Aspiring comic-book artist-y writer-person. I love "boring comics that nobody reads." My 'geek epiphany' happened at a comic shop when I was just a little shitlen. It was the first issue of "Hellboy". My brother, who was collecting X-Factor and Spawn (around that time) took one look at it and said to me "It's very wordy," like being forced to read made it a bad comic.

Now I try to read everything: "Action Philosophers!", "Blankets" by Craig Thompson, "Fun Home" by Allison Bechdel, "Local", "DMZ" & "Demo" written by Brian Wood, anything by Warren Ellis or Joe Sacco, "How Loathsome" by Tristan Crane and Ted Naifeh, Joss Whedon, Alan Moore, Mike Mignola, Dan Clowes and Adrian Tomine (when I'm in that sorta mood), John Cassaday, Brian K. Vaughn, Robert Kirkman, etc.

I believe in the visual narrative of the comic book.