I came late to the comic book world. Oh sure, I read comics when I was a kid, but they were usually in the Sunday paper. One strip at a time. Peanuts, Marmaduke, Wizard of Id, that kind of thing. I think the first real comic book I read was Teen Titans or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, back in 1986, when my roommate gave me one to read. Being an independent kind of guy I gravitated towards the obscure and picked up Xenozoic Tales-Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. I never really wanted to get into the mainstream world of DC or Marvel. Now that all these superhero movies are coming out, I am really enjoying some of the classics. Spider-man, Avengers, Green Lantern, etc. Now I keep hearing about Graphic Novels, WHAT? The first time I had heard of these it was simply a comic book with no words. Just pictures and you used your own imagination to fill in the story behind all of the pictures. Has something changed in this genre? Did they start adding words or was my first experience with Graphic Novels a fluke. What exactly is he difference between and Graphic Novel and a traditional comic book? What do you prefer and why? -sincerely, Confused in Comic Land
