encourage you to go out and pay about $4 per issue to read your favorites. Wow ... but not surprising to me at least.
Being a gal who still loves reading comics, especially in-between jobs at the Firm or needing a break from reading the Paizo's Pathfinder Adventure Paths to set for the upcoming Saturday Night Tabletop Game, Marvel's reader program works best for me. My eyes have changed quite a bit over the years and reading is still a pain in the butt for me. I do wear reading glasses and, while the eye doctor has not talked to me since last year, I have yet to be suggested or referred to have the corrective surgery, which makes my friends snicker when I'm trying to read the stuff at the tabletop game. At home, I have a pretty large monitor that I can zoom in and read much better and I tend to make the neighbors wonder what is going on when I'm reading the adventure paths and trying to pronounce some of the names to the NPCs, places, or monsters the players have to deal with as the heroes in the story. Or even better when I'm rehearsing lines and such for these characters to get a feeling for how best to present them. I'm sure that alone makes me an uncommon neighbor.
I still enjoy all the things I do these days, the good, the bad, and everything in-between.
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
Enjoying Comics Once Again!
**Giggles!**
Back in the 1970s, I started with a lot of comics, which were often the gift from Pop as he traveled all over the United States, defending her within the ranks of the Navy. He was one of the pilots of the P3 Orions, the subhunter aircraft, which were also used to study weather patterns He also went to places like Antartica and Greenland as well as Japan, Germany, and even England during these time. He was gone a lot of the time, but always came back with tons of goodies for my Mom, my Big Sister, and myself ... I would imagine from the stuff he brought me, he had more fun shopping for these items. I don't remember getting any manga back then, but he did mention that he was familiar with it, but he bring me comics from all over the world, often comics that were sold here in the US and then traveled to the bases to be sold to soldiers and their families.
Move forward to the 1980s, which does cover some of the last years of the 1970s, I discovered the magic of convince stores a little more than when Pop would run to the store for cigarettes. Now, those trips were fun in the fact that I got to spend time with Pop and enjoy the top down on the AMC Rebel, the car he won in a poker game at Pax River. The trips that I took during the 1980s were far more fun since I had to ride my bike from East Beach to the Village on St. Simons Island to try and get the comics first and then candy and video games later. I would often find at least one day where there were lots of comics I didn't have, but then there were a few months where there wasn't that much there, so the money often went back into my Captain America bank to be probably spent later. Mon was often aghast at the fact that I enjoyed reading "Those horrible comics!" than read some of the books that she loved, though ... most of the books that she loved, I had already read. Some were a little over my head at the age of six, but I had lost interest in them. Books like The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer were lots of fun, though you had to work very carefully to get some of the details ... and I had to keep a dictionary near by to define the words and understand what you were reading. My mother was often too busy with her own work to deal with her precocious child. Pop wa a bit better and often read me stories like Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, Doc Savage, and even Conan! Those times I enjoyed. But, since I craved high adventure for escape of boring classes, shallow and often thoughtless teachers, and rough rides on a crammed bus, comics were that quick and easy access to such realms.
Roll into the 1990s and you would find that this was the transition to the harshness of life, a good and hard slap in the face with Kait's passing, the trails and tribulations of the unfathomable educational system in both getting a job, teaching those same boring classes and dealing with the same bored kids, dealing with administrators and parents who had little time for the students or the teachers, and then the return to college to be later hoisted with a huge debt of student loans built on the promise of a job and little of anything else. A cracked foundation of life made by poor choices to be sure. It was no wonder I was broken, depressed, and suicidal.
Things changed radically into the 2000s, thanks to the Firm who gave me a good start in preparing that foundation. It took clearing away of problems, straightening out finances, taking responsibility for actions, and treating myself with love and respect again. It did not happen overnight and continued to be that sort of thing that had to be retaught again and again and even again. I had to learn about health as you know during this past couple of years, but also patching and repairing the holes in my spirit and soul. The Firm also helped me to repair the damage I thought I did with my family, to restore the love I had for my folks and yet even understand that much of the garbage of the mind was from my point of view and not theirs, so ... it might be best to toss that out and focus on the good times and discard the bad ones, though I do keep some of those times in mind as teachable moments of wisdom of the ages.
Comics has been a mainstay throughout these times, the good, the bad, and everything in-between. Over the last few years, I had been using Comixology to keep up with some of the classic comics that I grew up with, mostly Marvel since I had a lot of the collections in hardcovers of the DC comics I enjoyed. Stories of great heroism, fantastic realms, high adventure, and even romance with greats like Capitan America, Spiderman, the Fantastic Four, the Mighty Thor, Dr. Strange, the Incredible Hulk, and the Invincible Ironman to get me started in that universe, but later, I kept up with Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman too with some forays into the Challengers of the Unknown, Shade the Changing Man, Plastic Man, Justice League, and a few others in the DC realm too. Brave and the Bold, like Marvel Team-Up, allowed me to keep up with either Batman or Spiderman as he teamed up with some of the respected comics hero base, so I got to meet so many other heroes and heroines too. Marvel also had some comics that were wildly different like Rom: Spaceknight, Godzilla, Shogun Warriors, or the Micronauts to break the monotony for me, but DC also had a few I liked: Mystery in Space, Dial H for Hero, and House of Mystery, but those were hard to find as were the odd ones from Marvel. Unfortunately, Amazon recently bought out Comixology and decided that Kindle is the ONLY way to read their comics. Kindle for the Mac sucks in my opinion. While easy to use, reading some of the older panels is a pain in the butt. I also have a subscription to Marvel's Unlimited Comics, but you have to wait for the current stuff to be formatted and uploaded to the site. Much easier to read, but I think you can only read comics that are at least a year old or so. They encourage you to go out and pay about $4 per issue to read your favorites. Wow ... but not surprising to me at least.
Being a gal who still loves reading comics, especially in-between jobs at the Firm or needing a break from reading the Paizo's Pathfinder Adventure Paths to set for the upcoming Saturday Night Tabletop Game, Marvel's reader program works best for me. My eyes have changed quite a bit over the years and reading is still a pain in the butt for me. I do wear reading glasses and, while the eye doctor has not talked to me since last year, I have yet to be suggested or referred to have the corrective surgery, which makes my friends snicker when I'm trying to read the stuff at the tabletop game. At home, I have a pretty large monitor that I can zoom in and read much better and I tend to make the neighbors wonder what is going on when I'm reading the adventure paths and trying to pronounce some of the names to the NPCs, places, or monsters the players have to deal with as the heroes in the story. Or even better when I'm rehearsing lines and such for these characters to get a feeling for how best to present them. I'm sure that alone makes me an uncommon neighbor.
I still enjoy all the things I do these days, the good, the bad, and everything in-between.
BE Happy!
Love and Kisses,
Loonia
