The current special DC "events" that drag on for years make reading seem just daunting sometimes.
*nods*
I have a deep deep hatred of them, and it used to be each of the Big Two would have maybe one a year, and I'd suffer through and then jump back in. But now they just come one right after another, and DC is so mired in them right now that it's impossible for me to jump back in.
The last time I was reading numerous free-standing DC titles was before War Games, so that's three years ago.
There's always all this talk about how superhero comics should be made more "accessible" to new readers, and then what we get is a continuous parade of convoluted crossover storylines.
It almost seems now like that's all we're going to get for the time being. The crossovers are coming closer together and lasting longer, and there's just no good place for people to jump in.
I don't mean oneshots, but series like Daredevil over at Marvel for example which had very little overlap into the whole Civil War thing, and which I can follow easily without knowing any of the other Marvel stuff, like, I don't need to pick up their Hulk War event or whatever that is, or the current "yet another convoluted mutant species thing" that always seems to be happening, just to get my angsty Matt Murdock soap opera.
Yeah, I miss those days, back when you could read a character's book, and it was about him doing this thing, and once in a while another character would make an appearance, but for the most part, if you were reading Hulk, it was about what Hulk was doing. If you were reading Nightwing, it was about what Nightwing was doing.
I guess I'm just an old fuddy duddy, but I liked it that way.
Now looking at DC's solicits it seems almost everything has been tied up in their universe revamp. :/
Oh, yeah. And at this point, if you don't know the last 20 years of continuity like the back of your hand, a lot of what's happening go right over your head. I gave up.
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*nods*
I have a deep deep hatred of them, and it used to be each of the Big Two would have maybe one a year, and I'd suffer through and then jump back in. But now they just come one right after another, and DC is so mired in them right now that it's impossible for me to jump back in.
The last time I was reading numerous free-standing DC titles was before War Games, so that's three years ago.
There's always all this talk about how superhero comics should be made more "accessible" to new readers, and then what we get is a continuous parade of convoluted crossover storylines.
It almost seems now like that's all we're going to get for the time being. The crossovers are coming closer together and lasting longer, and there's just no good place for people to jump in.
I don't mean oneshots, but series like Daredevil over at Marvel for example which had very little overlap into the whole Civil War thing, and which I can follow easily without knowing any of the other Marvel stuff, like, I don't need to pick up their Hulk War event or whatever that is, or the current "yet another convoluted mutant species thing" that always seems to be happening, just to get my angsty Matt Murdock soap opera.
Yeah, I miss those days, back when you could read a character's book, and it was about him doing this thing, and once in a while another character would make an appearance, but for the most part, if you were reading Hulk, it was about what Hulk was doing. If you were reading Nightwing, it was about what Nightwing was doing.
I guess I'm just an old fuddy duddy, but I liked it that way.
Now looking at DC's solicits it seems almost everything has been tied up in their universe revamp. :/
Oh, yeah. And at this point, if you don't know the last 20 years of continuity like the back of your hand, a lot of what's happening go right over your head. I gave up.