Are you still spending $50+ every week on books?Basing events on old pre 2000s comics? No thank you. Saves me money as I hate events and old comics.
Me getting the hammer out for my pull list again.
Are you still spending $50+ every week on books?Basing events on old pre 2000s comics? No thank you. Saves me money as I hate events and old comics.
Me getting the hammer out for my pull list again.
The narration gives it a grander feel, even if it's just describing the art/action imo
That's still a lot. I've gotten things down to under $20 most weeks.If we don't count Shonen Jumps then I'm significantly under 50
That's still a lot. I've gotten things down to under $20 most weeks.
Shonen Jumps still count as comics. We both know that.
Do you actually buy multiple physical manga books every week? 😨
Do you actually buy multiple physical manga books every week? 😨
I'm not gonna tell you how to spend your money, but it adds up to a lot if you're doing this weekly.They are 3 for 2 in my store. Its a problem. I've slowed down though.
But then you drop $800 on statues of the characters in the comics you're not buying.That's still a lot. I've gotten things down to under $20 most weeks.
I didn't say one statue.
Well then I probably could have bought an extra car at some point.
Right, but Eyeboy doesn't hate himself. He's pretty powerful.Like most things wrong with X-Men it all starts with Grant Morrison.
Obviously there are elements of Powers as a Burden in the X-Men (Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Rogue) but the idea that the X-gene produces millions of people with delibitating, painful and humiliating mutations that do nothing but make them miserable is completely antithetical to what being a Mutant means. It legitimatizes the nadir of X-Men stories, the Mutant Cure, and there never should be a point where a Mutant should not want to be themselves.
Elixir is, too apparently. Because according to X-Force Healer was the only healer on the island which is why Domino is part Krakoan.
JRJr's art has never been always bad. I point to Eternals, but this is woof. Action Comics is in a weird spot right now: Lex Luthor with the Doom stuff, then you have Event Leviathan setting up AC as the closing point for that storyline, it's involved in whatever big STAR Labs stuff and now it's gonna be adjacent to the identity reveal in addition to its own Invisible Mafia storylines.like, Jrjr's art is already bad enough but then you add this dull DOOM story to it and it's just..... let's get back to the mafia.... please.....
at least Leviathan is here now
Did they bring Helena over from Earth 2?Helena Wayne taking over as Catwoman I guess. It would also tie into a certain line from Doomsday Clock from when they were teasing future events.
Well then I probably could have bought an extra car at some point.
But also, like...there were decades where the entire output of a publisher could largely be by and for the same general demographic. If you happen to be in that demographic, or adjacent to it, that's less of an issue.The only decade of comics I don't really enjoy is like... the 90s, maybe. Lots of iffy art, in both style an execution. Lots of edginess sprinkled through things. Very much a boys club, juvenile atmosphere. Not to say there's not stuff like Vertigo and various indy comics making an impact, but they feel like a minority.
But I can find stuff to enjoy anywhere. Go back to the 30s and I'll still have a good time. When you take content as it is, rather than as you might like it to be, I find you'll usually get something to appreciate out of it.
Like, women were really treated like shit in superhero comics for a very long time. Minimized and marginalized at best, and actively treated like shit a lot of the time. And yeah, I can overlook that in small doses. "It was a different time" or whatever. But if I'm like sitting down to binge a long run from the 70s or something, that kind of thing can be exhausting. Because at a certain point, I want better for myself. I want better than tolerating things like that. I want to feel seen and understood by the things I'm reading.
But also, like...there were decades where the entire output of a publisher could largely be by and for the same general demographic. If you happen to be in that demographic, or adjacent to it, that's less of an issue.
And I really do read and like a lot of old comics. I've read very close to every book Marvel published in the 60s. DC's books in the 60s are wild. I've read Spider-Man and Fantastic Four from the beginning all the way to the late 80s. Simonson Thor is very much my shit.
I'm old myself, so old comics were the only comics that existed when I got into the medium.
I know nothing about this.
aha, we all knew nightcrawler was being kept for something. hickman reserving him makes a lot of sense.That Marvel stream announced a new Nightcrawler book by Hickman
In certain areas, I've read a ton. But I'm severely outclassed by a lot of people here when it comes to DC of just about any time period.Ahsoka's def the low-key most well-read person in the community, isn't she? I talk a big game but I'm a total comic babby compared to a lot of folk here.