I never had comic books as a kid, and even nowadays, I haven’t read all that many comics.

More than anything else, I’ve started to become a bit more interested in graphic novels, but I’d be fooling myself if I said that I was anything other than a bumbling amateur, trying to both understand the medium at the same time that I’m entertaining myself with the art and the story.

Beyond that, comics were never a part of my childhood, the format never entered into my circle of hobbies.

Is it too late?  I feel like comics are one of those things that, like playing the clarinet, if not taken up early enough in life, never really get an opportunity later to get a foothold.  Nowadays, I do so much other stuff in my free time: there are TV shows to watch, video games to play, a house and cats to upkeep, and – soon – a baby to care for.  Without the nostalgic joy of comics to look back on, could I really introduce comic-reading now into my life and not feel like it was more of a distraction?

I bring this up today because while surfing the web late at night, I found that Marvel has a digital comic subscription, which would allow someone to read most of their back catalog of comic books in digital format while connected to the Internet.  It’s an interesting model, and the lack of a physical comic book – while probably quite distressing for those who had grown up with subscriptions that arrived in the mail and local comic book stores – is not something that would bother me too much.  And I do really enjoy what I know of the Marvel characters/universe from movies and video games.

But, yeah.  Comics.  Something I could get into, even as an adult?