ROB'S NOTE: May has become the go-to month of the Comic’s Industry (even though National Superhero Day is late April, but whatever… Congress… pshaw). It is when Marvel drops their big movie of the year. May also sees the annual Free Comic Book Day celebration take place (this Saturday, so find your local comic book store and head on over). May also has 31 days of the month so what better way to celebrate the wonderful world of sequential art with the 31 Days of Comics?
Seth Hahne, who runs the blog GoodOkBad, has put together the 31 Days of Comics challenge. A daily challenge in which you are given a category and you have to fill it with a comic that you think fits it the best. You’re all on the internet, I shouldn’t have to explain it to you. For the rest of the month I will be taking this challenge. It is my hope it encourages others to make and share their own lists either in the comments here or on their own websites. The sharing not only might turn comic fans on to works they have yet to sample but maybe catch the eye of a few non-comic fans and highlight the diversity of the form.
You might notice there was no Day 3. The prompt for that day is “Great adaptation or remake of another work.” In my years of reading comics I could not think of one example that I have read. I tend not to pick up these types of books and the one or two I might have read accidently were for from the adjective “great.” You deserve better.
Our prompt for Day 4 is “First comic series you seriously pursued.”
