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Me: "Fortunately this was right around the time "I Dream of You" came out."
Of course I meant "Love Me Tender"... I knew I meant "Love Me Tender"... ::whacks self lightly upside the head with a comic book::
Damn finals have got my brain turned into a slurpee. ;-) You never know how disinterested you are in an area until you have to come up with a research paper and accompanying oral report on it. I'd almost rather take a big standardized test... damn this experimental liberal arts college. Why can't I get credit for analyzing David Foster Wallace novels, ethnographizing my love life, and choreographing dance theater pieces set to SiP text? Actually, I probably could get credit for all those things; just not this semester in my program. Damn.
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CJ
Homicidal Lesbian
Terrorist
"Say...
you know what I'd like
to do right now?"
"What?"
"Dance."
"But... there's no
music."
"Yes there is.
Lissen"
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="comic sans ms, jester, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Hothead Paisan:
Me: Damn finals have got my brain turned into a slurpee. ;-) You never know how disinterested you are in an area until you have to come up with a research paper and accompanying oral report on it. I'd almost rather take a big standardized test... damn this experimental liberal arts college. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
I hear you on that one! Finals are all this week for the campus, but mine aren't until Wednesday(I have 2)and Thursday (1), so I'm going nuts cramming with what I hope is the right information! I also have a one last lab analysis for Chemistry of the Enviroment, and my Contemporary American Fiction professor wants a "journal-like" essay covering at least four of the works we've read by Friday. What the hell does that mean?!
My first issue of SIP was the mini-series TPB. Since I didn't get to a comic shop that often, I bought issues whereever I could and then the accompanying TPBs to fill the holes. I've learned my lesson though... I'm subscribed this year, with issues being sent to school so I can keep up! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
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Danielle :0)
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber
When angry, count four. When very angry, swear. -Mark Twain
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i'd never read wizard, never liked xena (i do now!) didn't originally like the art (i adore it now!) and it wasn't a rainy day and i was in a perfectly good mood when i found the tpb 1 in my local library and picked it up because neil gaiman called it 'a delightful new comic' on the back cover. comics get no real publicity and i think that we really need to sort that out. i make all my friends read sip, but to think of all those innocent people who miss out!
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New here as well.
I first started when the owener of my comic shop loaned the first TPB. I was instantly hooked. He thought I'd like it and also wanted me to familiarize myself with the book so I could get some of his issues signed by Terry. (This was at the SanDiego Con '95 or '96 I think)
So being the new fan that I was I bought every issue I could find at the con (which was everything out at that time except for the original mini-series)
And it was either that year or the year after that I bought (and had Terry sign) page 2 of the second issue of the mini series. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif Now that my wife and I are in a bigger apartment, I'll be getting it framed for our living room wall.
Later, after the Homage run, my collecting trailed off. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/frown.gif So now I gotta play catchup. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
LaterDays
- Chris
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My girlfriend introduced me not too long ago. I read the first 4 trade paper backs in one sitting, and was amazed at how good it was. When I got back to school, I went to the comic store and e-bay and got all of the 3rd series (in singles form).
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*sigh*
Another comic book store employee, I found my way into SIP this past summer, after reading somewhere that it was one of the first books to bring a massive amount of female readership to the industry. Deeply intrigued by this, I walked over to our TPB racks, and grabbed the first collection.. (Thank you for the numbered spines, otherwise I would have been so confused.:P)
I don't remember whether the first book made me cry or not, but I know I was pretty useless for the rest of the afternoon, as I read every trade we had. I know I was in tears more than once, and laughed aloud more than once, eliciting astonished glances and questions of "what on earth are you reading?". I had to wait for Sanctuary to come in from a back order, and I was ecstatic when My Other Life came out and filled in the gaps. The numbering of the individual issues was quite confusing, and I was glad for the TP, if only to fill in the gaps.
Though I'm no longer a full-time employee, I've been subscribing ever since, and chewing my fingernails off waiting for the next issue to come out, immediately running to the corner and reading it, rendering me useless for the half hour it takes me to read and reread it. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
I wept reading Sandman:The Kindly Ones, because I had fallen in love with Morpheus, and I cried bitterly reading The Crow for the first time, but when I read them, those stories were already over, and offered a kind of closure.
But SIP offers no ending with all the knots tied neatly in place, and I will weep when it ends someday, like the death of a beloved friend. Because unlike all the other books on the market, and all the T&A pushed on us month after month by Previews and Wizard, SIP has a living, breathing heart, and it beats loudly in my breast when I see the new issue on the rack.
All the sides of my most secret selves are here, and all the ways my intentions are all too often misinterpreted by the ones I love.
I can feel my pulse rising as the new issue approaches....
*smile*
-Artemis
"My most fervent hope is that my entire life on this Earth should consist of laughter and tears.." -Kahlil Gibran
"Art is a sublime divinity, the hem of whose gown can be touched only with fingers purified by fire, and of whose face nothing can be seen beyond eyelids bathed in tears." -KG
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I got turned on to sip from a friend years ago. She's a big time collector. you all should see her stuff... anyway, she knew I was a big Xena fan and that I read comics. She said Katchoo was like Xena and Batman. Dark past, trying to do right, gorgous, ass kicker... I said sign me up!!
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I first 'discovered' SiP back around when Vol II # 8 or 9 first came out - my sister recommended it. I'd read that the first few Vol II issues were scarce, and were relatively expensive (meaning in the $10 to $20 range) to pick up. Nevertheless, I went to a comic shop in Dallas to see if I could find any of the issues. To my surprise, the shop had an entire display devoted to SiP! They were selling all the issues (all 8 or so of them) of Vol II at cover price!! I asked the owner why they weren't running the price up (as I'd heard other shops were doing), and he told me it was just such a fantastic book that he wanted everyone to be able to read the whole thing. Imagine that!!! I picked up all 8, and now it's the only series I still buy regularly, all these years later. (In other words, as others have said, the rest is history....).
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I hadn't taken any notice of sip for years, I was reading rubbish and one day I finally realised it. So desperate for something, anything, to read, I gave in and picked up a copy. Lovely comicshopperson Howard pointed me in the right direction and I remain ever grateful. Actually can't believe it took me so long, I've been reading it for 2 years (ish).
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I've been collecting comic books since 92, when I was in a shop picking up MTG cards and the owner handed my the 3rd Sandman TPB with the promise "your money back if you don't like it".
9 years later and almost as many TBS and singles as I own hardbacks (though not nearly competing with my collection of novels) I've been collecting interesting new stuff every time I hit the comic shop, along with my usual batch.
I've been seeing signs for SIP for a long time, but no actual idea of what it was about, what the deal was, etc. It looked interesting...but there was stuff by Moore, Miller, Gaiman, Ennis, Ellis, etc. to investigate first, eh?
And besides, I'm still recovering from the death of Hepcats, which was the last "normal but heartwrenching" series I was having an affair with.
*sighs heavily*
But here I was, so, this past Saturday (1/27/01) I decided to pick up the first SIP TBP, along with my usual comics.
I was back Sunday to pick up the next three TPB's, and spent the afternoon at Borders reading through them.
I'm currently struggling with whether to pick up the final four and use some of my back issue credit to pick up the remaining singles...or wait till my next pay check. It's going to be a hard decision.
Even harder is resisting the urge to buy other copies of #1 to hand off to folks that I know will love it. Heh. Soon, soon...
I'm struck by how much the series reminds me of Bendis' "Goldfish" and "Jinx" series. True, his are certainly less fem oriented... but still, the tightness of the plot, the action, the insights into the people...wow.
Thank you so much, Terry. This is damn cool.
Todd Erickson
