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Hello

Ahem, sorry this is a day late, but real world distractions happen, even to your Mighty Mod Team (Hard to believe I know, but there you are)

We are now into December, a month which hosts a number of holidays; Christmas, Hannukah and Kwanza, among others I am sure.

Traditionally we have an event over this period, and this year is no different. We also note that we haven't had too many theme weeks this year, and that's a shame, so we're going to combine those ideas and have more than one Theme Week to cover the month...

Week 1 - Gifts recommendations

Whilst we're still within the gitt ordering window, what story/title would you suggest getting for someone who has never been into comics before? Or what would you give a young person you'd want to get started in comics?

Week 2 - Your first comic

What comic or story first drew you into comics? It doesn't even need to be first one you read, just the first one to make you think "I want to read more like this"?

Week 3 - Favourite family moments in comics

A LOT of comics have families, born and/or chosen, at their core. What ones appeal to you most?

Week 4 - Comics of the year

Your favourite stories of the last 12 months.

So let's start Week 1!

 

Date: 2017-12-03 04:37 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] katefan
Hmmmm, if I were to pick a comic to suggest to someone I would probably suggest a trade paperback but those trades that come to mind are older and wouldn't necessarily reflect modern comics. I would probably suggest the new Zatanna magic school series because while it is a little pricey it is a lot of comic for the money and it crosses genres between traditional DC Comics and book series like Harry Potter.

Date: 2017-12-03 08:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] q99
-Whilst we're still within the gitt ordering window, what story/title would you suggest getting for someone who has never been into comics before? Or what would you give a young person you'd want to get started in comics?-

If one's not sure if they're into supers, Lumberjanes. Or for a bit older, Nimora. For adults, Transformers, Lazarus, Monstress, depending on their tastes.

For a super fan... some of the Superhero Girl stuff looks good for girls and I'm actually not sure what kids super comics for boys are in right now. The Spider-man Adventure ones back in the day are good but increasingly hard to find...


An adult? Depending on their tastes, Watchman, All-Star Superman, Ms. Marvel, Astro City, Hellboy.... honestly there's a lot of options so I'd zero in on the individual's tastes and/or what's cheap.
Edited Date: 2017-12-03 08:32 am (UTC)

Date: 2017-12-03 12:14 pm (UTC)
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Ok, I was thinking of posting a few scans from a comic, and checked my previous posts to check the format, so I noticed that all the pictures I posted now have a "please update your account to enable 3rd party hosting" warning where the picture should be. I googled it and it turns out that Photobucket now wants 400 bucks to use their service. Which, y'know, ahahahaha, NO.

So. What services are you guys using now?

Also it's going to be a massive pain in the ass to replace the pictures in my previous posts, there are hundreds of them. I'm considering just deleting the posts.

Date: 2017-12-03 01:00 pm (UTC)
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What services are you guys using now?

Imgur. Which I used to loath, and still sort of resent basically having to use, but I suspect the problems I used to have there user error, not an issue with the site.

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