This is the third in a series of five posts about comics that made an impact on me growing up. I'm not talking about anything I worked on as a professional, but books I bought that influenced me as a creator and as a person. I'd never seen anything like this comic before. It was silent! It also had ninjas. But it was silent![image src="http://thomz.com/blogall/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gijoe.jpg" align="left" border="image_border" link="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631400355/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1631400355&linkCode=as2&tag=thozahartstu-20&linkId=SMKJGBM5VFJYGSVD" alt="" title="" lightbox="false" ]
I read this comic in the car on a rainy day home from the comic shop and immediately started creating one of my own. It was a young ninja, because I'm all original like that (hey, I was twelve) but the mood and the pacing of the story were inspired from this issue.
This story was the one that showed me how much you could do with the format, and how much of the storytelling could be carried in the pictures alone. It rocked my world and not only made me want to be an artist more, but it made me want to do something just as inventive.