Thursday, January 31, 2008

Welcome to Thunderdome!

Welcome to Pencils, Panels and Wordballoons. I've been inspired by my good friend Aaron, who hosts the wonderful End Of Cinema blog all about the alternative side of the movies especially foreign cinema. His is a very witty and informative site about movies, some I've heard of, some I have not, but I always find his musings interesting. His passion for the art really comes through, and that is what I want to do as well. 
Only differently. 
 This is an area I am devoting fully to my love and passion for the art of sequential fiction, otherwise known as comic books. 
I've always been a fan of comics since I can remember, wether it be early issues of Marvel Comic's Star Wars, to their G.I. Joe, I always loved reading monthly adventures of heroes and villians. I used to get a new comic from my dad for every week I could keep my room clean. Though I never got as many as I would have liked. Though, like most people my age, when 1989 rolled around, it brought with it the the cinematic juggernaut BATMAN and forever my world was changed. Superheroes invaded my brain and I could not be helped.
Then high school hit and I somewhat forget the world of Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and Thor and traded it for girls, music and well, movies. 
Mostly. 
I kept a hand in comics with cool titles like Spawn and The Sandman. 
Though most recently, after the birth of my daughter (who is now almost 3!) I have rediscovered my love of all things graphic. Mostly because it was something I could do on my own, required no power, made no sound, and I could read them anywhere, I resubmersed myself like I never had before. Now, I read everything and anything, from superheroes, to mystery, horror, relationship, and even comics history, and I don't believe I'm looking back. 
I hope to update every so often and show any readers out there what I've recently read from my weekly single issues, or offer up any reviews of cool new collected editions. Even if you don't read comics, I invite you to check back, you may discover something that you didn't know, and might be interested in. 
Welcome...