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who around here still actually read comics?
i know this will be moved (sorry to be a pain in the a$$ pr) but no one really reads the comic book forum it seems. which is too bad since there is some good sh!t over there....
anyway, just legit curious--how many here still ACTIVELY read current books? i mean newly published WHOLE books, not just the posted bits and pieces in the forum or ownage threads. aside from galan and myself, who's still reading??
i ask, because so many opinions on matches are outdated or simply...uneducated. so who reads what and how much?
I still do. Most of what I buy though are old stuff that I couldn't buy back in the day. Don't buy anything from the Big 2 anymore. Gave up on DC when Nu52 started. Was following the Marvel Star Wars tittles but just dropped those.
Still following the Rick & Morty and Invader Zim titles.
Those are still very good.
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Quality is very important - and most of us stopped following new released around... Original Sin event? Some before that (like me), some shortly after.
There was a time when we were proud of keeping up with Marvel/DC, not anymore. I'm hearing Rebirth is supposedly good, though?
Original Sin was really bad. It looked all mysterious and cool but then turned out to be boring.
I've enjoyed Rebirth so far. But it's one of them things where DC have started a new event and shook up a lot of things so they're on a high now but that doesn't necessarily mean that will continue.
Back when the Nu52 started I was reading every issue of every DC comic weekly. I did that for maybe a year or so to see what was worth following, but then they just kept moving writers around and everything went to shit. I was also reading a handful of Marvel at the time, but quality there was pretty shit too.
Since then life has gotten in the way, etc., so now I mostly just pop in now and then to contribute something stupid and then disappear. I might be inclined to see how Rebirth goes though...
Honestly one of the biggest detractors for me is the constant forced character changes. I get that the big 2 want to adapt the comics to be closer to the movies, and I get that they want more gender/racial diversity of heroes, but f*** that. I just want the same heroes I grew up with. I don't need a female Thor, 5th (Muslim) and 6th (Female) human Green Lanterns, etc. Maybe it works for the next generation of readers, but boring old people like me just want things to stay the same.
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The last time I actively bought comics because I was genuinely excited about them coming out was in the original run of the Ultimates, the Millar/Hitch era. That was a special time, something genuinely brilliant was happening and it was a pleasure to read them.
Then came the comics -turd that was Ultimates 3, and I gave up.
I stopped buying after that. Now I just get the occasional TPB that looks interesting when I browse in the comic book shop. Locke and Key for instance, that was pretty good. I liked Jupiter's Legacy too. I just don't have the patience to buy title month to month any more when the quality of the stories and/or the art work is so piss poor.
Yeah that's the thing I hate the most - this forced diversity thing that is becoming so common. Blue Marvel is a good character but he wasn't made just because he is black or we "need" more diversity in comics. He was made with a genuine backstory.
But Marvel are just heading in the wrong direction. Like that bullshit in that Angela Queen of Hel comic where Bor for some reason brings up SJW tier stupid shit.
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