5 Things You Hate In Comic Books.

Originally posted by pr1983
Hve you read astonishing? it's quite good imo...

Afraid not. I live in Finland, here we don't get multiple tittles. We only get, Mega Marvel (the content of the comic varies. Major events like house of M etc), X-men (Composed of many X-men tittles released in the USA, we've missed some good storylines and got some stupid sh*t instead.) and Spiderman (Again composed of various different Spiderman comics) And we had Wolverine some time ago.

The issues cost around 5€ and they're composed from 3 or 4 American issues. They've released once in a month. (Or maybe even more)

*Sigh* Maybe I should start to D/L comics from the internet. 🙁

ADDS-

I was looking at a Batman issue from around 1998, and in the middle of the thing was 4 straight pages of adds.

Yes sometimes adds are cool because they take back in time. Not only do you see the what the comic book was like back at a certain time, but what alson what the world was doing.

but sometimes its ridiculous

Originally posted by Jyppe
Afraid not. I live in Finland, here we don't get multiple tittles. We only get, Mega Marvel (the content of the comic varies. Major events like house of M etc), X-men (Composed of many X-men tittles released in the USA, we've missed some good storylines and got some stupid sh*t instead.) and Spiderman (Again composed of various different Spiderman comics) And we had Wolverine some time ago.

The issues cost around 5€ and they're composed from 3 or 4 American issues. They've released once in a month. (Or maybe even more)

*Sigh* Maybe I should start to D/L comics from the internet. 🙁

Ever tried second hand book shops? You can find comics which are decently priced in almost any of those stores. My comic collection pretty much originates from a single shop, which also sells the American originals, for example, I've been buying Civil War Frontline and Annihilation from that store (brand new!).

Of course this all depends on where do you live and how much extra money you have and so forth. Where, by the way, do you live?

Originally posted by Tshern
Ever tried second hand book shops? You can find comics which are decently priced in almost any of those stores. My comic collection pretty much originates from a single shop, which also sells the American originals, for example, I've been buying Civil War Frontline and Annihilation from that store (brand new!).

Of course this all depends on where do you live and how much extra money you have and so forth. Where, by the way, do you live?

Yes, couple of times. Exactly why I have some pearls in my collection. IG, IC etc. But The few places I visit don't really have any marvel/DC comics any more, I've bought lots of them. I live near Helsinki, I know only 2 or 3 second-hand bookshops.. Where do you live?

I live in Turku. I've been to Helsinki quite a few times and even I have seen second hand book shops. There's at least one right next to Filmifriikki (I think). I was there once and I just saw the comic shelf and had a glance at it before realising that the shop sells pretty much porn only. It was embarrasing.

And you can order them from Akateeminen Kirjakauppa. Not sure how much does it cost though...

Thanks, I'll look into it.

#6. I hate it when a character will save the day just because he/she is popping up for the first time in a while. IE, if say you send Gambit off on some journey and he doesn't pop up in the comics for a while. Then out of nowhere he does - he can't just pop up. He has to save them all in some weird way in a display of powers that he should be able to do all the time but doesn't due to pis/cis.

No Gundams

I would probably say that I hate when writers simply power someone up or depower someone in a comic for no reaso nwith no explanation other than that is what they needed to have happen so the guy can win.

the perfect example of this is Superman and is pull a move out of nowhere power that wins the battle i na few panels when if he could have done that from the begining he should have

I get sick of cross-overs some times.

When you 13 or 14 you only have so much money to spend

Does Catwoman really need her own comic

Superman
Superman
Bad writing
Superman
Superman

Originally posted by King_Mungi
2. [b]Pricing: Why is the currency charge so different between the American and Canadian prices? last time I checked the Canadian dollar is 0.89 to the US dollar, so the inflation for the Canadian prices is pretty unreliable and not justified. [/B]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cant agree with you more

CURSE YOU OVER-PERFORMING CANADIAN ECONOMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

but ya
expository diologue (so what if you have to set the story, if they want to know they will read the previous book)

Some Guest Artists(like in some of the old comics one artist i remember made her look like a maneer ) others were good

thats all i can think of

Resurrections Okay, it was really cool that Superman came back to life after his death. Giving him an edge over other characters. However, this became a trend which really needs to be over. Once a character dies....he dies! Period! No Divine or magical or even Scientific methods to bring back the dead. It's over!

Advertising FFS! Comic books are already costing too much for 32 pages. WTF do they hate to take nearly 5 pages of stupid product ads to? Case in point the recent Batman comics and other DC comics titles had this stupid ad that ran 5 pages. That's not friggin right! One page is cool but to make so many damn pages for some candy or electronic device....NO!!!!!

No more mail pages For those of you who remenber the good olde days in which you would write a letter and they were kind enough to post it and comment...what happen? they don't bother to care about us anymore?

Subscriptions Must have a credit card (which I do have one) nowadays you have to have a credit card. I remenber renewing my subscription by mail. Sending a money order or check. Can't do that anymore.

Free Posters Inside Haven't seen anyone doing this anymore. I used to buy two same issues just for a poster. This would be nice if they offer free posters again.

Some books still have the mail/Q&A at the end of the issues.Cable/deadpool has it where you talk to Deadpool pretty cool.

"Subscriptions"are retarded I just got an issue today that came out 3 weeks ago...😐

1- Ressurections: Damn Jean Grey... If i'm wrong, she was the first character, at Marvel at least, to return from the dead which was originally intended to die. If not the first, she was certainly the one which made it fair game. Now, a character dies and you start to count the minutes from it's return.

2- Alternate reality characters: Don't get me wrong, i'm OK with alternate realities, but the characters from these realities should remain there and the 616 ones at best pay a visit and go away.

3- Retcons: Every story you love has the risk of sooner or later be ruined by a writer who will create some background story which changes everything, and sometimes ruin these stories or some characters forever (hello, forget everything you read or know about her, Gwen Stacy is a WHORE!).

4- Everybody knows everybody: Sooner or later, you'll find out that your favorite character, the one which you know everything about, has a past with another character you know, even though there's no mention of it or any indication at all in the 500 times they encountered before. Wolverine specially knows the entire Marvel Universe, he probably even went to a strip-club with Thanos and Black Bolt in the 60's... and they fought Sabretooth in the ladies bathroom.

5- Inmate breeding: Of course, it helps that every chick which is not a Morlock is hot and most male heroes are good looking or at least strong and manly, but why do every character on a group must be attracted or in love to at least one other member of this group? This happens in nearly every group, except for the Fantastic Four, but in the X-men specially. Why they can't just go out, damn it? They're all powerful, and have at least money enough to buy some flowers or to pay for a motel room, go find a chick/dude elsewhere!

In all cases, there are exceptions, of course, but generally few.

Originally posted by OB1-adobe
Does Catwoman really need her own comic

She sucks.

Originally posted by newjak86
I would probably say that I hate when writers simply power someone up or depower someone in a comic for no reaso nwith no explanation other than that is what they needed to have happen so the guy can win.

the perfect example of this is Superman and is pull a move out of nowhere power that wins the battle i na few panels when if he could have done that from the begining he should have

Originally posted by Juntai
Superman purposely doesn't do that by his own admission. He explained it once recently in JLA Classified, and many many other times.

In truth though the writers especially in Pre-C days gave Superman whatever he needed to win simply because he wasn't allowed to loose its that simple. I mean look at T-VO or soul vision. Whatever the writer needs to give superman what he needs he gets it on the spot despite the fact he has never used it before and will probably never use thse powers again.

Basically Superman is the worst case because unlike say Thor who would get a temporary power up in some random comic Superman gets them all the time and still does it seems.

Wolverin is becoming a another classic example of this.