| Posted: 11 April 2011 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | 7
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By the time JB was leaving Marvel to do Superman, I was just about out-growing "comics" and was following the artists instead of the characters... but not quite 100%...JB was my main interest, but in my 11 year old head I couldn't bring myself to buy DC books. They were old and boring and all looked like they had Curt Swan or Carmine Infantino art (which was vile to my young eyes) and were filled with the silly boring characters from Super-Friends. I couldn't do it. So I continued reading Marvel books - Daredevil was doing interesting things and despite the unreadable shit stories, X-Men had good art (JR Jr, Art Adams, Alan Davis, etc), but then I go to my (then) local store, Best of Two Worlds, where (then) employee Brian Hibbs had set up a giant "Man of Steel" display in the window - using the first issue to make a giant Superman logo in the window and there was much fanfare. Ohh... I really wanted to read it... but what if someone caught me reading a DC book? I'd be the laughing stock of the 6th grade! So I didn't. A year or so goes by, and I secretly peek at the issues at my local 7-11, but still, I don't buy them, and am rapidly losing interest in the few Marvel books I'm reading. (In retrospect, due likely to the lack of JB). Finally, I'm at the local SF convention (this is before WonderCon existed, much less before it left Oakland for SF) and Art Adams is giving a Q&A about the Action Comics Annual he did. I sit in the small crowd awe-struck - WRITEN BY JOHN BYRNE! DRAWN BY ART ADAMS! BATMAN and SUPERMAN! FIGHTIN' A HOT CHICK VAMPIRE! I couldn't resist anymore. I bought it. I read it cover to cover till it fell apart. And from then on, I was hooked on JB's Superman. And it was also the last time I didn't follow JB onto a new project. He's even gotten me to buy a Star Trek book, for Chrissake! And one with Dinosaurs! Ugh! But as long as it's got "John Byrne" on the credits line, I know it'll be worth reading.
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