Hello,
My collecting began when my step-father purchased Avengers #363 and Web of Spider-Man Annual #9 while getting slurpees at 7-11. I cannot recall if he suggested getting them, or if I wanted them, but initially neither comic held my interest. While Spider-Man and the Avengers are great heroes, they would quickly get overshadowed by the X-Men, X-Factor, Wolverine, and Deadpool. It also helped that I liked Jim Lee and Joe Mad's art, and would constantly draw these characters in my room at night. If I wasn't reading a comic then I would usually be reading a Wizard magazine. Then I quit collecting around the late 90s to early 2000s. I was fatigued from characters getting killed only to come back again, or books restarting at #1. I see it still happens now quite a bit, so I just try and pick stuff that catches my eye. Currently I've been reading the Batman Who Laughs series and already ordered a copy of Detective Comics #1000.