My dad is a huge comic book fan, so growing up I was exposed to Batman and Spiderman as much as I was Disney, basically I was predestined to become a comic book nerd.

Admittedly my actual collection is fairly small compared to others. However, I still think its decent, and I’m here to share it with you.

To start off, let’s take a dive into the first official comic series I collected, Teen Titans Go.

…The 2003 cartoon! Not the one you’re thinking of!

I started collecting this series back in high school after my dad got me the first three issues. This was the first time I really got into the world of comic books and though out the majority of my high school days once a month would be spent going to my local comic book store to pick up the latest issue and then getting Burger King. Good times.

The series is still one of my favorites. It mainly consisted of one-shot stories that played out just like an episode, the Titans face off against a threat in the form of a villain and general teen woes and hilarious/emotional hijinks ensued. I wish I could say I have all fifty-five issues but unfortunately issue fifty-three never came in and at the time of writing this I’m still searching the Comic Con scene for it.

I’m nothing if not stubborn.

For a few years after that I fell out of the habit as there was nothing that really caught my interest.

…And then I started watching My Little Pony.

For me the main comic line was okay but nothing too special, the Friends Forever line? Now we’re talking. What originally began as just buying issue two because it had my favorite character turn into a new monthly trip to the comic book store. Just another standard series of one-shots, but what made it interesting was their premise of taking, typically, two characters, paring them together in a situation and just watching their personalities work off each other. Sadly, it ended at thirty-eight issues.

Seriously, they couldn’t have just gone two more and end at an even forty?

I do own some other MLP comics, mostly miniseries, but these take up the majority of them.   

Now to talk about the newest addition, a comic based off a show I’m a bit of a fan of.

(Its Invader Zim isn’t it?)

…Yes.

Invader Zim was brought back in comic form in 2015 and I couldn’t be happier! I love this comic, in my opinion it’s just as good as the show. It really does feel like they picked up where the show left off. Thus a new monthly trip to the comic book store. The majority are single issue stories but there are a few story arcs that span two or four issues long. There are currently forty-seven issues with issue fifty confirmed for December and I really hope it goes on for a while. The longer I can spend with my favorite insane alien jerk the better.

After that, my collection gets a little random. I’ve got some Pixar miniseries surrounding Monsters Inc., Wall-e, and two Finding Nemo stories; a miniseries surrounding Megamind and Kung Fu Panda; and a number of volume collections for random series.

Two that stand out are this ten issue Edward Scissorhands series that acts like a sequel to the film, and an awesome Cartoon Network crossover series called Super-Secret Crisis War that had six issue, plus five tie-in single issues, so elven in total.

Like I said, my collection is nothing impressive but I’m pretty happy with it, and I was happy to have an excuse to revisit it. To the comic book store!

Alanna Larabie.

Alanna Larabie is a student in the Professional Writing program. She also has a diploma in General Arts and Science and a certificate in Pre-Animation.