I "got into" comics in 1989, shortly after the release of Tim Burton's Batman (see above photo of me dressed up as the Joker). My selection process was unrefined. Growing up in Port Washington, Wisconsin, there were not a lot of comic book stores around. I'd normally track down trade paperback reprints of Batman and Superman comics at the local Wal-Mart. Looking at my childhood collection, I seem to have been drawn to titles based off of my favorite film and television properties (including comics based off of Seaquest DSV, Terminator, and Robocop). Yet, I stopped reading around the time DC comics published the death of Superman (1992) and began the reign of the Supermen, getting drawn into baseball cards and, for a brief time, Pogs.
