Today is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. Go out and restart someone's interest in comics and graphic novels - including yourself! I had forgotten how enjoyable well-drawn comics were until I was in B. Dalton looking for birthday cards and spotted a copy of the Superman: Emperor Joker graphic novel and began flipping through it.
The quality of drawing in comics and graphic novels these days is a quantum leap compared to the grainy, heavy-outlined figures from my brother's tattered copy of the first XMen that I grew up flipping through (BTW, whatever happened to that random snowball-throwing X-Men?). Even movies these days are taking visual queues from graphic novels - take the recent spate of Alan Moore and Frank Miller movies including V for Vendetta, 300, and Sin City.
Do yourself and a favor and get a free comic. While you're at it, buy one too.
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