Ultimate X-men! :) (:

Yay! I Just won a very nice lot on ebay.
First a little history lesson for you kiddies! (lol).
I was never much into comics growing up. . .sure I'd occasionaly talk my parent's into a spider-man comic here and there. . .but it was very occasional.
I'm now 24 years old. . .and only now am I starting to get into comics.
I love card games, and have started falling in love with miniature games.
I made a friend a few years ago who was into yu-gi-oh. . .well after getting a bit bored with yugi, we decided to pick up some heroclix figures, and get into that game.
We still play heroclix, and try to get together every Tuesday night for a game (me, him and another guy we play with).
We also started playing the Vs. System tcg.
My friend is a huge comic fan, and has tons of comics to prove it.
Another guy we play heroclix with (he's a cop, so i call him the cop guy. . .and no, he doesn't like doughnuts. . .i already tried! lol). . .asked me one day, why I didn't read comic books. I had no answer for him. I enjoy reading, and I'm into all these games that use comic book characters. . .so why don't I read comics?

With that I jumped into the comic world.
I just purchased 3 marvel essential collections (iron man vol. 1, uncanny x-men vol. 1, and fantastic four vol. 1), and I also picked up Ultimate Fantastic Four, volumes 1-47, plus the first 2 annuals (it's an entire run of the ultimate ff, up to this month). . .I purchased this stuff about 3 weeks ago.
So now I'm hooked, and can't get enough comics. I've since purchased quite a bit more off of ebay (a bunch of trade paper back graphic novels).

And today I just won my next major lot :) Ultimate x-men Volumes 1-77, plus the first 2 annuals, and a couple variant covers.
I couldn't be more excited.
Ultimate Fantastic Four blew my mind. The artwork was amazing, and so was the storylines. I can't get enough of the ultimate ff. . .and enjoyed reading every comic (a couple times on some of the amazing stories).
So I can't wait to recieve the ultimate x-men and see how I like these.

thnx.