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[astridv]

While I was looking at some pics I found an old post in which I talk about watching Thor. Briefly, because the movie really didn't impress me. It's so funny how falling for a fandom sometimes works... back then I wouldn't have thought in a million years that a year later I'd be reading fic for that movie. So it goes.
(I also said, at one point in the past: "Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Teen show, and what a stupid name, I'm not watching that!")

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[ratcreature]

There was a time when I was really sure I'd never be into any superhero comics, despite loving comics in general. That was made moot by superhero movies, backed up by media fandom, seducing me eventually.

[astridv]

Yeah, same here. Thought it was more a gradual process, starting in the 80s with Miller's Dark Night Returns. Since then I've read and enjoyed the occasional superhero comic. But until Avengers I didn't think I could be invested enough in any superhero character to think about them in a fannish way.

[ratcreature]

I think the first for me was that the first Spider-Man movie got me to read Spider-Man comics, which was around that time written by JMS for a while, whom I liked because of Babylon 5, and also I liked the Daredevil movie (I know I'm in the minority with that), and Bendis was writing that series around that time, plus it had some David Mack art whom I liked from his series Kabuki. But those two didn't spawn into any truly expensive habits or fanfic reading. That only happened later for me with Batman, when people I knew from The Sentinel had moved to LJ, and were into the DCU at that time, in particular Devin Grayson's writing for Gotham Knights and also the animated series. At least so far with the Avengers I've stuck with the movieverse as far as interest in the source material goes.