What's your age group?

[Su_Whisterfield]

I know all about wet holidays as a kid, I'm from the Lake District. Comics were always around for me too, Terrific Fantastic, Hotspur, Dandy, Beano etc, even Roy of the Rovers.

I also studied art and comics had a huge influence on me, then and now.

They’re a hugely underestimated art form in the UK (not in Europe or the far East though).

[GeneTitan]

I'm 47. I started reading comics when I was about 11 or 12. I started seriously collecting when I was 13. I'm an artist and have been drawing since I was 3, so I was naturally drawn to comics.
My avatar is one of my original drawings.

[JB]

I'm 47. I started reading comics when I was about 11 or 12. I started seriously collecting when I was 13. I'm an artist and have been drawing since I was 3, so I was naturally drawn to comics.
My avatar is one of my original drawings.

I love your avatar. Beautiful work!

[Su_Whisterfield]

I'm 47. I started reading comics when I was about 11 or 12. I started seriously collecting when I was 13. I'm an artist and have been drawing since I was 3, so I was naturally drawn to comics.
My avatar is one of my original drawings.

Cool!
My avatar is also a detail from one of my digital drawings. I’ve been drawing all my life but only started using digital late last year.

[GeneTitan]

I love your avatar. Beautiful work!

Thank you!

[GeneTitan]

Cool!
My avatar is also a detail from one of my digital drawings. I’ve been drawing all my life but only started using digital late last year.

That's a great drawing of Kurt.

[From The Shadows]

I guess I may as well say my age in here. I'm 45.

[ermac]

29 here. Brazilian. Gay.

I started reading comics regularly because of Astonishing X-Men. Stopped a little bit during Bendis' run but was always checking CBR to see what was happening.

[TheCape]

I'm 24 years old.

[Fokken]

I am a Minnesota gay who turns 40 next April. I've loved the X-Men since the tender age of 7 when I discovered the Pryde of the X-Men movie at my local video rental store. I fell in love with classic Storm first, then Exalibur's Shadowcat, and eventually discovered Colossus's sister Illyana through a Wizard Magazine showcasing "allies" of the X-Men.

Uncanny X-Men #169 "Catacombs" was a formative landmark for me. The Morlock storyline & Storm taking on Callisto really stuck with me and the subsequent 90's X-Men cartoon episode "Captive Hearts" still remains my favorite episode of that series. Once I learned Illyana was a mutant, I remember scouring comic conventions to obtain the Magik: Storm & Illyana miniseries and found myself overcome.

Its been a bumpy road since the mid 90's (pivoting titles, abandoning titles, dipping toes into other franchises) but this current Krakoan Era is truly invigorating in that same way I felt as a kid. I'm continually falling in love over and over with characters I'd previously been indifferent to -- and its all thanks to these wonderful writers and even the FANS (and also Cerebro's podcast) for sharing their unique interpretations.

[FFJamie94]

27, and I’ve been reading comics for about 20 years.

[Dinosaur Hulk]

Teens: 0

Now that's... something.
I am at late 20s so let's go with that.

[Kitty&Piotr<3]

Still 0 teens.

Only creepy old people hang out on comic book bb code boards.

I am a Minnesota gay who turns 40 next April. I've loved the X-Men since the tender age of 7 when I discovered the Pryde of the X-Men movie at my local video rental store. I fell in love with classic Storm first, then Exalibur's Shadowcat, and eventually discovered Colossus's sister Illyana through a Wizard Magazine showcasing "allies" of the X-Men.

Uncanny X-Men #169 "Catacombs" was a formative landmark for me. The Morlock storyline & Storm taking on Callisto really stuck with me and the subsequent 90's X-Men cartoon episode "Captive Hearts" still remains my favorite episode of that series. Once I learned Illyana was a mutant, I remember scouring comic conventions to obtain the Magik: Storm & Illyana miniseries and found myself overcome.

Its been a bumpy road since the mid 90's (pivoting titles, abandoning titles, dipping toes into other franchises) but this current Krakoan Era is truly invigorating in that same way I felt as a kid. I'm continually falling in love over and over with characters I'd previously been indifferent to -- and its all thanks to these wonderful writers and even the FANS (and also Cerebro's podcast) for sharing their unique interpretations.

This begs a question of everyone:

What was your first X-posure?

For me, it was the arcade game, and then the first thing I actually read was the Chaos Engine Trilogy.

[JJS]

41, got into X-Men in the early 80’s with Uncanny, Classic, X-Factor, and New Mutants.

[Baron of Faltine]

Still 0 teens.

Only creepy old people hang out on comic book bb code boards.




This begs a question of everyone:

What was your first X-posure?

For me, it was the arcade game, and then the first thing I actually read was the Chaos Engine Trilogy.

My first exposure of x-men...hmm my memory is foggy, but I think it was a new mutant issue...the one where introduced that creepy lady mojo...that was actually psylocke, you know that one where on the cover all the new mutants seem to joyfully running toward a cliff...after that I firmly seriously started with the whole mutant massacre (seriously the bronze age was tough and gritty without being ridiculous...how they did that? All comics of the period were very...tough)