Even if the first few episodes don't catch your attention, stick with it until episode four. If you can walk out of that able to say that Shanks is not godfuckingwin awesome, I doubt you are human.

And thank you for the wellwishes! I've got an idea for a comic I want to do-I'm not stupid enough to think I'd just jump in with the Big Two, I'd want to start out with Image or Dark Horse comics. I'm still working on putting that together-I actually DID do research for that one, and racked up quite a lot in library late charges as a result.