I had a pretty heavy-duty comic book fixation for many years. I read them constantly as a kid (always on the look out for fem/fem fights, of course), until my parents shamed me into stopping. I was too old to read comics, the told me.
Later, when I was old enough to read any damn thing I wanted, I started buying comics again. This would have been about the time Chris Claremont did his first run on The Uncanny X-Men, Frank Miller broke out with Daredevil, and my favorite artist of the period, Walt Simonson, created Beta Ray Bill in Thor.
Then the books started getting pricier, and the page count slimmer. Visual noise replaced storytelling. Phony 'collector's editions' started clogging up the comic shop shelves. And I drifted away from mainstream comics and graphic novels.
In a previous comment, RustedOne tipped me to The Pro, by Amanda Conner. I just ordered it from Amazon. Makes me wonder what else I've missed.
Fights that I've never found after being "grown up" was a fight between two sisters in a Fantastic Four comic...hairpulling fight as they rolled down the hill. Red Sonya had a fight in her #2. Creepy or Erie magazine had great stories and pretty good comic art. One had a really nice vampire sisters fight that included hairpulling and clothes ripping.
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