I kind of want to stop reading Marvel comics but I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN X-MENDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 10:54amPeople working in a medium seemingly hate that medium so they use the language of a more popular medium, even if it makes no sense.
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People die, they come back to life, except much more convoluted.Kory wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:46pmI kind of want to stop reading Marvel comics but I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN X-MENDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 10:54amPeople working in a medium seemingly hate that medium so they use the language of a more popular medium, even if it makes no sense.
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i canceled all my digital comic book subscriptions earlier this year and haven't looked back. I might catch up on some of the Archie titles at some point, but I could not give less of a fuck about anything happening in superhero world these days.
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I don't want to pick it up in 5 years and have to figure out whatever the new status quo is.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:48pmPeople die, they come back to life, except much more convoluted.Kory wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:46pmI kind of want to stop reading Marvel comics but I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN X-MENDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 10:54amPeople working in a medium seemingly hate that medium so they use the language of a more popular medium, even if it makes no sense.
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That's why you should be subscribing to Image titles.
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In hindsight, X-Men started going to fuck with the Dark Phoenix story. Sure, some good stories here and there, but as a trajectory it piled on the ridiculous to the point of total bafflement.Kory wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:51pmI don't want to pick it up in 5 years and have to figure out whatever the new status quo is.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:48pmPeople die, they come back to life, except much more convoluted.Kory wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:46pmI kind of want to stop reading Marvel comics but I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN X-MENDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 10:54amPeople working in a medium seemingly hate that medium so they use the language of a more popular medium, even if it makes no sense.
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Shittiness of superhero comics aside, I just don't have the time or mental bandwidth to keep up. For example, I enjoyed SexCrims, Saga and WicDiv but I don't have the time or energy to follow it month after month. When I have free time to read, I'd rather just read a goddamned book.
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I've found that what I used to consider a strength of comics (and other Nerd Shit) - labyrinthine and layered continuity and history - has become a total turn-off now. I just don't have time to care. That doesn't mean I'm reading, uh, Tom Clancy novels and watching Big Bang Theory or whatever, but I find it's easier for my brain to latch onto, say, The Americans than The Punisher. Same with why I still find Archie comics kinda appealing but have jettisoned almost everything else.
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In it's own way, it's like the scholar's burden—there's just so much history loaded onto comic book characters that it's a chore to feel competent to read (and write) stories about them. it was easier in the past to read Spider-man or study American slavery because there wasn't as much stuff to read to feel like you had a handle on things.Flex wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:04pmI've found that what I used to consider a strength of comics (and other Nerd Shit) - labyrinthine and layered continuity and history - has become a total turn-off now. I just don't have time to care. That doesn't mean I'm reading, uh, Tom Clancy novels and watching Big Bang Theory or whatever, but I find it's easier for my brain to latch onto, say, The Americans than The Punisher. Same with why I still find Archie comics kinda appealing but have jettisoned almost everything else.
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Spider-Man did a great job trapping Jefferson Davis in his web.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:36pmIn it's own way, it's like the scholar's burden—there's just so much history loaded onto comic book characters that it's a chore to feel competent to read (and write) stories about them. it was easier in the past to read Spider-man or study American slavery because there wasn't as much stuff to read to feel like you had a handle on things.Flex wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:04pmI've found that what I used to consider a strength of comics (and other Nerd Shit) - labyrinthine and layered continuity and history - has become a total turn-off now. I just don't have time to care. That doesn't mean I'm reading, uh, Tom Clancy novels and watching Big Bang Theory or whatever, but I find it's easier for my brain to latch onto, say, The Americans than The Punisher. Same with why I still find Archie comics kinda appealing but have jettisoned almost everything else.
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Yeah, but he failed to stop the Green Goblin from knocking Abe Lincoln off the Brooklyn Bridge.Silent Majority wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:54pmSpider-Man did a great job trapping Jefferson Davis in his web.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:36pmIn it's own way, it's like the scholar's burden—there's just so much history loaded onto comic book characters that it's a chore to feel competent to read (and write) stories about them. it was easier in the past to read Spider-man or study American slavery because there wasn't as much stuff to read to feel like you had a handle on things.Flex wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:04pmI've found that what I used to consider a strength of comics (and other Nerd Shit) - labyrinthine and layered continuity and history - has become a total turn-off now. I just don't have time to care. That doesn't mean I'm reading, uh, Tom Clancy novels and watching Big Bang Theory or whatever, but I find it's easier for my brain to latch onto, say, The Americans than The Punisher. Same with why I still find Archie comics kinda appealing but have jettisoned almost everything else.
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I mainly go back and read Bronze Age stuff.
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In a way, that's me, too. The comics I love the most were the ones I read or discovered before I was around 14. They worked the continuity game but things weren't as complex then. Even more, tho, they activate in me the thrill I had when I was kid and read them for the first time. Plenty of new comics that I dig, but I can never approach them the way I did when I was 10. Gerry Conway's and Len Wein's Spider-man comics in the mid-70s are perfect to me now because they were perfect when I was a kid.
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I don't think I can agree with that. That's way too early on.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:59pmIn hindsight, X-Men started going to fuck with the Dark Phoenix story. Sure, some good stories here and there, but as a trajectory it piled on the ridiculous to the point of total bafflement.Kory wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:51pmI don't want to pick it up in 5 years and have to figure out whatever the new status quo is.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:48pmPeople die, they come back to life, except much more convoluted.Kory wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 1:46pmI kind of want to stop reading Marvel comics but I NEED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN X-MENDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 10:54amPeople working in a medium seemingly hate that medium so they use the language of a more popular medium, even if it makes no sense.
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Trades are good for that, you can read 5 (or more if you wait for a couple volumes) issues at once and get a sense of the larger story.Flex wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 2:00pmShittiness of superhero comics aside, I just don't have the time or mental bandwidth to keep up. For example, I enjoyed SexCrims, Saga and WicDiv but I don't have the time or energy to follow it month after month. When I have free time to read, I'd rather just read a goddamned book.
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