Verdad
Literotica Guru
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A coolest thread, Joe. Oddly enough, I've never read Tintin, although comics were mostly of French and Italian origin where I grew up. I used to devour them as a kid, but never built a connoisseurship; I've read this and that, a bunch of stuff no one's heard of, with a lot of holes in what's common knowledge to everyone else. Much's been lost from my memory, too, so I can't even locate where some of the most impressionable images came from. Would be cool if I could see some of it with today's eyes, but the country that used to publish them is as gone as my old stash.
In more recent times, I was unexpectedly blown away by Neil Gaiman's Sandman. I'd resisted reading it for ages; when something's so hyped you must read it, I sometimes dig my feet in, plus I wasn't really in the mood for it when it was at the height of popularity. It looked kinda emo, and I'd stopped reading comics, graphic novels, and what have you anyhow.
Only a year or so ago, I finally caved in and cracked The Sandman open, fully prepared to sulk and proclaim it a bore. Instead, it was, wow, sucked in from the first page; totally enchanted. I couldn't unglue myself from it till I finished the entire series and all the extras I could find, and then I raved about it for two months, harassing everyone else they must read it too. I'm luckily out of the fan phase, so no dithyrambic essays are forthcoming, but from some reason or another, The Sandman was the most captivating thing I've read in any form, in years.
In more recent times, I was unexpectedly blown away by Neil Gaiman's Sandman. I'd resisted reading it for ages; when something's so hyped you must read it, I sometimes dig my feet in, plus I wasn't really in the mood for it when it was at the height of popularity. It looked kinda emo, and I'd stopped reading comics, graphic novels, and what have you anyhow.
Only a year or so ago, I finally caved in and cracked The Sandman open, fully prepared to sulk and proclaim it a bore. Instead, it was, wow, sucked in from the first page; totally enchanted. I couldn't unglue myself from it till I finished the entire series and all the extras I could find, and then I raved about it for two months, harassing everyone else they must read it too. I'm luckily out of the fan phase, so no dithyrambic essays are forthcoming, but from some reason or another, The Sandman was the most captivating thing I've read in any form, in years.
