I'd recommend a comixology account and play with some of the titles that interest you.
A good online never comic is a nice way for a quick escape or dip into a larger narrative, without sitting tight for video/audio, or trying to read prose on a screen.
I can pull up a comic on my laptop, get engaged in a story, even read all the meta discussion on the latest issue to get my bearings or missed context if I really want to soak up the story for days after.
I agree with many folks here that the big name superhero ones can be hard to step into late - but there is lots of other stuff out there that is compelling.
The only comic I currently make time for is IDWs Lost Light - a literal hasbro transformers comic, but just full of clues and references, humor, and awesome (usually) art and characters.
As an English major and failed computer science minor who went on to 20+ yr career in web development, including linux sysadmin, perl/python/javascript/php/asp etc., and db admin, I think that there was a stretch where developing web applications involved a mix of skills and technologies - design, writing, logic, communications, creativity, ability to learn and understand - for which being able to self-teach, communicate with others, and creatively solve problems and integrate technologies was the greatest skill to have, not necessarily a mind for hard sciences that allows one to recall complex formulas and quickly grasp multi-layered abstractions.
Just like a mind for school doesn't always translate to a mind for work - in the real world you have many chances to get it right, and you have opportunities to figure things out in multiple ways - not be forced to do division using the stick method and show you know it in one test. You test yourself, and turn it in when it's right. That's why I failed C++ 202 but went on to build successful timesheet systems, CMS systems, etc.
That said, I think that stretch is ending - coding and design is Wordpress, and programming even small web apps is growing more and more like traditional software development.
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I'd recommend a comixology account and play with some of the titles that interest you.
A good online never comic is a nice way for a quick escape or dip into a larger narrative, without sitting tight for video/audio, or trying to read prose on a screen.
I can pull up a comic on my laptop, get engaged in a story, even read all the meta discussion on the latest issue to get my bearings or missed context if I really want to soak up the story for days after.
I agree with many folks here that the big name superhero ones can be hard to step into late - but there is lots of other stuff out there that is compelling.
The only comic I currently make time for is IDWs Lost Light - a literal hasbro transformers comic, but just full of clues and references, humor, and awesome (usually) art and characters.
As an English major and failed computer science minor who went on to 20+ yr career in web development, including linux sysadmin, perl/python/javascript/php/asp etc., and db admin, I think that there was a stretch where developing web applications involved a mix of skills and technologies - design, writing, logic, communications, creativity, ability to learn and understand - for which being able to self-teach, communicate with others, and creatively solve problems and integrate technologies was the greatest skill to have, not necessarily a mind for hard sciences that allows one to recall complex formulas and quickly grasp multi-layered abstractions.
Just like a mind for school doesn't always translate to a mind for work - in the real world you have many chances to get it right, and you have opportunities to figure things out in multiple ways - not be forced to do division using the stick method and show you know it in one test. You test yourself, and turn it in when it's right. That's why I failed C++ 202 but went on to build successful timesheet systems, CMS systems, etc.
That said, I think that stretch is ending - coding and design is Wordpress, and programming even small web apps is growing more and more like traditional software development.