Like a lot of people my age, I grew up watching the various superhero cartoons that were on in the early 90’s, like Batman, X-Men and Spiderman. My fascination with these heroes led to an early interest in comics, which has held true up to today. One thing I noticed over time, though, was that I hadn’t read very many comics featuring the characters I grew up on. After exploring a bit with some of their comics, I noticed that I liked the idea of these characters better than the comics themselves (with a few notable exceptions). Eventually I reached a point where the idea of reading about the same characters doing essentially the same things again and again just wasn’t appealing anymore. This was also around the same time that I started reading series that weren’t published by Marvel or DC, and which had fresh ideas, by writers and artists who took risks. I haven’t looked back.
Early on, the process of discovering new series to read was pretty much a dart toss, and I judged a lot of books by their covers. Since books put out by smaller publishers (let alone those self-published by artists) don’t get much publicity, it’s still somewhat difficult to find good new books to read. I decided that I wanted to help other people in a similar situation find some good reads, and maybe get some of the superhero faithful to try something different. So this blog will be dedicated to reviewing alternative/independent/underground/whatever comics; so we don’t get too caught up in definitions, it’ll basically be anything not a) published by Marvel or DC and b) anything focused on superheroes. I’ll try to feature a mix of classics and some lesser-known titles, so hopefully newcomers and connoisseurs alike will find something of interest here. Feel free to leave me a comment with any suggestions you might have, or what sort of stuff you’d like me to write about.
One last note on the blog’s content. For a lot of reasons, but mainly for the fact that there are way too many comics worth your time to waste space reviewing those that aren’t, you’ll only find positive reviews here. That, of course, does not mean that I like everything I read; you just won’t find those books here.
I’ll have the first review up tomorrow, and I plan to stick to a regular update schedule after that, probably a MWF schedule.
Thanks for reading!
-Nate
Tired of Superheroes 
Sounds like an interesting blog and a good way to stay involved with Comic Club after graduation. I look forward to reading.
Although I’m still a huge fan of marvel/DC I agree that Indy comics definitely take a lot more risk and therefore contain a lot more rewards. Looking forward to seeing your reviews!!!
-Matt
Cool. I read a whole lot of marvel comics, and batman, right now, and I love keeping up with what my heroes are doing now. However I’ve also deeply dabbled in indy non-super-hero stuff and I see what you’re saying. I’ll read this in hopes it might help me to spread my reading interests around.