The heart and soul of a fanboy

ha ha first now suckers lol

I to am a fanboy Star Wars was a no brainer i had every toy when i was young including the death star own all the movies. i just purchased a darth vader costume for $600 waiting for it to arrive now and loved the movie fanboys.
Comics kind of crawled up and slapped me in the face though before I realized I was a fanboy after my son was born I found myself back in the comic book stores to read him stories at night found myself at the theatres for every new release and bought all the dvd,s animated included and worst of all my first ppv rental on bell express vu was next avengers heros of tomorow because we could not find it in town at that moment I was sure I was a fanboy of comics also

lol myth i just had a strange idea if someone ever mixed x-men with dr. suess oh the mayhem it would cause

I still gotta try an get FANBOYS the movie darn it!

I think we're all fanboys typing on here all the time! ; D

@ LEEE thanks dude

Scarface, yeah my pops is a 48 year old kid. He spends like a kid too, lol, his wife controls the finances or he'd spend it all on computer equipment, Star Wars crap, comics, and music stuff (he plays gutiar and has owned various Fender Strat's my whole life) So I'm lucky like that, I always got monthly comics and the newest gaming system's growing up cause it was all as fun for him as it was for me. I have a son on the way, due in November, so I look forward to giving him the same privilege.

Hawksblueyes, You know, it's funny you say that because I think it's like that with everyone, the first runs they read when they first got into it are always the best. For me, X-Men Inferno is one of the first stories I remember reading, and Chris Claremont is a God lol, but I feel that way because that was the first stuff I read to get into comics. I was 7 I think when I remember actually following the stories and seeing the books as a collectors item instead of keeping a few rolled up monthly's under my bed that dad let me have (he kept the good stuff in his room, I could only read it with him home cause I didn't really take care of them)

@myth congrats dude i am also having son on the way, he is due in january. So i feel the same way about giving him the previliges i have had trust me he will be a fanboy lol.

I feel bad i live in a small town in louisiana and like we have no comic shops so the comics i get are like from booksamillion and they don't really stay with the same storylines going on so i am lucky if i can find two comics with the same story arcs. so i have a ragtag collection of comics like i have some spiderman some x-men one avengers a few capt. america and a few iron man along with some star wars comics and DC.

I am not going to lie, i own evry superhero movie that is live action not the animated ones. but i am not kidding. haha. try to ask me about one and i will see if i own it. :)

I remember asking for a Spiderman for just my 2nd birthday! Yes, I remember 25yrs back! And I ended up with a Spiderman bean bag! I wasn't impressed as I wanted an action figure but I grew to love the bean bag all the same. That was the 1st sign of my love of heroes.

Skipping on 4yrs or so, I would go with my mum to do the weekly food shop but sit in the magazine isle looking through batman and superman comics, not "true" comics, more like magazines but they still held the mythology if not the depth. I couldn't read at that point but looked in wonder at the images. I remember being asked to move several times and told "this is not a library!" but it didn't stop me.

Around the same time I used to get up at 5am to sit and watch cartoons such as plastic man, spiderman and Fantastic Four. Then came the 90's, I was in heaven as X-Men, Batman and Spiderman came out with cartoons that were a little harder around the edges! For some reason my Dad thought it was stupid of me to watch these but my god I loved it! The characters I had read about were on my screen and not in some campy watered down fashion. As I grew older my love for these characters grew, as did my dads disapproval. So I would wait until everyone was in bed and stay up watching these shows until the early hours of morning. Dad probably thought I stayed up for late night night porn but no, it was cartoons!

When mobile phones with changeable covers came out I would buy clear covers and paint a wolverine picture on the inside. I've done two excellent ones and they aren't easy as you have to work backwards!

When this "golden era" of movie started it was like finding those early 90's cartoons all over again magnified a thousand times over! My need to know all about the movies coming out lead me to this site, and what a joy it is!

I'll be honest with you all, I don't own that many comics. As a kid I could never afford them, now I'm a dad and don't have much time or space to keep them. But every single chance I get, I submerge myself in this world. If there's a character I don't know being talked about on here I will at very least scour sites like Marvel Universe to learn about them if not grab a few issues for myself.

What I think makes me a "fanboy" rather than just "fan" is,
1 - the length of time I have loved this world (as a kid I never knew the difference between premiership soccer or world cup! But I knew the difference between Marvel and DC),

2 - the lengths I go to be part of it all (the phone covers etc.)

3 - The fact that in all I do I openly shout out to the world "I don't care about your sport! I don't care about being cool! I don't care about fitting in! I CARE ABOUT CAPTAIN AMERICA DYING! I CARE ABOUT VENOM BEING SHAFTED! I CARE ABOUT COMIC HEROES AND VILLAINS MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER KNOW!"

thanks myth i am going to check that out and possible piss off the wife by draining the account lol j/k

i,m the same way howlett04 i get to play first and i don,t share well with others at least thats what his kindergarden teacher wrote on his report card about me

Scarface, dude, I already made that mistake when my daughter was born, and I won't do it again *shivers* one word... episiotomy.

Howlett, I will let you in on a secret... once I read a book, it is sealed away forever!!! But how do I reread those books along with back issues and other older comics that would be destroyed if read? Utorrent and the piratebay. I have about 30gig and counting of comics on my computer. I justify this because I literally spend about $100+ a month on comics, and if they wanna get pissed at me for downloading for reading and research purpose's, they can kiss my ass, cause they make a small fortune off my household alone every year. I have thought for a LOOOONG time that some code should be included in the comic to redeem online for just that purpose, so a collector can seal his books away and STILL be able to read them. No way in hell am I going to pay twice for a comic, once for the physical copy and again for the digital.

Hawksblueyes, you must be as big a Marvel and X-Men fan as I am ;)

MidKight, Boxing is my sport. I love it. I did it for 5 years, and I was good.

Yeah, love marvel, I dint even pick up any DC before Perez and Wolfman started Teen Titans. I have issues 1-30 of that run, simply incredible books. I even have the Teen Titans-Xmen crossover where they fight Darkshied,Phoenix and the Terminater.

I think that I realised I was a fanboy when I read the issue of the Fantastic Four where The Thing dies and I actually shed a tear, lol! :)