From talking to a wide range of comic book fans, it always seems like there's a lapse in readership. Usually through the teen years when you grow out of such child's play and and get involved in different interests. It isn't until maybe the college years that most fans grow nostalgic and allow themselves to get back into reading comics, or back into whatever your childhood fandom revolved around.
For myself it was giving up the holy trinity of He-Man, Transformers and Star Wars as my taste in sports and girls started to develop. I was never a comic book reader back then, but my juvenile interests waned at what seems to be a common time.
Comic books are a different medium now. Written more for adults than kids. My comic brethren will admit its hard to go back and read some of those early 90s books that, back in the day, blew their minds wide open. Now, its muddling through awful writing even if the pictures are pretty.
I guess the point is, once comics, or He-Man or whatever have their hooks in you, mostly they don't let go. They just let you go far enough to find your way back.
-Gint
Ps: I was never a huge Nirvana fan and if I had caught my young self saying things like what he says in the comic, I'd knock everyone of my own teeth out. Candlebox 4 life!
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