Comic Book Fandom Quotes

I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

Comics are so one-dimensional, especially 'Archie.'

I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.

I wasn't really a deep-rooted comic-book dude.

I've never been a superhero-comic fan exactly.

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

I had never come across the 'X-Men' comics till I was asked to play Magneto, so I just jumped into that job.

I'd quite like to write a book about comics, actually. But trying to write about comics as literature, which I don't think anyone's really done before. Sometimes they're more like fan books, and I'd quite like to write one about the Marvel universe over the last 50 years. It's an unprecedented achievement to create that length of continuity.

I really wasn't into comic books growing up.

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous - they are very opinionated fans. But they're great fans.

I came to comic books when I was about 15.

I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

In comics, you have to imagine what happens. I really loved it; I loved collecting. I loved following the adventures and figuring out what was going to happen next. I was a huge X-Men fan; I was a huge Spider-Man fan, and, to large degree, I remain one. It's literature for me; it's art.

As far as geek culture, I didn't grow up in the comic con geek culture lane, then I started doing Comic Cons seeing the impact of it. The character, Rufio living on.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

There's immense fun to be had as long as you can sort of sneak it past DC. I have been told on occasion that I need to have more respect for these characters.

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

I root for all movies, but I especially root for good comic book movies. It's the best, most interesting genre going right now.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.