theICONiac
Quality versus Quantity...in todays comic market quantity is the bastard child of the two...
I was a huge comic fan during my teen years (late eighties/early nineties). Due to risings costs of the comics themselves/going to college/starting a family I left comics behind until 2007, when the 'Sinestro Corp War' hooked me back in.
I am now a die-hard Green Lantern fan, and would argue the stories produced by Geoff Johns (and company) have produced the greatest stories ever seen in the medium.
However, a disturbing trend has developed in the industry (well, between Marvel/DC anyway).
The storyline is waaaaaaaaaaay more scant than they ever used to be.
How can you tell? The ICON's tried and true method; used for over 20 years.
Grab a comic from the early nineties (or any earlier). Go and have a righteous bowel movement. The aforementioned comics used to last me AT LEAST half an hour. Now, grab a recent comic. I guarantee, you will need at least 2 of these lightweights to carry you over the threshold of the male equivelent of giving birth.
Comics these days are short on story and heavy on big splash pages/lotsa art. DC is even worse than Marvel; why is it that every DC comic these days has a 'preview' story at the end of every issue of some other comic that takes up the last 6 pages or so that could be used to further the actual comic story???
Greed is the answer. Johns and company stretching out every storyline to 2-3 times the amount of issues it would have taken comics of yore to do in one.
And this is why modern comics piss me off.
I was a huge comic fan during my teen years (late eighties/early nineties). Due to risings costs of the comics themselves/going to college/starting a family I left comics behind until 2007, when the 'Sinestro Corp War' hooked me back in.
I am now a die-hard Green Lantern fan, and would argue the stories produced by Geoff Johns (and company) have produced the greatest stories ever seen in the medium.
However, a disturbing trend has developed in the industry (well, between Marvel/DC anyway).
The storyline is waaaaaaaaaaay more scant than they ever used to be.
How can you tell? The ICON's tried and true method; used for over 20 years.
Grab a comic from the early nineties (or any earlier). Go and have a righteous bowel movement. The aforementioned comics used to last me AT LEAST half an hour. Now, grab a recent comic. I guarantee, you will need at least 2 of these lightweights to carry you over the threshold of the male equivelent of giving birth.
Comics these days are short on story and heavy on big splash pages/lotsa art. DC is even worse than Marvel; why is it that every DC comic these days has a 'preview' story at the end of every issue of some other comic that takes up the last 6 pages or so that could be used to further the actual comic story???
Greed is the answer. Johns and company stretching out every storyline to 2-3 times the amount of issues it would have taken comics of yore to do in one.
And this is why modern comics piss me off.