Comics are such a pain in the ass...

[RAMA]

So I haven't collected comics regularly since 1989, except for a few odd issues here and there. I went back to research what was happening with Legion of Superheroes about 2 years ago and discovered there were 3-4 diverging storylines and teams! Today I tried to figure out what was going on with the Avengers comic from Wikipedia only to discover that Marvel has 3 different versions of the team!! No wonder no one reads comics anymore!!

RAMA

 

[Methos]

But yeah... i used to be a huge DC comics fan... specifically Green Lantern, Batman and a few others... but my interest severely weaned after 2005 due to changes in the DC comics writers and editors, leaving me feeling more apathy towards my favorite comics than anything else... then with the full DCnU reboot with Geoff Johns at the lead, i dropped all interest in comics altogether...

M

 

[Dantheman]

Yeah, the kind of things Marvel and DC have done in the last few years have pretty much turned me off to them. The only comics I read anymore are IDW's Star Trek and Dark Horse's Star Wars stuff.

 

[Methos]

yeah, i'm picking up TopCow issues and a few other independents, but haven't touched DC since 2005 really...

Sad because i grew up really enjoying and loving the characters and stories they published...

M

 

[Shazam!]

You pick up just about any Marvel title these days and there's always some new geek introduced that's all of a sudden supposed to be a major player, like Speed-Man or Spark Boy or something.

Like, Civil War kicked off with the death of some random hero who I didn't know and didn't care for, thus having absolutely no impact whatsoever.

New characters suck >: (

 

[Hound of UIster]

So I haven't collected comics regularly since 1989, except for a few odd issues here and there. I went back to research what was happening with Legion of Superheroes about 2 years ago and discovered there were 3-4 diverging storylines and teams! Today I tried to figure out what was going on with the Avengers comic from Wikipedia only to discover that Marvel has 3 different versions of the team!! No wonder no one reads comics anymore!!

RAMA

But yeah... i used to be a huge DC comics fan... specifically Green Lantern, Batman and a few others... but my interest severely weaned after 2005 due to changes in the DC comics writers and editors, leaving me feeling more apathy towards my favorite comics than anything else... then with the full DCnU reboot with Geoff Johns at the lead, i dropped all interest in comics altogether...

M

Cry moar.

I'm sorry he killed your interest in a character who was so weak and limp wristed that he didn't have the power to defend his girlfriend when a psychopath murdered her and stuffed her body in his fridge.

 

[Methos]

hmmmm?

I'm actually more a Hal fan than Kyle, but thanks for identifying yourself as someone who just attacks other people's posts because they enjoy something different... block list i think...

M

 

[sojourner]

Cry moar.

I'm sorry he killed your interest in a character who was so weak and limp wristed that he didn't have the power to defend his girlfriend when a psychopath murdered her and stuffed her body in his fridge.

They killed my interest when they rehabilitated a character who turned evil after he was too limp wristed to save his home town when a psychopath murdered everyone in it.

 

[Skywalker]

Aside from Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men, I don't think I've picked up an X-book since the end of the '90s.

 

[indianatrekker26]

i'll pick up a marvel issue randomly here or there, whether it be spiderman or hulk, and every time, almost every other stinking marvel character appears in that issue. I've always wondered why marvel has separate titles.

 

[Turtletrekker]

New characters suck >: (

To each their own I guess, but IMHO, some of the best things that marvel has published in the last ten years have featured new characters.

The Runaways, the Young Avengers and the students of Avengers Academy come to mind.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Comics are for drowning in.

If you think you're on top of everything, then you're just behind in your reading.

 

[RandyS]

I don't think I've read a regular comic book in 25 years. Collections are another matter. The trade paperbacks were a great invention in my opinion. They collect an entire story arc, print old (in some cases ancient) issues, offer "themes" (Superman in the 1940's, Batman in the 1950's, etc) and, you get more bang for your buck.

Better deal all the way around.

 

[A beaker full of death]

I quit in '86. It seems that now absolutely everything is a crossover, punctuated by Really Big crossovers every three years. So not worth it.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Cry moar.

I'm sorry he killed your interest in a character who was so weak and limp wristed that he didn't have the power to defend his girlfriend when a psychopath murdered her and stuffed her body in his fridge.

"weak and limp wristed"? Who talks like that?

 

[davejames]

Ha ha, yeah I thought about picking up an Avenger's book, but there are so many different books and teams and continuities now I wouldn't even know where to start.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In the last episode of Pochies Green Lantern, a title he killed by just being him, he cuts Major Forces head off and drop kicks the sociopaths still living, immortal, severed face into deep space.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Dipping his wick into Sinestro's daughters candelabra gave Poochies sexuality a complete ramping up that not even a frisky association with the original Wondergirl could merit.

I mean seriously, if finding your girlfriend folded until she can fit into a beer fridge doesn't turn you into batman or the joker, there's something seriously detached from... here's a scary thought, what if without the utter tragedy of Alexandra's passing that kyle would have been significantly LESS hardboiled, bitter and Boogiesque? it's possible that without this weighing down on his conscience that Green Lantern could have given plastic man a run for his money on flippancy.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Comics are a lot more fun if you don't have the completist mentality of wanting to buy multiple linked books for fear of missing something. Just pick the books that you want (or can afford) and stick with those. Crossovers and tie-in books are tailor-made traps for comic book readers to buy more books than they would otherwise, IMO.

 

[Guy Gardener]

i have to disagree.

Comics are a lot more fun if you have the surplus thousands and thousands of dollars spared up from the necessities, to be a completest every week.

Or if there was some where where all the comics could be found for free.

Y'know.

The library.

 

[clint g]

New characters suck >: (

To each their own I guess, but IMHO, some of the best things that marvel has published in the last ten years have featured new characters.

The Runaways, the Young Avengers and the students of Avengers Academy come to mind.

It's interesting that you mention The Runaways 'cause I just started reading it as well and I'm loving it...and I'm not much of a comics person. I think the reason is because, even though it's in the main marvel universe, it feels isolated from all the crap that's going on in all the other comics. Sometimes when I read comics I feel like I need to know whats going on in other series to get the full picture, which is a pain in the ass.