So last month I talked about Image Comics and some memories that I had. That can be found here (LINK). Because of that, it caused me to start collecting again and the other day I found a number of comics in this antique mall here in town. I wasn’t going to write about it. But I did make a 4 part post on Twitter about it and for some reason I got on a small soap box.
Part 1: Earlier today. I found a small little treasure chest of #XFORCE comics. @robertliefeld After talking about doing the a podcast/blog on @ImageComics and sharing stories from when we were kids. It caused a spark/drive to find these lost comics. Found Two different versions pic.twitter.com/IR3hLSd5m5
— Jason Roberts // Nerdy Life Of Mine (@NerdyViking42) June 9, 2020
Part 2: of issue 1 of X Force & issues 3-7. Still missing 2 & 8-10. Found 1st issue of Youngblood too! Also found a number X Men comics when Jim Lee was drawing them. I missed collecting comics. Definitely got the bug again, so to speak. To hear the podcast and read some of the
— Jason Roberts // Nerdy Life Of Mine (@NerdyViking42) June 9, 2020
Part 3: stories from when we were kids. Check out https://t.co/OJwUKYUbCR
— Jason Roberts // Nerdy Life Of Mine (@NerdyViking42) June 9, 2020
Rob, Jim & Todd all had a big impact on my life and where I wanted to go with my artwork. As a kid I always had a hard time reading and writing. Following these icons from Marvel to Image comics helped me overcome most, if not all of my Dyslexia. I thank you!
— Jason Roberts // Nerdy Life Of Mine (@NerdyViking42) June 9, 2020
I really didn’t think much of it. Then it hit on much these comic help me change and over come learning issues I had a child. I normally don’t talk about these on here, mostly because it’s never really come up before hahaha. But now reading through these comics, it is clear I had forgotten on how great they were. I think I wrote about this before…
(*Looks over post*)
Yes, yes I did.. But that’s okay… Me and my Dad would have our weekly trip to the comic store and pick up whatever we can get. I remember trying to copy a lot of the art styles 
that were there by Liefeld, McFarland, Lee. To me the early 90’s were a golden time for comics and art over all. I loved the stories and reading over and over again. Helped me with my Dyslexia (also reading Michael Crichton).
After going through all these comics I just got, I want to go back and dig around some more. I know there is a local comic shop I want to hit as well. Another cool thing was, when I posted these tweets. I got a retweet from Rob Liefeld. It may seem like “small beans” to most, but to me it was a cool little nod/”I saw that”.
On top of that my girlfriend was helping me dig through some of the comics and she found two comics of Buckaroo Banzai! It was a limited two part comic series released by Marvel. Buckaroo Banzai being one of my favorite movies I had to get them. I’m sure I’ll write again soon about some of the finds I have. Also me and my fellow co-hosts on our podcast were talking about doing another Image Comic eps. Seeings how I missed that one.. Ugh.. So I’ll post more updates about that as they come in.
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