Whether it was your first love, your first doctor or your first deep fried mars bar, you never forget those pivotal moments in your life that shape your future. They are events, people and places that you look back on and realise that they were integral to the development of your personal identity. My obsession with entertainment, movies, music and comics has had a profound effect on mine.
Comics, as we all know are utterly amazing and there are things you can do with comics that you could never do with a movie( or should never attempt to). Comics are beautiful pieces of art flowing within literature, that are bursting with outrageously free forms of expression. After I picked up my first comic when I was seven years old, I had no idea what was going on, but it fascinated me so much, that I couldn’t stop looking at it. As I got older and dived head first into my first comic book series, I discovered a new and unique way to witness a story unfold and it changed me.
My uncle gave my dad a hardcover comic that he got from the UK, his logic was that it may be worth something some day and to commemorate the arrival of his brother’s first child, he decided to give it to him as an investment. The year was 1986, the baby was my brother and the Comic Book was The Batman Annual 1986.