some of my students tried to get me to read some, and I was known to leaf through them while waiting for my miso-ramen and gyooza, but in general... bah.

I think that one of the problems is that there's soooo much crap out there, and that the crap is what most people read (at least back Nippon-way), that it would have been very hard for me to find stuff that would have appealed to me. I mean, Shonen JUMP isn't exactly anything I would have felt was worth working through all the kanji for.

I'd say you have a better possibility finding out about the good shit here than I did over in rockin' Iwate.

Plus., those guys on the train reading the porn shit and just not caring... that's a turnoff to an entire genre if ever there was one.

But this:

>actually, i don't read comics on the train at all... i had a
>pretty sobering experience around that

C'mon, out with it! It sounds like the story behind that could rival your "first shower in the Army" story. That shit is STILL cracking me up.