Lance Briggs's Page

As a 7-year old child exploring different hobbies, I had been happy collecting baseball and other sports cards until the fateful day when my mother decided to take me to the local comic book store. I remember reading my first ever comic, the Original X-Men and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It was there that I became infatuated with the comic world phenomena and from that moment on I knew it would be one of my life’s obsessions. Now fast forward 21 years… one would think with the time and energy devoted in making it to the NFL my love for comics would diminish, well think again…

I currently purchase comics at least twice a month and I recently got issues of The Darkness, New X-Men, and Xavier’s house. As a kid, I was mostly into the artwork and character creations but as I grew older I had a deeper appreciation for the storylines with the human-like plots, different past histories of characters, love interests and it became more than just hero vs. villain. Reading a comic was like creating a movie in my mind.

Speaking of movies, my favorite all-time comic movie is Spiderman 1 and I am really looking forward in seeing if they will make The Darkness into one real soon. There’s going to be a ton of comic based films coming out this year and I can’t wait to check them out.