I didn't know what to expect with Underground Comics. It became strikingly clear when I was looking at the titles on the resource page. I remember the first thing I saw was "Tijuana Bibles" and I thought to myself, "Where have I heard that before?" After that I went and downloaded a whole bunch of the titles. Some of them for their name more than others. I feel like it should've been obvious that Underground and vulgar, sexual things would go hand in hand. The comics I read before class didn't really stick with me much. I remember reading the Tits and Clits comic and being very surprised by most the subject matter. When I actually took a look at the Tijuana bibles I remembered where I'd heard of them before, Watchmen. If I recall correctly, in both the book and the movie, Watchmen, Silk Specter is given a Tijuana Bible about herself as a gift and she appreciates the thought. If I had remembered this just a little sooner I'm sure I wouldn't have been as caught off guard with the underground comics as I was. The whole idea of Underground comics got weirder when I was reading some book about a little green dinosaur in class. This cutesy little dino would be going around history for some weird reason and all of a sudden he would be having sex with some random girl. As I progressed further it got weirder when there was even an orgy scene where some of the characters were saying "Hooray for Underground Comics!"
Underground comics are weird... I'm a little confused as who the target market really was.
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