How did you get started on SIP

[stirrup]

i saw some pictures of 'I dream of you' in a newspaper with some pictures (probably 1994). It had three panels when David and katchoo were standing in the exhibition. The last panel with Katchoo's face in tears was the one that struck me the most. Even though i wanted to get all the copies, it took quite a while before I was 'able' to buy the first ever SiP-paperback THIS year.
The newspaper was long gone, naturally, but still, those images of K&D were 'written' in my mind. Imagine the impact that Terry's art had on me!

[Darth Fett]

Well, I saw the review in Wizard(don't be ashamed Oz, it's a good magazine, regardless what a few indie-only folks might have you believe!)
I was working in a comic store, and dropped issue 10 in my hold box. Well it was the last copy on the rack, and a gal came in and asked if it had come out. I said yes, but it was sold out. She was very distressed, so I said, 'hey, you can have my copy. We'll probably get more so I can just get one then' Well, she was very grateful, however, we neve got anymore(remember-SiP wasn't big yet, and the owner had a policy of not re-ordering any indies that sold less than 5 copies, which SiP did back then.)
When the Wizard Ace Edition came out, I snagged it, read it. So I took a stack of old Star Wars comics I had been meaning to sell over to a neighboring store and traded them for an almost complete set of V1, a complete set of v2, and the 1st 2 trades.
And read happily ever after.....

Darth

[happybunny2]

Saw Issue 2 in the previews in 1994....bought it and have not stopped since..

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*bijdehand&verwaand&lief*

Officially cute working on perky
Friend of the rubber ducky

Friends are those rare people
who ask how we are
and then wait to hear the answer.
Ed Cunningham
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings

[tyledras]

My intro to SIP was finding I Dream of You lying on my friend's floor (she didn't have shelves). I was awfully bored waiting for her to get off work, so I gave it a try- I liked the picture, and was instantly captured upon opening the cover and seeing the opening sequence.

[KarmaPolice]

I saw a review of the first TPB in Wizard and picked it up. The review convinced me, but what caught my eye in the first place was the "I'm the Cute One" drawing accompanying it. I stopped reading Wizard awhile ago, the teenage boy mentality got to be too much. But hey, Wizard must be good for something if it got so many of us reading SIP!

[Pietro]

I read an interview of Jim Lee in Wizard Brazil and I thought it could be interesting. Some months later, I asked a friend to get any edition, and he brought me vol.III #7 ? The very thing makes her rich will make you poor. Ever since I have been buying all issues religiously. In Christmas 1998 I give myself the trade paperbacks and I completed my collection. SIP is my religion.

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The things change their names, but they keep being religions.

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"Do you remember yesterdays?"

[Dan]

Picked up 3:16 because I am a Xena fan, then saw Imortal Enemies TPB on sale a couple of months later. Picked that up on a Friday night on my way out of town, by my return on Monday, I'd read it completely, Twice Took another couple of months to track down the rest of them.

Dan

[Ersby]

You know, I can't remember. (Getting old, you see.) As far as I recall, I saw the cover to I Dream Of You, and bought it on a whim.

[Christine the bumblebean]

around three or four years ago, i had been dating someone that was working as a clerk in a nearby comicbook shop where i had hung out a bit at. sometime after the sip card set had be released and one of the demos of it had been sitting around the store for some time, i snatched it (being the klepto i used to be ) it was a pic of vol. 2 issue 10. i kept that card and loved looking at the picture for some time, wondering what the story was behind the two girlies on it. that store didn't carry sip though, so buying sip wasn't exactly an option. a couple of years later after i had obtained a vehicle, i began making trips to other comicbooks stores in town. my first comics were sip and the bondage fairies, soon to add kabuki to that list. those are still my fave comics, but sip is #1 always ...
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forgot to add which my first issues ... i began reading sip around the time of the highschool miniseries, so those were the first ones i'd picked up. after i that, i bought the tpg for vol. 1-3. and collect the single issues of crack, um, i mean, strangers in paradise, yah

[This message has been edited by Christine the bumblebean (edited October 23, 2000).]

[Destiny Kat]

You see, I am a fan of Xena also. So, about year ago, maybe more, I read a SIP review on a Xena webpage and decided to take a look on the official webpage. As soon as I saw the drawings and read the storyline, I was very interested in the series.

So, I stuck and eye out for "Strangers In Paradise" everytime I went to the foreign magazines store I used to go to. One day I saw the Sanctuary TPB. Needless to say, I read it all that day and that same night I ordered Collected SIP 1 and I Dream of You TPB through the official webpage.

The rest, I got at my local comics store, and have now subscribed SIP there.

Destiny Kat